Kelli

Kelli

@kelli217.bsky.social

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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

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You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

Wintersong@wintersong.bsky.social

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC - @electdemocrats.bsky.social) is running anti-trans ads now, so I don't know how you can say the party itself isn't embracing transphobia. There are still some good Dems out there, but transphobia is apparently a party value.

Even before all the fancy technology. A Black person in a fancy department store? In an expensive car? In a rich neighborhood? Surveillance.

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I often wonder how much of car modification culture and aesthetics arose just to be a strong defensive external indicator that, “Yes, this is MY car.”

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“Stephen Miller is the architect of the greatest and most systematic violations of Americans’ civil rights and constitutional liberties in our era. This country isn’t safe until he is held accountable and punished to the fullest extent of the law for his crimes.” — Rick Wilson

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An American president would tell Putin to fuck off. An American president would tell Putin to get the fuck out of Ukraine. An American president would stand with Ukraine. Trump however is not an American president. He works for Putin. So he’ll do what Putin tells him to do.👇

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WSJ: Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, Trump, and Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow.

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Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

SOME Democrats have not learned the lessons from the primaries: being openly and clearly against the demonization and persecution of trans people is a WINNING strategy. Do you want to alienate your base just to try to reach out to xenophobic centrists? Or MOTIVATE your base to turn out in force?

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If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

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One more time, for the hard-of-thinking; opposition to Zionism, and to the government of the State of Israel, are NOT anti-Semitism, and pretending that they are devalues actual anti-Semitism. And opposition to Zionism isn't opposition to the existence of the State of Israel, either.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

A helpfully clarifying intervention here from a politician who is firmly within the mainstream, on what views are unacceptable

Maryland Representative Andy Harris needs to have it explained to him that all party consent to recordings only applies to situations with an expectation of privacy. Standing in a hallway in a public building, holding a press conference, with ten other people that you allow to record, isn’t that.

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There is a well-worn path from "uwu no politics" to "how was I supposed to know they were bad?" The fandom we get depends on who and what we support. Folks who ignore the shitty people in their spaces don't realize how it pushes the cool people out of that space until only the shitty ones are left.

A Spooky Marshmallow@talkingmarshmallow.bsky.social

"UwU no pawatics" is how actual Nazis and the alt-right stay embedded in furry spaces, though. It's why you didn't know PeaceWolf's actual acts. It's why people are still giving money to Vivid Publishing or buying pooltoys from Horseplay. Intentionally not knowing makes you less safe.

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Replying to @peggystuart.bsky.social

These “harmless” Kavanaugh Stops have to stop! BTW: removing due process for undocumented, also removes due process for citizens detained by ICE. ICE will simply say a US citizen is not a US citizen, aka ID is “fake”, with no recourse for the detainee to contact a lawyer to initiate due process.

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To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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Preznit Fuckwit is a low-wattage moron who is fundamentally incapable of processing information — and yesterday, he just made one rake-steppingly bone-headed decision after another. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I bring the receipts. link is here: bit.ly/4Az3oaz

I’m not bringing anything to a job interview that might spill or stain. It isn’t that I’m a klutz; I just don’t want to take that chance. #icedcoffeegate

If I’m interviewing someone, then I’d be okay with them bringing something if they needed it for hydration or whatever… but by the same reasoning as above, it should probably be in a sealable container like a thermal mug with a lid.

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cis people if they had souls: “Maybe trans people are *already* denied full participation in society, and in participating in this needless, cruel circus we have done nothing but make conditions worse for vulnerable children?”

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I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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It's super cool how Trump canceled fuel efficiency standards, electric vehicle rebates, and illegally ended billions upon billions of dollars of wind and solar energy projects already under construction just before he blew up the entire Middle East for no fucking reason.

As I anticipated when the story first broke.

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com

‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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I saw this post and wanted to address it. If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want

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I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)

washingtonpost.comTrump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in yearsThe pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets

Dang it. I was thinking about streaming that isekai movie “Yesterday” where the fantasy world is just one where the Beatles never got famous, because I hadn’t seen it yet, but now I can’t because Ed Sheeran might get residuals from it.

AI companies asking for regulation is not just closing the barn door after the horse is out... it's more like the horse itself closing the barn doors behind it, so it can have the pasture all to itself.

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can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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Replying to @rincewind.run

I want to see Dems stand up, affirmatively, for trans people but if they don’t, this is the only other acceptable response - why are you making this your number one priority, there are real problems in the world

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You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.

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"OK, so these models need ridiculous amounts of compute" "Sounds expensive" "Yes, we're spending trillions to build data centers" "Cool, cool, what are the plans to make a return there?" "TBD, oh and by the way we're working on making these models more compute efficient" "So, fewer DCs?" "No."