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Just told a friend that Bluesky is slow so far, maybe worse than Mastodon -- but at least people aren't trying to have Meaningful Dialogue.
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How will Twitter end?
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A hypothesis: many TERFs are Boomers who watched a ton of M*A*S*H reruns and view Klinger as the archetypal trans person
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The main topic on Bluesky currently appears to be the announcement of a new female CEO of Twitter. None of the posts on the topic are funny.
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Already annoyed that it only seems to work on the phone app, but hey, whatever.
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Way too big
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#BREAKING: Canada has unveiled a new design to the Canadian Passport.
It will be rolled out this summer.
It’s not red.
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I don't know how to talk to someone who saw the pictures of Feinstein being wheeled into the Senate as anything other than viscerally upsetting.
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One sign of a healthy, dynamic society is the existence of a gerontocratic elite whose members cling to power till their very dying day.
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Few things make me angrier than the new found "obvious truths" of writing pedagogy that people have made up off the top of their heads to tell themselves that students' use of generative AI will be fine and good.
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For the life of me, I do not know why we would want to depersonalize writing. I very much wish for the opposite for students. Writing should be appropriate to the occasion, of course, but also it should be deeply personal. How else will students get invested in writing?
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I love how many people suddenly become prison abolitionists after a police shooting or vigilante killing.
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If I saw Trump walking down the street, I would simply do a citizen's arrest to keep him from destroying democracy.
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When did the acronym DEI reach critical mass? I feel like it's only been within the last year.
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seems like the court could use a few more members to help alleviate the burden
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Supreme Court has 44 argued cases to decide between now and the end of June and is way behind its historic ruling rate.
For the first time in a couple of weeks, some rulings are expected this morning at 10. Stay tuned...
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I love these moments. My tweets are so good that people are liking them purely on spec, before they've even seen them.
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Setting a norm that you can kill a homeless person without even being charged seems like a negative systemic change.
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You could charge Jordan Neely’s assailant but it would do nothing to improve systemic response to homelessness or pervasive attitudes about unhoused people. Justice for Jordan requires radical change in systems and culture.
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The first AI-written show should be about Afghan girls who discover #BlackGirlMagic and use it to fight the Taliban.
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Life is nothing but disappointments. When you’re a kid you can’t wait to grow up, only to learn that adult life is nothing but pain. You work hard. You have nice things. You have no one to share it with. You’ve neglected your personal life. But who’s always been there? Nintendo.
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A new Tears of the Kingdom commercial! twitter.com/impasbitch/sta
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What should my primary online activity be?
- Twitter32.5%
- Blogging37.6%
- Daystrom Institute26.5%
- Other social media3.4%
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Hence why it's so absurd (although also unsurprising) that corporate DEI retreats became the model for the so-called racial reckoning after 2020. Doomed to failure before it even began, because the whole point of those things is to impede the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act.
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this kind of thing reveals an uncomfortable truth about campus DEI infrastructure, i.e. that it exists to protect the university (from civil rights liability) not the students. it's not surprising unscrupulous admin would try to wield it to protect other interests.
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Tonight is a great night for people who have always thought CNN is nihilistic and bad.
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I love corporate chattiness, so I find this relatable and appealing.
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We don't talk enough about the fact that we are all constantly giving our employers an interest free loan for our wages through time-delayed paychecks.
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The accepted phraseology for asking to be invited to the latest Twitter rival should be: "Can someone pass me a Bluesky?"
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Generic church-growth evangelical Christianity
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What is something you used to be really into that you’re really embarrassed about now? I’ll go first 
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Why do streaming services have different volume calibration? It's not like you would switch channels back in the day and CBS would be twice as loud as Fox or something
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Good to see Dianne Feinstein out and about
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Me, every time I see a short weird-looking old white guy: Is that Megan Markle?
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What should my primary online activity be?
- Twitter32.5%
- Blogging37.6%
- Daystrom Institute26.5%
- Other social media3.4%
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Or not. I can relaunch my Mastodon career. Or just quit all social media and read books?
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