Wah wah, "how will we know theyre benevolent privateers" wah wah "what if they do more than just ensure the freedom of navigation like direct aid to Gaza?"
Ciggy Smoke Bringer aka Riotous Blottoness
@ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social
Mr. Rogers Anarchist, Level III Hermes, Andiamo Spirit
Its tragic that people who deserve better just have such a bad engagement that they will always choose the goat over the boat by whatever is allegedly happening up there.
They do politics by Dogmatic Narratives, which is why they can never sail on The Winds of Change.
neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 9h agothe people who honestly think progressives are uniquely failing to vbnmw are functionally conspiracy theorists at this point. absolutely no evidence for that
Putting the final touches on an AES erotic fic to mend any and all schisms, but there really isnt a partner to pair him with, like how does AES suduce Bigotry? Thats not a person, thats inside a...got it!
Well duh, some of them hail from Ohio which has more diners than OSU students and alumn per capita.
lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 16h agotbf it’s really the new yorkers who’re obsessed with diners
Superbaseball 2020 Sighting! This is so cool!
Lucy 🫠 📷@ltotheucy.bsky.social · 3h agoThere is a player on the LA Queens, Brittany Apgar, who has a limb difference and traveled back to Illinois from receiving her first ever batting prosthetic *today* and is 3-for-3 in her first game playing with one. Incredibly cool.
Sure would hate to go to war with the only optimism in the ecosystem...
I went so far in my warnings to create a bot named The Baileys which demanded Stevens be the pick, fat lotta good my warnings did.
Miss Aja@brat2381.bsky.social · 18h agoYou mean the problem folks were warning about for months?
Heh, he was so mad he thought it was 24 again in voting choices to spike 🤣
Delta Nupe@itsnotuitsme1911.bsky.social · 20h agoEl-Sayed won. I’m urging Black Detroiters to STAY HOME and be “uncommitted’ like El-Sayed was for Kamala Harris during the general election. Dearborn voted for TRUMP instead of the Black Lady. I’m encouraging Black Detroit to vote for Jill Stein or Trump , like the Arabs in Dearborn did in 24!
3 Key Things 1. You will win with the backing of a chorus that can heckle the fucking soul out of a saint 2. Clothes off means fight 3. REINFORCEMENTS!
Rita, antifascist🏴@oldsquida.bsky.social · 8h agonever forget
Are folks who speak Arabic going to be too mad that the rest of us actually LOVE Arabic words and would like to loan them out or something, like...Habibi? That's a great one!
This is the opposite of Decrying Nuffle. The moment you think Nuffle has put you to death with luck, the luck changes, and it is because your perception to complain about many missed rolls is actually pretty good.
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h agoDodgers are 0-5 since the internet said they’d never lose again lol
@will-nflseattle.bsky.social I am getting so pumped for this season, eeeeeeeeeee!
Unconventionally, the only time you should talk shit in victory is at the loser's funeral.
Support trans workers at the University of Washington Google form to express interest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 2023 Equity Survey Report: 75% of transgender people surveyed reported experiencing harassment at University of Washington. uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...
![Support Trans Workers!
Postdocs and research staff at the University of Washington are bargaining for a new contract this summer. To address the worsening conditions for transgender people across the country, we proposed a memorandum of understanding to:
Improve data privacy for anyone (regardless of identity) changing their name, and to wave their ID card replacement fee
Provide sensitivity training for supervisors of trans workers, to prevent harassment. The equity survey jointly administered by UW and UAW 4121 shows that transgender people at UW are harassed 3x more than cisgender people [1].
Secure a fund to support costs of gender transition.
Admin has rejected our proposal twice now, each time citing concerns we’ve already addressed. When pressed to explain his reservations, admin’s lead negotiator said: “I am not speaking in terms of facts.” “I haven’t been advised or done any research.” How are we supposed to work with that?
