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Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds | Past Lives

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looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

The lesson of Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell (and Rubio amd Vance, etc.) is that being a spineless, smirking weasel is a lretty good path to power.

This is so sad and infuriating ven if you don't play Pathfinder. Paizo has always been a labor of love. Diamond was a shitty service provider with a near monopoly from corporate inertia. JP Morgan has no idea what the product it's claiming is. paizo.com/blog/paizo-r...

Everyone calling them weird was so refreshing and then some dumb failson Harris advisor killed it. We need to call them everything they are: losers, pathetic, embarrassing, incompetent, cruel.

Dems lost the house because they ran away from their own accomplishments and Obama abandoned his volunteer army in pursuit of bipartisanship. I’m old enough to remember you misremembering

@observingmadness.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We supported Clinton and Biden WAY more than Obama. Im old enough to remember Drms immediately losing the House in 2010 because he didn't solve "racism" in 2 years.

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

Every state has an old timey common law claim that gets asserted by an older attorney or the most insane pro se litigant around. It’s called like “bill of the wash” and it comes with 4x damages, attorneys’ fees, and you need to prove actual witchcraft to win.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · last yr.

The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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If Donald Trump didn’t already exist the press would have invented him, which actually come to think of it that’s exactly what happened.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

oook www.politico.com

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

(Spoilers) I bet Vic Mackey is still emplyed by ICE.

Both sides-ism eventually always becomes one-sideism. One side got booed. Editing that is a lie, not news.

Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Who needs state-run media anyway? “On the NBC broadcast the boos were not heard or remarked upon when Vance appeared on screen, with the commentary team simply saying ‘JD Vance’.”

But he ended his awesome book on RICHARD II. RICHARD II. The most un-Plantagenet Plantagenet. The one who couldn't even bankrupt his kingdom or starve his cousins, opponents, their wives and children to death. The one who got starved to death by HIS cousin. Henry IV was the max Plantaganet.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Dan Jones can say anything he wants! 😍

All human societies feature an amoral and mediocre elite inventing a fairy tale about why they get to fuck over every one. Three Estates, Divine Right of Kings, Leninism, White Supremacy, Master Race, Mandate of Heaven. Ours is the lie that capitalism is based on merit and not disregard for others.

The Trump regime is plotting to convert commercial warehouses to massive ICE detention centers. Private prison corporations, who just so happened to donate to Trump, are already raking in billions. How many more private companies are going to cash in on this cruelty?

Tired = ICE Barbie. Wired = ICE Mrs. Potato Head.

from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee

Walz and Frey need to order the arrests of ICE agents committing burglary, breaking and entering and assault. Cops who refuse need to be fired and their pensions revoked. Oh, that's against the union contract? So is disobedience to orders and abetting terrorism. Levy fines. Sequester bank accounts.

Finally, bipartisanship will allow us to handle a censorship weapon to the Trump white house. Very smart you fucking idiots.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸@judiciarydems.senate.gov · 8mo ago

Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.

Re-upping this for all the people who think we should stop dunking on Nuzzi, Lizza and Bernstein Jr. Most of us have to be serious and sober in performing our jobs. Treating reporting and politics at the highest levels as "just good fun" is indefensible.

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · last yr.

a key inflection point in our history, that has led to the deaths of thousands of children and tens of thousands of civilians, is that a bunch of nepobaby journalists in the WHCA felt that the Biden WH didn't give them enough respect and a Trump one would be more fun

This is one of the most important exposés published in WSJ in several years, and it derives from intercepts and analyses by foreign intelligence services studying the conduct of Trump and his inner team. It's first and foremost a wake up call to the people of the United States.

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine

The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

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summers is such a uniquely corrosive force in democratic politics. it beggars belief that he has been so central to left-of-center economic policy for such a long time given his absolutely rancid beliefs and conduct

"Centrism" is a species of magical thinking as pernicious as trickle-down economics, anti-vax and racism. Not as intentionally malovolent, but it enables those other types of magical thinking.