Jeff

@jeffatc.bsky.social

Digital (Sony and Fuji) and film (Canon AE-1/FTb) photography, Red Wings hockey, scale modeling, music and some center-left politics. Find my photography at www.flickr.com/photos/jhtolatc

today's centrist shitlib take: I totally get people having really strong feelings in the primary and I will not criticize anyone who says "If that person gets the nom, I'm not voting in November." But in November, anyone who doesn't vote for the non-fascist against the fascist? Fuck you.

another perfect example of the art form: just paragraphs of mindlessly parroting what the CEO said, completely devoid of any contextual evidence or objective third-party input or challenge lazy pseudo-journalistic gibberish dot com

It also most closely matches what we can observe in the micro (“people go online and lose their minds”) and it even explains why some people started to lose their minds early (Fox News and right-wing media allowed the American right to choose its own reality even before the smartphone era).

“It’s the phones” is the only theory that explains why it’s happening everywhere, why it’s been getting worse across cultural and national boundaries, and why it seems detached from material or demographic conditions.

This is Ender. He pressed the belly rub button and assumed the position. Now it's time for your end of the deal. 12/10 (TT: enderthehavanes)

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
While broadcasters typically air a prime-time address by the president, they determined that this speech was more ‘political’ than newsworthy for live coverage
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 3w ago

As has been the case for six years any news outlet taking trump live thursday night after he said he’ll lie about the 2020 election and the legitimacy of georgia’s senators is explicitly endorsing that lie as a legitimate opinion