University of Washington admin pride themselves on being part of a trans friendly institution. At the ceremonial pride flag raising, they honored the recently murdered trans girl and UW student Juniper Blessing with a new scholarship [2]. But when asked to simply waive the costs of replacing an ID card for anyone, cis or trans, who changes their name, they moan that we’re asking for “special treatment” and fear-monger about the federal government. How do admin really feel about the queer community? Seattle is a sanctuary city for many trans people fleeing violence from across the country. What precedent does it set if the largest employer in the city refuses to bargain over basic protections?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ec473dzaukltzxnvcjmgwrw6/bafkreihs2ufyolayp2nm66ctspmkv6haqvqiq3alrtw6gipqbdztnkl3he)
Puget Sound Labor News Tracker@pnwlabortracker.bsky.social · 7h agoPostdocs and research staff at the Unversity of Washington, organized through @uaw4121.bsky.social, are asking community members to write to the UW VP of HR to demand that UW not slash anti-discrimination protections. See more here: uaw4121.org/trans-equity/
and the same goes for "you should be grateful!" in the face of discontent. there's a reason why no politicians say it. I get that posters' have dreams, but the notion that someone could, Coriolanus-like, tell the polis how to feel and what to expect, it's super silly.
Snowden St.@snowden.st · 3w agoI cannot think of a single time in history where public irritation about XYZ was successfully deflected by telling the angry people “well actually you should really be angry about ABC instead”
I have got to believe that this is actually symptomatic of a consensus drawing problem, and per some convos around 'consumer choice', Cuomo didn't seemed like an affirmed choice of positive belief, but one of familiarity and... lazy ass goalong in ignorance unless and until sock knocker knocked.
maria_from_ga@mariafromga.bsky.social · 6h agoThe voters were repeatedly backing Cuomo in the polls, like we can say the anti-Cuomo faction was longer than the pro-Cuomo but that was true for any candidate in a multi-candidate race and as the article I posted said, the establishment did pull for them They explicitly drafted Adams bc of Cuomo
“To unmask anonymous online critics, DHS has sent hundreds of subpoenas to social-media companies, according to people familiar with the matter. Its agents have tracked down Americans at work and on the road, asking them to sign letters acknowledging their online speech about ICE “may” be a crime.”
Civil Liberties Defense Center@cldc03.bsky.social · 6h agoGreat article in Wall Street Journal about how ICE is weaponizing social media platforms and what CLDC is doing to stop it! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
They would if they thought they had any agency, thats the rub
Kaiterra (Hanakoharu.com)@kaiterra.bsky.social · 7h agoThe argument seems like it keeps boiling down to the idea that leftists, arabs, antizionists, whoever the villain of the day is, have agency and have to own their choices, but moderates never do, they're just an uncontrollable, mindless force of nature. Frankly moderates should find it insulting
I'm leaning bit, like the cereal thing is either the tell or we really are through the looking glass.
Bingus Khan, of the Glorious Chicago Khanate@bingus.ough.club · 13h agoabsolutely destroyed lmao
If a gang of senior citizens beat up some impresario financial wizard for being insulting, that's market information, right?
Cartoon aside, the sheer fact is most of us actually could get by because we already fucking dont, and its 100% AI Acolytes existing in a fishbowl that can not see beyond the fishbowl and believe that every fishbowl is like theirs, somehow.
Smooth Dunk@smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 6h ago
If theres any lesson in this for Electoral Leftists, its the vessel and moment dont backfill ideological interest or loyalty, to the org the pol. The pol wining is a symptom of prior loyalty and interest working its tail off to win, and whether it sticks is entirely an efficacy audit
Ciggy Smoke Bringer aka Riotous Blottoness@ciggysmokebringer.bsky.social · 7h agoWell yeah, everything after term makes that concrete as hell. Its always been the Kshama Show to her with accidental and timeplace benefits.
Counter take: in not telling us anything, it tells us everything!
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 14h agoMy ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
I try to stay out of geopolitics because my wife is way better about all of it and I trust her opinions much more, but people are revealing their own abusable psyches and egos about it today.
Imagine joining the military after 25 years of eating shit.
2nd Take: There is no fucking bottom to Democrats being hapless metaphorical abused mothers, who will openly complain about the situation every single time and then still play along.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h agoI know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.
My son was wearing a "Vote Reform" t-shirt and an "I love Nigel" baseball hat. He's been spat at, abused, slapped around the head and told he's a brainless twat. God knows what's going to happen to him once he gets out of the house...
So you're saying, the Domestics fucked up so bad they made it a geopolitical problem?
Scooby Shakespeare@scoobyshakespeare.bsky.social · 11h agoLeaving aside protecting a flourishing democracy from being involuntarily incorporated into a totalitarian state (see Ukraine), the chip fabs our entire economy depends on are mostly there. (And two administrations making noises about onshoring that industry hasn't changed much.)