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Eileen Clancy 🧿 (@clancyny.bsky.social)

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me, trying to explain 12yo why I‘m psyched about a socialist mayor: so that’s why— 12yo, wearing deeply earnest facial expression: you know what it means? communism was a red herring

I am celebrating so this is a thought for tomorrow but: I woke up at Too Early this morning thinking about how much the ~left is willing to ascribe to right-wingers cooking themselves online and how little analysis of why centrist Dems are so weird takes X into consideration RE:

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Alexis Madrigal (@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social)

I am worried about all the centrist Dems who are cooking their brains on an Elon Musk-tuned Twitter, imagining that is what “real life” is in t...

incidentally, the populations of NYC and the state of Virginia are real close to the same size

I would have thought that, given how much news I read, the act of just putting little summaries of immigration and data/surveillance next to each other in a chrono list (with many other people) would not make me break out in a cold sweat, but yeah, no.

turns out I have the inner resources required to stay furious about Teen Vogue for days, even now

2 things I accidentally taught autocorrect today but will never change: 1.) hollering > hollewrong, 2. cringe > crunge

oh god let me make dopey little posts that do not go to discover let me have this LET ME HAVE IT

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

I looked a couple of weeks ago and I was on blocklists that claim to list genocide promoters, Russian assets, MAGA supporters, general haters (fair), etc. The people who are using these bad-faith and/or trolly and/or dumb lists from randos are not my people.