The Walking Dead: Dead City Full Episode

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I have to watch anything created by Frank Darabont, so you do too! AMC has put a full episode of the final season of The Walking Dead online for all you zombies to enjoy.

Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

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The eleventh and final season of The Walking Dead, an American post-apocalyptic horror television series on AMC, premiered on August 22, 2021, and will conclude on November 20, 2022, consisting of 24 episodes.[1] Developed for television by Frank Darabont, the series is based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The executive producers are Kirkman, David Alpert, Scott M. Gimple, Angela Kang, Greg Nicotero, Joseph Incaprera, Denise Huth, and Gale Anne Hurd, with Kang as showrunner for her third and final season.

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1
I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:09:42pm

I’ve had enough with zombies!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:11:02pm

re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To

I’ve had enough with zombies!

Space zombies are even worse.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:12:27pm

The scenes of a post-apocalyptic decaying Manhattan are pretty amazingly rendered.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:15:33pm

I has a Bluesky invite code for the first lucky lizard.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:16:53pm

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

I has a Bluesky invite code for the first lucky lizard.

I’ll tke it.!

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:17:38pm

re: #5 I Would Prefer Not To

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:18:05pm

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

I has a Bluesky invite code for the first lucky lizard.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:22:58pm

I just checked the PECO outage map and it looks like most if not all of my neighbors have their power back.

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:23:36pm
The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

So this is the time travel version, set in the 1970s…

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:23:49pm

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

I has a Bluesky invite code for the first lucky lizard.

I’m Stuartgibbel at Bluesky. I will begin following you people. using my real name cause I need to advertise my comedy. as soon as I get a code I will make it avilable here.

the nerd fish rules.

OMG it looks just like twitter.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:40:28pm

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:41:20pm

re: #11 Dave In Austin

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Can you imagine what an actual shit fit the right-wingers would throw if this happened?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:44:31pm

One good thing from the power outage is that all of my clocks have the same time.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 8, 2023 • 5:45:27pm

re: #12 Nerdy Fish

Can you imagine what an actual shit fit the right-wingers would throw if this happened?

In Oklahoma……

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:03:21pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:06:03pm

Part of me thinks Bluesky should open up because it’s pretty great and I want other people to get in and experience it, and another part of me knows that the worst people in the world are just waiting for Bluesky to open up so they can shit all over it.

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mmmirele  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:11:30pm

I really didn’t want to know about “Sound of Freedom,” but apparently it’s Yet Another Extension in the long running grift Tim Ballard has been pushing.

In 2014, I went on a vigilante raid to “save” kids sold for sex. What we did haunts me now.

slate.com

This is from 2021, and it mentions the movie. Apparently it took two more years to get the movie out.

Anyway, if some *journalists* actually did their job, maybe they could expose this guy. Jeez.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:12:35pm

Today I got one arm vaccinated for tetanus and the other arm vaccinated for shingles, so they could fight it out. So far nothing metal is sticking to me.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:14:49pm

re: #16 Charles Johnson

I’m still waiting for my magic code to get in.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:15:31pm

I’m not even a gamer but this sounds interesting.

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:16:04pm

re: #5 I Would Prefer Not To

I’ll tke it.!

u beatz me to it!

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:18:33pm

re: #19 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:20:11pm

re: #18 jaunte

Today I got one arm vaccinated for tetanus and the other arm vaccinated for shingles, so they could fight it out. So far nothing metal is sticking to me.

shingles vax wiped me out for about a day and a half. But it varies by person, of course.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:21:15pm

re: #23 Barefoot Grin

The dog and I may have napped on the sofa all afternoon.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:23:22pm

re: #24 jaunte

The dog and I may have napped on the sofa all afternoon.

My wife got shingles in her late 20s in our second year of marriage. I jumped on the vax as soon as I was able—it was a living hell for her.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:23:56pm

@mmasnick.bsky.social

Remember how Twitter once admitted that they couldn’t use an algorithmic approach to flagging Nazis, because it would catch too many Republicans?

Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:25:43pm

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:25:51pm

re: #26 jaunte

@mmasnick.bsky.social

Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis

Banning Nazis is anti-Republican.

Just stating facts.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:28:43pm

This was actually a really good show. I lost interest in The Walking Dead when it just turned into too much of a depressing grind, but this episode is so twisted it actually makes me want to watch the rest of the final season.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:29:20pm

Content moderation at scale requires hiring people with judgement about context to do the moderation, and that is counter to the ambition of tech ceos and venture capitalists.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:32:57pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle lacks distinguishing features.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 750 4/6

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SibData: 3,4,4,4,5

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mmmirele  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:34:48pm

re: #30 jaunte

Content moderation at scale requires hiring people with judgement about context to do the moderation, and that is counter to the ambition of tech ceos and venture capitalists.

Everything I read about content moderation on Facebook back when this was a thing in the mid ’10s indicated it was a complete and utter shitshow. FB had hired a company to contract this out and some of the “content moderators” were located in the Phoenix area. From my recollection of the articles, they were exposed to the worst stuff the world has to offer in pictorial and video form, they had to make decisions about whether to remove it quickly, and they were not really offered much, if any, counseling to deal with the utterly vile shit they were exposed to.

