Faine Greenwood

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civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them

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Blackrock CEO : as a billionaire i think the only way to shore up retirement and social security is for people to work into their 70s Press : so there’s no other option Billionaire : none that comes to mind

A solution to the retirement crisis? Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO sayswww.cbsnews.com BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that longer life expectancies are "putting the U.S. retirement system under immense strain."

Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

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In Idaho, children can be forced to carry pregnancies to term even if caused by adults... but can't go to the library without being *checks notes* accompanied by adults.

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Science folks, one thing about bluesky is there's way less 2 way interaction between people, especially on science posts, than there was on old Twitter. I'm not sure why that is, but it's something I'm keen to encourage. I'd love to hear your thoughts 🧪

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What can this possibly mean? Brains evolved over 500 million years ago; language probably less than 100,000. So he can't mean it literally. Bach studies cognitive architectures and has a PhD in cognitive science, so he knows the difference between brains and transformers.

he is consigned to The Crystal Prison

Outside a pharmacy in Vancouver.

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

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so you only fact check twitter threads but not presidential debates? you sure sound like a Serious News Organisation

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the absolute funniest shit about CNN being like "we can't fact check Trump its not what we do" is that after the Rice Truck Debacle incident with my family they were in my inbox(and those of others) running various fact checks and clarifications on that absolutely zero significance event for DAYS

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People on here who are deprived of their mental faculties say that "if Israel wanted to commit a genocide it would" well what is this exactly? How would you describe the near total destruction of Gaza City and the near total destruction of our ability to make food? The murder of 15,000 children?

-40,000+ killed -15,000+ children killed -20,000 children missing -70% of Gaza's buildings destroyed -60% of Gaza's farms destroyed -2,200,000 displaced

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Yup. Lots of people pointing out obviously this would be weaponized against LGBTQ folks. But also it just fundamentally bristles with a hostility towards privacy and freedom that runs through the entire project.

And, their definition of "porn" includes acknowledging the existence of trans people.

tag yourself, I’m grated radish dog

In the park by our flat in Vancouver. Sorry (saw-ry) you aren’t here.

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This is literally the entirety of why Sulz has lost his shit. Black voters showing that he isn't even an afterthought in this nations actual political calculus. He thinks defecting to Trump will get him relevance

"Why do they laugh at my mighty endorsement?"

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Starying to feel hard to avoid the conclusion that this gang up on Biden is the mostly white Beltway press being Big Mad that the last president was chosen by Black voters who DGAF about their dipshit endorsement and by golly they are determined those lessers will not do it again

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So in these trying times, we must *come* together

Well, I think we’ve got the new Biden campaign messaging strategy

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it’s like a town full of victorian ghosts got introduced to tank tops and hot pants

a charmingly goofy thing about portland is that it’s dark here half the year so once the temp hits 90, every white person in town strips down and becomes a reflective surface bright enough to be seen from space

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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BlueSky has the juice! (I'm sorry, I'm leaving)

Well, I think we’ve got the new Biden campaign messaging strategy

“Look, folks. There are no “gooner states” and “edging states”, we are the United States!”

Jesus Chris this is a banger

“Look, folks. There are no “gooner states” and “edging states”, we are the United States!”

I’m imagining a bald eagle with abs www.deviantart.com/utauradon/ar...

Imagine if you will an eagle with really big abs

never forget the sexy commemorative 9-11 eagle man

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Happy goddamn Fourth of friggin July here's a sketch of a dumbass firework flippin exploding ok

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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OK so while we argue on this site about who should replace Biden Twitter is burning up with WHY DOESNT THE MEDIA COVER TRUMP SEXUALLY ASSAULTING CHILDREN WITH EPSTEIN we really need to stop the discourse on here being so completely led by a handful of white elite dipshits in ac offices

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Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times “‘And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. ‘What for?' ‘Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one.’”

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man “Bill Door made the mistake millions of people had tried before with small children in slightly similar circumstances. He resorted to reason.”

Whenever I see soft-faced little Hitlers like Matthew Walthers, I think of Skunk Anansie and Little Baby Swastikkka:

Not sure which is worse.

Belfort Festival (1996): "Little Baby Swastikkka" - Skunk Anansieyoutu.be Skunk Anansie performing "Little Baby Swastikkka" from the album "Paranoid & Sunburnt", live at Belfort Festival in 1996. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSkunkAnansie https://twitter.com/SkunkAnansie https://www.instagram.com/officialskunkanansie http://www.skunkanansie.net/

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦

hillsdalecollegian.com/2023/03/qa-m... Also here: tfas.org/news/tfas-aw... Google reverse image search also flagged it in his Federalist bio, but it looks like it's been removed.

Q&A: Matthew Waltherhillsdalecollegian.com Matthew Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributor to the New York Times. He was previously a national correspondent for The Week. The following has been edited ...