Auston Habershaw

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Science Fiction/Fantasy author and English professor; shorts in Analog, F&SF, BCS, and elsewhere. Author of The Saga of the Redeemed; website aahabershaw.com

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Casablanca La Marseillaisewww.youtube.com The best scene in the film.

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France telling their fascists to fuck off.

Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit pollwww.aljazeera.com The second round of France’s snap parliamentary election called by President Emmanuel Macron has drawn a high turnout.

Every Zepplin song covered by Heart.

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

I am wearing cargo shorts and a Weyland-Yutani T-shirt and I am WAY cooler than this.

Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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Remember the old platform shooters when you got to the final boss and you could tell where the vulnerable spot was because it would start flashing when hit? Project 2025 is Trump's vulnerable spot. Hit it every day from now to November.

There's a whole dimwitted genre of right-winger memes which are just "I will shoot strangers" but dressed up as bad puns and I wish I could get them to understand that they just make them look cowardly and paranoid instead of clever or tough.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

Honestly, this is one of the primary reasons I doubt the existence of a just and all-powerful God. But hey, God - feel free to prove me wrong anytime!

I for one am still Thoughts and Prayersing for Trump to have a medical event. It’s fairly likely!

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Seriously, I’m half Biden’s age and I decided when I was 35 that I wouldn’t be going to things that started after 8 pm. The morning people are cranky and the staff are exhausted. And I’m a night owl who works second shift by preference and for the good of my clients.

Trump’s public schedule showed that on most days, he worked (“worked”), like three hours a day. And this isn’t even a “Biden can’t work late at night” issue. It’s a Biden is pulling back on SCHEDULED EVENTS that start after 8pm, which is actually a good idea for most people.

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It feels like journalistic gaslighting at this point

I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

Anybody else noticed that Uber's mapping algorithm, while never excellent, has gotten demonstrably worse this past year?

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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

Remake a movie with Shrek and make it better An Officer and a Shrek

Remake a movie with Shrek and make it better Bring Me the Heads of Shrek and Fiona

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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Vance says presidents must have immunity, though possibly not Bidenwww.politico.com But he also said that administrations should not be prosecuting "people based on their politics.”

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“The legacy media, spearheaded by The NY Times, have been vicious toward Biden and wildly irresponsible since last Thursday. I feel like the Times’s leadership is trying to force Biden out of the race in the same way they forced Claudine Gay to resign the presidency of Harvard…”

Journalism is supposed to hold power accountable. The NY Times chooses instead to flex power, endangering us all. Trying to force Biden aside by creating a movement for his ouster out of whole cloth only makes Trump’s election more likely. We see you www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/some-july-...

Some July 4 Thoughts on Nationalism, the Post-Debate Anti-Biden Media Frenzy, and the Stakes of the 2024 American Electionwww.bugbeardispatch.com An Update and a Recommendation Hello, fellow bugbears! I suspect that many of you are feeling disheartened this week, as I am. The last week brought such a deluge of bad news—not to mention copious ba...

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On this 4th of July, let us remember the absolute, incredible luck of humanity that, against all odds, the Alien mothership was Mac compatible.

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*In Morpheus' voice* Yesss... this is what sci-fi is. This has always been what sci-fi is. Sometimes though, you have to explain an problem or idea to a teddy bear before you reach enlightenment.

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This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.

“If a [political] party knows you’re not going to vote for them, the best thing they can do is convince you not to vote at all." — Stage_Door_Johnny (on instagram)

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As far as I'm concerned anyone telling people not to vote, in this election or any other, is doing for malign purposes, and the only correct response is "Well now I am going to vote EVEN HARDER."

see also the posts floating around pointing out that the author of that piece has voted in the last few elections according to voter records

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

It's worth googling the Great Smog of London to see how far we've come. Images like this from the 1950s. It was caused in part from burning coal

Sufficient reason to vote against him. You literally don't need another reason.

And ICYMI, from our poll yesterday: www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/p...

CNN Poll: Most Americans don’t expect Trump to concede if he loses election | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Most Americans think that former President Donald Trump will not concede if he loses the presidential election in November, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. And despite the vast majority...

It's like that scene at the end of the movie, where the villain is crackling all over with unholy power, mocks the hero's naive confidence in the power of friendship and loyalty. We just need Han and Chewie to fly out of the sun and blast the motherfucker. Cross your fingers...

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I wish I’d thought of this line back in the 80s, when it was moms trading urban legends over a massive interstate game of Telephone.

I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆

Just a reminder: all this would *not* have happened, but for Joe Biden and his administration.

On Independence Day, note our progress towards energy independence & a sustainable future for generations ahead. Thanks to 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure & 2022 Inflation Reduction laws, U.S. companies are accelerating in grid batteries to make solar+wind scalable. That's not all...

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"Both parties are the same"

I wrote for More Perfect Union about the Biden administrations proposal to implement new protections for workers who are agonizing under extreme heat.

Biden Proposes Protecting Workers from Extreme Heat and Their Own State Governmentssubstack.perfectunion.us “This regulation will save lives,” one union leader said.

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Dear Brits, get out and vote like your life depends on it. Because it does. If you need a reminder then read this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An (incomplete) list of every terrible policy the Conservatives have inflicted on Britain since 2010 | Jonn Elledgewww.theguardian.com Readers, brace yourselves, says the writer Jonn Elledge

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Brit chumrades: Please vote today. Please don't vote for the fash. Reward yourself with cake for non-fash voting. Encourage your friends to do the same. Non Brit chumrades: We're pretty on edge. Please be patient with us today.

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I've gone through this with multiple family members and friends and on every occasion one of the first things to go was skill with numbers. So when President Biden came out without notes or a teleprompter and accurately cited statistic after statistic, I really thought that would be the end of it.

I have dealt with family members that had Alzheimer's and dementia both. (Separate people) And their decline is almost exact to Trump, minus him being much more vindictive and vicious. Having listened to Biden, he has a stammer and is struggling a bit with recalling words.

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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.