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Barney M
@barnabee.bsky.social
Hi, let’s make things better
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JKjameskelleher.pilcrow.ie

An erotic short story in three acts

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KBkarlbode.bsky.social

#netneutrality is being restored today reminder: the trump repeal of the rules was so unpopular the telecom industry had to resort to using fake and dead people to pretend the effort had public support

Big Telecom Used Fake and Dead People to Fight Net Neutrality, NY AG Says
Big Telecom Used Fake and Dead People to Fight Net Neutrality, NY AG Says

An investigation by New York's attorney general has confirmed that Big Telecom paid to flood the net neutrality debate with millions of fake comments.

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JDjoedunman.bsky.social

That calling in riot cops so quickly became the uniform response across the country suggests that a bunch of university presidents saw what happened at Columbia and NYU earlier this week and thought “yes that’s the best response let’s do that too.”

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ASadamserwer.bsky.social

Everyone but the most die hard Trump cultists knew january 6 was an insurrection when it happened and knew Trump was responsible. Elite pundits changed their tune only once the courts got involved, rewriting history because they fear the implications of the case. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Another major problem with Chait’s argument is that it excludes most events historically referred to as insurrections. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1791 (sometimes called the Whiskey Insurrection), a revolt against an excise tax on spirits that had impoverished grain farmers in western Pennsylvania, never introduced ordinances of secession or sought to “seize and hold the Capitol.” Neither did the subsequent tax revolt known as Fries’s Rebellion. Neither Nat Turner’s uprising nor Gabriel’s Rebellion, uprisings against slavery, would fit Chait’s narrow definition. The same is true of John Brown’s attempt to seize the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to arm the enslaved to rise up against their enslavers. And yet all were contemporaneously referred to as “rebellions” and “insurrections.” Chait’s definition of insurrection is single-serve, meant solely to exclude Trump’s actions.

That is likely why it appealed to the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, who gushed that Chait’s definition of insurr
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MWmolly.wiki

all this time i thought the lasers were going in the other direction

Bored Ape #9291. A brown-furred ape, wearing a slouchy orange beanie and black t-shirt, has its mouth open in a sort of smile. There are red laser beams shooting out of (or perhaps into) its eyes.
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MMmmasnick.bsky.social

EU officials swear up and down that the DSA is not a censorship bill, and yet every day now we get a new smug @thierrybreton.bsky.social post demanding a new platform meet his moderation desires or else face the wrath of the EU and massive fines. Just admit it: Thierry is the global censor.

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GJjavorszky.rocks

They did surgery on a grape

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JFjuliaferraioli.com

Hey. #OpenSource licenses still do matter, because protecting people's rights still matters and respecting obligations still matters. If you have stopped caring about those things, then...I guess I have learned something about your priorities.

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Barney M
@barnabee.bsky.social
Hi, let’s make things better
40 followers70 following9 posts