Adam Rakunas

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I'm not happy to be here, but I'm happy you're here. Mildly cranky law student. I wrote some books. Opinions are my own. Subtext is for cowards.

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This epic fantasy trilogy is doing so much interesting unpacking of the tropes of epic fantasy. Recommended. Start with SAVAGE COMPANY!

Stoked for my epic fantasy novel SAVAGE COMPANY to be part of @solarisbooks.bsky.social’s #stillproud ebook sale because #pridemonth should be a year round thing! You can grab it and scads of other ebooks for just .99 thru the 14th from their website! bit.ly/3ng219P

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“We spoke to literally everyone else in town (other than the folks in that one creepy diner) and it turns out nobody wants theocratic racist fascism and they honestly seemed surprised we never asked them before now.”

The German word for the kind of bliss one feels during the time between getting a good beverage and realizing twenty minutes have sailed by.

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It’s also McCarthyist claptrap that reduces all human imagination, empathy, and ingenuity into “I Gave You All the Clues Mister Police,” which, to be fair, is the reading level at play in the scenario.

i am really, REALLY not okay with the idea that someone writing about sexual assault means they must be an abuser. for one thing, the vast majority of art about sexual abuse is created BY THE VICTIMS. the idea that depicting abuse makes you an abuser really fucking pisses me off actually.

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Hello social medias... You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique. The devastation is tremendous. The need is great. You can help and make a difference: www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

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I think this is true but also we tend to think of Jim Crow as “separate water fountains” rather than “white supremicist death squads and one party rule ,” but it had both!

This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

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If your area got a new Labour MP then it is your duty to email them and say that you are happy the Tories are out but that transphobia should have no place in the party. Make Starmer gently walk back his support for Rowling's position!

Emailed my local Labour candidate. We're a swing seat. Let's at least let them hear from us.

You know, if every fascist dickhead in the world refused to vote, and the rest of *us* voted...

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When white smoke appears from the Tardis's chimney, the new Prime Minister materializes in the middle of Piccadilly Circus.

How does the UK election work? Wrong answers only. 😁

How does the UK election work?www.bbc.com Millions are set to pick their representatives in Westminster for the first time since 2019.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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...but you're ENGAGING with that NYT op-ed, aren't ya?

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

Okay. Let's get to work.

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One time my step-sister asked why I kept up with Alabama if I hated it so much. The answer was that I love Alabama and the people there deserve better than suppressed votes and systemic, orchestrated poverty — and attacks on the poor

And red states like Texas are wonderful places! Why should we surrender them to the other side?

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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.

a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Americans across the political spectrum are all deeply mired in “apocalypse realism”, in which it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the world not ending. This widespread imaginary just happens to motivate the people who want the world to end while depressing everyone else.

Honestly, I don't know how doomerism has survived the long arc of history. We used to grovel under kings. Slavery was the law of the land. Fascist authoritarians conquered a democracy and declared war on a continent and a people. And, all of that was overcome. It ceased. History didn't end.

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Make a band bready Me: Bread Adam: No, Daryl, you’re supposed to change a band name into a pun Me: Bay City ROLLers Adam: Capitalizing is not a pun Me: Bay City Crullers? Adam: Please stop doing the internet

Make a band bready The English Muffin Beat

Make a band bready Bread Zepplin

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that vampires no longer need to be invited into your house to enter

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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.

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I guess I don’t need this baby anymore

Maybe my class next year will be titled “historical administrative law"

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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

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‼️ this is always what I come back to Like I know we can win these things because we've won them before, and all of the horrible legal changes we're seeing are actually proof that the law is not immutable and people have the power to change it

Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.

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The founding fathers suffered from giardia, so should you.

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The founding fathers: checks and balances The Supreme Court: checks