Marcus - he/they/whatever

Find me where the skies are blue.

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

Bluesky no longer requires invites. Why are you still here?

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

This is humanity gone mad under fascism and settler colonialism. Executions aired live on all stations, pundits screaming at each other in the wake of major defeat resulting from their attack on the Bugs, wall-to-wall unhinged war propaganda, and a galactic crisis of legitimacy.

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

I was reminded of a known psychological syndrome that explains what we see in today's Republican Party. It's the same thing that happened to Nazis. It happens sometimes in war, and it is common among the ruling class in most authoritarian regimes.

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[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

The only way for Republicans to deny their guilt is to insist they did nothing wrong, and then to prove it to themselves by doing something worse still.

As for their God-King--they must defend Trump at all costs. Republicans can't be evil, if they're not as bad as he is.

9/14

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

If left unchecked, there will be extermination camps and rape centers. There will be roving gangs of redhats semi-authorized to wreak intentional terror. There will be no courts, but rather summary executions.

All done, of course, in the Name of God.

11/14

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

Reminder: Han shot first isn't an "opinion".

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

@RTodKelly

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Should we tax *all* vehicles proportional to road wear and other externalities like noise and air pollution, injuries and deaths?

Go ahead. Make my day.

[wint @dril]

well you dont an invite to join anymore. the writing is on the wall for X aka shit .com.

https://t.co/gRyN1jCkvP

[Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord]

"This Objectively Good Thing doesn't immediately accomplish my big, overarching goal, therefore it's not worth doing" is an absolutely toxic mindset and a big problem on the left.

See, e.g., the fight to eliminating exclusionary zoning in affluent neighborhoods.

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

@RTodKelly Trump is not long for this world (though long enough to do lasting damage, it seems), and I do wonder what will be left of the GOP when he's gone.

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

@LaBaronneuh @aaron_kinney @rohanarezel @bigcitydinosaur Literally all of it. All kinds.

[Jason deBruyn @jasondebruyn]

Flu has surpassed Covid-19 in hospital admissions. This is only the second time ever that this has happened, the other being late November 2022

(and March 6, 2022, which I think is probably just statistical noise)

[Jason deBruyn @jasondebruyn]

Been a while since I did an all-time graphic, so here it is. Since 2020, these are daily hospitalizations with Covid-19 (blue) and Flu (red). You'll see that where we are right now is nowhere near the heights of the pandemic, but that we are seeing a big increase in Flu

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

@trumwill The tiny screen on the HD *felt* huge
and fast in a way smartphones have never achieved in the 17 years they've been here.

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

@LauraRbnsn There's also a certain hubris in thinking that no one, in two millenia of Christianity, has thought of, or researched, the most surface level of questions.

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

@MikeDrewWhat @ryanlcooper Well, I was not disappointed.

[Marcus - he/they/whatever @Thulcandra64]

I've never actually seen It's A Wonderful Life. Should I watch it this year?

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The slow-motion arson attack on the public domain meant that two generations of creators were denied the public domain that every other creator in the history of the human race had enjoyed.

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[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The creators who made these works were able to plunder a rich public domain of still-current works as inputs to their own enduring creations.

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[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Works that are still in our cultural currents 50 or 70 or 90 years after their creation are an infinitesimal fraction of all the works we create as a species. But these works are - by definition - extraordinarily important to our culture.

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