I know that I’ve occasionally stumbled into actual pr0n on Twitter just by using popular (at the moment) search terms, because the people who were posting the pr0n were taking advantage of those search terms. I don’t know what I would have done if I’d discovered child sexual abuse material. I think I would have completely lost my shit.

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BigPapa  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:35:06pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

The double tap bat scene with Negan was about the end for me. I still want to watch the rest just haven’t got a round tuit.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:36:17pm

re: #32 mmmirele

they were not really offered much, if any, counseling

See, that would be an unacceptable cost for the corporation.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:37:19pm

Now the child sexual abuse ptsd is being pushed out to subcontractors in poor countries.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:45:46pm

After today’s brief power failure I remembered that I have a battery powered am fm radio cassette and cd combination aka “boom box.” All I have to do is have 6 D batteries nearby so if needed I can use it.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 8, 2023 • 6:54:32pm

re: #26 jaunte

@mmasnick.bsky.social

Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis

Because….
Cmon, youre almost there

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:04:29pm
Solar power cells have raced past the key milestone of 30% energy efficiency, after innovations by multiple research groups around the world. The feat makes this a “revolutionary” year, according to one expert, and could accelerate the rollout of solar power.

Today’s solar panels use silicon-based cells but are rapidly approaching their maximum conversion of sunlight to electricity of 29%. At the same time, the installation rate of solar power needs to increase tenfold in order to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists.

The breakthrough is adding a layer of perovskite, another semiconductor, on top of the silicon layer. This captures blue light from the visible spectrum, while the silicon captures red light, boosting the total light captured overall. With more energy absorbed per cell, the cost of solar electricity is even cheaper, and deployment can proceed faster to help keep global heating under control.

theguardian.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:11:55pm

Gee that’s a shame!

Arizona GOP nearly broke after trying to overturn Trump’s defeat

rawstory.com

The Arizona Republican Party four years ago boasted nearly $770,000, but now only holds about $50,000, in large part due to legal expenses incurred attempting to overturn Trump’s 2020 defeat, according to a local report.

Political writer Jon Gabriel wrote in an opinion piece for AZ Central that, although the Arizona GOP “hanging on to one-vote majorities in the state House and Senate,” they will inevitably “have trouble in 2024 if they don’t get their finances in order.”

“The Arizona GOP had less than $50,000 in cash reserves as of March 31. That’s not much money to fund crucial expenses such as rent, payroll and campaign operations. Four years earlier, it had close to $770,000,” Gabriel wrote. “The cobwebs in the bank vault aren’t as important as all the money wasted. The party blew $300,000 on ‘legal consulting,’ much of which focused on overturning Trump’s 2020 defeat. All they have to show for it are a Democratic governor and U.S. Senate delegation.”

Gabriel also noted that, as new Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit “tries to right the ship,” he shares a fear with Democrats in the state.

“As of April, 34.6% of voters are registered as Republicans,” the article says. “This compares well to the 30.3% who are Arizona Democrats. But between the two parties is the growing contingent of the unaffiliated.”

One big problem with the AZ GOP’s money issues, according to Gabriel, is that independents are only 10,000 voters away from passing up Republicans as the state’s biggest “party.”

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:14:50pm

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Captain Ron  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:19:38pm

re: #36 PhillyPretzel ✅

After today’s brief power failure I remembered that I have a battery powered am fm radio cassette and cd combination aka “boom box.” All I have to do is have 6 D batteries nearby so if needed I can use it.

I have a wind up radio. It works well for 10 minutes before you need to wind a few for minutes. Ii plays while you wind, too.

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:27:31pm

re: #41 Captain Ron

I have a wind up radio. It works well for 10 minutes before you need to wind a few for minutes. Ii plays while you wind, too.

Now do bike-powered.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:27:32pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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William Lewis  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:27:46pm

re: #41 Captain Ron

I have a wind up radio. It works well for 10 minutes before you need to wind a few for minutes. Ii plays while you wind, too.

Good reminder, I’ve been been meaning to get one. The one in my save list at Amazon also has a solar charger panel and can charge my phone if need be for flexibility in an emergency.

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:28:02pm
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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:28:09pm

re: #18 jaunte

Today I got one arm vaccinated for tetanus and the other arm vaccinated for shingles, so they could fight it out. So far nothing metal is sticking to me.

Patience, Grasshopper. With time comes knowledge.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:30:21pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:33:40pm

I get that many people are filtering out of “Christianity” (whatever that means to a person), so the ones that are left are, shall we say, more stuck in their ways.

But this… this is telling me that the remnant is just not going to make it to the next century:

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TedStriker  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:33:47pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

This was actually a really good show. I lost interest in The Walking Dead when it just turned into too much of a depressing grind, but this episode is so twisted it actually makes me want to watch the rest of the final season.

The mainline TWD show actually wrapped back last fall; the Dead City spinoff is only meant to be a six-episode miniseries, with the Daryl Dixon (also a six-episode miniseries) and Rick & Michonne (also six episodes to start, but is planned to be a continuing series) spinoffs coming later this year (Daryl Dixon) and next year (Rick & Michonne).

