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crumbled columns

@crumbledcolumns.bsky.social

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Is this dude seriously claiming that the evidence that the anti trans ads will work is that the anti trans ad got released? Is that seriously the step we are at? Arguing that the politicians must know what they are doing?

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Consultants are anathema to actual representative politics

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

I will admit, I was not expecting Willie to start to bond with semi-feral Snickerdoodle, who still hisses at me every time I give him his special dish of food But friends do always help cats bloom. Maybe this’ll work? #cat

I do have some hope that Eloise here will be adopted at some point She loves to be brushed and now loves when I pet her, I just bet she is overpowered by the cat to human ratio in the shelter One on one, I bet she’d be someone’s forever friend

I always am happy when a cat from the infirmary check-in gets released into the room I feel like I have ownership over Poor Willie here has been very affectionate but definitely is overwhelmed by being in a shelter with 20-30 other cats nearby…

How come these dudes never want to tell us about how many hours they have spent in their home district doorknocking to get out the vote Please, feel free to be condescending after you tell us that you have spent fifty hours this month getting democratic voters prepped to go vote

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lol this is relevant considering what audiobook I have been listening to for the past week or two Lorne may have had something back during the not ready for prime time players era but homeboy has been noticably cooked since I hit the 1990 season in this book

Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com

Really really need, especially after all the wretch-inducing 50th anniversary lionization, for the Gillis kerfuffle to underscore the not-pervasive-enough notion that Lorne Michaels is a bad producer

Y’all, one of my new coworkers at lunch was doing thought experiments, and while trying to get to “one lion vs a pack of hyenas”, which would have drawn a full ecology lecture from me, he asked “wait, are lions male and tigers female?” I just shut my fucking mouth, there’s no helping here

So, an entire shift’s worth of people use the vaccuum at the cat shelter, it is clogged, and they decide “oh it’s dying” Did Did anyone stop to check to see if it’s clogged No? The fuck

Hey megyn is an awful person but could folks maybe cool it on the gendered insults Just because you have a person you can correctly apply a slur to, doesn’t make it good and beneficial to use the slur or slurs

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social

Megyn Kelly: "...this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one."

There have been no joke three generations of pets who all have absolutely adored this woolen wolf blanket I do not understand it But the kitten in pic 2 literally spent the entire day sleeping in the same spot right in the center of said blanket, and was extremely deeply asleep when I woke her

I will not hear a single word of criticism of loreena mckennitt’s music

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social

Another element of 1990s nostalgia that often gets ignored is how the USA was gaga for Celtic and New Age music. Remember those CD kiosks in the big box stores?

I only got one shot of Willy, the long-rumored kitty who was caught on the shelter property and headbutted me when I asked if he was friendly Because he wanted to be held and I couldn’t take pictures one handed

Why the fuck is this dude blip is replying to doing all these “thank you so so much for your thoughts 🙏 🙏 🙏” posts but not actually reckoning with the harm that he is doing helping with the reputation laundering of this gellar fuck I swear to god this is just people telling on themselves

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So uh I should not have slept on lidocaine spray for my surgery recuperation Holy shit has that helped tonight I have no cat pics from the shelter, apologies I will be back there tomorrow and will make it a point to photograph the adorable Siamese kitten who just showed up

Sure, it could be replaced by ai And it would suck ass at it, like ai sucks ass at everything it does

Susan@ohbejoyful.bsky.social

The secretary job could absolutely be replaced by AI. I can't think of much it couldn't take care of - proof-reading, scheduling, making the monthly birthday cards, ordering the birthday cake. And yes, all the emails. "Could you do X for me?" could just as easily be asked of any AI assistant.

So like I’ve listened to podcasts on yarvin and his intellectual peers and all that kind of shit, I get what they are actually saying But where is the actual pitch part of what they’re suggesting? I’ve never read their shit and went “oh, the reason to get on board with this is stated clearly”

McBoo-lie@mcjulie.bsky.social

Oh, GOD Curtis Yarvin sucks.

This might be a solid general blueprint to fixing Some Of This Shit These Days

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals

It doesn’t speak well of us as a country but it is actually the most American reason possible Expensive cheeseburger and car no go vroom :(

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.