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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Just to be sure they should probably take up driving real fast without seatbelts

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Dolorosa Santos @dolorosasantos.bsky.social · 8h

"I get confused by MAGA. Do they not have jobs? That's all they do is carry Trump flags around and insurrect."

McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

They are still playing the “lazy hippie” card re: the left, 50 years and they don’t have anything new.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Conservatives don’t read, period.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Their loud screaming, plus the generally conservative bias of our institutions, resulted in widespread normalization of conservatives acting like assholes and refusing to follow any rules.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

This has been the go-to right wing move for the past 20 years: act like an asshole and refuse to follow any rules, then when you get in trouble for that, scream “political bias.”

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Part of how we got here was that media standards against bigotry, hate speech, and lies disproportionately caught Republicans, the Republicans pointed to the disproportionality as evidence of conspiracy, the media caved, and now bigotry, hate speech, and lies have all been normalized.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Countdown until some Republicans raise an unholy fuss about this.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Very normal thing to say, Mr. President Sir

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 8h

Now, with this in mind, reread the Book of Leviticus and make note of just how often and in how many different ways it reminds people not to have sex with 1. Close relatives or 2. Livestock

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 13h

Like, yes, Limbaugh was a right wing shit and a mean-spirited blowhard, but he was ALSO the least funny comedian you’ve ever heard.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 13h

I still remember years ago listening to Limbaugh for maybe 10 minutes while we waited for an older relative to be ready to go somewhere, and the entire time he was trying to describe this cartoon he thought was really funny, but kept interrupting himself by laughing.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 13h

When you think about it, Rush Limbaugh’s schtick was basically slow-motion standup comedy, even less funny than most right wing comics, but he did it for 6 hours a day which… was popular for some reason, hell if I know.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 13h

To our detriment, we as an audience made the mistake of allowing stand-up comics to convince *themselves* that they're all rabble-rousing truth-tellers a la George Carlin or Bill Hicks*, when the truth is that many of them are actually there to reinforce the existing social order.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 13h

But in order to do that, you have to give the AI semi-autonomic access to your bank account, your credit cards, your phone and internet and other utilities, your online rent payment system, etc. Which seems like something you would have to be *nuts* to do with the current technology.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 13h

Like, imagine that you wanted an AI to manage your money for you — pay your bills, categorize your expenses, point out patterns in how you spend money, answer questions like “how much money would I really save by bringing my lunch from home?”

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a kind of built-in paradox here, where in order for something like an AI assistant to be genuinely useful, you have to give it access to information that opens up a lot of potential problems without much stronger guardrails than anything that currently seems to exist.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 13h

Gosh, who could have seen that coming

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e.g. Alice Roberts @huge-jackedman.bsky.social · 14h

Roger Ebert was on one when he gave zero stars to Dice Rules and explained why Dice Rules movie review & film summary share.google/kwWXbK2XuUey...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

there is and always has been a huge market for "comedy" that is just a guy standing on stage saying bigoted stuff about minority groups. It's honestly just a different thing with different goals than other forms of comedy.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

Ya like this gets exactly at my point. this stuff both self-evidently sucks ass and it fills MSG two nights in a row bsky.app/profile/huge...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

its unfortunate that gallagher is mostly remembered for his veg-o-matic hammer bit because he's actually the best example of this. if you go back and watch his sets from the 70s they are basically hate rallies where every "joke" is just him mocking gays or women or minorities to HUGE audiences.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

its really funny and revealing to me that so many comedians - even guys with good politics - talk about andrew dice clay as a revered elder statesman when his actual act was just bigotry with barely any actual jokes besides his "satirical" persona (that audiences didnt realize was an act)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

the current situation in comedy is kind of like if every year for the oscars 6 of the highest grossing movies were videos of guys torturing animals and everyone was like "oh so you're trying to censor us?" if you say you don't like that.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

There's a guy in my replies who says he doens't read women because they write well about emotional conflicts and unrequited love and that's not what he wants. He reads sci fi he says. Can you imagine reading sci-fi and not reading Octavia Butler? Or Ursula K Le Guin? Or NK Jemisin?