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:33:55pm

Are there any good cell phone “Radio apps”?

Also, if you are looking for emergency weather radios, you may wish to consider the Midland ER310. (I have a Midland ER210.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:36:40pm

re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What I’d change:

1) Erie, PA and Buffalo, NY, should be in the Yellow along with the rest of the Great Lakes group.
2) North eastern California, eastern Oregon, and northwest Nevada should be lumped in with Idaho.
3) Yellowstone should be enlarge a bit.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:38:48pm

re: #23 Barefoot Grin

shingles vax wiped me out for about a day and a half. But it varies by person, of course.

Better that, than contacting shingles.

Having recovered from shingles several months ago, my doc told me it’s time to get vaccinated.

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TedStriker  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:44:09pm

re: #50 ckkatz

Are there any good cell phone “Radio apps”?

Also, if you are looking for emergency weather radios, you may wish to consider the Midland ER310. (I have a Midland ER210.)

I second Midland weather radios; I have a WR120B on each floor of the house, plus a HH54VP handheld that I take camping.

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:47:59pm

re: #52 BeenHereAwhile

Better that, than contacting shingles.

Having recovered from shingles several months ago, my doc told me it’s time to get vaccinated.

I got the Shingrex shots as soon as they were available, which means I didn’t wake up one morning screaming bloody murder at the pain that festering pustules erupting in my mouth and around my eyes were causing and having my Doctor tell me these lesions might not relent for several weeks and that the only thing he could do for me was prescribe high dose opioids.

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:50:20pm

Interesting piece by Tom French in the NYT about the attractions and hold of MAGA culture.

Basically his argument is that it is an insular community (I would argue cult).

That community provides those inside with a ‘joyful’ (his term) community and with the ‘rage’ (his term) at the outside as a deadly threat to the community. And it plays on the concept of self defined identity of the community as “Good people”.

He argues that the best way to replace it is to understand what members get from it and then replace those with better alternatives.

*snip*
Trump’s fans, by contrast, don’t understand the effects of that fury because they mainly experience the joy. For them, the MAGA community is kind and welcoming. For them, supporting Trump is fun. Moreover, the MAGA movement is heavily clustered in the South, and Southerners see themselves as the nicest people in America. It feels false to them to be called “mean” or “cruel.” Cruel? No chance. In their minds, they’re the same people they’ve always been — it’s just that they finally understand how bad you are. And by “you,” again, they often mean the caricatures of people they’ve never met.

*snip*

It’s the combination of anger and joy that makes the MAGA enthusiasm so hard to break but also limits its breadth. If you’re part of the movement’s ever-widening circle of enemies, Trump holds no appeal for you. You experience his movement as an attack on your life, your choices, your home and even your identity. If you’re part of the core MAGA community, however, not even the ruthlessly efficient DeSantis can come close to replicating the true Trump experience. Again, the boat parade is a perfect example. It’s one part Battle for the Future of Civilization and one part booze cruise.

*snip*

During the Trump years, I’ve received countless email messages from distraught readers that echo a similar theme: My father (or mother or uncle or cousin) is lost to MAGA. They can seem normal, but they’re not, at least not any longer. It’s hard for me to know what to say in response, but one thing is clear: You can’t replace something with nothing. And until we fully understand what that “something” is — and that it includes not only passionate anger but also very real joy and a deep sense of belonging — then our efforts to persuade are doomed to fail.

NYT - The Rage and Joy of MAGA America

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ipsos  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:51:30pm

re: #10 I Would Prefer Not To

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:52:31pm

re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What I’d change:

1) Erie, PA and Buffalo, NY, should be in the Yellow along with the rest of the Great Lakes group.
2) North eastern California, eastern Oregon, and northwest Nevada should be lumped in with Idaho.
3) Yellowstone should be enlarge a bit.

NM is well drawn. I don’t know anything about Hunger Games, but they nailed which part is like Colorado and which part is like Texas. But nip El Paso and Las Cruces into the Colorado part. (I may be optimistic about El Paso.)

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immigrant  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:53:07pm

re: #50 ckkatz

Tune-in is free and pretty comprehensive

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:53:35pm

The same kind of people are causing the same problems worldwide.

Up to 2,000 anti-LGBT protesters stormed a gay pride festival in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Saturday, forcing its cancellation.

The right-wing protesters, who included Orthodox Christian clergy, scuffled with police, rushed the stage and burned rainbow flags.

The organisers and Georgia’s president blamed anti-LGBT hate speech that preceded the event, and said the police had failed to protect festival-goers.

Homophobia remains rife in Georgia.

President Salome Zurabishvili said the ruling Georgian Dream party had failed to condemn its followers who had openly incited aggression towards LGBT activists.

Violent protesters storm Georgia LGBT festival (BBC)

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:56:30pm

re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:56:40pm

re: #10 I Would Prefer Not To

I’m Stuartgibbel at Bluesky.

Following!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:57:02pm

re: #49 TedStriker

The mainline TWD show actually wrapped back last fall; the Dead City spinoff is only meant to be a limited six-episode run, with the Daryl and Rick & Michonne spinoffs coming later this year (Daryl) and next year (Rick & Michonne).

