Joe Luker

Joe Luker

@databass.bsky.social

Professional Data Engineer and choral singer, mechanistic interpretability and TTRPG enthusiast

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The sooner we dispense with the fiction that American liberal democracy still exists to be saved the sooner we can get down to business trying to bring a new liberal democratic order back to this country.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/all-in-our-h...

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"Speech... it ain't free no more... If you wanna say something nice about the president's thick, yellow hair, or that he can do his makeup better than any broad? That's free. But if you wanna do a joke like, he's so fat he needs two seats on the Epstein jet? That's gonna cost ya."

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Jimmy Kimmel is suspended for making comments about attempts to politicize Charlie Kirk’s murder, but Brian Kilmeade called for murdering the homeless and he’s still on the air.

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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

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Absolutely right.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

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Ken Martin: "This moment demands a Party that will take the gloves off and fight back." Me: Let me know when you find one.

Democratic lawmakers are expected to communicate their opposition to Donald Trump during the president’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night by color-coordinating.

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He’s the president

Chris D. Jackson@chrisdjackson.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying. WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄

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Imagine if Merrick Garland, Chris Murphy, and Anthony Blinken shared 9/11 conspiracy memes that they got from vaguely pro-Kremlin anti-imperialist accounts. It's like that.

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Huge mobilisations taking place right across Greece today, as workers bring capitalism to a standstill in a breathtaking #generalstrike. Only workers have the power to stop the bosses. This is what solidarity looks like

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How’s this WSJ take aging

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

I can guarantee that every one of musk's young minions has some serious internal baggage that would be difficult to sort out with therapy over years. But that will never happen, and we will all suffer for it. When we tell them to stop they will say they're the victim, why aren't you helping me?

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hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

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