Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 1halternately, you could just repeat it all at the half hour mark and encourage people to come in anywhere from the time it begins up thru the 1st 25 minutes or so, then just leave when you've come back to the part that they heard when they 1st came in, to get a jump on exiting the parking lot? 000
Reposted by Josh DobbinMeanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 2hRussia killed five children in Pryluky. A Russian missile struck a residential building. At least 19 people were killed and 55 injured. Oleksandr, Kyrylo and Serhii were only one year old. Maksym was eight. Rescuers later found a fifth child beneath the rubble. 01610
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 2hmade MY job easier by explaining to friends and family that they are coming to the table with a rock in their hands and being unfair. 010
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 2hsuch offense to heart and forgive tresspasses pretty easily because we're all making up life as we go along and often get things wrong. But this pleased no one & gave weight to his (unfair) critics. A simple, dignified 3 sentence statement would have been JUST as bad-faith angry rejected, but.. 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 2hI am a big fan of the man and have great affection for his intelligence, earnestness, ambition and zeal. I thought his statement was tone deaf and gave ammunition to the predictable OVERLY hateful reaction to it by the people already primed to hate him. It offended me, honestly, but I don't take.. 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 5hI'll tell you what the gun I picked up from the floor-is-for (space corridor) Tell Julie, Chase and Elinor (space corridor) 121
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 6hSomebody randomly liked a comment of mine in some year old Ken Bone Discourse (TM), and I had managed to never see the last comment in the thread, but now have AND FIERCELY WISH I DID NOT. 020
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hI don't find your conversation here respectful. I don't know you.This is our first interaction and introduction. It makes me question why,on this day, you're looking for conversations with people you have no connection to, to argue w/ them. I'm sure you are a decent, kind man. But this isn't great 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hyeah. They're not mine.I've read them, but they're not mine. 110
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hfundamentally sad that you'll never get who and what you are, to people like me, in moments like this. "Forgive them, they know not what they do" is the saddest line in all of your christian scriptures. 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hgun-manufactures saw a perverse GIANT LEAP in sales, profits & zeal & a perverse, invasive security-and-preparation cottage industry that changed the culture of all our kids, forever. Honestly, the MOST part of me wants to tell you to read the room &fuck off. But some smaller part is just.. 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hAmerica bone deep awareness that they must prepare for the day when an angry man will come and kill them at school; that's a daily concern and a world they must live in & fact they must internalize. Lanza destroyed so much more than the children & their families. He also birthed a world where.. 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hThe Manson Family murders changed the world. They absolutely did. They effectively ended the (doomed?) idea of a generation of peace & love heralded by the awakened youth. They birthed the 70s. Sandy Hook changed MILLIONS of lives; active shooter drills changed the culture & gave every child in.. 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hI feel like this skeet should have gotten more love. Or hate. 150
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hI get and appreciate that. But I do hold space for the idea that different people do grieve and process grief (and anger) differently, and that grace should be afforded for that.I hope? Anyway, I enjoy reading your thoughts & think you're a good, cool person. We may not see eye to eye on everything 110
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hand all of that gets to be true, right alongside acknowledging, *witnessing* and memorialozing the viscous and hateful deaths they brought into the world, changing it (permanently?) for the worse. Today, I mourn for my family, if that's ok with you. 110
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9htrue-- there were larger winds blowing that led to the creation of Susan Atkins stabbing Sharon Tate over and over in the belly, and ALL of them are tragic. As the parent of an autistic teen just out of the k-12 years, I can tell you I know EXACTLY how the system failed both Adam Lanza and his mom-- 110
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9hA lot of societal givens & larger cultural movements of disillusionment & abandonment of the youth , and the brutality of the institutionalized prison system to the poor and abusedX and what it turned Charles Manson into, led to the Tate/La Bianca murders as well. This is not a "gotcha." It's very-- 110
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 9habsolutely. But *today,* the nature of these specific murders, rapes, tortures, and the zeal and glee with which they were carried out, we can portion 1/365th of the year to grieving them, specifically. 010
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 10hHe's the most hopeful type of person on the other side to build bridges with, into a future where we don't kill each other's children. 100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 10hand decry all the horrors & evils of the Bush/Cheney admin & the militarization of police that followed. *On the day* of their cruel, personal murders, rapes, kidnappings & tortures, we can separately grieve them. 220
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 10hThe same who can look at the people in the planes whose last moments were panic and terror, or the people jumping from the WTC & grieve them, but also hold the USA accountable for the 100s of 1000s of deaths to follow, the torture regime that was installed & cheered by millions in their name-- 120
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hto put down that legacy and make a new one. I'd love for us all to stop killing one another's children because we've killed one another's children. 💔💔 130
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hhaving fundamentally different points of view. Our grandparents & great & great & great all had grievances & vendettas against one another and they hand them to us as legacy. It takes A LOT, and a LOT of mistakes along the way-- 110
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hgood hearts get hardened against one another's. We have family & tribal loyalties & allegiances. They are real and they are valuable & make us who we are. But they also get in the way of FINDING a way to stop teams from being rivals. He's a bright, good young man. That can be true while also.. 120
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hI think good people with good hearts can be so "on a team" that they are blinded as to the perspective of the other team, or so primed to hate/mistrust/blame the other & conditioned to fall back on absolutist statements about how NO one with good hearts can be on the other team, such that all our-- 111
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hAnd adds to the cycle where more people will lose those they love. I just want the cycle to end. 120
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11his up for political and moral and ideological debate. But today, let the mourners mourn. Please. 0100
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hI live 12 miles from where Sandy Hook Elementary once stood. I remember the visceral horror of that day & will never forget it. I threw up in grief & horror as the reality of the day unfolded. It left scars that will not heal. October 7th is that day multiplied over and over. What happens after- 1110
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hHonestly, today, I don't even want to go into any larger or meta discussion, or even be angry. I just want to remember the horror of what happens when we dehumanize one another,honor the people who were so horribly and needlessly murdered for no reason & take those mourning them into my heart. 070
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hI really like Mamdani, but his message today was just terrible and will help no one. Tone deaf. I have a WEALTH of anger & disgust & despair(& shame) at nearly every action & choice the USA made, post 9/11. But let *the day* be about the mourning & condemnation of the murderous attack. 7202
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 11hI bet THE SHINING really put a damper on off-season hotel caretaking opportunities in the real world. 130
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 12hok, caught up now. I know Python gets over-quoted to the point of tedium, but the People's Front of Judea's edict of "the only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front!" is really the "When the Walls Fell" Darmok-TNG-language that explains everything about us. 030
Reposted by Josh DobbinLizzy Esq. @lizzyraven.bsky.social · 13hWe've been gaslit into thinking that every form of deception is gaslighting. 021
Reposted by Josh DobbinEZ Swords @ezswords.com · 17hSubscribe to The Onion. These are a fucking joy to open and read, best mail ever. 011
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 19hhave you seen/heard this guy's theory? I think he gets some things wrong (I believe there IS a ghost lady in the room) but the overall case he makes jives (to me) with Kubrick's obsessive visual specificity. youtu.be/dW2GrG7Zk0U?...youtu.beTHE SHINING Danny's ordeal and the Bear Costumed Man movie film analysis Rob Ager Collative LearningYouTube video by Collative Learning 000
