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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 4m

Let’s be honest. We’ve all fantasized about telling someone to contemplate their failings on the tree of woe at least once.

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 17m

I like The Lord of the Rings a lot but we need more bite sized swords and sorcery fantasy TV/movies. Willow is the platonic ideal of lightweight high fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons (2023) is its spiritual successor. But overall the field seems very thin 🫤

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1h

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

[checks out window] yeah i can tell

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

and it's just nice, sometimes, to have a big toolbox of simulationist-stuff that can answer a lot of different questions for you without resorting to gm fiat or the rule of cool

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

there is a learning curve, absolutely, but the tools are very flexible and you can build a lot of different characters/settings with them

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

wait what

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

i like ssausage

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

what about Bernie? retire. what about some other person? they should retire too.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Mar 25

i cannot believe that after Biden and RBG we are still having discussions about whether 80-year-olds should hold public office. they shouldn't. flat out.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

they're both bad

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

legit considered ordering the uk version to get it earlier lol

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

HOW THE WAR WAS WON (meme edition)

www.amazon.com/How-War-was-...

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 17h

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

get in girls. we're doing new conspiracy theories. no one died on guadalcanal. it's all a coverup for the attempted amero-japanese invasion of vladivostock

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

yeah another real shithead

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 18h

yeah basically this is why I've never used the bidets in italy and spain

bidets built into the toilet bowl are a solved technology, just use that

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

All right, y'all, help me out. This is a bidet, right? (It's in my airbnb.) So, the idea is, you poop in the toilet and then...crab walk a few feet to your left, with your pants down? And stick your butt down in this thing? There's no seat, as such, so you're just...hovering your butt down into it?

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

also no

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Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 17h

Who owns the army is THE constitutional question of the 17th century

jim0novak.bsky.social @jim0novak.bsky.social · 17h

The U.S. Constitution's Army Clause (Article I, Section 8) requires that congressional appropriations to raise and support armies must be for a term no longer than two years.

They feared standing armies.

The Founders were more radical anti-fascists than common knowledge would expect.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 17h

This is the one book I've ever read where I've looked at an assertion that had a citation, gone "really?," looked up the cited text, and noted that it does not in any way back up the assertion.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18h

the book and the bullshitters in question:

www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everyth...

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity [Graeber, David, Wengrow, David] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

www.amazon.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

lol fuck em

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17h

okay but like. they very much do admit it's agitprop. like that's literally what they are saying in this passage

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