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doctor of sociology at inst. nastro azzurro
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complains a lot about admin stuff in counterextremism
obnoxious transgender jew
https://nocellara.beehiiv.com/

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thinking about watching the filmography of kevin james

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getting a beverage carbonation system (not a sodastream ofc) is truly life changing. i am now perpetually in a state of ambient fizz

thinking about watching the filmography of kevin james

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According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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reading conservative originalists’ analysis of brown vs board - they claim it as a win for conservative originalism the analysis on just vibes alone has the same tone as someone seeking to beat a white supremacy charge so they claim they can’t be racist cause they have a Black friend

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The DNC is gonna be lit this year.

Making the election a referendum on if Trump can go to jail or not seems like a pretty good choice to me

remembering this in the context of jd vance

having been bearish on trump since 2022 and a vocal early believer that desantis did not have the sauce, i will be absolutely fucking insufferable if trump loses in november

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It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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also, like... the big influencers were immediately like "how could the democrats do this to trump? we must kill them back with our guns!" and normies actually don't really respond well to that kind of thing!

I maintain that it was nuts to believe that anyone other than people with pre-existing MAGA terminal conditions WOULD be rendered mad horny to vote for Trump because he got a podium photo-op.

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👀 "President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code" * CeCe Peniston voice * 🎵 finally 🎵 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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one reason why everyone's crazy now is that Deals don't really exist anymore. internet commerce has effectively killed the feeling that we are getting a bargain. that might not be a big deal elsewhere but it makes up about 90% of the american shared national identity

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Former DCist reporters just announced that they are launching a worker-run local news site for DC called the 51st, operating on reader donations:

A serious loss for local DC news. What's fucked up is that this is the SECOND time DCist has been shuttered, after Gothamist, the group of city-based sites which included it, was bought up & shut down by a billionaire mad that they reported on him. They stay brazenly dismantling journalism.

WAMU lays off 15 staffers, shuts down DCist to focus on audiowww.axios.com The station plans to add new audio products.

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwww.washingtonpost.com The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

Which way, Western bald man?

Feminist icon, Pitbull!

Hey I just want to say now that the "Crooks was kicked out of his school's shooting club for being a bad shot" is an incredibly obvious lie because that's flatly just not how gun clubs work.

Today's beat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw42...

Delta Rae - Bottom of the River (Lyrics)www.youtube.com ☀︎ Lyrics video of the song Bottom of the River by Delta Rae ☀︎☽ I take lyric video requests for any artist! Just leave a comment ☽I do not own anything, all...

if i was intentionally being an asshole online (which i am sometimes doing) and someone called me an asshole, i would simply respond "yeah that's the fucking point, brainlord" and chalk it up as a w

An important thing to remember about the addiction to posting held by politics "junkies", wonks, and analysts is that none of it matters.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pointing out for maybe the thousandth time that accident theory and human-oriented design are maybe the only areas of engineering with immediately applicability in sociology and that's because they're secretly sociology and not engineering.

tl;dr: ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUR SYSTEM COMPLEX? TIGHTLY COUPLED? INEVITABLY PRONE TO ACCIDENT? YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO DAMAGES!

Something I think platform holders struggle with is all loose agglomerations of people have bad actors and, arguably more importantly, people who will join snowballing lurches in personally benign ways. A goal of moderation can't be to prevent bad social trends, but to stall out their snowballing.

Every platform that scales has assholes, the question is whether the platform has the tools to deal with them. Feels like BlueSky very much does not

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“I’m eepy. I’m restpilled. I’m napmaxxing” PLEASE JUST SAY YOURE TIRED PLEASE IM FUCKING BEGGING YOU JUST SAY YOURE TIRED MAYBE YAWN A LITTLE JUST BE NORMAL FOR 10 FUCKING SECONDS

the french fry elf manga/anime has a weird, leering horniness about the whole "it's not porn, but... ehuehuehue" thing that makes my skin crawl it's fine to like it if you do but whuff

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You libs saying JD Vance stands for “Jautomatic Difle” are exposing yurselfs as a bunch of 🤡s ——it stands for “Jarmalite” which is the company that manufacturers JD Vance.

Thinking about the Rockwell B-1 Lancer.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately how the rhetorical and academic move to technicize various issues acts to obscure them as being purely a side-effect of media and platform systems design, instead of being foremost social behaviors that people engage in and interact with each other through.

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The specific content of the article aside, “liars and trolls” is a much better framing for all of this than ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ and it’s good to see a mainstream media article say it

Proud to be quoted alongside the great @katestarbird.bsky.social in this WaPo piece on post-assassination-attempt conspiracy theories. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Liars and trolls overwhelm social media after Trump rally shootingwww.washingtonpost.com The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has triggered violent rhetoric and misinformation on some online platforms as RNC delegates gather in Milwaukee.

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Today is Nonidi the 29th of Messidor in the year 232. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate wheat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wheat

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Someone tell Bluesky Paul that there's no option in settings to switch back to a PvE server

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RIP Savitri Devi you would have loved tumblr and then subsequently the 2024 Republican national convention

FUCKING LMAO

There are a lot of valid complaints about the rhetoric at the RNC tonight, however, I am grateful at least one party has the bravery to finally answer the question as to whether or not Australians are white.