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Claire Willett

@clairewillett.bsky.social

Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.

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A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6h ago

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

Rip City Not Rip Off@ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 15h ago

WOAH. Blazers leaked emails show they refused to respond to city emails asking basic questions, weeks before any “first-class” claim was mentioned, contradicting Dewayne Hankins claim that that claim “chilled negotiations” They were not negotiating in good faith since the beginning.

@wrightkatu.bsky.social · 16h ago

NEW: Internal emails obtained by KATU show Portland Trail Blazers leaders debated whether to respond to the City of Portland's questions on key pieces of a proposed Moda Center deal, with one executive saying the city's requests felt like "a trap”. katu.com/news/investi...

ACLU@aclu.org · 20h ago

The DOJ is now 0-20 in court trying to access states' voter files. They've lost in: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 2d ago

the biggest and best movie of the year revolves around the perils and horrors that come with sacrificing a trans life in the name of a short term victory

charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 2d ago

has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 2d ago

We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED

Laura Anne Gilman@lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Paramount execs bribed the FCC into giving approval for their acquisitions and megamergers? (And nobody was surprised, not even a little bit) www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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Luke@luckwillows.bsky.social · 2d ago

"perfectly willing to wear a boat caked in shit across my chest, but I'll ride that boat myself before I wear what appears to be a Dave Matthews Band shirt" is a very Chicago mindset

Harebrained@harebrained.bsky.social · 2d ago

I redesigned this shirt after it occurred to me that people might not want the words “Dave Matthews Band” really big on their chest. Show your love for Chicago tour boats with this shirt, available now, and expertly printed by Exploding House ! #chicago

Green shirt with the text “Chicago Boat Tours” printed across the top. In the background is a bus on a bridge. In the foreground is a beautiful tour boat and it’s covered in a brown liquify substance.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

Multnomah County, OR@multco.bsky.social · 3d ago

NW Naito building fire causing heavy smoke (up to 24 hrs) •Check fire.airnow.gov; open windows if Air Quality is Good/Moderate •Keep windows shut, recirculate AC, use purifiers •Kids, seniors, pregnant & heart/lung conditions need a clean room •Outdoors: Wear an N95 mask 📸: Portland Fire & Rescue

A building on fire with text that says: Neighborhood smoke alert at Naito Parkway near the Fremont Bridge. Check fire.airnow.gov for air quality updates.
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is frustrating, because they keep having variations on this conversation: Q: okay, can you pretend to think about these things the way I do? A: no. Q: okay but you have to. A: okay but I can’t. Q: look just pretend that I’m right for one — A: but you aren’t. You’re wrong AND stupid.

A. I don't subscribe to the concept of a lapsed reservation, so I can't answer that question. All right. Now, if there were a lapsed reservation, however, would you believe that treaty rights, nevertheless, are reserved in such lapsed reservation? A. I continuously decline to answer questions based on faulty assumptions. l All right, you're an expert, are you not, in this area? A. I understand the historical background, but just as a matter of intellectual reasonableness, I do not believe in following an analysis that starts with a faulty assumption. This is a matter of what I consider as an intellectually sound discussion; you don't build upon faulty assumptions. All right, now, Doctor, let me just say a couple of things in response. First of all, if you are an expert, you're entitled, in fact you may be required to answer hypothetical questions, okay? The second point, I think, is that although it may be based upon a faulty intellectual exercise, the opinion in People vs. LeBlanc does find at least one of the reservations contained in Article Third of the Treaty of 1836 has happened by virtue of the Treaty of 1855. Now, without asking you to give an opinion again on that question, I wonder, in light of what I've just said, whether you could tell me,as a hypothetical matter, what treaty provision in the Treaty of 1836, if any, would give Indians the right to fish under the treaty, free from State regulation or A. State control in a lapsed reservation, assuming that the lapsed reservation is merely a hypothetical? I will leave it to you lawyers to deal in hypothetical, legal speculation. Q. So you refuse to answer the question? A. I don't think that, I don't think that I -- yes, I think it's not proper for me to engage in legal speculation. I deal in historical documents. MR. GREENE: And I would add for the record the same objection that we made yesterday, that calls for a legal conclusion from this witness, and that's beyond her competence.
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

“It is profitless to speculate on error.” Once again I must stress that my grandmother talked like this all the fucking time, she could have been describing a salad that wasn’t as good as she was hoping it would be

A. Is your question finished? l. Yes. A. I will not presume to answer the spin-off of a fallacious initial assumption. What was the initial assumption that was fallacious? A. That something -- That reservations no longer existed or A. something. All right, but let's assume that I'm right. I will not assume you're right; it's profitless to speculate on error.
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

“I don’t comprehend the internal inconsistencies which seem to have been so forcibly impressed upon your mind” is such a gentle yet steely way to say “ok so yeah you’re full of shit”

I wonder, Doctor, if I could ask you the question and Counsel could forebear, and we'll grant they have a continuing objection. Do you not agree with me there is some internal inconsistency in interpreting the Treaty of 1836 to include a reservation or reservations for five years or perhaps somewhat longer for those areas that are most important to the Indians, to include for at least those Indians living south of the Straits of Mackinac an obvious intention that those Indians will be removed from Michigan, with an interpretation of Article 13 which reserves to those Indians a perpetual right to fish in the Great Lakes in those areas which were not as of as great importance to the Indians as those that were reserved for a lesser period of time? Do you find any inconsistency there? A. I find that question so convoluted and loaded that I couldn't answer it unless it was written out phrase by phrase. I don't -- I've read this Ireaty, I don't find any . . . I don't comprehend the intemal inconsistencies which seem to have been so • forcibly impressed upon your mind
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

Like, forget the fact that this is my grandmother — this is an expert witness who is RESOLUTE in her unwillingness to let the attorney taking the deposition redefine the scope of her testimony

A. Q. A. Okay, I'll try to avoid that now. Let's just think about this in terms of Lower Peninsula Indians. How do you reconcile the removal provisions of the Treaty with regard to Lower Peninsula Indians and any interpretation of Article 13 which grants to those -- or reserves to those Lower Peninsula Indians a perpetual right to fish in the Great Lakes? I don't, I don't feel any obligation to reconcile the legal interpretations of any of those Articles. I just deal in what the Indians did. All right. Let's talk about it solely in terms of what the Indians believed. I'll talk about what the Indians did.
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d ago

okay so CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE is one of my favorite books of the last decade and the trailers make the upcoming movie look stunning with a cast so good I want to fling myself off a cliff, but also Tomi Adeyemi is livid and says it was the worst experience of her life, do we know what’s up????

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d ago

I actually really feel like there’s a ton of overlap between men deep in the tech/STEM space developing AI psychosis and the way NXIVM’s Keith Raniere played Mark Vicente, the “What the Bleep Do We Know” filmmaker

Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open@dylanmacri.bsky.social · 4d ago

The thing about this Hank Green crap is that intelligent people are very susceptible to cult recruitment and brainwashing because they're more able to rationalize it to themselves.