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

15. That cynicism might pay off in good times, with a Democrat overseeing the economy. But with a Republican in charge, it backfires. Nebraska farmers like Trump, but don't like the consequences. They believe they own America, too. Now their rent is going up.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

13. As Mark Jacob said, with a precision rare in our discourse: "The clear message of Republicans is that this country is owned by white people and everyone else is renting."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

12. They would rather pick their voters – for instance, through gerrymandering, influence-buying (Elon Musk alone has spent $276 million), or outright bribery, as the president is attempting to do – than humiliate themselves with the chore of earning votes. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

11. The Republicans are anti-political. They resent competing democratically, on issues and problems that affect a majority of people's lives.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

10. But there's more here than Republicans making up for lost ground. One billion dollars is a reflection of who they are. They believe authority is their birthright. As a consequence, they believe there's nothing morally wrong with "buying victory."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

9. The AP said MAGA Inc, the president's PAC, "has been charged roughly $894 per airing, according to AdImpact, while Texas PAC has been charged roughly $809 for a mix of broadcast and streaming." For the same mix, Democrat James Talarico paid about $290.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

8. The second reason is related to the first. Because they took those seats for granted, they got a late start buying media time. They are paying more now to run ads than they would have months ago.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h

7. No one foresaw the president campaigning in Nebraska this week, but farmers there have been hit by a costly double-whammy – Donald Trump's tariffs and Donald Trump's war. They're so mad an independent candidate is dead even with incumbent GOP Senator Peter Ricketts.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 19h

4. That's more money than you, me and everyone we know will see in our lifetimes. Whether the AP asks if it can "power Republicans to victory" or "buy victory" for the GOP seems like a distinction without a difference.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 18h

This is how the media does it. “Can $1 billion buy victory in the midterm elections? Some Republicans fear the answer is no" probably was changed “officially” for other reasons (too long, not “active” enough) but the change still paints Republicans in a more powerful “winning” light.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h

I loved being published by Tor because I had read them as a child and what sff geek doesn't have fond memories? But I have a mental Arya list of every single person who acted like I had transcended my grubby romance roots and now was writing Good Books that Men Might Like to Read.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h

Just look at the way damn near everyone (including otherwise thoughtful people on this app) treats those of us who actually do cater to a presumed female audience. Believe me. Just because women are buying most of the books doesn't mean publishing as a whole values them more. Or at all.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h

I am trying to swerve this topic because of course it makes me black out with rage... But publishing has a deep assumption baked into it that I must yearn for male readers to validate me as serious. Men are the target audience we all must strive to please if we want credibility.

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 18h

Good thread, and it illustrates something: people who have weird ideas about gender will often continue to have weird ideas about gender

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h

Okay, I am looking at this gendered reading piece by Ross Barkan and I have many thoughts and questions. Part of the thesis is this:

A more challenging question can be asked: If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership? It’s the old chicken-and-egg dilemma. The audience won’t emerge because the product isn’t there, and the product isn’t there because the audience is elsewhere. Men, obviously, can read and enjoy books by women, but there is the sticky biological reality that, on balance, women will probably prefer reading women, and men may prefer reading men. Boys, especially, seem to long for male teachers and role models in the classroom. As they age, and if they want to read, they might be drawn to the fiction of writers like Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and McMurtry. They might want literature that, at the bare minimum, seems masculine.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

I'm gonna have to chalk that one up to age, because as someone who grew up in a house that had maybe five books around other people whose houses maybe had five books, the books everybody had were The Godfather, Lonesome Dove, and the Bible.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

All of which is to say I don't buy the thesis and think I know just enough about the author to say that the thesis doesn't surprise me.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

And it does affect the way they view identity politics. Women are a "special interest" and our concerns should not distract anyone from the class war. I think this is not a very mature understanding of Marxism, but what do i know

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18h

I hadn't thought about it for a while, but the Jacobin essay seems of a piece. There's a kind of young leftist white guy who thinks women are a different species. (This is not *most* of the young leftist white guys I know, who are thoughtful and lovely.)

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h

I told them that appealing to women is not a matter of making everything look like a tampon box, and making it "girlie" is patronizing. if you want to appeal to women, figure out how to talk about childcare for working women, repro health etc

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h

Anyway, someone on the campaign produced a bunch of creative (potentially for mail, but also digital, palm cards, etc.) and it was all pink. Like a Barbie mansion exploded, and just ... weird. I asked them why it *looked like that* and they said they wanted to appeal to women

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h

The one person who did seem to have his ear was a "data guy" he was friends with and hired. Or at least that's how he was described by Ross but it was very unclear what his actual experience was, and seemed to struggle with things that are kind of data 101.

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