I’m in for Lauren Cohan and the lack of commitment that goes with a limited run show. TWD had too much wrong with it for me to watch even though Ms. Cohan was in it.

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 7:58:48pm

re: #56 ipsos

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:02:38pm
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jeffreyw  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:02:41pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:05:04pm

re: #59 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Took me a minute to realize that this happened in the country of Georgia, not the state.

As I understand it, there is a major culture war happening in the country of Georgia right now. It is between those who want to remain allied with Russia and those who want to move out of Russia’s orbit and into that of the West. Georgia was invaded by Russia in 2008 when it tried to move away from the Russian orbit.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:11:00pm
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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:16:38pm

re: #55 ckkatz

Interesting piece by Tom French in the NYT about the attractions and hold of MAGA culture.

Basically his argument is that it is an insular community (I would argue cult).

That community provides those inside with a ‘joyful’ (his term) community and with the ‘rage’ (his term) at the outside as a deadly threat to the community. And it plays on the concept of self defined identity of the community as “Good people”.

He argues that the best way to replace it is to understand what members get from it and then replace those with better alternatives.

NYT - The Rage and Joy of MAGA America

I read that, too, and I kept running back to the People’s Temple, run by Jim Jones in British Guiana. They were so happy they killed themselves at the cult leaders whim.

Talk about “joyful”, what could be more joyful than that?

Of course the MAGATs are cultists. They follow their God Emperor from place to place, wallowing in his self-love as if it cascades down for them, which it never does. It’s always, ALWAYS, about him. And yet they yell for him, praise him, lift up their hands for him, seeking his blessing.

So, It’s John Milton Time again:

“The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said;”

Trump has no real added value. He promises it but cannot deliver. The cult knows it’s a cult, but cannot accept it. They are happy to be there!

On the backside, Trump scams them out of millions, but noone will admit it.

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:17:32pm

re: #44 William Lewis

Good reminder, I’ve been been meaning to get one. The one in my save list at Amazon also has a solar charger panel and can charge my phone if need be for flexibility in an emergency.

Ooops! I suddenly realized that I purchased “Big Blue 28 Watt Solar Charger” about a year ago on the recommendation of wirecutter. But that I never tested it out. The weather was crappy when I got it. Then I got busy. And it ended up under a pile of things. I need to dig it out and test it -

BigBlue 3 USB-A 28W Solar Charger

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:21:01pm

re: #55 ckkatz

He’s right about the “joy” but I would say it’s more of a nasty glee in topping each other in saying the worst of the people they’ve been told are enemies.

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jeffreyw  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:22:09pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:24:21pm

re: #71 jeffreyw

Well, that takes the cake!

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:24:51pm

re: #71 jeffreyw

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That’s far more disgusting than the chocolate cookies in a 12” x 18” bed of Grape Nuts that I made.

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jaunte  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:25:37pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:30:31pm

re: #68 austin_blue

I like your Lycidas quote!

And I agree with you. Hopefully the collapse of the cult will not involve violence on those outside it.

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:30:51pm

re: #74 jaunte

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I think people like bicycles more than landfills.

I think your thought concept is just stupid. No offense.

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:34:15pm

re: #75 ckkatz

I like your Lycidas quote!

And I agree with you. Hopefully the collapse of the cult will not involve violence on those outside it.

Here’s hoping. I think it’s going to be a bloody fucking mess. The cultists are true believers. They’ve attacked the Capitol once. Who knows what they will do on the State level?

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Captain Ron  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:35:11pm

re: #42 wrenchwench

Now do bike-powered.

I do have an e-bike, so with 1.66 Kwh between the two batteries… I won’t have to pedal for a long time.

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:37:11pm

re: #74 jaunte

I am sure that this all makes complete sense..
But not to me.

“bike infrastructure radicalized people”
“people that care about people that are different than themselves”
“people with trash hateful takes”
“people that want more bike infrastructure”

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wrenchwench  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:38:01pm

re: #78 Captain Ron

I do have an e-bike, so with 1.66 Kwh between the two batteries… I won’t have to pedal for a long time.

In case of power outage, you should be able to charge your bike on a trainer. Or in case of apocalypse or something.

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Captain Ron  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:40:16pm

A person can pedal at a continuous sustainable load and generate probably 150 watts. That’s pretty much a WAG but based on various related data I have read over time that puts the WAG more towards plausible than incorrect.

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:44:10pm

re: #77 austin_blue

Here’s hoping. I think it’s going to be a bloody fucking mess. The cultists are true believers. They’ve attacked the Capitol once. Who knows what they will do on the State level?

we already know what they’ll do on the State level. i.e., Michigan. there’s enough sane Republicans left in that state to vote OMG-NO!!, which is why both houses of their legislature are now majority Dem. The Governor and both Senators are also Dem.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:45:17pm

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:46:25pm

re: #70 jaunte

He’s right about the “joy” but I would say it’s more of a nasty glee in topping each other in saying the worst of the people they’ve been told are enemies.

