ClockworkCanary

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Save what we Love. Polyamorous and also married. Polyamorous dating is ALL about the calendars. I repost a lot. I like to amplify.

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This is the repair of a tiny wind up toy boat. www.tumblr.com/annmcn/75539...

Tumblrwww.tumblr.com Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.

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it's worth noting, perhaps, that a lot of the "french elections defy predictions!" coverage is written by people/outlets who made the predictions

this is true of many things, not just politics, but often people in this position are better at writing/talking about a thing than they are actually understanding it. your halftime analysis is designed to keep the audience, not necessarily inform them

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The TL:DR of the thread below: Balance in journalism doesn’t mean every story has two sides. It does mean you cover every story with equal rigor and precision. @nytimes.com et al. are clearly failing to do this. It is as if Trump has disappeared from the newsroom’s consciousness. A disgrace.

For 10/7, @nytimes.com Politics vertical has 4 stories on Biden, all on stay/go. They run 1 on Trump directly on his VP search setting up candidates for '28. 2 other related stories: JD Vance urging Trump to prosecute Biden, and Rubio loving Trump's immunity. This is journalistic malpractice. 1/

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All of the people indulging in these fantasy Democratic primary scenarios think that people vote reflexively because it’s what they themselves do; they don’t realize that turnout is a product of hard work. Unseen, unheralded work. By unseen, unheralded people.

I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see

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I'm back with your Sunday evening update! 1006 if you have paid $177,696.11 for 3039 items! That is now a full $10,000 of rounding up from your invoices! 44 of you have taken advantage of 2nd chance offers to add $25,449 to our total!! We are now officially past $975k total!

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Why does anybody listen to the New York Times?

"The preliminary results upended widespread predictions of a clear victory for the National Rally," says the NYT just now. Wait, who made these predictions of a massive victory for the National Rally again? Oh yeah, these guys did:

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Frankly wish more people would subscribe to my Patreon just to ask questions, as the best test of a perspective is to process an issue in real time patreon.com/gothamgirlblue

I don’t make much of a living, but I’m far more accurate than many who are highly paid in the field. This fact depresses me constantly.

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Once again, the party of "But will no one think of the children?" proves they only mean children above a certain poverty line.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Did you think the updates were over?? Thanks to folks rounding up and our second chance winners, we're now at $975,000! We are so close... 👀😍

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Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.

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Bolts is akin to Last Week Tonight: a much deeper dive on important issues than you're likely to get most anywhere else. Like, they have a guide to judicial elections. This is important stuff that gets skipped over by way too many outlets.

For folks who've appreciated my coverage of the French elections... @bolts.bsky.social is quite different—but we cover US politics with such attention to detail. So give us a follow if you've enjoyed this, and care about the US. And our newsletter is free! boltsmag.org/newsletter

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From Insta: When your therapist tells you: "The fact that you're considered 'high functioning' doesn't mean your illness is easier for you to deal with. It means it's easier for others to deal with." ☝️Interesting bookends to my day👇

You're a person, not a chore.

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it’s not even what the polls say

"at this point, democrats probably realize that Trump is going to just win in November" is an absolutely disqualifying statement for any pundit. Like how the polls showed a massive red wave in 22? Lethal admixture of doomerism and stupidity.

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Just remember: the fascists do not have to win. It is not inevitable.

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The news from France and the UK are incredibly heartening, and we love being heartened.

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I cannot math today but please enjoy these numbers.

Numbers Going Up today again over on ActBlue thanks to some eager Second Chance bidders! donate.romancingthevote.com international.romancingthevote.com We're closing in on $200,000!!!!

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Door fetish, no. 156 Aveiro, Portugal

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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

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Jose can't even hold his head up.

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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I'm sorry, folks. As a political historian, I can soundly say that this is NOT A GOOD IDEA. Come. On. A "blitz primary?" Because popularity contests done slapdash in public view always end well??

Dumbest fuckin’ idea I’ve ever heard. “The proposal is work of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who served in Obama and Clinton administrations and as a volunteer policy adviser to the Biden campaign in 2020, and Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist…” www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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We haven't learned to stop posting Yashar? Lmao. Also interesting: He linked to a WaPo story and Lieu flatly denied it. The WaPo story says Lieu asked him to step aside. The @washingtonpost.com is straight up printing lies. You should be proud, you dogshit rag.

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Any Democrat in these states who doesn’t lean on this hard shouldn’t be in office. It’s a gift.

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

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The backlash from base voters who very explicitly demanded a Black woman as VP (and on the Court) as our “seat at the table” in exchange for our electoral organizing…whew, you are not prepared. But almost all of the white alternatives are, and it’s why they keep saying no.

by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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Please, please, please learn how to have your autistic child's back. We can help. Thank you, Beth Greene Perera. Original tweet: twitter.com/Old_Snowflak...

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Hey. Pssst. We're about 800 followers shy of The Big Leagues over on Youtube. Anyway like cat cartoons? ;3 www.youtube.com/@LackadaisyC...

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Nous pouvons changer des vies, et écrire l’histoire.

Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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Also: Get off your arse and vote. My constituency was won for Labour by 15 votes. A high turnout from the French sorted this. You don't vote? Well, the fash do. If you're replying to this with why it's ideologically impure for a truly left wing person to vote, please just block yourself, I'm tired.