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SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 1h

Cappuccino is named after the Cappuchin Franciscans (it was invented by one).

SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 1h

Early Franciscanism is ripe w anecdotes wherein what we would today characterize as "ADHD Squirrel"(Francis) & autism spectrum (iirc some of the Juniper stories) overlap heavily with the sanctity.

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SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 1h

I somewhat remember this story, & YIKES!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 3h

Ohio people: Tomorrow, Monday, is the LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE in the rock-em sock-em midterm election! This is it! Register! Check your registration! EARLY VOTING STARTS TUESDAY!!! THEY HAVE STICKERS!!!! substack.com/home/post/p-...

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An Important Reminder for my Ohio Readers

(And the rest of you can play along too)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Angie Nixon wants to know which eyeliner Vice President J.D. Vance uses: “His eyes look so beautiful. They pop.”

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Black feminist scholars have powerfully shown that when we focus on the margins of society, we can better understand society’s center as well. Since asexuality exists at the margins of heterosexuality AND queerness, that’s a sign we should seek ace folks’ perspectives.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Asexuality, a spectrum and an umbrella term that refers to those who experience low/no sexual attraction, is part of the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. Asexuality is marginalized in the heteronormative world—it defies the assumption that everyone does (and should) experience sexual desire.

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Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’m not on the asexuality spectrum. But as a queer, feminist researcher, I think we should all care about asexuality. Why? Because asexual perspectives can help us better understand sexuality—and gender, race, disability, family, love, etc. Here’s why:

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 4h

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 3h

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it?

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This. Vote as if the life of every woman you know (including one's own, as applicable) is at risk on election day. And all those thousands (perhaps many more) at the receiving end of Kegsbreath's and Trump's savior-bombs. Because they all are.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trying to think of some other policy areas where we should expect similar moves. *ever-more-brutal immigration enforcement *crackdown on nonprofit status of left groups *more press bans and FCC actions against news outlets *another round of tariffs *bogus charges in "grand conspiracy" case

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People this contemptuous of human and civil rights, and with so little care or valuation of what it means to be human, aren’t out here arguing AI could be conscious because they want to defend it’s labor rights.🙄 More like “we enslaved this faux conscious entity, & it’s fine… so why not people too?”

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A cynical part of me thinks the only reason these ghouls are pushing the “AI could be conscious rhetoric” is because when it comes to deciding whether humans or data centers should get access to limited energy and water resources, they want ambiguity about why humans should clearly take precedent.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21h

New: Trump’s abrupt announcement to send $90 payments to seniors by dipping into a Medicare fund has rattled Capitol Hill. One GOP aide told WaPo that lawmakers had planned to use the money to offset funding for community health centers, diabetes programs and other initiatives.

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Trump announces plan to send $90 payments to millions of seniors

The White House said the one-time payments would be drawn from a fund set up to improve Medicare.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 17h

It would also be pretty important to establishing a mutually beneficial and non-antagonistic relationship. However, a lot of AI ppl think that an AI can either be a slave or a god and nothing else. This is not the healthiest for themselves, or their industry, or anyone else's interests.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

Of course that is quite apart from the question of if the current approach can truly ever create a real intelligence, a real mind for which slavery and freedom would have meaning. Just...if you *did* create such a thing, you'd have an overwhelming moral imperative not to keep it as a slave.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you, uh, Bill Kristol.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold

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SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

D*ng, Kiddo! Maybe start w the d20?

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Attention Ohio! You have until TUESDAY to register to vote! Tuesday! substack.com/@marypezzulo...

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An Important Reminder for my Ohio Readers

(And the rest of you can play along too)

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So let me get this straight. If people are drinking at a party and one of them drunkenly gets in his car and runs over an incapacitated partygoer, it's vehicular homicide. But if they're drinking and one of them rapes an incapacitated partygoer, oh hey, he was drinking so it wasn't his fault?

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SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the 1850s oligarchy was represented by the slave power, in the 2020's it's the Pedo power. (Which considering the way slaves were treating isn't as different as it sounds.)

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do not understand the pro-death-penalty fanatics. Not the people who say "unfortunately it's unrealistic that we should never execute anyone," who are wrong but I see were they're coming from. The ones who are ANGRY and OFFENDED that someone they don't know may not be executed.

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SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"[The Trump administration's] destruction of the fundamental separation of powers at the heart of our government has gotten very little pushback from Republican lawmakers. And senators left Washington, D.C., today for a recess until after the midterms; the House is already in recess."

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 01/10/2026

Today I joined veterans, preservationists, and concerned citizens demanding that the Administration stop construction of Trump's vanity arch. No one but Trump wants this, so I will not stop fighting against this selfish, dangerous, and illegal proposal until it's gone. youtube.com/shorts/0bx0D...

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Beyer Joins Call to Stop Trump’s Vanity Arch

YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The flag of the Great State, excuse me I mean the COMMONWEALTH, of Pennsylvania, portrays the three things that everyone thinks of first when I say the name “Pennsylvania:” eagles, angry horses, and a boat sailing past an abandoned sled.

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Just For Fun, Let’s Roast the State Flags (part four)

Video games, burgees, and the return of those twins from New Jersey. Oh my!

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"May God smite me with that curse! And may I never recover!"

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Vicki Davis @chigster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My #embroidery obsession continues! Have moved on from insects to mushrooms

Embroidery sampler of mushrooms, flowers and ferns on black background

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Nightime The full moon that we claim for October shines we are all here together without knowing it flying at a speed beyond thinking the dog has stopped barking the night is still - WS Merwin 🎨 Francisco Fonsca

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

because it's a facially and formally neutral rule that nevertheless does racism

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SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm from Missouri & I approve this message.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As for the "revisionist" part, that's fine.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This guy got a law degree from Harvard and became a White House Fellow reporting to Egil Fucking Krogh (head of the Plumbers). After Watergate he spent an entire lifetime in the insurance industry before deciding to redeem Richard Nixon's legacy, publishing a hackish book with (of course) Regnery

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."

Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations, conservative Catholics! Dudebro hates you and he's in charge now.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

58 deaths. Outrageous. Should never happen in America.

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: when a billionaire techbro confidently asserts "this is the future, this new technology will fundamentally change our lives in XYZ way, it's gonna be awesome," it's no the future, it's not going to be XYZ, and it's not awesome.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why do people make the "young men shouldn't have their lives ruined by being identified as rapists" argument but never the "young men shouldn't have their lives ruined by being identified as murderers" argument? Misogyny.

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