Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

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Language, writing, law, games, music. Not necessarily in that order. I try to be a decent human.

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Hey, I've been playing this game and it is well worth the full price, so it is definitely... weller worth? well worther? ... the sale price. The devs are very responsive to bug reports (it's early access) and inquiries and they're pumping out updates at a prodigious rate. Def check it out.

It's middle of the night here, but if you're seeing this, help us spread the word 🔁 to the night owls, Australians, and others we don't reach as often. 😁 Our squad tactics heist RPG is 34%-off for the #SteamSummerSale! store.steampowered.com/app/1021210/... Just passed 100 updates! 🎉 #Gaming

So did anybody watch RFKJr.'s side debate where he was going to answer all the same questions as the real debaters?

If you see this, post a picture you took at sunset.

if you see this, post a picture you took at sunset

Beautiful

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

So the pre-sentencing report required for NY felony sentencing includes a victim impact statement. Can they consider the entire US electorate as the victims here, and just put "Defendant was elected president" as the impact?

Can someone who knows criminal/NY law explain what the probation report is, how it is generated, etc.? @joshuajfriedman.com?

Got a His Girl Friday image of all the reporters in the Trump courtroom rushing out to a phone booth bank as soon as the verdict is announced, yelling "STOP THE PRESSES!" Or maybe Airplane!, when the reporters all rush into a phone booth bank and it tips over. (I know there are no phone booths.) ⚖️

Good lord, corporate speak is fucking awful. "Align to execute on our objectives"?

Hey @pfrazee.com, I am pretty sure I used to be able to use my Android phone's < button to get back from a thread I had clicked into and to exit the app. It works if I click an image - hit < and back to the post. Is it possible the latest Android update (with gifs) broke that?

NYT: "Much of the discussion this morning has swirled around the question of whether, without immunity, presidents will be hounded by their rivals with malicious charges after leaving office." Remember, if a Repub warns of dire consequences, it's b/c that's what they'd do if given the chance.

Hey, uh, @pfrazee.com, this is minor, but any chance y'all can make the mobile (Android) app go to landscape when the device orientation changes? Is there a setting I'm missing that does it already? (My phone does it automatically, but not for Bluesky.)

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Most of the things Trump does are dumb if you’re trying to win in court but sensible if you want to be a fascist dictator beloved of violent brownshirts.

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goofballs: 'HOW DARE YOU START CARING ABOUT THIS THING? THE ONLY LEGITIMATE BOYCOTTS DEFY SPACE AND TIME EXISTING IN A PERPETUAL STATE OF UNDERSTANDING EVENLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS ALL TIMELINES ENDLESSLY INTO BOTH FUTURE AND PAST'

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I wrote about Jonathan Glazer's willfully ignorant critics, Trump's recent comments about Jews who vote for Dems, and the pathological need for some people—especially within the religion—to decide who is and is not a Good Jew. I hope you'll give it a read.

Who's a good Jew?www.thehandbasket.co Trump, Jonathan Glazer and the pernicious need to call out who's doing Judaism correctly.

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Videos, images and text created by generative artificial intelligence tools are turning up in elections, for sale on Amazon and even in court documents. Learning to identify the growing flood of deepfakes, along with online conspiracy theories, is becoming a rite of passage for students.

AI images and conspiracy theories are driving a push for media literacy educationwww.npr.org One of the nation's best-known media literacy events for high school students is expanding as demand grows for skills to identify deepfake images and online conspiracy theories.

Is @npr.org OK?

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This fact-check from ABC News is what I've been asking for from the NYT for literally years now. Our health care is held to an impossibly-high standard while politicians banning it are allowed to lie lie lie.

Researchers dive into common gender-affirming care youth misconceptions, questionsabcnews.go.com Health care providers who specialize in this field say there is a lot of misinformation about what gender-affirming care for transgender minors means.

I didn't realize they had multistory hotels in Russian prisons.

I want this on a t-shirt.

I feel Seen.

Excellent typo in WaPo's Bill Ackman photo caption.

An excellent essay (as per usual) from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social.

@garethlpowell.bsky.social Stumbled across this while scrolling a "Scottish twitter" compilation (in preparation for Worldcon, of course). Post

If you've slept on Reservation Dogs, you really ought to remedy that. Absolute stunner of a show, the kind you wish would just go on and on.

As I pried up the first board, I thought of "The Telltale Heart" and laughed out loud. Peter looked at me strangely, but I knew there'd be no point explaining. He already though I was unstable, so I just kept ripping up the floor. "See?" I said. "Nothing here." Then I heard him whisper, "Not yet."

Here's the 26 Jan image for micro prompt of the day. I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters. *It helps if you quote post the prompt post.* #writingprompt Credit: Elena Helfrecht

The lead researcher waved at a large screen and a video began to play. "Twelve seconds after we activated the transit core for the test, this happened." On the screen, a dark shadow suddenly danced around the bright spot of the core. "No idea what it is, but we've caught ... something." #whistpr

#Whistpr is a daily #prompt by @whistberry.bsky.social meant to inspire any type of creativity: art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. #author #WritingPrompt #art #WritingCommunity Tag your post: #whistpr Prompt for January 25, 2024: CAUGHT

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The Supreme Court is hearing oral argument tomorrow in a case that threatens to upend the way government functions, further deny women reproductive control, and erase trans people’s right to live with dignity I'm covering it in Balls and Strikes ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/loper...

Why Right-Wing Activists Have Strong Opinions About a Fishing Regulations Case at SCOTUSballsandstrikes.org Conservative organizations have a powerful mutual interest in upending the way modern government works.

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People who say of Nazis “deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas” are smuggling in the notion that Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy to consider, or that Nazi "ideas" involve bloodless debate.

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Scientific American op-ed: Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook (by me): www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech...

Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Realwww.scientificamerican.com Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

This exactly. Perhaps @washingtonpost.com, @newyorktimes.bsky.social, and other media outlets could explain why they are so willing and eager to slurp up and regurgitate Rufo's garbage.

Year after year Rufo just goes on Twitter and announces, "Here's the next fuss we're going to make, 100 percent as a cynical pretext, to get the media to parrot our message and advance our right-wing agenda," and every time the press is like, thank you for the valuable news tip

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