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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, I absolutely think after the planes were grounded during the early days of covid and they couldn’t get to their bunkers, they turned to necropolitics as a Plan B.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. The Nazis were pretty much the same types of people as these.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 6h

I watched an episode of Sesame Street that told about how the sun was really farther away in the summer and closer in the winter.

When my 3rd grade teacher asked the same question, I happily answered, she made fun of me, the class laughed, and when I got upset she sent me to the principle’s office.

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 8h

What meaningless thing/experience are you still mad about? Like it should not matter at all, DOES not matter at all. But you’re still MAD.

And how long has it been?

I bought some bagels at Hy-Vee four years ago. So bad. Too big. Hard. Bland. WORTHLESS.

I’m still FURIOUS.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 7h

The classroom is their native habitat, since it is a captive audience who cannot say what they really think of them.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 7h

There’s a certain set of academics who think that if you don’t talk like an academic, you have nothing to say.

It’s snobbish, parochial, and very good at keeping the conversation within upper middle class conventions.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not be facetious when I say this: The ICE and Homeland Security accounts

It’s horrifying, trollish, and full of literal neo-Nazi dog whistles, but they do communicate a policy of ethnic cleansing.

That this is how the government communicate its policy is worth studying and discussing.

wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 8h

Three Musketeers

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 8h

My favorite Indian restaurant - Chai Pani - is right around the corner.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 8h

The nastiest thing you can do is turn a person into a ghoul.

VtM: Bloodlines does a great job of showing this with the woman you save and unintentionally turn into a servant with no free will.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 8h

West Africa had several powerful nations whose rulers victimized their people and neighbors.

Tyrannical governments are a universal burden on humanity, and they tend to work together.

The real victims were the enslaved.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9h

Whatever this is, I’m not doing it.

wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9h

Grimke Sisters’ abolitionist talks and Mary Chestnut’s diary for non-fiction. Twain for fiction, especially Pudd'nhead Wilson.

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9h

Who knows what exactly they symbolize - bots, opps, real people with a kink for getting yelled at?

But if I was designing an opp to make someone hate a particular group…

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9h

One thing I am becoming very sensitive to is the number of highly abusive accounts with easily parseable identities that have less than 100 followers, thousands of posts, and a handful of “friends” with the same characteristics.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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