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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/09/2023

Wealth of Elon Musk 2012: $2,000,000,000 2023: $248,800,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2012: $18,400,000,000 2023: $160,900,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2012: $17,500,000,000 2023: $105,200,000,000 Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

🎵 Take a look, it's my right hook 🎵

A tweety by @PublishersWkly with a photo of LeVar Burton at a dais that reads "'Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? No? Good. Then hands will not need to be thrown tonight.'

Host LeVar Burton kicks off this year's National Book Awards ceremony. #NBAwards"

It's been quote tweeted by @heatherjochens who adds "Butterfly in the sky, I'd like to see a bitch try~"

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 25/01/2024

Penn Jillette has more or less renounced libertarianism, which is good

"I have not used the word Libertarian in describing myself since I got an email during lockdown where a person from a Libertarian organization wrote to me and said, “We’re doing an anti-mask demonstration in Vegas, and obviously we’d like you to head it.” I looked at that email and I went, “The fact they sent me this email is something I need to be very ashamed of. I need to change.” You can make the argument that maybe you don’t need to mandate masks — you can make the argument that maybe that shouldn’t be the government's job — but you can't make the argument that you shouldn’t wear masks. It's the exact reciprocal of seatbelts because if I don’t wear a seatbelt, my chances of fucking myself up increase — if I don’t wear a mask, the chance of fucking someone else up increase.

Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, “It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do.” I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate."

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

$650 MILLION SPENT ON VANITY SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS THIS YEAR BY LOTS OF COMPANIES WHO SAY THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THEIR WORKERS A LIVING WAGE.

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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Do not go gentle into that good night

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

Reproduction of excerpt from Timothy Snyder's book ON TYRANNY:

"1. Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

me: what’s crazy is that rudy giuliani first rose to fame because of 9/11 teen born in 2006: ohh. like he helped do it me: ok no, but i see how you got there

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

I like it here and I don’t think a mega corp Twitter clone can kill spaces like these. There is a high level of original thought and engagement, people care about each other and maintain a strong space minimizing bad faith, harassment, and disinfo, which lets people be themselves & build community

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/02/2024

Here’s the deal: We stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/10/2023

I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

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Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 04/03/2024

We all know though that if the roles were somehow reversed, there's zero chance the Republican justices would have missed a chance to disqualify an insurrectionist ex-Democratic president from running again, right.

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