I can understand how communities can be led to circle the wagons. But whenever I see something like that I have a sudden concern that things are likely to get very ugly very quickly.

Then the next question is how much do I need to stop what I am doing and participate on the pro-democracy side.

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:47:40pm

I predict that within two years, the effeminate Euro Countries will allow E-Bikes at the Tour de France!

Yes, Individual Time Trials will entail no peddling at all!

Team time trials will be seen as teammates sipping tea while the bikes power them to the finish line.

Kind of like Armstrong Doping days, isn’t it?

Actually, I have no idea why that post just went sideways, bit I am reminded that the ultimate doper said Trans women should not be allowed to compete with women.

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:49:09pm

re: #82 sagehen

we already know what they’ll do on the State level. i.e., Michigan. there’s enough sane Republicans left in that state to vote OMG-NO!!, which is why both houses of their legislature are now majority Dem. The Governor and both Senators are also Dem.

Well, that’s one State. Only 49 left to pray for.

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:52:22pm

There are many online “How-To” instructions on building bicycle power generators. Although home solar and wind generators seem easier.

There are also bicycle powered flour mills. Which are reportedly much preferable to the hand powered ones.

At this point my preference is definitely to remain on the grid, though.

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:52:53pm

re: #79 ckkatz

I am sure that this all makes complete sense..
But not to me.

“bike infrastructure radicalized people”
“people that care about people that are different than themselves”
“people with trash hateful takes”
“people that want more bike infrastructure”

The first line is meant to be an insult from people that try to make bike infrastructure a bad thing towards people that want it, who are described by the second one.

The third describes people who make the first statement, who aren’t the people described by the fourth.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:52:55pm

Hey Charles, I don’t know why it’s working, but Better Tweetdeck has gotten me back into old Tweetdeck

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Moe Avattar  Jul 8, 2023 • 8:53:43pm

re: #74 jaunte

As a pedestrian who has experienced “Critical Mass” in San Francisco, I can state with a fair degree of confidence that “bike infrastructure radicalized people” do not give a fuck about “people that are different than themselves”.

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:03:20pm

re: #88 Belafon

I greatly appreciate your valiant effort to explain it…

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Belafon  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:05:25pm
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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:05:53pm

re: #90 Moe Avattar

As a pedestrian who has experienced “Critical Mass” in San Francisco, I can state with a fair degree of confidence that “bike infrastructure radicalized people” do not give a fuck about “people that are different than themselves”.

Ah, then you have never been inconvenienced by a “car accident”, have you?

You, my dear, have lived an absolutely charmed fucking life.

All hail Moe Avattar, the luckiest human on the planet!

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:08:04pm

Heh!

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ckkatz  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:08:17pm

re: #92 Belafon

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austin_blue  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:15:17pm

So, late night, I’m off for the rack. Be nice to each other. Adios, muchachos, from the ‘04.

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Moe Avattar  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:16:06pm

re: #93 austin_blue

Fewer times . That has been my experience.
Thanks for showing such pleasant regard for people that are different than yourself.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:28:02pm

re: #55 ckkatz

During the Trump years, I’ve received countless email messages from distraught readers that echo a similar theme: My father (or mother or uncle or cousin) is lost to MAGA. They can seem normal, but they’re not, at least not any longer. It’s hard for me to know what to say in response, but one thing is clear: You can’t replace something with nothing. And until we fully understand what that “something” is — and that it includes not only passionate anger but also very real joy and a deep sense of belonging — then our efforts to persuade are doomed to fail.

MAGA is definitely a personality cult centered specifically around Donald Trump. And that bolded bit reminds me of the ending of Ari Aster’s 2019 film Midsommar and the story arc of the main character, Dani (a bravura performance by Florence Pugh, BTW).

There’s a ton of analysis out there, but in my opinion, the reason for her broken-minded smile in the final shot of the film is that after all of her character’s personal trauma, she’s at last found a happy home in the Hårga cult, regardless of the fact that her new surrogate family is utterly insane.

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Captain Ron  Jul 8, 2023 • 9:31:47pm

YouTube

I think this may be about Trump.

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TedStriker  Jul 8, 2023 • 10:07:11pm

re: #99 Captain Ron

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Video

I think this may be about Trump.

Charlie Daniels may have been a full-on wingnut from the late 70s on, but he sure had it right about Elvin Bishop: “He ain’t good lookin’, but he sure can play.”

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sagehen  Jul 8, 2023 • 10:07:12pm

re: #85 austin_blue

I predict that within two years, the effeminate Euro Countries will allow E-Bikes at the Tour de France!

Yes, Individual Time Trials will entail no peddling at all!

The pit crew will be much like Le Mans, with added electricians…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:23:57am

Speaking of the walking dead… LGF is alive!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:24:27am

re: #98 Dr Lizardo

It’s a religious urge. By that I mean, it’s the same urge that spurs on religion.

The idea that one belongs somewhere is powerful.

This is what I mean when I ramble on about worldview collapse.

When one’s worldview is shown to be no longer tenable, then one is unmoored, so to speak. Adrift on the sea of endless ecclesiastical possibilities, a person is driven to land somewhere.

