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@jaysinwa.bsky.social

Retired Software Developer. Balloon Juice Jackel
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This'll be a thread. @bartenderhemry.bsky.social quoting & quoted tweet are very important. Not just the correct framing & accurate critique, but also point us all to what is really going on. I've written on this before here & at the mothership, but I'm going to make the same points again. 1/
Two years ago on the old site I made a similar point about R terror in criticizing a goofy article about how Ds are losing rural areas and my replies were full of stories like this. This should be national news, it should replace the diner stories for this cycle
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It would be a shame if this site was filled with news stories about child molesting pastors and cops. Each backed up with news stories and court dates. Demanding that government dive an actual problem.
Man I wonder if anyone anywhere could just fill this site with fake reports and make it unusable.
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What you’re seeing with anti-trans laws, MeToo backlash, and abortion bans is that the right is creating an impossibly narrow definition of a woman—cis, pregnant, healthy, feminine, subservient—and subjecting those who fall outside it to both criminalization and violent hostility from vigilantes.
A UT man has been barred from attending school sport events after "belligerently" accusing a 17-year-old girl of being transgender--even after being told the student had submitted their birth certificate to comply with UT's ban on trans athletes. “I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"
An angry Utah parent accused a high school basketball player of being transgender. Will it keep happ...www.sltrib.com A father attending a junior varsity basketball game in Canyons School District was banned from future games after he wrongly insisted a player on the opposing team was transgender.
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See also: balloon-juice.com/2024/01/28/t...
Israel learned nothing from the US failure to achieve its objectives in the wars that followed 9/11. Both timesthe conventionally vastly more powerful actors found themselves anticipated and overcome by much more seemingly weak non-state adversaries. There is no surprise here, only misery.
Balloon Juice - The Israel-Hamas War in Gaza: No One Wins but the Spoilersballoon-juice.com There was a request the other night for a post on the war in Gaza. I indicated I’d try to get one done this weekend, so here we are. There are two reasons I’ve not been doing updates on this war l...
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*now, experts are assessing what this tells us about experts
Many economists spent early 2023 predicting a painful downturn, but the widely predicted recession never showed up. Now, experts are assessing what the unexpected resilience tells us about the future.
Economists Predicted a Recession. So Far They’ve Been Wrong.nyti.ms A widely predicted recession never showed up. Now, economists are assessing what the unexpected resilience tells us about the future.
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Update on our Sad Bastard adventures. Several humans and bots are investigating, and we hope to have the book back up soon. In the meantime, please enjoy the email that my co-author Zilla received from KDP.
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It's so pathetically funny watching the next generation get the same exact article that millennials were subjected to for like fifteen years and generation x before that. It's so fucking ridiculous too.
Gen Z doesn’t have the right emotional skills for the workplace? Gen Z? Bill Ackman has been having a month long meltdown on social media yelling about his wife and threatening to sue everyone on their mother and GEN Z ISN’T DISPLAYING PROPER BUSINESS ETIQUETTE???
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That's just the kind of thing a terrible person would do.
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At the moment social media is very much like a high school cafeteria, which each instance being a table: Mastodon: Tech nerds Threads: Popular crowd Bluesky: Weirdos and stoners TikTok: Theater kids Former Twitter: Incels and trolls Facebook: Teachers and staff
This is hilarious, given how much of mastodon is dunking on Bluesky for being influencers
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This is such a strange dynamic. GOP members of congress have been giving anonymous quotes about getting threats inspired by Trump for years. Are they willing to go on the record now because it's Jordan?
Rep. Drew FERGUSON says he received death threats after voting against Jordan in the second round
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