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Just checking this out. :-P

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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thought I'd expand my social media horizons beyond X/Twitter, try out Bluesky. But how's this for wild? Sometime I think yesterday or late the day before all my responses became shadow censored. 100%. When other users check, my reply posts are not visible anywhere but in my own profile. Oh well. :-P
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Why? You put "friends" in quotation marks like there was actually some problem between them? What news have I missed?
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How do you make sure only the people speeding run over them?
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I do think it was weird to have a black person play an ancient Greek character. The ancient Greeks were Mediterranean Europeans just as they are today. They were not black, especially in ancient times when there was far less transcontinental travel. But if the movie's good then the movie's good.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Dunno. If it's delicious should we be allowed to call it invasive? :-P
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In socialism, "the people" — a marvelous propaganda phrase, so egalitarian and pseudo-liberating — are not you but higher party insiders. Every time. The actual people are useful suckers for language of equity, enabling soul-sucking levels of government control over our lives and opportunities.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hilarious. You're mad at the U.S. so you'll buy instead from CHINA? One of the most repressive totalitarian regimes on Earth?
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Without a *criminal conviction* (including plea deals) it's technically only an allegation. That's a fact, not an opinion, whether it's likely he did it or not.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
They're not? Near as I can tell Trump hatred is at Stalin levels.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Her supporters" obviously meaning, "some idiots who support her." In other words, a handful out of many millions. That does not speak to Ms. Rowling. Every major voice on every side of this matter has morons among their supporters.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
How I appear to you is not material to integrity or to attempts to silence speech with which one disagrees. And the fact that it is necessary to lie to silence the speech in question is telling: this platform did not provide you with a means for silencing it other than by lying. Why, do you suppose?
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I appreciate your thoughtful reply. But I do not respect what I perceive as tremendous arrogance regarding silencing of speech based on assessments of spoken intolerance. With regard to speech, I take the Western Enlightenment position. bsky.app/profile/maxw...
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Which lies? He's the most pro-solar energy human on the planet.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Well heck Alexa sold some units. Who knows, maybe it'll hit.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Some cultists just love to assume bigotry whether there's adequate evidence for it or not.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Obviously a woman can be the most qualified candidate, and many have been. But how do you know it's not the case that the particular women candidates at this moment for these positions are not among the strongest? Just like sometimes none of the men are the strongest so a woman gets the job?
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
People for whom integrity means little find it hard to imagine that others hold it dear.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You're adorable. Super weird, but adorable. Have a lovely evening champ.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Oooo, "flame war!" Okay I gotta admit, you must also be an online old timer. Damn fine expression. Whatever man, this is no big to me. Like I said, 43 years online. I'm fine, hope you can pull it together.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"GIMMEE THE LAST WORD OR ELSE!" you say. You are a remarkably unwell person. If this is how worked up you get online you really should get offline fast. It's too much for you obviously.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That reply is bizarre. What do you think this is, a street altercation between people holding guns? Escalates? Into what? This is simply typical online discussion/disagreement. Try to get your weird hysteria in check.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That's not the chase. I was first online via BBSes in 1983. I got on the Internet in 1993. In that 43 years of online interaction NOT ONCE have I *falsely* reported someone else's comment. Because integrity matters to me. As does open dialogue between parties who disagree. THAT'S the chase.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Uh, so long as someone else lies you're fine with lying? That's an extremely strange, broken moral compass you got there.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We're so mindlessly tribal now all that's needed is for a few thought leaders in one's camp to pronounce, "THIS BAD," distribute a couple grossly oversimplified talking points, and voila. Immediate mass raging hysteria for or against whatever.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We're so mindlessly tribal now all that's needed is for a few thought leaders in one's camp to pronounce, "THIS BAD," distribute a couple grossly oversimplified talking points, and voila. Immediate mass raging hysteria for or against whatever.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's not about Rowling. Flagging a post as spam that is not spam is lying. And a post is not spam merely because you disagree with it, no matter how strongly you disagree.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If we don't protect the worst of expression in a given time and place then we have no meaningful freedom of expression. "I disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it."
