Jack

@jackscarab.bsky.social

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Writer, teacher, D&Der, somehow Oklahoman. No mercy for fascists. No pity for insurrectionists. No grace for centrists. He/they, 🍞&🌹

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Current moment reminds me a lot of the dotcom era, where investor money chased web and telecom companies while the *real* technological revolution was happening quietly in the background in the form of LCD/LED displays and lithium ion batteries (converging dramatically on the iPhone)

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The best part of being an American is the wide variety of consumer products that are trying to kill you.

There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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L'iconique WUTang Clan adore la joie française 🥰✊ Thank you so much, we had a close shave but we did it. #LoveNotHate

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Still totally astonished at Overwatch being so unwilling to work to make folks care about their cast that they have to collab with other media folks already care about more, whereas I can stroll onto Tumblr and find fresh Heavy x Medic that's day old at most and still as passionate as it was in 2010

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In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

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Electric vehicle rebates never "fill up" (they shouldn't!) E-bikes achieve our climate, health & road safety goals better than EVs, but politicians drive everywhere & see people who bike as Others tl;dr subsidies for rich are Incentives (good!); subsidies for working class are Handouts (bad!)

In just 18 minutes, Minnesota received 10,000 applications for e-bike rebates. The website crashed. This happens pretty much every time a state or city offers e-bike rebates for the first time. www.startribune.com/minnesota-e-...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden, frustrated by Democrats calling for him to quit, throws gauntlet to critics: 'Challenge me at the convention.'

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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can. More: cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...

9.4GB Twitter(X) Data Leaked - Over 200 Million Records Exposed Onlinecyberpress.org The Cyberpress Research Team made a significant discovery with the Massive 9.4 GB of X (Formerly the Twitter) Database.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Free tuition for majority of medical students at Johns Hopkins after $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says.

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First Family D&D game in a long while, and the big possibly too hard fight I set up for the players ended in two rounds after @karinww.bsky.social did approximately 160 points of damage to drop the bad guy boss from 80% health to -1. SHE STILL HAD ONE ATTACK LEFT.

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One of my fave YT channels is RetroReport. It does what practically no one else does: goes back and reviews media hot topics, particularly exaggerations and untruths. Every Gen-Xer alive is probably familiar with the “crack baby,” and the dire predictions of their futures. youtu.be/dYvOzlBsRIE?...

The Crack Baby Scare: From Faulty Science to Media Panic | Retro Reportyoutu.be In the 1980s, crack-addicted pregnant mothers were prosecuted and the media warned us that a generation of “crack babies” would plague our country. Turns out...

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I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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absolutely true in some ways, actually, the rise of MAGA has helped a lot of Dems get past this (it mostly persists in the Senate) - nobody on the D side is making friends with Matt Gaetz or MTG

I would go a step further with this and say dem politicians struggle with the fact the gop senators/house people will lie to their face. So many stories from dem insiders about how mitch was done with trump after jan 6th. Only for him to vote to acquit. And they were shocked.

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We! Never! Stopped! Getting! COVID!!!! What the actual SHIT is this headline?????? There has never been a time, in the last 4.5 godforsaken years, when we didn't have people getting COVID!!!

A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

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If the French defeat the Nazis and America doesn’t, we will have to retire some of our most cherished jokes.

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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Unironically put this post on ads in swing states

there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

Boat Stuck ktla.com/news/local-n...

Video: Boat gets stuck in tunnel near Los Angeles International Airportktla.com Roadways around Los Angeles’ busiest airport are no stranger to traffic jams, but backups are not normally caused by a boat. Yet that’s exactly what happened in the Sepulveda Boulevard tunne…

It's too bad this song of his isn't more popular. It's very succinct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...

Today reminds us that fascists aren’t just not inevitable winners, they are, as Woody Guthrie perfectly put it, bound to lose.

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Losewww.youtube.com A short song from one of Woody's radio broadcasts. (1940's?)Featured in this performance are:*Woody of course-guitar and voc.*the great SONNY TERRY on harmon...

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Damn. Imagine voting strategically to prevent the worst possible outcomes…

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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DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A person has died from the heat and another is hospitalized as temperature reaches 128 in California's Death Valley.

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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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this absolutely blew my mind it's the coolest thing i've read in a minute www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidd...

Fascinating site they’re excavating in Egypt on the Red Sea.

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizationswww.smithsonianmag.com At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world

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The French have what I want--a leftist victory, endless manga translations, and gorgeous comics collected editions.

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.

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July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)