The typical role of a demagogue (like Hitler, or Trump) is to provide that somewhere, the identity onto which one can attach themselves.

The rise of fascism in Europe was watered by the collapse of Christianity as a power to guide nations, thanks to WWI (and in fact the entire colonial era that WWI ended.)

As modernity has chipped away at the foundations of traditional religions, people have been desperate to cling to something, somewhere.

In some ways the popularity of the superhero genre is playing the role of the ancient stories of gods and demigods.

And that is one reason why traditional Christianity has so little purchase among the young - they already have stories of super-beings that they like.

MAGA is nothing less than a somewhat tepid version of the 1920’s Europeans playing footsies with fascism.

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Belafon  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:25:18am

re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of the walking dead… LGF is alive!

Now we get to watch us addicts slowly return to the source of our addiction.

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Teukka  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:27:01am

re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of the walking dead… LGF is alive!

Yeah, hamster got stuck a coupla hours back.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:27:20am

YEA!!! We’re back!

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darthstar  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:27:50am

LGF is back up…

3/6 wordle
connections was easy
1:36 mini X-word

Back to your regularly scheduled yapping.

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darthstar  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:30:47am

re: #94 BeenHereAwhile

Heh!

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Twitter got people who actually agreed on many things to hate each other. That was its superpower.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:33:11am

Okay. I was starting to feel seriously unbalanced there for a bit.

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darthstar  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:37:34am

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:38:41am

re: #110 darthstar

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That toddler doesn’t have anything better to do with their time than shoot people?

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:51:03am

re: #12 Nerdy Fish

With any luck it would cut down their numbers. Aneurysms are the worst. ;)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:52:39am

Not the best
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jeffreyw  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:54:16am

First tomato of the season. It’ll be a BELT tonight!

Good morning!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:55:21am

re: #110 darthstar

I wish that were a joke headline and the kid was just doing it using a water gun.

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TarHellion  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:58:22am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:58:50am

So is Bluesky basically pre-Elmo Twitter with a new coat of paint?

Or is it actually better?

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jeffreyw  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:59:17am

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Jul 9, 2023 • 8:59:22am

Posted on Threads today.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:00:27am

re: #26 jaunte

Nooo! Inconceivable!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:00:57am

Maria should have had SCTV’s Count Floyd on warning us about Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

Fox News guest: Blood-drinking Chinese soldiers secretly invaded US for upcoming attack

Columnist Gordon Chang told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that blood-drinking Chinese fighters have secretly entered the United States in preparation for a surprise attack.

During an interview on Sunday, Bartiromo noted that the apprehension of Chinese nationals at the southern border was up 1,300% in the last year.

Chang said some of the apprehensions involved middle-class Chinese.

“But among them are packs of males of between 5 and 15 who are of military age, not coming with family groups, pretending not to speak English, and engaging in Chinese military rituals like drinking blood,” he explained. “So clearly, these are saboteurs coming into America to wage war on the United States on the first day that there is war in Asia.”

I swear on a stack of pineapple pizzas this is not an AI simulation!

Gordon Change: Chinese soldiers are drinking blood

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:06:50am

re: #119 Dr. Matt

Posted on Threads today.

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If we controlled the whole world we would have bought JC Penneys and never been barred from entering the stores. And it wouldn’t have taken Congress to pass the CSR to finally let us enter that store in 1964.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:08:10am

This could have been scripted by Mel Brooks:

(Had some problems with formatting Bluesky to LGF, some editing kludge involved)

Popehat •
@kenwhite.bsky.social
Where’s the option for
“yes but honestly I feel they could be fighting harder and wrecking more shit”

© Joanne Freeman @jbf1…
Meanwhile, in bird-land:

@ElijahSchaffer
Do you believe Jews disproportionately control the world institutions, banks, & are waging war on white, western society?
Yes, 100%. 51%
No, 100% 14%
Yes, it’s complicated. 24%
No, it’s complicated. 11%
10:44 AM • 7/8/23

Popehat @kenwhite.b…:
I mean it’s white western society.
It’s not like you’re up against the Scythians or something. Do better.

Pejman Yousefzade…
We are trying, Ken.
Be patient, for God’s sake.

Popehat @kenwhite.b…
Again with the delays

Peiman Yousefzade…
YOU try controlling banks, the media, Hollywood—all while observing Shabbat.

Sabretooth Nietzsc…
I mean, I can fill in for you on Saturdays.
Just let me have the space laser controls for a bit.

Pejman Yousefzade…
Sure. Just don’t tell MTG.
Or tell her and freak her the Hell out.
That may be a better idea.

Zeroday @dodds.bs…
Not to mention all the bnei mitzvot to plan, making the human masks to cover our lizard faces, open positions on the board of our shul to fill, our calendar is packed!

Pejman Yousefzade…:
And God help you if your mother doesn’t approve of your direction in life …
especially if you don’t call her enough times.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:09:45am

Former Trump aide schooled by Bakari Sellers after attack on Kamala Harris

CNN 07 09 2023 09 48 44

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:13:47am

re: #103 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In some ways the popularity of the superhero genre is playing the role of the ancient stories of gods and demigods.

