Ben Blythe
@visitingwriter.bsky.social
Jewish SpecFic writer, currently working on a novel. University instructor. Editor. Wrestling fan. Chicago Manual of Style enthusiast.
My desire to be informed outweighs my desire to not be in a constant state of psychotic rage.
Bro wants the evil hand licking murder pervert to adhere to the fucking Code of Honor.
Setting aside the acrimony of the primary, I'm genuinely curious as to whether or not El-Sayed can even figure out how to run against a Republican. This dude's been running against Democrats in one form or another since ~2018. AFAIK he's never actually faced a Republican before.
I'm going to be brutally honest: watching people speedrun conspiratorial revisionism regarding COVID just five years after the pandemic killed one million Americans makes me understand how Holocaust denial took root in living memory of the death camps. It is the same basic sick instinct.
The great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors...
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I am living that norm Dem Adam Smith locked out "I can't talk about gays/I'm gonna become a Green after winning, this off the record right?" Melissa Chaudhry and "I'm not in a political cult" Kshama Sawant, thats fun I particularly like Sawant not even making it to the general, amazing, love to see
It's a little thing, but a lot of professional wrestlers are living longer and having better lives, and the stories they tell have gotten a shitload less bigoted all around. This has ripple effects all the way to Whatever You Like That You Think Is Unaffected By Populist Community Theater.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
I don’t know who will win in Michigan but I promise I will use either result to get cheap political hits in on politicans I don’t like, that’s the regime promise
Hey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.
Legitimately a useless industry outside of using them for pump fakes and to bait opponents into complacency. After 2016 and especially 2024, I will never, ever take any poll seriously, regardless of the supposed rigour of the pollster
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 16h agoLooks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
HI YOURE NEVER GOING TO BELIEVE WHAT I JUST LOST UNDER THE COUCH
U.S. FEDERAL WORKFORCE MORALE PLUMMETS: NEARLY TWO-THIRDS SAY THEY WOULDN’T CHOOSE PUBLIC SERVICE AGAIN Nearly two-thirds of U.S. federal employees said they would not enter public service again, according to a CBS News report, highlighting deteriorating morale across the federal workforce.
I really think we gotta explore why Republicans keep voting for guys whose whole personas are "serial killer with a chip on his shoulder." What is it about these obvious pieces of shit that draws these voters in.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
the thing is, whatever its drawbacks, it's important that, on the day Bluesky does away with the nuclear block, we all abandon ship at once
Like finding a lost piece of your childhood. And by your childhood I mean my childhood, specifically. But also probably yours, too.
NativeJovian@nativejovian.bsky.social · 3d agoA lot of the stuff from Zoids (and History Channel, etc) is still available on his website! This track is the Legally Distinct Jurassic Park Theme that Zoids used for the Ultrasaurus, for example: qfactorymusic.sourceaudio.com/track/4651766
Staring at my unfinished syllabus, cursing the me who should have finished it.
USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 3d agoOh go fuck yourself
not just the right-wing media, half of centrist punditry was convinced that this was somehow going to be game-changing, out of a combination of affinity, idiocy, and their deep desire to surrender to perceived power.
Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3d agoI think the aftermath of the Kirk shooting really proves just how desensitized ordinary Americans have gotten to low-intensity gun violence, which to be fair is in part his own damn fault. To the right-wing media, though, the fact one of their own could get cut down like this was a genuine trauma.
Nuking the SAVE Act is a massive win for everyone and everything with democracy. Dems keep denying the Republicans their Enabling Act.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d agoi am begging you — including some of you who follow me that i'm seeing in the OP QTs — to actually read what senate democrats are getting out of this and to stop and think for, like, at least 90 seconds, about what *else* you think a minority party *in both chambers* can squeeze out of the majority
This is the most brutal damnatio memoriae America, in my lifetime, has meted out to anyone who wasn't a literal rapist, and even then this still might hit the top. Dude gets brutally assassinated and basically becomes a poop joke for elementary kids.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d agosister tells me that the kids these days don't say "low key" they say "lowkirk" or "lowkirkuinely" and I don’t know how to handle this information
i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like
Independent Pro Wrestler Matt Cage Forces Racist Female Fan To Apologize For Alleged Racial Slur During Show
Independent Pro Wrestler Matt Cage Forces Racist Female Fan To Apologize For Alleged Racial Slur During Show
Independent pro wrestler Matt Cage confronted a fan following a recent match after the individual allegedly directed a racial slur toward him during the bout. Cage, who is Black, stopped after the match and addressed the fan in front of the crowd, making it clear he would not tolerate what had been said. “If there’s […] The post Independent Pro Wrestler Matt Cage Forces Racist Female Fan To Apologize For Alleged Racial Slur During Show appeared first on Wrestling Headlines.
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