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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

launching a company called Misanthropic. it's not totally clear what we do. but you can call our number on a rotary phone and we will yell a torrent of unspecific critique at you until you hang up

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sociolinguistics is a pretty significant and relevant topic. Also though, not sure why reading a piece like this and reading one about, like, climate change or Iran are mutually exclusive activities?

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The first question asked shouldn’t be whether someone’s disability is temporary or permanent, as inability to serve isn’t inherent to either. It’s whether the specific circumstances of someone’s disability, of any type, renders someone unable to serve. If yes, then the next question is for how long.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I think your point about temporary disability not equating to permanent inability would be better taken if you didn’t equate permanent disability to the same thing.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Nazi tattoo said what it said.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

You get like two parents who need to blame something for their kids’ deaths and decide it’s kratom—partly as the other drugs found in their systems are already illegal or otherwise not targetable—and the media gives them a megaphone with no fact-checking, while ignoring, say, chronic pain patients.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yep. And what sucks is this NYT narrative of “MAHA/MAGA is profiting off kratom, so you *know* it’s something bad!” is going to be picked up by crusaders and used to sway officials in blue cities. So while on the fed level this may ironically be good news, in some lib enclaves it could spell doom.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

And admittedly Lovett has been getting on my nerves for a long time now.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Fair enough! I disliked Sedaris’ comments on language (took *way* too long to occur to him that maybe we should call people what they want to be called) and on aging (like anyone who needs help toileting should kill themselves). Just felt the humor was mined unthougtfully. And I’m normally a fan.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m thinking now you must be a bot, as there is no way an actual human would willingly continue making themselves look this dumb. LLM? If so, note to devs: *much* more training is required.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Do…you think kratom and heroin are the same thing? Or even related somehow? Hoooo boy. Again, this is looking pretty bad for you.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Lol you think alcohol has only been around “for hundreds of years”?! I bet you also think kratom has only been around since 2021 or some shit. Saying things that stupid, and then calling *me* a moron, is not helping you. Try using google first next time to avoid embarrassment. Have a good night!

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

You commented. I replied to your comment. Social media, am I right? So much to learn!

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Alcohol abuse is exponentially more likely to destroy one’s life than kratom abuse, by the science and by the numbers. Alcohol alone, unlike kratom alone, commonly kills people. Alcohol, unlike kratom, has no medicinal value. Yet we don’t ban alcohol; we regulate it, and loosely at that.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Like, it sucks that the push to ban 7OH and regulate natural kratom is associated with MAHA and MAGA, and motivated by corruption. But as it happens, the goal is the right one. The NYT article is kind of stunningly under-researched and filled with confusing, vague, and outright false assertions.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It is. 7OH should 100% be banned. And natural kratom should be regulated like pot, but it shouldn’t be banned when it’s a lifeline for so many pain patients.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And comparing fentanyl to kratom in the way you did is patently absurd and exceedingly uninformed. You should research the number of OD deaths caused by kratom alone versus fentanyl alone. They aren’t in the same stratosphere.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

There is a medical use for it? It’s an analgesic that keeps people off more dangerous & addictive opioids. Unless you mean we should ban it til BigPharma finds a medical use for it. The problem isn’t kratom. It’s 7OH, a compound synthesized from the kratom plant by assholes looking to make a buck.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Pretty much every death “linked to” kratom has been someone with multiple other toxic levels of drugs in their system at the time. You’d have to ingest so much kratom to die from it alone, you’d throw it up first. The problem is 7OH, a synthetic compound *derived* from the kratom plant.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I don’t suppose there’s any way I can get hold of a time machine, travel back an hour, and tackle myself to the ground before I can listen to Jon Lovett interview David Sedaris, is there

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

When disabled people recount invasive or infantilizing treatment from abled strangers, we will often hear: “They just didn’t know!” What knowledge do you already have about other abled people, but lack about disabled people, that prevents you from treating them like that but not us?

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The cafe I’m in is playing “Snow (Hey Oh)” by the Chili Peppers and all I’m hearing is “Now it’s time to reiterate California” and I keep cracking up. Proving that this video did, indeed, ruin the song for me in the best way youtu.be/VE5JMEu5hZA?...

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What Red Hot Chili Peppers sound like to people who don't like Red Hot Chili Peppers

YouTube video by There I Ruined It

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Perhaps you could have put those extremely distressing images in a reply to this post and told people to look there if they wanted to see them, rather than attaching them to the post itself.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is really affecting me today. Damnit.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This…isn’t an example of anything you’ve claimed so far, is the thing

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Nope, I’ve definitely heard that one.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thomas has had the Americans with Disabilities Act in his sights for quite some time.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

And not just legal, constitutional, and totally fine. Desirable.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Someone who posts a lot of opinions (takes)—particularly, I’d wager, in a way that implies they are either especially in tune with or proudly rebelling against the zeitgeist. The term threw me for a second too!

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Again, not a thing I’ve ever seen or heard. Would be interested in some examples if you have them.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I hear plenty of blaming, say, Mitch McConnell for not voting for impeachment; I’ve never heard or seen anyone say that Democrats who brought the articles were just being performative.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Who is calling Democrats’ efforts to impeach Trump performative?

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

OP is calling out elected Democrats specifically for their failure to censure Republicans for this extremist rhetoric. Has there *been* any censure of Republicans for this extremist rhetoric from elected Democrats? If not, then elected Democrats are indeed to blame for the exact thing OP says.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Billionaires used COVID as an excuse to permanently price-gouge consumers and become even richer, widening the already yawning income and quality-of-life gap between them and the rest of us. But sure, let’s be mad about teachers trying to shield themselves and their students from a deadly illness.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I mean I think rich folks are the actual problem here

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Never seen someone so eager to prove a point!

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I’m sure that commenter will be admitting they were wrong any second now.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wait what does Harris not being elected have to do with the SCOTUS decision? How/why would this have gone differently if she were POTUS right now?

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s interesting that your instinct is to argue “Why aren’t you yelling at Black people too?” rather than “Why do you think only white people are anti-genocide?”

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

People who didn’t vote for Harris because of Gaza didn’t vote for Trump or the GOP instead, so I’m not seeing how your comment is relevant to this discussion.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I was just gonna reply with something like “Makes me no never mind!” but now I understand that’s amateur hour

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Huh. I stim a few ways, with rocking the most obvious. I have ADHD with severe (my word) symptoms but don’t have an autism dx to go with it, nor have I until recently imagined that as a possibility. Anyway all this is to say that I’m trying to figure out my deal and this was a valuable nugget.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

You’re wasting your time here. This is someone who counters substantive points with cry-laughing emojis, the prototypical reply of empty-headed bullies internet-wide.

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Even though I know it makes me a bad lefty I’m a longtime PSA listener, and I like a couple of other Crooked podcasts, too. But a lot of times it’s like, “Do you even HEAR yourself right now??”

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brassclothes @brassclothes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a weirdly defensive reply. It was just an observation about the types of topics that receive a lot of coverage versus the types of topics that receive little to none, and which groups consistently seem to be associated with each.

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