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That pic makes me feel patriotic. A portrait of extremes in position being possible to express in this liberty loving nation. Racist white supremacist idiots in large number amongst a black person, & she encountered no threats, no acts of aggression, came to no harm. Free expression is beautiful.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
EVERY NATION enforces immigration, including of varying proportions of people present illegally. We became accustomed to very lax enforcement; that doesn't mean stricter enforcement isn't necessary & it certainly doesn't mean it should be "resisted," as if that would be noble pursuit. Tribal lunacy.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Israel's one and only cause is surviving in the face of endless barbaric attacks on it by jihadists, one decade after the next. It's a shame if that cause is in fact any less popular.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Immediately flagged as spam, of course. Integrity means nothing to too many. Sad.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I notice posts that disagree about Rowling are flagged as spam. What is wrong with people? When you do that you are LYING. You think that's how you should be, willing to lie about anything you disagree with to get it hidden? That's repugnant. This post to be flagged as spam in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Impressive objectivity. Kudos.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Bingo. bsky.app/profile/maxw...
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm so confused about why. Is it some famously evil book?
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It wasn't at all an anti-global warming point, either in the book or the movie. Just an "alternate universe" version of deadly climate change. Since unlike in the story the energy from our Sun is not being blocked from reaching us, there is no way to take that cooling as applying in real life.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Heat waves also result from high-pressure systems & jet stream positions that produced similar heat waves before global warming. Due to tribal politicization, many believe global warming is behind every heat wave. That's as scientifically illiterate as the belief global warming isn't a problem.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Perhaps because there are major heat waves in many locations every year that AREN'T due to global warming. Global warming is an aggregate phenomenon across the globe and over time. Not every exceptional heat event has anything to do with it. Saying otherwise just hurts climate change's credibility.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
People on Blusky seem to block REALLY fast though. Far easier to disagree without being blocked on X/Twitter. I have no idea why but that's the pattern so far.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Name a major civilization that hasn't engaged in horrors by today's moral standards. You can't because there are zero. Enlightenment values, secular democracy, unprecedented protections, and the USA's brilliant structural codifications of them ARE superior. A tremendous gift to humanity.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Name a major civilization that hasn't engaged in horrors by today's moral standards. You can't because there are zero. Enlightenment values, secular democracy, unprecedented protections, and the USA's brilliant structural codifications of them ARE superior. A tremendous gift to humanity.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
They aren't mutually exclusive. America requires defending more than ever in near-modernity because it is under extraordinary attack. Of late even within our own education system. And attackers have abandoned any semblance of intellectual integrity in the interests of maximal viciousness and injury.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Pro-Hamas is not "pro-Palestians." Hamas is a designated terrorist organization and a profoundly evil jihadist group that has been engaging is the most barbaric forms of violence for decades. If (IF) Khalil did distribute pro-Hamas flyers, that crosses the line well beyond acceptable activism.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our nation became used to lax enforcement of immigration, but that doesn't mean stricter enforcement is unnecessary. It's possible ICE agents are at fault for some or all of the enforcement deaths. But it's also possible people dealing with ICE are dangerously overreacting due to ICE vilification.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'm objectively concerned some of these tragedies could be resulting from the obscene degree of demonization of ICE. EVERY NATION has immigration enforcement targeting some proportion of those present illegally. "Fascists" is ridiculous, and calling them that drives more aggressive confrontations.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So far I find Blusky more respectable than I was anticipating. My political/ideological views span the left-right spectrum; I wondered if my account would be immediately suspended for those further right. So far so good, however.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
During the Clinton administration you were my hero. Look what has become of you. No longer an intellectual. Just a standard, tedious cult-of-woke academy attack dog. No recognition of complexity, no depth of analysis. Just nonstop mindless cult signaling to your ideological tribe. You have no spine.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
So she's an idiot? Because what on Earth does she mean by unsafe? People are constantly debating those topics, especially in academia. No one's getting shot or arrested for studying or debating anything.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Oh another lil wannabe dictator in the Middle East. Who woulda thunk it? Come get it loudmouth bitch. Truth is, Western society, the Enlightenment, secular democracy and so on? BETTER THAN YOU. Please, get yourself dead.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There is no attempt to "tamp down entire chapters of America’s story" you mindless cultist indoctrinated imbeciles. Howard Zinn LIED TO YOU. Your psychotic far-left professors LIED TO YOU. Your sociopolitical ingroup has been led repulsively astray. Find your intellectual integrity and BACKBONES.
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