Analyst Hyacinth, in the moss, with a pitchfork 🔱

As I had to point out many times during post #metoo years, no one is owed a big Hollywood contract. No one owed a comedy special. Now: No one is owed a Senate seat. This dude was not murdered & he’s not in jail. He made poor decisions & his actions now are sus & so he doesn’t get the job. The end!

“How dare you consistently ask that political candidates have the kind of judgment & maturity that the average high school social studies teacher possesses?? Why are you being so mean to this smol bean white guy who displayed awful judgment many times over the years, including right now???? Ughh!!”

Get bent w the phrase “purity test” ffs. Do people not get what they’re saying is “do not have standards”? “Do not change your mind when you learn new facts that are v troubling — & stfu when a person’s actions & explanations around those facts are shifty, hostile & display a lack of maturity?” 🤡

Okay, but this specific example doesn’t even address your original post, which is what I responded to and am still focusing on. I’m not talking about activity between protestors, and unfortunately I don’t have time to go astray this morning but I hope you get my earlier point and have a good day!

I’ve been thinking of that show lately. Time for a re-watch!

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

That still doesn’t change my view.

The water in that river doesn’t belong to people in a specific geographical area, and it certainly doesn’t belong to Google to run their destructive tech at further cost to wildlife and the environment in an overheated world. I’m not going to argue, just pointing out the shallowness of this view.

At LEAST 2 million! Up to 8 million!! And maybe more if they go over estimates!!! All for chatbots that can't count fingers but can encourage suicide!!!

“The water would be supplied by Carvins Cove Reservoir, the primary drinking water source for Botetourt County and much of the Roanoke Valley” 👍

I think by my count that makes five carrier groups assigned to the Iran war, which is... about as many as the US can assign there at one time given current supply chains. They've maxed out naval resources on a war of choice. Just mindboggling in its stupidity.

They should invent a way out that isn't through

Challenge for those who think clouds, stuffed animals, slime molds, and the toaster (just my toaster) aren't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

This is just to say
I have savored the memories of when
We used to remix
The Williams poem
About stolen plums and not
The Yeats poem
About Armageddon

Forgive me
They were so sweet
And so old

This series is SO GOOOOD OMG bsky.app/profile/phdh...

Which…I’m just going to say, none of these feel like gifts!

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Check out Jason Loviglio's new book "Empathy Machines," which looks at the history of NPR, sound, voice, and public media's complex relationship with national ideology.

Media Studies’ Dr. Josh Shepperd is completing the final project of the now-defunct CPB: the official history of US public media. Stay tuned.

I do think there’s an angle there for “less stress on your nervous system” or some such :o)

I do have a smart phone, but this reminds me of when I was *this* close to being completely off Gmail and then went back to school, where they gifted me a new Gmail acct I must use. Then internship gifted me MS Office, which I had also ditched, along with an old laptop and another phone 😭

Me, too. I do believe it’s a Movement.

The library is here for you. We've always been resisting subjection.

The Luddite Renaissance is already upon us.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

That is not the only way things get better, although I empathize with your underlying sentiment. I don’t want a system in which politicians are afraid they or their families will be murdered to be the norm. And yeah I know that’s where we are now, but that doesn’t make it okay.

AIPAC should be registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA)

~$14.5M in Israeli lobby cash between these six members, per trackaipac.com

‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:

Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov