Just to be clear, the argument here is that it doesn’t matter if Platner was selling drugs to beltway establishment types because that fact couldn’t escape into the public discourse?

It's Chris!@chrisd238.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"he used to sell me drugs" seems less a vulnerability to him than the person laying the accusation... "so you used to buy coke from him? Did you do a lot of coke? Who sells you coke now?"

Eyran

“We have invented an offense that you committed, you must publicly apologize to us” - the people who say this are not looking to politely bury the issue and if you surrender control to them they’ll take more

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 8mo ago

no the goal is getting things heated and generating an argument that can be harvested for screenshots to drive the next round of discourse, a token apology can be a way to disengage and refocus

This might be controversial but I think you guys just use 'war crimes' to mean 'military action I disapprove of'. It's fine to think the military is used for evil, but war crimes have an actual definition!

Catbus@catbus.phd · 9mo ago

I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake

666.... 67.... There has to be some connection here...

Dearborn isn't to blame for Harris's loss, but they did vote for trump, so they aren't good people.

Some of you guys fr hate liberals more than fascists and no I don't repeat myself.

WAGMI

Never much good news for us Jews these days

Took this very artistic photo of the tree branches outside the wework all lit up (ignore my facial expression)

Trying out the "beeper" app, seems pretty noice

We need to increase bsky discussion that isnt A.) Meta B.) Political

Bsky has at least reached the level of value where you can get answers to dumb questions

Ben@realbensobel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Strange question but is there a thing wherw you can buy like a subscription to have a space in a woodworking shop and go there to saw a board or something every once in a while? I like making things but woodworking isn't really convenient in an apartment.

Strange question but is there a thing wherw you can buy like a subscription to have a space in a woodworking shop and go there to saw a board or something every once in a while? I like making things but woodworking isn't really convenient in an apartment.

Jihad against daylight savings time

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y ago

Analysis: The incoming Trump administration “government efficiency” advisers posted in favor of dumping daylight saving time. Would you be okay if the sun rose before 4 a.m., or after 10? Not changing clocks means we’d have to live with the extremes.

You talkin’ to me? Are you… talkin’ to me…?

Im TPOT adjacent, left of center, AND got screwed by UHC so i triple support luigi

It has a great verification system, you guys are too dumb to use it

Andrew Weinstein@andrewjweinstein.com · 2y ago

Bluesky has done a remarkable job of dealing with the post election explosion of new users, but if it wants to take the next step as a trusted platform, a reliable verification system is absolutely necessary.

Why the fuck do th3 rest of us have to pay for florida's sins

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 2y ago

Home insurance in areas hit by repetitive disasters is going to be the number one housing affordability issue over the next 4 years. And possibly going into the midterms. More so than interest rates. Florida in particular is going to have huge problems.

it’s not safe out there. it’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. but it’s not for the timid.

guy who's money comes from making people mad online: wow, sucks to see all these people not using The Website That Makes You Angry. real problem for society.

This was drakes funniest and truest bar, dont lie

Dreadful@dreadful4x.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Drake really told Kendrick “you rap like you trynna free the slaves” lmao like you have to be so severely detached from hip hop and black culture to think that was a bar? 😭 if anything that proved exactly what Kendrick been saying about him. What would possess you to say that 😂

Consistency is virtue because it allows other people to trust your principles, morally inconsistent people just act for disguised self interest

Bossett@bossett.social · 2y ago

fascinated by people who believe that consistency is virtue in moral reasoning, especially the "oh this is bad, but I have to endorse it because <principle>" ideologies should be written in pencil, don't invent cops that live in your head

Im trapping you in the crystal

We should have another seattle bluesky meetup irl

Been very curious about the overlap between “the internet archive did nothing wrong when it abandoned controlled digital lending” and “scraping Bluesky posts is theft”

Bossett@bossett.social · 2y ago

unless you think I can just scan every book in a library and put it online just because it's been made available to me

This sucks!

Society if Costco sold creatine monohydrate in dog food sized bags

training a markov chain on each person who complains about the posts dataset

If the World Wide Web was invented today, "Right click -> Save image" would be seen: * as a dangerous and illegal vehicle for piracy, by corporations * as an abuse of consent by leftists