Arturo Lei

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Sometimes A Web Dev Guy, Italianist, and Trivia Aficionado

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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One time when I was 12 and my parents finally took us to a restaurant that wasn't Sizzler I confidentally ordered clams on the half shell. The waiter tried to warn me that I might not like it and after saying no no I would he brought out the raw clams /1

I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

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living in this country is like being awake on the table

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Hopping on (since this book is still due 😅) to quickly say: 1. RNC starts today. There's going to be a lot of discourse, including today's VP pick. 2. As much as possible, stay informed but DON'T get involved in the chatter. Focus on doing the work. What's one thing you can do today?

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This insightful comment by @lindaholmes.bsky.social from an interview in late 2020 remains very relevant:

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why are they called capybaras and not guinea bigs

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There are plenty of stories about Larry to point out his impact on the industry but this one from Christopher Priest really shows the environment he faced head on and how cool he was while doing it. One of those guys who deserves more than the comic industry has given them and just hope he can relax

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This is so true. I’ll never forget in 2008, seeing a white supremacist crying on the news after Obama’s election. He said “we used to BE somebody.” They miss the days when the mere fact of being white made them “better,” more important, than everyone else

I was having this conversation with a friend this morning and I've come to the conclusion that the thing that white supremacists fear the most is being faced with the fact that nobody gives a shit about them.

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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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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Henry II: "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" General Counsel: "We interpret the King's query as an official act of his office, and therefore immune from persecution"

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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

Justice Sotomayor, in conclusion.

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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Every November I go to a state to canvas and then monitor the polls. I was thinking of going back to North Carolina this fall because that state could use the help (and some other friends were also planning to go). Now I can't.

Stupid & dangerous: North Carolina's restrictions on public mask-wearing are now law after key revisions. The state's contentious restrictions on public mask-wearing are now law after Senate Republicans voted to override the Democratic governor's veto abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

North Carolina's restrictions on public mask-wearing are now law after some key revisionsabcnews.go.com North Carolina's contentious restrictions on public mask-wearing are now law after Senate Republicans voted to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto

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me, pulling up with a bullhorn outside the house of everyone I yelled "BUT THE SUPREME COURT" at in 2016

So much on the line in this election, but the *most* important stakes of this election is who’s going to be able to tell who “I told you so.”

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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.) www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

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Dead is the only age that's too late to start being an author.

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The powerful are going to tear apart everything piece by piece until they either lose or they remake an explicit aristocracy.

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Just realize Emily Yoshida not only wrote large parts of the masterpiece that is Shogun, she also explained Pokémon go to Werner Herzog and got this delightful exchange www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12...

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honestly this to me is the strongest argument to vote: these freaks are gonna

The Faith and Freedom Coalition will be spending $62 million to mobilize Christian voters for this cycle. The plan, according to Reed: -knock 10 millions doors -make 10 million calls -send 30 million voter guides to churches stressing outlawing abortion

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The info about Trump's alleged affairs that he's accused of conspiring to withhold from voters easily could've swayed the 2016 election. Remember, the race came down to fewer than 80,000 votes across several swing states, with "family values" voters being key to his victory.

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What if it's not so much doom scrolling as it is the desperate hope that one more scroll will bring good news, like we're all at a very sad slot machine in a very, very sad Vegas

Good to know that in the far distant utopian future of Star Trek they still use SQL and relational databases. #jobsecurity

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Meet the nuance, same as the oldance

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The cool thing about A.I. is that it doesn't work but it does eat up enormous resources in order to not work.