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RJMacReady
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I have trouble deciding if I prefer being funny or being right. I have snobbish opinions on movies https://boxd.it/5t2B
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December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Key point in here. Transgender people, cross-dressers and androgynous performers were often mocked or considered weird by much, if not most, of the population, but they *were* considered. They were *accepted* as weird. The zeitgeist now is to disappear them altogether; to pretend they don't exist.
Even as a lifelong Philadelphian, I had not heard much about Harlow; but I remember how, in the 1980s, transgender people and drag received a lot of positive attention (and much milder mockery). I'm looking forward to her memoirs.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Is that The Great Northern from Twin Peaks?
December 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy."

It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
The Nerd Reich
A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the inter...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Im rooting for the constitutional crisis where the Supreme Court merely becomes advisory
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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its also, crucially, made all of us worse. some of us by a lot, others by just a little. but a piece of all of us has rotted away by necessity of having to accept this in order to go on with our lives, or by refusing to accept it and bearing the strain of that
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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You fools, I simply wanted to fiddle with marginal tax rates, and now you see what I've become
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I’ve had women treat me to dinner and then have sex with me. Skill issue.
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The dogs on planes thing is a great example because it was being so widely abused that now airlines cracked down and now require you to document that it's a trained support dog, placing a burden on disabled people bsky.app/profile/flas...
My case would be that it’s enough that you’re regularly seeing it (ie people with their dogs in the store/on planes), and that it going unchecked is damaging to the proverbial social contract.
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just checking but what did Costco do thay got you to cancel? I thought they have refused to capitulate right from the get-go
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM