Dr. ShinyGoth

a little Psycho revisit in honor of the birthday girl 1. The opening music is always much faster than I remember. 2. She's billed as Pat, not Patricia. 3. We need to make December 11 a national holiday like June 27. 4. "Are you unhappy?" "Not inordinately." 🔥

Happy Pat Hitchcock's birthday!

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Stay the course. Regardless of what pundits and polls say, keep spreading the word about DJT's Project 2025 and how it will negatively impact day to day life. Encourage people to have a voting plan. Take nothing for granted. (And hope that UK and France are leading the way.)

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You don’t even have to like Kamala Harris to know how “let’s build a Rube Goldberg device to avoid nominating the person who was literally elected to step in for the president if necessary” would look

look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

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To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Reply to

Michael Hobbes

“we need a party which is willing to compromise, while offering pragmatic solutions. a party with ideological diversity, made up of people from all walks of life. [looks at democrats] no, not like that.”

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Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.

One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

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"In May, Trump slurred his words at a rally in Wisconsin as he referred to Biden’s “fake infrastrucker, ershure para,” before landing on “a package of infrastructure.” He then went on an incoherent rant about Master Lock." www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

The lingering focus on Biden’s shaky debate obscures Trump’s major verbal miscues | Editorialwww.inquirer.com The president must now convince voters he has the mental acuity to do the toughest job in the world. The same bar does not exist for Trump, who loses no points for incoherence or incompetence.

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Fascinating study in contrasts between two virtually identical posts made at the same time. I have a little under 6k followers on BlueSky and 66k on Elon’s Twitter/X. And yet…

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“Kantianism — among other systems that aided white supremacy while preaching equality and dignity for all — contributed to the house in which we live, and this house turns out to be oppressive for a majority.”

Kant’s Ideas Shaped Human Rights Theories. How Do We Contend With His Racism?truthout.org The anti-Black ideas within Immanuel Kant’s philosophy show how liberalism and racism are closely intertwined.

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Michael Hobbes

I have never read one of these "we need a party for the politically homeless" pieces that does not go on to straightforwardly describe Democrats.

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the funny thing is theres a straight forward argument for every leftist ideology, except i guess accelerationism if you count, for voting whatever message people think they’re sending dems by not voting, the only one dems receive is “i don’t vote” and by extension ignore their policy preferences

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

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apparently a single company controls 95 percent of the ice cream truck music box market. and all the songs on it are public domain!? thehustle.co/the-company-...

The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck musicthehustle.co How a small, family-owned electronics company came to control 97% of the ice cream truck music market.

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Can't kick Black folks out of higher ed entirely, not legally, but you can keep Black professorsfrom getting tenure at white schools and you can make HBCUs all taught by AI, which also gives Black folks an inferior education. & just like that Brown v Board of Education is rendered meaningless!!!!!

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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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Favorite is definitely The Shining, although I really appreciated what Lisey's Story does and I still get flashes from the novel at random.

Favorite Stephen king book for me gotta be needful things

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No music. No sex. No education. Just crypto mining and shit posting all day every day. Plato’s city of cyber pigs.

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as @coachfinstock.bsky.social said "voting for a head in a jar idgaf"

All’s I know is: The next president has to be a Democrat, and the rest is details and paperwork. And I don’t care who it is at this point.

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haaretz confirms that an unknown but extremely significant number of the israelis that died on october 7 and whose deaths were subsequently laid at hamas’ feet were killed by friendly fire on israeli military orders

IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captiveapple.news 'There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of...

Favorite is definitely The Shining, although I really appreciated what Lisey's Story does and I still get flashes from the novel at random.

Favorite Stephen king book for me gotta be needful things

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I just had a horseradish vodka shot and it was exactly what you would want it to be

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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I keep thinking about how the SCOTUS justices, who have proven they care a TON about their media coverage, issued the worst decision since Dredd Scott and then got to happily watch outlets spend the next week running 10,000 “Biden in Trouble” stories and like 5 “Hm, Immunity is Interesting” stories

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Here's what really drives me nuts about this. Of all of the things the press could critique Biden for (and they've got some options!) they're focusing on perhaps the only thing that DOESN'T DISTINGUISH HIM FROM TRUMP! They're both old dudes, worn out by a presidential term, & starting to show it!

It is so fucking weird to watch the press "but her emails" again.