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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 9h

I call the mushy middle of white people “diet racists” because they’re not there for the hard R or lynching or any of this groyper shit but they’re so easy to convince that a black person took their job.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 9h

Which is frankly the white person breakdown, too

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 9h

Plus the whole “if not friend, why friend shaped” issue

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 9h

Our bonobo side does tend to think “you are neat! You do great things for the pack! Would you like sex?” a lot.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 9h

Heck, even why despite Murderbot being not at all interested in sex, i can see why it would be sexualized, largely that it’s a great protector of the group and someone who genuinely cares like that is good parent/bond further in the clan material.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 9h

So one thing I’m thinking about is the depth of the bond and regard between Murderbot and Mensah and how the lack of words for it reflects some very primate things.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

yes, i suppose i can understand why you prefer a marginally competent liar who insults you to the person who underlines how farcical and useless your jobs are

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 13/10/2026

trump can rile up the dead enders well enough, but he’s not saying anything new and he’s not even pretending to change course, and i suspect most voters in the midterms are going to know it. these rallies are going to be unproductive shitshows through the end of the month.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 13h

Do you ever wonder if men feel the same exhausted, contemptuous disgust we feel about our endless supply of violent worthless men? Or are they too busy being butthurt that someone would call any man worthless?

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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 13h

Let's hope Kimberly is feeling MTG level spite.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 13h

watching this evil old fuck die of obvious dementia in real time is such a cluster.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 13h

Any time I see someone complain that their local Starbucks or Barnes and Noble or whatever doesn't have comfy chairs anymore I want that person to know that the reason why is because people kept pissing themselves while sitting on them.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 14h

Not only do they not do network security but they don't do physical security either?

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah I was trying to think of a way to say gay marriage and letting gay people serve openly were big wins and none of the backlash has been organic, it’s all GOP hate shit

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 14h

The Shane Gillis apologism has begun and yet none of the apologists seem to be able to explain where the joke is in “women wear non-restrictive clothing to work out and you’re not allowed to rape them.”

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 14h

Put a fork in the Republican Senate candidates in GA and NC. Rogers is hanging on by the thread in MI. Collins is in trouble in ME, so is Sullivan in AK. Paxton is clearly on the back foot. Kansas is in play. Graham is a weak candidate in SC, and nobody is quite sure about the state of play there.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h

Women who look pretty are also not inherently dumb. It's a fucking choice. How you present yourself outwardly has nothing to do with your intelligence.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14h

Seems nearly certain that the DSA/DSA adjacent candidates will underperform the mainline Dems. I assume the DSA defense will be that the Dem Party didn’t give them enough support The socialists will complain that the capitalists didn’t give them enough money.

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 17h

While your time as Ambassador to Greece may be coming to an end, our investigation has not. We have asked you a series of questions, and we look forward to your responses.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah, but that's actually fairly solvable, kind of like how if someone started selling Everclear in the grocery store, we have a regulatory mechanism that can help, in a way that takes less political will than say, seizing every AR-15, which public health says we should also do.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 14h

Most libertarian policy that I gut-level agree with is bad, actually. I think weed is the exception b/c where it's more or less legal, we regulate it as much or more than booze and that seems more or less right, down to homebrew/home-grow.

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His Bark Materials🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌌 @oneiriccanid.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not to minimise the impact of the Stonewall riots but like, there were a lot of extra steps between “we riot” and “everyone is free to live and love as they want”, and the struggle very much is not over.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

this kind of thing should carry some severe personal liability that isn’t shielded by being a federal employee. like, she should be able to sue them individually and collectively for a fucking shit ton of money

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 14h

It's fascinating because a lot of the ideas we had in the Daily Kos part of the Bush era proved to be disastrously wrong! I want to tell 2006 me that gambling bans are good and that yes, logically it makes no sense, but banning semi-automatics DID matter!

