Joshua Joy Kamensky

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Second, @mattdpearce.bsky.social’s masterpiece of an essay on people setting palm trees on fire on July 4 in LA: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-07-01/4th-july-flaming-palm-tree

Every July 4th gives us one of Los Angeles' most important symbols: the flaming palm treewww.latimes.com Los Angeles has a love-hate relationship with palm trees. It reaches its fiery apex every Fourth of July.

it's the dumbest fucking thing in the world getting into the band Wednesday because once I week now I reliably convince myself that they are playing in town before I get wise www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GEC...

Wednesday live at Brooklyn Made - Chosen To Deserve (Live)www.youtube.com The Asheville, North Carolina band Wednesday live at Brooklyn Made in Brooklyn, New York on September 29, 2022The song Chosen To Deserve from the forthcoming...

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portrait of a lady on fire

I am excited to see this mostly to ID the segments they shot in and around Cypress Park's Los Candiles years and years ago.

Axel Foley is back and even better. I haven’t seen such a good action comedy in a long time. It felt both, comforting and new, to watch the whole original cast and the new additions have fun playing their roles. Don’t miss out on Axel’s new LA adventure!! Rating: 9/10

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one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally

If you eat a madeleine while listening to Radiolab, it becomes a Jadeleine

If you eat a madeleine while regaling your family with awful puns, it becomes a dadeleine

what is the rate of losing Nalgene water bottles at which it becomes more efficient to just buy disposable water bottles wherever

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My only experience of this is visiting Milosevic's Yugoslavia between the wars. So many people tried to impress this on me - everything was fine, until one day thugs who had government support were grabbing women off the street. It never left me, and I'm more worried than ever now.

It’s interesting to imagine what kind of Democratic Party would actually address itself to the political economy of police infrastructure. It’s not the one we have today, and it probably hinges on maintaining the salience of police funding through protest cycles and into mayoral elections.

And one more thing, being the political party that benefitted greatly from protests in response to Trump’s election and police brutality and then deciding to build a bunch of anti-protest training centers and moving forward with charging protesters as terrorists was stupid & even more so now.

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If you live in CA, both Butler and Padilla are on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Make time to call today. Then set a reminder in your phone to call again later this week. Then tell three friends to do the same.

Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.

best rhetoric out of France since "I am René the French fighter pilot. when I go down, I go down in flames"

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

allow me to recommend self-soothing by way of dedicating some time and money to the Movement Voter Project. They fund local organizing in support of federal races, meaning that unlike candidate campaigns, win or lose they build infrastructure that can carry on the fight.

The 3 things we need to do post-debate - Movement Voter Projectmovement.vote As the dust starts to settle on last night's debate, the assignment for all of us is more clear and urgent than ever. In summary: We need to fund the biggest ground game in history to beat the worst P...

Say goodbye to America I want to see it dissolve I can be your poster boy for The great American fall

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Make a band bready And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Bread

Make a band bready Coucheinda Williams

Make a band bready: Ciabatta Matto

Make a band bready: EPMD (Erick and Parrish Making Dough)

Make a band bready: Pumpernickelback

Make a band bready: EPMD (Erick and Parrish Making Dough)

I first met this cool lady when I spoke in favor of her needle exchange location at a free clinic. As the profile suggests, we got our asses handed to us. She kept going and changed the game. Very proud to know her.

Shoshanna Scholar: Harm reduction strategistwww.latimes.com Shoshanna Scholar focuses on practical strategies for reducing the negative effects of drug use and addressing it as a health issue rather than a criminal one.

It also suggests that the contempt people express for "VOTE HARDER" is rooted in a faith in righteous rhetorical positioning, even though it gestures at protest and organizing. But if the debate exposes a weakness, it's one that will be fixed by raising more money and knocking more doors.

Presidents are chosen by democratic politics and the traction behind the idea that Biden could step aside and, following discourse and debate, designate a viable successor shows that a lot of people who don't think they have West Wing brain really actually do

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

@melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social Linda Thompson may be trying to get your attention open.spotify.com/track/4UURvj...

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anyway this numero group release is a delightful low key balm for your sweaty election stress

Words And Music, by Margo Guryannumeromargoguryan.bandcamp.com 46 track album

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if you actually get *paid* to write about politics for a living, screaming that the nominee has to drop out after one bad debate *in june* (and one in which the challenger did not do well, either), you are unqualified for your job and your salary

the "he has to go" discourse is dumb as dirt. If you're Trump, what would you rather run on: "old guy talks slow" or "they gave away your vote in a back-room deal?"

some people say I over-disclose

I saw A Strange Loop last night and it struck me as the overhang/apotheosis of the personal essay boom. (It's not for nothing that Usher feels the most expressive through his "inner white girl")

my latest for @flaminghydra.com is about how personal essays are good, actually flaminghydra.com/issue-107/#t...