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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Constitution never mentions deez nuts and yet here they are

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2024

these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/07/2024

The state of Vermont agreed to pay $175,000 in damages to a man who was pulled over for giving an officer the middle finger and arrested for disorderly conduct. What do you think? www.theonion.com/vermont-sett...

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Thinking today about my lawyer friend Jermaine, who —when I asked him legal research Qs while writing a dystopia—told me “Well, with a sympathetic judiciary, anything is possible.”

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

strange women lying in ponds distributing swords actually sounds like a pretty decent alternative right now

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

"is" to "was" when Allah strikes him down?

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/07/2024

a thing i really sincerely believe is that both the center left and the left left have got to snap out of peacetime dilettantism and recognize that we are at war.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Doing to others what should be done unto him

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Welcome newcomers I've been called the n word in print

I would love to see Making Sense of Brief Lives on the syllabus for all first year seminary students. Smoke does readers a service by repeatedly focusing attention on matters of utmost existential relevance and providing clear and simple tools to address them. In doing so, Smoke is uncompromising in his honesty and merciless in assailing wishful thinking on all fronts. In an age when so many in our culture cannot muster the internal resources to reflect critically on their commitments, this is a call that needs to be made again and again. A supernaturalist account of religion is regularly examined in these pages. Like many students entering seminary, he has rightly discerned that the gods of religion are, without exception, human creations. There are a few classic ways that people respond to this realization. Smoke shows us the path of the nihilist. He feels compelled to drive the shock of existential abandonment from God’s death straight through the heart of all reality

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Kandy @kandyelmo.northsky.social · 02/07/2024

bringing this here because i've had it

screenshot from twitter user erika chapell that reads "essentially an enormous part of the reason that online leftist spaces such so much is that they are filled with people whole believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right"

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 02/07/2024

This is fucking terrifying especially considering that they just made being unhoused illegal

Quote tweet by @equalityalec One of the most alarming local stories I’ve seen in a long time happening now in Los Angeles. If you’re in LA, get involved to stop it:

@stoplapdspying tweet: LA City Councilmembers Katy Yaraslovsky @CD5LosAngeles and @BobBlumenfield are moving to give city funding to Magen Am, an armed Zionist paramilitary force comprised in large part of Israeli soldiers.

Read their new motion: ens.lacity.org/clk/councilmot…

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

This is unfair to the unibomber

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

Is there a canonical date for the occurrence at owl Creek bridge?

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

That is fantastic I might have to become the Saeed of my friend group(s)

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

I’ve texted so many friends: “Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” takes place on June 27th. Enjoy your day!” Heheheheheehehe. 🪨

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Anytime someone talks about a business closing locations these days I just google the name and “private equity” and you’re not gonna believe it but…

Erick Erickson tweet: The Hooters in Gainesville, FL closed permanently today. If that one can't survive Biden's economy, none can.

Private equity firm acquires
Hooters
07.02.2019

TAMPA BAY, Fla. - Private equity firm Nord Bay capital and its adviser, TriArtisan Capital Advisors LLC acquired Hooters of America LLC (HOA) from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Chanticleer Holdings. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

Red spotted newts!! I had some of those guys for a few years growing up. Abducted in the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania

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CryptΩ-Z∞l໐gᴉcal Disaster 𓆑🏴 @eatyrselffitter.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

usually 1-3 vinyl covered spring snakes

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Biden is going all-in with the lies. Voters today will be shocked to hear that once, you were supposed to win voters. Now, it’s about hating some. Biden has spurred Florida & is giving the finger to everyone who hates genocide. And Netanyahu will STILL stab him in the back.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

the "you and some buddies can steer a town in the right direction" theory of change

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 23/06/2024

Now that this post is doing numbers there's gonna be a lot of people saying why this will never work where they live, etc Don't become one of those people so convinced of your own powerlessness that you feel there's no options, these methods are proven to work

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

So fuck it try and fail and learn and grow and as long as you live through it then you'll be more useful in other stuff later. Fail forward! (4/4)

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

So fuck it try and fail and learn and grow and as long as you live through it then you'll be more useful in other stuff later. Fail forward! (4/4)

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

And even efforts that truly do accomplish nothing now can in lots of ways contribute to accomplishing stuff later. The people willing to try and fail now can learn and grow in ways that make it possible for something else to succeed later (3/4)

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Because that's a super low bar to clear. Granted not everything that clears it deserves attention and effort. But seems like learning to notice and acknowledge when something does indeed clear it, i.e. does indeed have a non-zero chance of succeeding/helping/contributing, is important (2/

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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Hellll yes. About powerlessness and options, I see value in getting a good hold on ideas I think of as failing forward and non-zero chances Tons of daunting uncertain unlikely unrealistic etc stuff falls somewhere short of being absolutely certain to accomplish absolutely nothing right? (1/

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Yes! Annoying the shit out of your local representatives in numbers is more effective than people think. I've given up hope for governmental change but city/state is an entirely different animal.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

People have forgotten how the cultivate the lost art of saying "none of my fucking business." And, as a deliberate design choice of the modern web, which loses money if people do this en masse. Engagement metrics don't go brrr if people go about their own serious business.

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