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

"Which is why gay sex was immediately legal in all 50 states...wait, I'm getting news that Stonewall did not make that happen"

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

I can almost hear the misogyny nonsense whirling up. Anything to avoid admitting that Trumpers don't get what they want because they are offputting, untalented people who unjustly think they are better than most of us.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

The pathology where our worst tech oligarchs see the gap, freak the fuck out and declare it doesn't exist and none of us are real like they are is particularly fascinating b/c it's clear they don't feel very secure about their own minds.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

One of the things that I think is particularly awful for Fed employees is that *DOGE always was doing shit like this* because they were a bunch of idiots who knew nothing of our complex federal government.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

I also think we are fascinated about that gap between our minds and others which is why kids about 8-10 all go through the "guess what I'm thinking about!" phase because the idea that there's a mind gap really screws with our primate brains.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

I was six or seven and I realized that the other children weren't reading childrens' encyclopedias from the 1960s along with fact books and didn't know half the things I did and were not super into Laura Ingalls.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

*sighs wearily* I bet the reason MLK won is because Malcolm X threatened violence, and nothing about LBJ's work on the Civil Rights Act except to say "it was betrayal by whites"

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

As a young Xer, I think I both get really caught up in wanting authenticity AND as a pop media person in general, I'm like "oh, ffs, no, a world without popular media is not what you idiots want."

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

The screenshotted post has the same energy as "no true lesbian has ever thought about a man, not even a celebrity crush" that threw me off so hard last week. Children, stop getting history from short-form video. Go to the library.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

(I also vibe with their analysis but thought their examples really smacked of a certain racism/anti-American provincialism, tbh)

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

This has been my quest since I was an earnest undergrad who first read Adorno, Horkhimer, and Walter Benjamin and was like "who the fuck dunks on jazz?" as well as secretly being mad about the hits to Disney cartoons b/c fuck them, animation IS ART.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 15h

I have a whole article in me called “The Work of Art in the Age of GenAI” about this very problem. Lot of people are using slop to get some digs in at art and media they don’t like for many many reasons and they are pure snobbery.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 15h

A despairing scenario I’ve been confronted with repeatedly: won’t Dems come back to power, not fix every problem they inherited fast enough, and pave the way for another GOP comeback, like 2010 and 2024? Maybe! But the GOP is really burning up the foundations. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/post-donal...

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No Fake Makeovers For The Post-Trump GOP

Democrats should behave as if the pendulum is destined to swing back against them. But that doesn’t mean it will.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, but in a way that was not precisely what the author hoped they'd get from it is what I'm getting at. Tolkien: uh, you don't really want to create the all-seeing eye, y'all.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I wish Bankhead would drop out. It’s a long shot but it’s a shot

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

Higher prices might be the biggest reason more Trump 2024 voters are turning on him, yes. But that means more swing voters, soft GOP, and disillusioned MAGA are more open to seeing the corruption and authoritarianism as bad, as @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com and @gregsargent.bsky.social explain.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22h

One very easy fix here: if you worked for DOGE, you are immediately barred from working on any federal contracts, www.acquisition.gov/far/subpart-....

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Subpart 9.4 - Debarment, Suspension, and Ineligibility | Acquisition.GOV

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 16h

So much about what sucks about AI is the people in charge of it are fucking illiterate and unable to read for meaning or nuance and do not understand other people.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 16h

The FAA rolled out a new AI tool for air traffic control in DC without publishing a safety evaluation or sufficiently consulting labor. @repaprildelaney.bsky.social and I are urging the FAA to stop the rollout until we have answers. Air traffic control leaves zero margin for error.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 16h

This is exactly why I suspect OpenAI et al didn't go the boring but universal B2B route. The gains are real, I *really* think nerds like us underestimate the appeal of a conversational UI, but the gains do not make up for the cost for 90% of business users.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 16h

This is why my path to a much broader Medicaid for All provision for health care is "ACA 2" b/c holy shit people do not understand change and change management is so hard for this.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 16h

"Americans spend 5 billion dollars on pet food a year!" is the headline. So okay, there are 330 million Americans. The average American spends 15.15 on pet food a year, which is not actually that much. Large numbers make us stupid, which is why we don't get how much more a billion is than a million.

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 16h

One of the things that sucks about being smart enough to see past "zomg Congress job make 174K a year, make them poor!" is that human brains break when we see numbers at scale.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16h

More to the point, none of this has a fucking thing to do with whether or not the U.S. has universal healthcare. The $3.3B in aid to Israel last year amounts to less than 0.3% of the annual cost of current Medicare *alone* & just 0.06% of total U.S. healthcare spending. www.cms.gov/data-researc...

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 16h

I really got turned off by these tools because frankly, the first round of AI evangelism was like "ooh, it writes emails for me" and I'm like "sorry you're illiterate? why are you paid more than me?" plus Anthropic owes me $$ I'll never get. And the sheer ineptitude of Sr Director + galls.

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