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Arkansas Republicans want greater racial diversity in anti-welfare campaign ads. Whoda thunk it.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, apparently, today, Sen. Eric Schitt of Mississippi accused former spatial console Jax Myth of cahooting with Vanna White of Georgia, and Schitt's proof was a text suggesting that Myth was at a basket-weaving class where hawks nested.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I approve of the recently popularity of "beclown." Because, absolutely, that's what a lot of these people are doing to themselves.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cory Doctorow is one of our best writers on creative work and AI. Here he argues that rather than asserting property rights against AI etc. (claiming "theft" of our "IP"), we'd be much better off asserting the human rights of consent and autonomy.

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This ad, with Trump wandering around hallways while he mutters in voiceover... Without the VO, he just looks angry and frustrated, wandering endlessly in search of a snack or something. Snackrooms.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Americans have such short memories. A woman interviewed in this article is shocked—shocked!—at Trump's foul language. Then asserts that all past presidents have been, it seems, Boy Scouts. Uh...ever heard of Richard Nixon? He did not actually say "expletive deleted."

theguardian.com

Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open

President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Xi Jinping is 5'11" tall. Draw your own conclusions.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If a law enforcement officer is not wearing a body cam when they're required to, or it's turned off when it's not supposed to be, that should be evidence that the officer is trying to hide or cover up their actions, and should be used as evidence against them.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You'd think, with his endorsements of nearly every other product and service, that William Shatner would have endorsed a laxative.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No, "everyone" is not hurting. In 1990, the top 10% had 17 times the wealth of the bottom 50%. Today, that number has nearly doubled, to 32 times the wealth: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

Quote from school board president about asking for less because "everyone's hurting" economically

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Elizabeth Nelson is one of our best writers, and here's her take on 'Easy Rider', its soundtrack, and its place in the cracking-up sixties...a decade which just will not go away, in either its best or worst consequences.

pitchfork.com

Various Artists: Easy Rider (Music From the Soundtrack)

Read Elizabeth Nelson’s review of the album.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Weather reports make it look as if they'll have to rename it the Bay View Splash this year...

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t know, if were at a concert, Macklemore saying “Free Palestine“ would be much less disturbing to me than Ed Sheeran saying, “Gonna play some of my songs for you right now.”

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Just a wedding gift." Sure, Failson #1. I mean, everybody gets hundreds of thousands of dollars as wedding gifts.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ethics quiz: One candidate's positions, policies, and party are vastly superior to the other major party's positions and policies. But on one issue, his position is disappointing: neutral or slightly negative where ideally it would be positive. And...

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ken Paxton's rap sheet "is like a CVS receipt" (Jimmy Kimmel) Trump's FCC doesn't want you to see James Talarico interviewed by Kimmel (for some reason I do not even need to bother to look up to know it's idiotic). It's on YouTube. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

youtu.be

Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

America being an insane religious maniac obsessed with sex is, sadly, not new. Probably the most common suburban American breakfast is cornflakes. Which were invented by a religious zealot with the explicit goal of preventing the scourge of masturbation among youth.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is really important (the whole three posts in John's thread). A "boycott" is a collective, not an individual action. And it has to have an endpoint. If there's no concession that will end it, there's no point in management conceding.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can we stop with "vibe shift"? It just means "a change in public opinion or mood," and "opinion" and "mood" are clearer. And less liable to make someone claw their own eyes out.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What did you think would happen, hateful bigoted motherfuckers?

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

People freaking out about AI "ending humanity" need to read Cory Doctorow, now. What's scary isn't AI acting like evil robots in a film riffed on by MST3K. What's scary is that "the world's IT systems are indifferently created and poorly maintained and riddled with vulnerabilities."

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There is no good way to come up with a background story that yields the execrable pun "Calamari, Queen of Squats."

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Media: I have noted a pervasive misspelling in your descriptions of Trump's thing in Dallas. The proper spelling is "Trumpapaloser." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our Very Stable Genius. He should get together with Linda McMahon to STOP 7-Eleven from selling A1. youtu.be/7sXQ3YJtlqo?...

youtu.be

Donald Trump confuses 9/11 with 7 Eleven - BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was reading about a Ren Fest...and it occurred to me that the typical example draws almost entirely from (fantasy version of) European medieval times. And I'm wondering whether anyone does similar things based on fantasy forms of other cultures' outmoded societies and governance?

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My brain, while I'm taking a walk: "I wonder if there's a way where it'd be correct notation to have a double-sharp followed directly by a double-flat, which is the same note...?" (First guess, which I'm not sure of, at all: we're in Bm, we go to the V, augment it (that's yr C double-sharp).

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nonsensical sticker on the back of a street sign: "Bitcoin doesn't have inflation" I guess, not an economics expert?

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of the biggest problems we have is when solutions to problems are TOO effective. We therefore forget how awful the problems were before they were mitigated. Anti-vax idiots and anti- antitrust zealots get away with their blather for that reason.

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This claim (not Zitron's) has been circulating...and it's important to recognize that it's based on the same mix of hot air and hype as the whole AI bubble generally.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Let's all acknowledge that Meta glasses are creepy as hell. However, it turns out they CAN have socially useful functions...

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For some reason, I always have trouble remembering the lyrics to "My Baby's Taking Me Home" by Sparks.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Justice in America these days. Rape a minor? That'll get you 90 days. Move some left-wing magazines? 30 years.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I mean, I suppose it's better than letting his leaking brain actually try to govern. Except that the people who actually are making decisions (and making Trump thing they're his) are worse (Miller, Vought, et al.)

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I mean, at this point, it's obvious he's completely out of his mind.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Letter I sent to the White House online portal: The President recently stated that he has made "hundreds of billions of dollars on stocks," and that he's done so not for himself, but "for the U.S.A." (Truth Social).

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Following up my previous post, sadly

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Republicans: "Hey, we're gonna raise tariffs on average 20%!" Corporations: "Oh damn...we'll have to raise our prices 25%." Court: "Those tariffs are illegal" Corporations: "We want our money back" Republicans: "Oh...okay."

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

While the nation goes nuts over the Lindsay Clancy story, we continue to ignore the far, far more common (94%) cases of family annihilation committed by men. Through March 2025, there were 227 cases since 2020. That's nearly four every month. One every week. Yet not a peep in mainstream media.

ithy.com

Family Annihilator Statistics: U.S. vs. Global

An in-depth analysis of family annihilation trends and contrasting insights.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Either the ump's power-tripping (as the OP wrote)...or he just earned himself from cash. Ridiculous.

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Excellent article on what it means (and does not mean) to say that "the blues is Black music" (and any other music largely originated in Black culture). Harris's main metaphor is a house: non-Blacks are welcome, can add to the pleasure of being in the house...but it's still not THEIR house.

coreyharris.substack.com

“Bluesist” Black Music

An interrogation of ownership in Whose Blues by A. Gussow

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This guy - and many others - needs to be the focus of a post-Trump war-crimes trial. robertreich.substack.com/p/hegseth-mu...

robertreich.substack.com

Hegseth Must Go

If Trump won’t fire him, Congress must impeach him

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