And that is one reason why traditional Christianity has so little purchase among the young - they already have stories of super-beings that they like.

That’s a damned interesting point. I never really considered it, but there’s certainly something to the notion that MCU or DC superheroes are basically just stand-ins for the Olympian gods (and of course, other deities from other cultures).

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:14:49am
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wrenchwench  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:16:30am

re: #116 TarHellion

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A Cranky One  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:17:51am

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:17:59am

re: #125 Dr Lizardo

That’s a damned interesting point. I never really considered it, but there’s certainly something to the notion that MCU or DC superheroes are basically just stand-ins for the Olympian gods (and of course, other deities from other cultures).

Especially when DC and Marvel have a history of using actual Olympians!

What perhaps many people do not realize is that the old stories circulated in the Greco-Roman world performed many functions.

They were cultural identifiers, for sure.

But they were also entertainment.

Homer (whoever he was) wrote an adventure story full of magical and powerful beings.

These kinds of stories capture our imagination.

And Disney and WBD today do the same thing as Homer (without as much panache.)

Young people are not going to be impressed by stories of miracles from 2000 year old religious texts.

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A Cranky One  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:18:50am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:18:56am

Legal activist who blew up affirmative action has a new target

In case you haven’t figured it out, the racist who engineered the killing of affirmative action has his sights set on…returning to Jim Crow and Plessy V. Ferguson.

His name—Edward Blum. One of the Boys In the Hoods…and Bedsheets.

rawstory.com

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:21:18am

re: #55 ckkatz

I look at them as addicts. The high of hate and anger is similar to that of crack cocaine.

I think addiction treatment would work best. Although I have no idea how to deliver it at that scale. Also the supply network is huge and legal.

So the problem may be insurmountable.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:21:44am

re: #129 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Olympian gods also had flaws. They were basically the embodiment of human virtues and vices writ large. Many of the older pre-Christian deities reflected that.

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A Cranky One  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:23:17am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:24:30am

Wordle 750 4/6

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sagehen  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:28:04am

re: #125 Dr Lizardo

That’s a damned interesting point. I never really considered it, but there’s certainly something to the notion that MCU or DC superheroes are basically just stand-ins for the Olympian gods (and of course, other deities from other cultures).

stand-ins, hell. Thor and Loki are Asgardian immigrants.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:28:14am

re: #24 jaunte

The dog and I may have napped on the sofa all afternoon.

Ditto without the dog. Was out this morning for a swim and took a visiting houseguest to the Loreley.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:29:22am

re: #30 jaunte

Content moderation at scale requires hiring people with judgement about context to do the moderation, and that is counter to the ambition of tech ceos and venture capitalists.

It is a bottom-line expense, and one of the worst kind: personnel

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:30:16am

re: #26 jaunte

@mmasnick.bsky.social

Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis

Is that a failing in the algorithm or an inherent quality of the GOP?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:32:41am
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Romantic Heretic  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:34:01am

re: #133 Dr Lizardo

Thinking of this hilarious meme now.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:35:02am

re: #140 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Good for her.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:35:17am

re: #60 Belafon

Jesus Christ is quite literally the centerpiece of time..

Jesus is a point of reference in the adopted convention of timekeeping in our society.

Remember that to the Chinese it’s 4719

To the Jews it’s 5783

In Japan it’s Reiwa 5

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:36:29am

For your weekend viewing pleasure, today we have 1972’s Tales from the Crypt (the British film, produced by Amicus), starring Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ian Hendry, Patrick Magee and Ralph Richardson as the Crypt Keeper. Directed by Freddie Francis, screenplay by Milton Subotsky.

HORROR: Peter Cushing, Joan Collins | Full Movie | Drama, Horror, Mystery

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:37:29am

re: #85 austin_blue

I predict that within two years, the effeminate Euro Countries will allow E-Bikes at the Tour de France!

And the batteries will be pumped full of E-steroids

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:39:35am

Back in birbie territory.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:39:39am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Jesus is a point of reference in the adopted convention of timekeeping in our society.

Remember that to the Chinese it’s 4719

To the Jews its 5783

In Japan it’s Reiwa 5

It’s the year 2563 in the Buddhist calendar.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:45:46am

re: #147 Dr Lizardo

It’s the year 2563 in the Buddhist calendar.

And the current Mayan long count date is 13.0.10.12.12.

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dat_said  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:51:16am

The Hill: Burgum says he wouldn’t do business with Trump

Obligatory-Who? (ND governor running in R primary; real billionaire riddled with delusions)

“I just think that it’s important that you’re judged by the company you keep,” Burgum added.

“The economy must be our top priority,” Burgum wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month. “We need to get inflation under control, cut taxes, lower gas prices and reduce the cost of living.”

Burgum remains at the bottom of polls among GOP presidential candidates, with RealClearPolitics’s polling average listing him at 0.1 percent as an average out of eight different polls.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 9, 2023 • 9:53:28am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Jesus is a point of reference in the adopted convention of timekeeping in our society.

Remember that to the Chinese it’s 4719

To the Jews its 5783

In Japan it’s Reiwa 5

Brings back memories of my 4th grade teacher making a snarky remark because I was in class taking a mandatory test instead of in temple during Rosh Hashanah.

