James Harbeck

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Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com

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Ouch

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Four old Jewish men are sitting in a cafe. “Oy,” says the first man. “Oy vey,” says the second man. “Oy vey iz mir,” says the third man. The fourth man snaps: “if you don’t stop talking about politics, I’m walking out!”

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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."

Which reminds me that I used to run the office Oscar pool and I decided to turn to expert predictors to make my own predictions, so I checked who had the best track records. And the expert reviewers, the big respected talking heads, had unbelievably bad track records. Worse than chance, often.

A lot of folks who supposedly analyze politics for a living are just like…not good at it?

Just for a data point here: I am extremely white and I know many extremely white people and I am not aware of knowing anyone with a "family barf bowl."

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.

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Also: Get off your arse and vote. My constituency was won for Labour by 15 votes. A high turnout from the French sorted this. You don't vote? Well, the fash do. If you're replying to this with why it's ideologically impure for a truly left wing person to vote, please just block yourself, I'm tired.

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Away with her, And pen her up.

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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The power of Nope keeps these assholes out of city councils, library boards, and school boards. The power of Nope stacks Attorneys General. The power of Nope shifts judges, sherriffs, congress reps, senators. and the power of Nope can be used to keep them on target between elections.

And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.

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"A society with the levels of... homelessness we see today can hardly be called civilized... system seems perfectly designed to damage and destroy the Earth’s natural systems while... heightening #inequality" Dr Trevor Hancock timescolonist.com/islander/tre... #yyj #homelessness #housing

Trevor Hancock: The economy should serve well-being, planet health, not dominate themtimescolonist.com The economy is not a natural phenomenon, it is a human construct, so if it doesn’t work for us we should change it

I like the vibe of this place

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I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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Lmao they're trying to paint this as scandalous or extreme when it's just plainly stating a fact

Why, look here. You can buy three books by me on the Apple ebook store. So much fun and information, and for less than $18 total. And that’s Canadian prices.

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The result is that now, at the end of that 50 year process of laser-like dedication on the republican side, a *hell* of a lot of people the democrats would like to scare with project 2025 have already spent their entire lives living with the damned thing.

First time I, as a kid, encountered scented markers, I thought "this is a secret thing for adults that I have just accidentally discovered" mind you, the first one I met was mint scented

scented markers aren’t for adults? 🥺

and then joined branches and became entwine moms

ive always favored the theory that the entwives became lesbian separatists

This new wave of loser Tories can all have their Portillo moments but not one of them will go on to host a series about great train journeys of the world

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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tapping this sign multiple times every day

the first rule of bluesky is stop being annoying to me right now

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Remember when we all freaked out about Wikipedia and what lies it would be telling students? What sweet summer children we were.

Well this is grim

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and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh

Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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If you get into a fight in my mentions I will mute or block you and everyone who is fighting with you; please do not do it