Aziri

@aziri.bsky.social

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Veteran, old-ish and cranky.

OMG, for Bast's sake, read Eric Hoffer's, "True Believers" if you want to understand what's going on in America.

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This is totally paying the troupe of foxes to guard the hen house and giving them bonuses on reducing the number of foxes reported in the hen house.

🧵 I’m sorry to do this to you, but there’s a Part 2. I waited to share this part because I worried most of you'd not be able to handle all of this at once. But you’ve had a week to recover, so let’s dive into how Apple execs are giving themselves bonuses as a reward for illegal dumping! ⬇️

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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I'll forever keep my simple explainer of FMVSS compliance: Put a sticker on it. That's it, the end. Just need a sticker stating that you think your product meets all required safety standards and you accept civil liability should this be proven false

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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

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RELISH IN THE SCREAMS OF YOUR ENEMIES! DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?

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Here in Denver, you're now seeing STARs vans everywhere - "Support Team Assisted Response." It's a medic and a social worker, both trained in mental health and addiction support, showing up instead of police. They offer support to homeless folks, people in crisis, and folks in altered states.

"U.S. police departments have gotten smaller—and the violent crime rate is still plummeting. So what is going on?" What's ALWAYS gone on. Cops do not stop crime. They never have. Real "tough on crime" measures are well-funded schools, free daycare, and mental health services. Always have been.

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HANG UP YOUR THROWING STARS, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DARK THOUGHTS. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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game designers, we have one simple pact that isn't allowed to be broken. you put in a waterfall, and I go through it for a cave that has some sorta reward.

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New from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: the aftermath of Dobbs shows how gendered administrative burdens are the means by which by which the state reinforces a white Christian nationalist vision open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Gendered Burdensopen.substack.com The constraints of the post-Dobbs era are part of a broader pattern

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Being consistently against targeting civilians no matter who's civilians they are is a lonely position but it's definitely the right one.

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SHELVE YOUR KATANA, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely

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CBS has just announced that the first two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation will be remastered to digitally insert a beard onto Riker's babyface using a technology called Deep Frakes.

I'm old. Every time I see VC, I don't think venture capitalists, but VietCong. That war ended when I was still a toddler, but the translator circuit resists reprogramming. Perhaps because of my knee jerk responses to both?

Want to cure cancer? Perhaps we could start by not poisoning the public?

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe www.propublica.org/article/3m-f...

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safewww.propublica.org Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Grew up in SoCal and was astounded that they let the oil industry threaten their international tourist draws - the beaches - with the *inevitable* oil spills. The public doesn't make enough money to justify closed beaches, the stink and dead wildlife.

OK here's the deal: 1. SB 1497 would make oil companies pay into a fund for the trillions of dollars in harms they have caused to California. 2. It is at a critical point now where it can quietly die behind closed doors one week from today unless we all make a very big deal of how important it is.

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DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.

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“The world you grew up in no longer exists” that is correct because I am a fucking adult

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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

Type: Undercouch monster. Steals rolling and crinkling things. Alignment: Chaotic Neutral. Might grab your ankle. Might make a Hallmark Moment. Might spite pee on your bed. Might beg for belly rubs. Might steal your crinkly thing and stash it under the couch.

What is your pet's DnD class and alignment?

This is the only DM that I want to see.

Bluesky devs: we have heard your requests and finally added DMs to the app! me: oh god Bluesky DM: *notif pops up* me: *clicks it reluctantly* BS DM: okay so uh you all meet at a tavern. and it's raining i guess?

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I have a joke about Ariadne but you might get all spun up about it

I have a joke about Oedipus, motherfucker

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Good! Everyone with the right to vote must be able to exercise that right.

3 really great pieces in @bolts.bsky.social in recent days 1️⃣ Colorado is poised to become the 1st state in the nation to require all jails to set up polling centers, so people detained there during elections can vote. A major development: boltsmag.org/colorado-vot...

Colorado Lawmakers Pass First-in-Nation Mandate for Voting Centers in Jailsboltsmag.org People held in county jails typically retain the right to vote but face enormous hurdles to actually casting a ballot. The legislature adopted a bill meant to remedy the issue.

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saw a tweet by gldivittorio that said 1 reason rapidly spreading college protests are being fought so hard is the 3.5% rule. Historically it takes just 3.5% of a population to challenge the govt before it can't resist change. For the US that's about 12 million, there are 18 million college students.

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the worldwww.bbc.com Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

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The State of Oregon just sent me a special election ballot. It will cost me a stamp to mail it back. I can fill it out at my leisure. In my recliner if I want. I don't see any reason that everyone can't have this convenience if we have a democracy where we value participation. But we don't.

No lie detected.

Life under the Biden administration, a summary: That's good That's good That's good That's good That's good WHAT NO THAT'S TERRIBLE WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING That's good Ooh, that's very good That's good ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR GOTDAMN MIND STOP IT That's good That's good That's good FFFFFUUUUU— 💢