Updating her snarky remark with current dates and putting it in private remarks.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 9, 2023 • 10:08:26am

re: #90 Moe Avattar

As a pedestrian who has experienced “Critical Mass” in San Francisco, I can state with a fair degree of confidence that “bike infrastructure radicalized people” do not give a fuck about “people that are different than themselves”.

I love the ads around here for weekday evening rides which need to mention every time that you’d better be completely and independently ready with all the gear you might need for an emergency with your bike because no one else in the ride will stop to help you with it. Such community!

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ipsos  Jul 9, 2023 • 10:09:26am

re: #149 dat_said

I watched some of his interview with Tuck Choad this morning, and while I walked away untouched by Burgumania, it did raise questions.

Burgum was adamant that he wasn’t going to get involved in culture war issues at the federal level, instead ardently insisting they should all be decided at the state level.

Now, first, it’s a very weird position to take that the government big enough to dictate your medical issues should come from Bismarck and not Washington.

And second, Todd didn’t call him out on that at ALL.

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mmmirele  Jul 9, 2023 • 10:12:50am

re: #55 ckkatz

Interesting piece by Tom French in the NYT about the attractions and hold of MAGA culture.

Basically his argument is that it is an insular community (I would argue cult).

That community provides those inside with a ‘joyful’ (his term) community and with the ‘rage’ (his term) at the outside as a deadly threat to the community. And it plays on the concept of self defined identity of the community as “Good people”.

He argues that the best way to replace it is to understand what members get from it and then replace those with better alternatives.

NYT - The Rage and Joy of MAGA America

It’s David French and he’s problematic for a number of reasons.
1) He’s invested in the Evangelical Industrial Complex, but see below.
2) He’s pretty much anti-LGBTQIA.
2) He’s pissed off a lot of people in Nashville, to wit:

That said, he and his wife Nancy have been taking a SHITTON of heat from the fans of Kanakuk Kamps (an Evangelical Christian outfit) because they exposed how the Kamps basically covered up one guy’s rampant, years long sexual abuse of Kampers. Most recently, he’s been attacked by Josh Hawley for not being “masculine” enough (he went to Iraq) and a terrible rumor about infidelity was spread openly on Twitter.

My point? Read what David French says, but keep in mind he’s part of the Evangelical Industrial Complex and he’s trying to preserve it. Me, I think it needs to be (figuratively) burnt down and the earth (figuratively) salted because it’s just terrible.

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sagehen  Jul 9, 2023 • 10:17:30am

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is that a failing in the algorithm or an inherent quality of the GOP?

Yes.

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silverdolphin  Jul 9, 2023 • 10:18:01am

re: #125 Dr Lizardo

That’s a damned interesting point. I never really considered it, but there’s certainly something to the notion that MCU or DC superheroes are basically just stand-ins for the Olympian gods (and of course, other deities from other cultures).

Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with A Thousand Faces and the hero’s journey work just as well with comics and movies. These are stories we so often tell ourselves to help us learn how to act in society, to respond to threats.

George Lucas specifically used this in making Star Wars, as this episode from the wonderful series The Power of Myth demonstrates.

I believe the modern myths are telling us that the hero’s journey can no longer be taken by an individual. From Harry Potter to the Avengers, the chosen one needs the help and talents of a group to fight and destroy the singular aspect of evil they face, evil tha is always authoritarian, ruling trough fear. Collaboration and diversity is how they win.

And those are exactly the traits needed to survive in the complex world we now inhabit.

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sagehen  Jul 9, 2023 • 10:21:40am

re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Jesus is a point of reference in the adopted convention of timekeeping in our society.

Remember that to the Chinese it’s 4719

To the Jews it’s 5783

In Japan it’s Reiwa 5

to the Aztecs, it’s 11 Acati.

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mmmirele  Jul 9, 2023 • 10:28:27am

re: #98 Dr Lizardo

MAGA is definitely a personality cult centered specifically around Donald Trump. And that bolded bit reminds me of the ending of Ari Aster’s 2019 film Midsommar and the story arc of the main character, Dani (a bravura performance by Florence Pugh, BTW).

There’s a ton of analysis out there, but in my opinion, the reason for her broken-minded smile in the final shot of the film is that after all of her character’s personal trauma, she’s at last found a happy home in the Hårga cult, regardless of the fact that her new surrogate family is utterly insane.

And the thing to be watching is not so much what Trump does, but what the future wannabe Trump cult leaders do. They can’t really out-Trump Trump, because that’s calling “God’s Anointed” into question. But they can slavishly follow him and hope, when Trump is finally off the scene, through whatever mechanism (and I’m not going to speculate), they can grab power.

That said, there will be a bit of a messy period while the winner consolidates power. I’d point to Brigham Young (who basically did his consolidating by dragging the vast majority of Mormons out of the United States) or David Miscavige (who got rid of his rivals by exiling them to terrible “postings”). But we have to keep an eye on this, because it’s not going to end with Trump.

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steve_davis  Jul 9, 2023 • 1:31:20pm

edited because I just realized this thread is dead.


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