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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A ton of female writers believe that men are always thinking about their private parts, which apparently have a great deal of animation and emotion, like a loyal talking cartoon dog, also they drastically overestimate our sense of smell

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I think you need to make having a child affordable, but you also need to make both pregnancy *and especially men* safer for women. Misogynists, but also “normal” men clinging to older gender roles, are, I suspect, the biggest block to women wanting to start a family

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I know a ton of people IRL who told me the Duffer Brothers confirmed 5 or 6 characters would die in the Stranger Things finale, which was sourced to nowhere reputable and transparently insane considering the show’s tone, and it’s an innocuous thing but I think it’s a bad sign for internet literacy

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

What’s this referring to? Google is just showing me clocks when I search for it, but I vague feel like I’ve heard it before and now it’s stuck in my head

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If he’s acquitted, I feel like there’s a genuine chance Maduro is found dead before he can leave the US. Absolutely the most insane, explosive choice this administration could make, but Trump usually escalates to avoid admitting even minor mistakes…

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Time to arbitrarily declare that last chapter an epilogue

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I've said my point of view obviously, but for what it's worth, I respect your concerns here and think they're reasonable

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I think this is a valid concern, but also they're past the point of using pretenses, and are already doing this to the best of their incompetent abilities

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I think the revealed preference of voters is that they do want vote-buying, unfortunately. A lot of people cited Trump's COVID checks for their vote. We should strengthen laws against it next time we can, but right now, they're already doing it, and much more blatantly than this

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

We need to have a next admin first, and what he did is in a completely different category of corruption than the possible appearance of impropriety here, so I don't think it's invalidating that (also, there are so many things to charge them for already))

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

We're halfway to fascism precisely because Democrats cling to norms that only work one way, and this is just a "concerns about propriety" thing, not actual vote-buying. It's definitely less of a grey area than, say, California gerrymandering to counter Texas

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

It shouldn't be "the model," it's just one thing a wildly-over-financed campaign can do, and considering the success of Trump's far more unethical vote-buying (Musk's lottery, Trump signing the COVID checks), I'd say any legal fight over this would likely rebound in her favor

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Trump and Musk already repeatedly burned that norm far more brazenly than this, and legal action against it would also draw attention to what she's doing, which people clearly like (see Trump's name on the COVID checks)

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The argument is that it's a promising strategy for campaigns that can afford it to pursue, here's her platform, which is admittedly vague but explicitly promising to increase the government's social safety net www.katforillinois.com/issues/basic...

katforillinois.com

Basic Existence

There is no reason you shouldn't be able to afford housing, groceries, and healthcare with some money left over. In fact, that should be the bare minimum.

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This is not an either/or proposition though especially since Abughazaleh is not currently in office

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Rejecting a strategy for the appearance of breaking a norm that Trump's already trampled is something that normally exasperates you, and for good reason

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

You're right this wouldn't work for cash-starved campaigns, but if the bases are covered, like with Harris and Abughazaleh, it's at least worth a try

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I deeply respect and usually agree with you, but imo mutual aid might be potentially more effective *strategically* than most of Harris' campaigning, a way to bypass biased media, and the honest version of Trump signing the COVID checks, which seems to have worked well for him.

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I think Avatar is basically the blockbuster version of NCIS, a juggernaut with an offline core audience disinclined to the usual traits of fandom, also comparable (not morally but as a type) to the "median voter" that baffles every election season

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I'd thought for a moment it was like "you're there, just in the coffin," but the next line is about how one won't have any, so I think it's a bizarrely massive mistatement for the second sibling going to two funerals

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I don't think anyone's worried about Downey's acting, though, our issue's more what it seems to suggest about the story they're telling

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The thing is, the inciting incident is so well-done that it feels like a spoiler just to straight-forwardly explain the premise that emerges from it (though I can reply with an explanation if you want)

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I kinda wonder if there's a "saying Green to send a message but not committed to them electorally" situation here. I know that sort of logic proved faulty with Brexit and the far right around the world, but these are different demographics, so...

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I think it's called "Getting ahead of the backlash"

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

(Spoilers) I really loved the movie but "every afterlife is a singular Epcot World Showcase pavilion forever" completely undermines the third act, because basically no one could stay content for long under those circumstances (and everyone ignoring afterlife ICE kinda undermines every character)

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

As arguably a member of Gen Z, with a brother who definitely is, my mother made more than my father. Also, "political polarization" should read "Republicans becoming fascists," you're welcome old pundit claiming to be the youth sage

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is what minor one-off side characters are for

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Traditionally, definitely, but it also goes against modern screenwriting conventions, so you've got some recent stuff like the new Poirot movies trying to give the detective more of an arc

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I think basically every political movement has a subsection whose actual core tenet is "There is no difference between people I personally find annoying and the most evil person imaginable," unfortunately

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Percy Jackson is fun at any age, and after the first five it becomes a formal YA series targeted at teenagers anyway, so I'd recommend you just go for it

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Saying they're a "serious challenge" isn't an endorsement, it just means they have the internal discipline and popular support to likely be a major electoral factor next election

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I think people are missing that quite a few years have also passed *in-universe* and they're not in middle school anymore (Also, more fairly, the show changing from age-accurate casting to the CW thing could be called disorienting, though I don't think it's honestly a big deal, just funny)

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Like, I'm religiously against it now, but the very first versions that were just poor-quality pictures and nonsense writing snippets had seemed like a cute novelty to me, with tech that would probably be useful at some technical tasks. Then I realized what these people's actual intentions were.

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I do wonder if authors would feel differently about AI if they'd pitched it as like "This can sort through all your notes about a character, create a scene-by-scene outline as you write, and warn you when you're contradicting yourself," instead of "We will destroy you."

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I think they want us to see the hypocrisy. Everyone knowing the rules are different for them is what gets them off. "When you're a star they let you do it" as a governing philosophy

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I think both have a wildly overstated influence on public opinion, but Carpenter has a more combative public persona while Swift clearly wants to be as apolitical as possible outside her own personal grievances, so to the extent it matters, I suspect Carpenter won't ignore this the way Swift did

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Wait, somehow, I'd always just assumed until this moment that his legal name was Ringo Starr

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I think what always gets missed is that, unlike in parliamentary systems, the US presidency doesn't have an exit clause until the term's up. Even death/impeachment means a long line of crazies in waiting. No matter the scandal, they'll simply stay in office and continue. We can win, but not quickly

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I've slowly come around to the idea that character is vastly more important than ideology in political figures. An exact match for my beliefs is worthless if they cave to get ahead, and I'll stand for left, right, or center if they'll stand for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

They can be saved if they're hot

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I suspect they and everyone else are getting this information from so many sources they can barely keep track of them all

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I don't know anything about sports or this situation, but I'm here for the story you're unfolding here

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Our brains rebel at the idea that the past was often much worse than today (which also means that today is relatively fortunate). Nostalgia and "nothing ever changes" are powerful emotions

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A lot of the criticism is like "Other than nailing Elphaba, Glinda, and their relationship, the film lacks..." and it really feels like missing the forest for a desert that isn't even near the forest

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Like, I feel that the original script actually made it to the screen and... that was the original script, then, okay

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Damon Ferrara @wayfaringwit.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I generally like Marvel more than most of film sm, but I think Fantastic Four might be their first film to be "technically well-made but simply bland and lazy beyond redemption" which feels somehow more damning than the "edited to pieces" tone of all their other worst movies. Just two hours of void.

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