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chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Median price of export goods will be a key indicator to watch as Trump's trade war kicks off - find out more how "MPREG inflation" could hit YOUR pocketbook in the new year
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
The degree to which none of them are asking whether they've corrected for post-Dobbs effect -- NOT EVEN in AZ where there's both a POTUS race and an abortion referendum -- is even more comforting.
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Jさん( ֊’ ワ ‘֊)🌸 @soukatsu.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
PSA for ENG-speaking folks looking to discover JP/KR/CN accounts and having difficulty—🦋discovery settings have a sandboxing feature that defaults to languages enabled on your phone. change that by going to Settings > Basics > Languages > Content Languages and select the ones your want (or none/all)
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/10/2024
btw this is still available covidtests.gov
Covid test checkout - cost $0.00
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 18/10/2024
Sometimes you will be in subcultures that stop checking your worst behaviors and even start encouraging them, and it feels like you’re doing something righteous, even good, but even if it feels good being validated in this way is not worth the cost You can do better
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/10/2024
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
"facial recognition technology for surge pricing" is how someone at mckenzie spells "racial discrimination"
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Golly. Another case of Tim Pool and Benny Johnson promoting bogus Russian propaganda. I mean, what are the odds?
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The disinformation pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.
Storm-1516, a Russian disinformation group, aims to influence the U.S. election through viral videos that rely on fake whistleblowers and fabricated photos and documents.
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
By way of my far-flung network of correspondents comes this piece of good news from the bad place twitter.com/keithboykin/...
The New York Times said yesterday that “Black Voters Drift from Democrats, Imperiling Harris’s Bid.” But today’s CBS News poll shows Kamala Harris getting the exact same numbers from Black voters that Biden got in 2020 (87%). And Biden won. Don’t obsess on the polls, folks. Just vote.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2024
Tim Walz: "He crossed a line ... Trump over the weekend talked about using the Army against people who disagree with him. Just so you're clear about that - that's you. This is not some mythical thing. He called it 'the enemy within.' And to Trump, anybody who doesn't agree with him is the enemy."
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chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Not an IR person by a long shot, but I do wonder if Netanyahu is threatening Biden with "let us do what we want on our borders, or we're going to send our Air Force to Iran, and good luck dealing with that"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
This is a powerful ad that deserves to be spread far and wide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djwp...
youtube.com
It Couldn't Happen Here
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Stephen J Pumpkins @jaybeans.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
This an AP photo of the back of the auditorium where Trump gave his latest rally. It only holds 7,000 people
Many empty seats at a venue
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Slangword Scott @slangwordscott.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
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chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
The hopeful part of me thinks that if the Facebook brain poisoned people are undecided, that's not exactly a positive sign for Trump
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Remember when Biden kept a Republican as Fed chair and he was absolutely fucking GOATed?
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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Increasingly suspect the reason there exists The Bad Dynamic where NYC and LA leftists are unable to understand national R to D vote math and coalition politics is that in their local political markets there are advantages to D base mobilization and intra coalition spoiler tactics.
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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 03/10/2024
Historically Accurate Game Takes Place Before Women Invented hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...
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Historically Accurate Game Takes Place Before Women Invented
WARSAW — Male gamers rejoiced after upcoming historical RPG Hussar’s Quest was confirmed to contain no female characters as part of its commitment to historical…
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 16/07/2024
In spirit of encouraging better options, I have a post about effective advocacy and empathy avoidance up on my defunct Substack. Originally more for animal rights concerns, but (imo) broadly applicable. Here’s the gist of it for folks who don’t want to click thru snowden.substack.com/p/advocacy-a...
Nick Cooney*, an animal rights activist, framed the challenge of advocacy well, and it's a model that I've returned to again and again when working with a variety of campaigns. When we go out to appeal to people for change, the question we should ask is not "What feels right?" nor "what the other person deserves?" but rather
"what is most effective for the cause?" As the people who often care the most deeply about a particular injustice and know most keenly the pain that is being perpetrated, activists are in a difficult position: they must bridge an immense gap between the caring and the uncaring.
It can be personally satisfying to damn the world to hell for its uncaring, but that song has never been proven to draw an audience aside from the already converted.Effective ways to combat empathy avoidance include:
Pointing out to a person that your suggested action is already in keeping with their values or beliefs
• Showing that the action has a real positive impact on those in need
• Making it clear that there's always more to be done, and that every little bit helps
• Encouraging people out of their learned helplessness and rewarding their small positive steps
• Pointing out the similarities between the oppressed group and your audience, rather than pointing out the oppressed group's innocence (more on this in another post).Perhaps most importantly, and counterintuitively, humanity's tendency to avoid empathy suggests that making a person feel bad about an issue is counterproductive, and making big appeals or demands before building empathy will doom a message's reception.
