SpecMach
SpecMach
@specmach.bsky.social
NSFW 🔞 born1969 he/him Charlotte Metro
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Now everytime I see James Carville, all I can remember is his spread in Architectural Digest www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/carv...
“Why liberals always end up aligning with fascists” in a single clip.
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Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker built a televangelist empire with deep roots in the Charlotte area. Their children have taken a different path. Read the full story: buff.ly/NSsEXPN #Qnotes #JayBakker #TammySueBakker #TammyFayeBakker #JimBakker #PTLClub #LGBTQFaith #ProgressiveChristianity #LGBTQHistory
Some of the issues in the Cornell rape case remind me of the "S3X WORK" chapter in the "A Bit Fruity" episode on Lindsey Graham [where they talk about how accused men are painted as having their lives ruined, but it's people who come forward that pay the price] www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnD6...
lol @guarder.bsky.social first time I've seen this in a while 🤣
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"It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now" (Thomas Nagel). It is bizzare to see the EAs talk about the future this way
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
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Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...
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If you think it's crazy to fight against systemic racism, police brutality, wealth inequality and smirking Karensplainers who treat our struggle like a punchline to an inside joke.... Then you might be the reason we need to "stay woke."
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As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant.
Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”
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A former Lutheran church in Greenville has found new life as Re:Center, a community hub offering LGBTQ+ support groups, affirming resources and space for healing, creativity and connection. Read more: buff.ly/mXNmolC #Qnotes #GreenvilleSC #LGBTQ #SouthCarolina #QueerCommunity #UpstateSC
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"Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take to himself any allied force. The oracles to whom he sent this question included those at Delphi and Thebes. Both oracles gave the same response, that if Croesus made war on the Persians he would destroy a mighty empire."
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I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here. They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.
The New York Times’s body of reporting on the American Medical Association’s stance on gender-related care for minors is accurate and factual, and remains so despite the recent statement from the Chair of the A.M.A. Board, which contradicts the A.M.A.’s own statements. www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...
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So-called Professor Jiang is famous for predicting the Iran war. He has 2 million YouTube subscribers and has appeared on many shows He believes Roman history, human evolution, and the Holocaust are nonsense. He teaches conspiracy theories as if they are actual history youtu.be/tSiS-8Msn1I
If we're talking about the very, very start, I think it was learning that all these other people had all these other creation myths- maybe this guy came out of his shell and made the world from the shell, maybe this couple dipped their spear in the water and began piling up mud to form land-
For those of you that abandoned organized religion, what was the “spark” that started your deconstruction arc?
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Replying to @floatinginwaves.bsky.social
So many arguments over whether (insert complex work of literary fiction or arthouse film) contains the aesthetics of fascism and it turns out the aesthetics of fascism is just this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd9I...
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Mayor Gergely Karácsony of Budapest could teach a few American institutions how to deal with fascism. Rather than roll over to a Pride ban, he led a march of hundreds of thousands in Budapest. Now, he's being charged under their anti-Pride law. But he won't be deterred. Our latest story.
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The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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