Connections Puzzle #833 ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
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Connections Puzzle #833 ๐ช๐ช๐ช๐ช ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
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Update: apparently multiple MAGA-leaning megachurches have shared AI-generated video purporting to show Charlie Kirk speaking to their congregations from heaven this last week, so. Evangelism is having a real normal one.
I wish I was joking but: the TikTok Evangelicals are convinced the Rapture is happening in three days because of some cows being sacrificed on a mountain in Israel, and now they're all posting advice and excitement about getting taken up to heaven. Christ on a fucking bicycle.
the part of me that still sincerely believes human beings are capable of equitable governance always gets a little verklempt by stories where a jury of regular people holds the line against fascism. braver than all of Congress tbh
An illustration for our times
As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isnโt that weโre ignoring โreasonable concerns,โ the problem is that republicans are lying.
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"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty." Josef Goebbels This is an old playbook in new hands.
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[the curb your enthusiasm theme plays in the distance]
Showing up at Pride looking like a
superwholock and avengers tower fanfic era casting a long and oddly specific cultural shadow
Agreed! Though it is fascinating, as someone who is terminally online, the degree to which the current flavour of speech is reminiscent of 2014 tumblr (derogatory yet affectionate); you can sort of chase the echoes of it, where a certain inflection developed in writing then passed to video content.
drawing this to the attention of @tychobrahe.bsky.social
this is sending me www.tumblr.com/thesylverlin...
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I know they don't give a shit about hypocrisy but it still always just strikes me how the "free speech" crowd is totally chill with the government straight up getting a show cancelled and publicly demanding an apology and bribe. But we all know they just want free speech to say slurs.
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some good cadfaelian Shapes
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kash patel has the resting, bug-eyed state of a toddler aggressively shitting his pants
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โTexans donโt have to look at this hateful garbage anymore" is the perfect campaign slogan for anyone running against Ted
This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.
Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.
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CBP got their raid sweeps down to less than 7 minutes here in LA. By the time reporters receive tips, the raids are done and the feds are gone and with them, people. Trying to document and find patterns for these raids as a reporter has been extremely frustrating and demoralizing. It really sucks
"our nice white christian kids could NEVER be monsters!" while training boys named trigger and remington how to kill for sport from the time they're six is crazy work
truly insane how MAGA think that reading a single queer novel will trans their kids, but that actively training those same kids to worship guns from childhood runs no risk of violence, such that, when their kids DO become murderers, their first thought is "the transgenders must've caused this."
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Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
This you? Just two hours later?
Weโve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet
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kirk being killed by a member of perhaps the most antisemitic group of the current moment for not being antisemitic enough when the administration is trying to pretend they care about antisemitism would be a huge blow if anyone involved actually cared about the truth
new danmei!
satire is redundant
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The markings that supposedly expressed โtransgender ideologyโ wereโฆโฆโฆ..a series of arrows.
And youโre okay with that โsmall fractionโ routinely being children? With the fact that there are currently adult survivors of Columbine in Colorado whose teenage children just went through the shooting at Evergreen High? All because some dead slave-owners said so?
Insane to me that you canโt draw the direct line between โI want Americans to have as many guns as they can lawfully ownโ and a man getting shot dead in public.
If your takeaway from Kirkโs quote that gun deaths were โworth itโ to protect the second amendment is that I, a completely different person, must support gun violence, then your reading comprehension sucks.
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I would never have thought replacing everyone at the FBI with podcasters and cigarette boat salesmen had downsides
I'm sad for the state of American democracy, and for every kid on that Utah campus who heard shots and feared for their lives. I'm not sad for Charlie Kirk, who believed yearly shooting deaths were worth it to preserve gun ownership, and who therefore quite literally died as he lived.
Fuck them all.
It is patently bad that we as a country are regularly doing political assassinations now, AND This particular person is reaping exactly what he sowed.
leopard on leopard violence
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of all of the cable segments I am not going to watch, this is the one I am not going to watch the most
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What the eff this should be grounds for immediate removal and jailing for him and the entire cabinet
The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because โ wait for it! โ Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
a cow-cat!!
new book! @matociquala.bsky.social
a preordered new release has arrived early! ๐ @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social
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opened a brand new party stack tin of pringles and this is how much air there was at the top. revolutions have been fought over less egregious thefts.
1. Here's the motion for preliminary approval of the settlement in Bartz v Anthropic class action suit. Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion, an "estimated gross recovery of $3,000 per Class Work" & destroy the two datasets of pirated works once litigation ends storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
$1.5 billion sounds like a lot of money, but keep in mind that Anthropic just raised $13 billion in its latest fundraising round and is valued at $183 billion
My early thoughts on the Anthropic settlement: a) good, fucking pay us b) no, thatโs not enough c) shouldnโt have stolen our shit to train your stupid mediocre plagiarism artbarf robot in the first place, you fuckers d) this isnโt something to celebrate; it is a Pyrrhic victory at best
The official DOJ Twitter account posting the equivalent of a screenshotted Notes app apology from a phone on 30% battery after the acting director got honeypotted on Hinge and confirmed plans of an Epstein/Maxwell coverup.
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mate, your president alone is a convicted felon whoโs also been legally held to have committed rape. that you think any of this is some esoteric fringe theory shows youโre so wildly detached from reality that Iโd be better off yelling at clouds than sending you links you wonโt read
you realise Iโm a dude, right?
maybe stop voting for pedophiles, crooks and fascists and Iโll have less to be angry about
โshow some positivity and stop the hateโ is the political equivalent of โyouโd be prettier if you smiled more.โ
RFK Jr looks like that one guy in every zombie movie who gets bitten but refuses to disclose it out of stubborn egotistical idiot selfishness, all while getting progressively clammier and more unhinged, until he finally goes full monster and gets spectacularly killed
Did you know Adrienne Rich wrote a poem about Artificial Intelligence in **1961** and it's absolutely prophetic?
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sneepy