The goal is to get our audience to empathize with the oppressed, not to have the audience self-centeredly wince at their own feelings of pain or disillusionment. Having a harshly aggressive message, or one that is built on the idea of provoking negative emotions of discomfort and dissatisfaction, will ensure that only people with highly-refined empathy instincts and great moral courage will be in our rooms, and shut out the wider world.It's not an easy task, to fight through basic human impulses to achieve a more compassionate world, and the challenge asks for us as activists to demonstrate an enormous amount of grace and self-control. Effective advocacy can be exhausting, and often gives us short-term frustration, but I've found that it is far more satisfying in the long run, and has helped me and others avoid the burnout that comes from pushing for change.
*Cooney's 2010 book "Change of Heart:
What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change" is must-read for any social justice activist, in my opinion.
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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
screenshot from The Simpsons of Lionel Hutz holding up his newspaper ad, edited to say (with the parts drawn on in red pen in parentheses): 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Esq.
Rescue Hostages(?)
No(,) regional war(!)
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
32. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2024
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Hit Man Opens Guitar Case Concealing Guitar He Going To Beat Target’s Ass With
SAN ANTONIO—Breezing past security in the guise of a musician and entering the ballroom where his target was attending a cocktail party, area hit man Don Meston reportedly opened a guitar case Friday ...
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 26/09/2024
USPS has-restarted free delivery of COVID tests. special.usps.com/testkits
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COVID Home Tests | USPS
COVID Home Tests | USPS
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2024
% of under construction US electrical generating capacity: Batteries 24.0 Solar PV 53.3 Wind 14.1 Fossil Gas 8.2 Other 0.3 US grid decarbonizing at a pretty spectacular pace, IRA is absolutely crushing it.
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Something interesting happened at the gym. While Kamala Harris was talking, 3 ladies stopped their workout, gathered underneath the tvs, & watched her entire speech. From the nods & the smiles i saw, those ladies really liked what they saw. Again, i live in crimson red state, not at all in play
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Another official record high for US solar power generation in July, with output growing 23% compared to July 2023!
A graph of monthly solar generation, which increases every year and hit a record high in July
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
After Amari Marsh had a miscarriage, South Carolina prosecutors jailed her without bond, charged her with murder/homicide by child abuse, and threatened her with life imprisonment. The criminalization of pregnancy loss in red states after Dobbs: www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/h...
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She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. SC woman now tells her story | CNN
Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
"torment nexus echo chamber" in the style of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19/09/2024
Sometimes I pitch very dumb ideas and feel bad they are so dumb, and think "well I shouldn't share more ideas" then remember if I was a bro I'd be out there pitching 75 more dumb ideas with no shame and people would call me brilliant because like roulette, eventually you get lucky.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
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Jamey Perry @jameyjean.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
For the last year, I’ve been working with JCPenney to solve some of the most common issues that women in wheelchairs face in dressing daily—for work, for dates, for fun, for self-expression. Jamey Perry for JCPenney just debuted on the Runway of Dreams at NYC Fashion Week ❤️
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kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
not very much up on pop culture is this person influential
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Again, my mom voted for Reagan twice. We’ve never been more back.
Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.” -Wanda Sykes
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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Having said this, I took the time today to pull together a digital version of a story my father told his sister about a time when he was significantly less responsible. No exact date here, but from context clues it's mid-late '50s, when my dad would have been in his mid-late 20s. Thread /1
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Housing abundance through all channels, please.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Outside you are two wolves
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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Behaviores Report: 100% goode! Suckit, haterz !
Orange and white cat licking his paw. His behavior report is 100% good.
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Ana Visneski @oceanbound.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
In honor of the Rice truck thread from @nameshiv.bsky.social Once when the ship I was on pulled into Korea, the galley had ordered 10 watermelons. These melons were meant for an event we were hosting on the flight deck with the Korean Coast Guard.
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Róisín O @roisino.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Mabel had her tracker on and she drew me a cat
A GPS tracker line showing a cat’s movements which look like an outline of a cat
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chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Alternate scenario: things getting heated at the furry convention
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
2016: Pokémon go to the polls! 2024: pokeman go fuck yourselves shitbag incels 🔪 🔪 🔪
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/08/2024
MI AG Dana Nessel to SCOTUS: “You can pry this wedding band from my cold dead gay hand.”
Dana Nessel, a woman in a blue jacket looks directly at camera with her mouth open and an intense expression, holding her hand up to show her wedding ring
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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked People will remember: - your vast and trunkless legs of stone - your frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command - your works, ye Mighty
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chatham.bsky.social @chatham.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Hell. Yeah.
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