Jared Dunn

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Itinerant Librarian & Community Technologist. Internet Old.

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/ DERECHO / SEVERE THUNDERBLOBS / WICKED WINDS / W/ WICKED GUSTS UP2 100 MPH / WINDS BURSTING IN 1 DIREXTION / STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE / TORNADOS SPIRALING AROUND / BEHOLD THE DERECHO AS IT FLOATED THRU THE MIDWEST LAST NITE

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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What if it turns out we are all just so numb to gun violence that the country just moves on and forgets this happened.

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“Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic.“ #giftarticle

The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

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everyone dooming because this'll get Trump elected is way over their skis, everyone dooming because this is going to get the American Years of Lead really going in earnest is probably correct

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the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness

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you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning

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Derek Powazek

Hey let’s all read up on this, Kay?

Reichstag fire - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Real Widening Gyre hours 😬

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Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?

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If Livvy Dunne had never rizzed up Baby Gronk, then none of this would be happening right now.

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I get why this is the case, but it’s so wild that one million Americans died of COVID because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and it’s not even remotely an issue in this election. What a country!

People overcompensating with exaggerated certainty about hypotheticals because the reality is that there are no good answers here.

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Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there 🫡

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Lq...

If you gave me infinite guesses on who owns those Redbox DVD rentals I wouldn’t have gotten it

Chicken Soup for Boys | MBMBaM Animationwww.youtube.com The Brothers plumb the depths of the Chicken Soup For the Soul brand.thanks for watching!! TWEET AT ME!Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fraserjconnellAudio...

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WE MUST BUILD GRASSROOTS POWER IN SOLIDARITY ACROSS COALITIONS

And obviously, it goes without saying that getting re-elected and/or being President for Life is "beneficial to the commonwealth and the dignity of divine, human, public, and private affairs".

"Whatever he considers to be beneficial to the commonwealth and the dignity of divine, human, public, and private affairs, he shall have the right and the power to do and to execute." From the statute that conferred absolute power on the Roman emperor (*Lex de imperio Vespasiani*, section 6). 😬

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SCOTUS majority governing philosophy: the administrative state is only constitutional when it is harassing vulnerable people.

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Gorsuch literally wrote, in almost those exact same words, "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

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I’m proud activists here have made our state an island of access in a sea of prohibition. But that sea of prohibition is both heartbreaking and infuriating.

Good comic on traveling while pregnant in a Dobbs nation. The Supreme Court has seen to it that states can opt-out of life saving medical care and many have, restricting travel and autonomy for anyone possibly pregnant while also imperiling their lives. www.vox.com/life/356448/...

I’m pregnant. I’m traveling. I’m terrified.www.vox.com My family reunion is in South Carolina. Essential care for my high-risk pregnancy is not.

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this is an extremely valid reason to never host your conference in a state that can opt out of life-saving medical procedures for people who are pregnant. All professional societies should take note. 👇

I’m pregnant. I’m traveling. I’m terrified.www.vox.com My family reunion is in South Carolina. Essential care for my high-risk pregnancy is not.

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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

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“Immunocompromised people shouldn’t be gathering in large groups anyway” is making me cry today, man. They’re saying the quiet part out loud and the only people I see really making noise about this are those of us who will be completely shut out of public life if these bans go through

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tweety fish

can you make a left turn from the right hand lane across multiple lanes of busy traffic? the simple driver says no, this is impossible. the boston driver says what if you go when the light is red! little moments of genius all the time