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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #4,888,783! Well whadya know

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Or do they think "Why isn't everyone appalled by the evil I described? I need to be less ambiguous." I really don't know? So many alt-right types have no trouble being disingenuous, it's hard to tell. "The only moral abortion is my abortion" comes to mind. Cognitive Dissonance turned up to 11.

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I'm guessing he thinks he was describing hell. "No good shall come of this" etc. It seems like rigid conservatives view evil as external, a noun thing. Something to keep out. I.e. Magical thinking. Evil is an adj. that describes increased suffering. TL/DR: It's not the __, it's how we manage __.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22/02/2024

Perfect Times lead. Open with a reactionary exulting over an abstract principle that will hurt other people (and would have with a minor change of circumstance hurt her). Then cut to the real person suffering real harm as if they are equivalent.

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Astounding that someone who can write Altered Carbon can't wrap their head around the notion that people's brains are more important & defining than what's in their pants. 😮‍💨

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

A fairly competitive "free market" is supposed to serve as a check to these practices. Somebody else will offer better services. Except when choices are few, barrier to entry is insurmountable, & giant fund managers like Black Rock proxy vote $quadrillions in shares of every brand we interact with.

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Ditto. I still think about the Worthing Saga once in a while. Once thought I might reread it & see if it still held up at all. But then I remembered it's probably an allegory for something pathetic.

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I'm afraid to ask but.. who please?

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Pay attention & vote in your local township/borough/parish/hamlet government. Local libraries depend on local politics.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

It’s actually kind of amazing how fascists recycle the same ideas and arguments every generation and moderates insist of being newly surprised every time

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/02/2024

As the programmers would say, this is a feature, not a bug

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch

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Space Monster @space-monster.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Whatever you do, do it on your terms, in your time. Not his. Not theirs. I hope you show everyone how fast you can build it back. I hope you don't retire until Jan 7th 2025. It's all so exhausting. Morale is everything now. You matter. A lot. (Elmo just confirmed it.) 💪 💪

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