Micah

Micah

@rincewind.run

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Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him.

Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild

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July 4 doesn’t feel complete without @mattdpearce.bsky.social posting about the flaming palm trees of LA and it’s one of the twitter events I miss the most

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.

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Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times “‘And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. ‘What for?' ‘Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one.’”

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man “Bill Door made the mistake millions of people had tried before with small children in slightly similar circumstances. He resorted to reason.”

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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

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regardless of what you think of America there are a lot of good people here worth fighting for, and that’s what I’m going to hold onto regardless of what happens in November and those people are worth celebrating

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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I wrote about the election and the American project. www.ositanwanevu.com/will-america...

looking at the UK results and I have to say I am not thrilled by how much of the Tory collapse is voters moving to Farage and the Reform Party even in a conservative defeat you see the far right rising

there are few things that make me feel righteous as an American but telling the Brits to fuck off is one of them

"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.

"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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

ah, but by the Presidential Immunity Doctrine all charges should immediately be drop - wait, sorry, I'm getting news that this is happening in a state with a functional government nevermind, carry on

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

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If you are mad at the NYT and don't feel like fucking with the auction today, I also invite you to just go directly to donate.romancingthevote.com which is where all of our auction payments will go, and from there directly on to voting organizations who will make sure those who WANT to vote can.

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the message from every corner of the US media ecosystem right now is "Joe Biden can't do the job of President" it doesn't have to be right, or fair, to sink into the minds of the people who will be voting in November propaganda works

Man, idk if this is going to work out www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/p...

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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

this has always been one of the most terrifying aspects of climate change to me what happens, politically, when climate refugees number in the hundreds of millions? nothing good, that’s for sure

this is the right wing movement we get with a little migration and inflation. what does it look like when climate change really starts to bite

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“Look, folks. There are no “gooner states” and “edging states”, we are the United States!”

I am excited to see the Tories get obliterated today but I would be significantly more excited if Labour hadn’t made a hard turn into TERFdom the trans people of the UK deserve so much better

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times “‘And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. ‘What for?' ‘Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one.’”

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man “Bill Door made the mistake millions of people had tried before with small children in slightly similar circumstances. He resorted to reason.”

people who don’t vote… don’t vote they do not write op-eds in the national paper of record about how other people shouldn’t vote either unless they are pushing an agenda that has specific goals unrelated to voting

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the consolidated, center-right billionaire owned press continues to shift the editorial overton window rightward and if you can't see it you're either complicit or oblivious

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this is kinda it though: even if you take Gaiman’s side of the story as the whole truth (it probably is not!) it’s still very gross and upsetting

yeah, I’m not thrilled about that but also even his side of the story is really gross - you hire a young woman 40 years younger than you to be a nanny and you’re starting a sexual relationship with her hours later? not okay

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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law

More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

the Gaiman allegations are incredibly disappointing and I am so tired of famous men using their power and status to exploit young women like this

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this is one of my least favorite tropes and it is especially ridiculous when the heroes have just shot their way through an army of mooks to get to the villain oh, you can kill 475 henchmen but the guy who is actually responsible for ordering them around is a step too far? do you hear yourself?

the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

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Bonus Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

everyone's tempers are frayed right now, because there's nothing but bad news almost everywhere you look which is understandable, but that doesn't give you license to come in and be rude to people you don't know the risk of being put on blast is a lot higher when their tempers are frayed too

I basically never respond at all and someone quote tweeted me rudely today and I was like fuck you don’t care for “I’m just a tiny little guy” shit, if you’re going to complain about my followers responding then maybe don’t pick a fight

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

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the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding