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Michael Rancic
@therewasnosound.bsky.social
arts & culture journalist co-founder @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social writing a book about the history of electronic music in so-called canada for @invisibooks.bsky.social
this is why we do what we do! print journalism is important! arts and culture journalism is important!
hell yes!
Seedhead reviewed in @thegrindto.bsky.social by @therewasnosound.bsky.social of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
next up: montreal! i'll be at Drawn & Quarterly with my fellow invisibillionaires on Friday October 16th! 6pm-8pm. don't sleep! @invisibooks.bsky.social
Candidates for the BC Conservatives have likened education about the 2SLGBTQ+ community to "grooming," referenced Jan. 6 conspiracies and questioned COVID vaccine safety. Right after we published this, tweets from another candidate surfaced where he joked about killing pro-Palestine activists.
meant to continue this in a thread but I got pulled away from my desk for a moment. drawn and quarterly, 6-8pm!
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i'm going on a lil fall book tour! if you're in any of these cities over the next two weeks, i'd love to see you there. don't see your city on this list? let me know if you'd like me to do an event near you!
awful
case in point
bsky.app/profile/ruem...
brb trying to arrange not ever having conflicting plans on a wednesday ever again, this sounds fun as hell as usual
new dead friend! new dead friend!
this place sucks too! Palestinians are regularly banned for trying to seek aid on here. a trans person got banned for calling out Ken Jennings ffs. you can't just hermit crab your way from platform to platform and think that's going to address hate of any kind. it will follow you wherever you go!
look at the quotes of that original post and you'll see a level of smugness which is pretty common on here: people blaming individuals for being too "lazy" to make the switch, when it's not about that at all.
the simple answer to this is that there is no single ongoing coordinated effort to get people to leave or boycott twitter. the tesla takedown stuff, which was largely organized on here, could have spread in that direction but never did.
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Contrary to the PM's statement, the "worst attack against Jewish people since the Holocaust" took place in Argentina in 1976-1983, and was backed by Israel. "Jewish victims may have been as high as 3,000. Despite being less than 1% of the population, Jews made up around 12% of the victims..."
I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.
Too much caffeine doesn't hurt those who are pure of heart
