never give up | Kevin he/his 🏳️‍🌈 autistic and relentless | silver spring

Joined March 2009
Punker than thou idiots who really just want to be cops are the second worst kind of punks.
“they played tel aviv!” a free show 9 years ago where they were invited by an anti-zionist punk collective “but they played tel aviv” all money made went to palestinian childrens charities “but tel aviv” they just did a benefit show for palestine, sudan and lebanon “tel aviv…”
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The worst kind of punks are Nazi punks of course
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I will say this. No one needs to cover “big yellow taxi in 2026. Amy Grant did a great job in 1995 and then Janet Jackson flipped it in “got till it’s gone“ in 97. Counting crows did it redundantly in 2002. Joni’s 2007 remake with weird midi sax should have been the final word.
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Okay but Cory Doctorow is in there too…
Replying to @AnandWrites
@AnandWrites asks @linamkhan about how many of the same people who opposed her also popped up in the Epstein emails: "You told me something I won't forget. You said whether in one sphere of life or another, these are men who don't like to be told no." At our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute
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I feel like the film assumes a baseline understanding of these realities. Her inability to acknowledge this is part of what is fascinating! It’s an investigation of self deceit among other things.
the annoying thing about the whole metaphysical “did Elizabeth Holmes knowingly lie or does she understand things differently” discourse is that it is a matter of public record that she just literally faked financial statements, altered documents, etc
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I don’t think it’s particularly funny but this doesn’t seem to be more than affectionate ribbing!
larry david boomer crashout over israel was not on my bingo card
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Dirtbag left confused cruelty with populism, confused internal discipline with elite scolding. It starts with the “means justify the ends” thinking and then cruelty becomes its own end.
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Honestly I’d be nearly as afraid meeting Nathan Fielder as I would be meeting Isaac Chotiner.
I met Nathan Fielder briefly this year at an awards show where he was being honored for “The Rehearsal.” At a loss for words, I told him “I hope the clips they chose do your show justice” (???) and he replied “Why wouldn’t they?” We then stared at each other for a moment…
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Not letting my pets eat ANY food until Kelly Clarkson is allowed to buy a $15000 bird alarm clock! Who’s with me?!? #DontFeedYourPetsChallenge
Art of Play, the store of the Kelly Clarkson saga, shares new statement: “We'd like to clarify one additional detail about Kelly Clarkson's visit to our Curiosity Shop on Saturday. During the 5 minutes she spent in the store, she inquired about our mechanical bird puppet named Molly. We explained that while Molly is permanently attached to the wall and serves as a de facto mascot for our shop, a nearly identical automaton is owned by the creator of the machines, a brilliant artist named Bliss Kolb who lives in Seattle. He told us he would be willing to part with Molly's twin for $15,000. We explained all of this to Kelly Clarkson. We also offered to show her a different singing bird automaton, made by a traditional clockmaking shop in Germany, that she could have taken home with her that day. It costs about $2,000. She did not stick around long enough to see it. We've reached out to Kelly directly to try and clear the air. We really do wish her the best and hope that someday we can all laugh about this misunderstanding.”
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kelly clarkson is doing her best with the tools available to her. both via retail therapy (which is legitimate, btw) and in venting online. remember, all of our experiences are relative and contextual. trauma doesn't read our bank balances.
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Elliott Smith or Jim Henson.
A celebrity death in your lifetime that hit you the hardest.
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Revisionist history / actual history
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What a cornball
Tom Morello (@tmorello) says he didn't vote for Kamala Harris in 2024. "I saw how the corporate Democrat sausage is made. It is worse than you think. And there is a righteous fury at the corporate-controlled, money-controlled electoral system we have that is absolutely illegitimate. And people cannot choke down voting for a candidate, I understand it, cannot choke down voting for a candidate that's responsible for what happened in Gaza. And they just, they can't do it."
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Wtf does I Africa NY even mean
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Nobody tell this guy about the Ramones
Replying to @Pontifex
The Pope is making a claim about what art is, independent of who gets to make it. But my point is about access, and on that front, AI tools have genuinely lowered the barrier for people who never had the training, money, time, or physical ability to make images, music, or writing through traditional means. Someone with no formal art education, someone with a disability that makes traditional mediums hard to use, someone in a place with no art schools or materials, these tools let them give form to an idea they couldn't otherwise externalize. Dismissing that output as categorically not art, full stop, risks devaluing something that functions as real creative expression and real access for those people.
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Really it’s just all about people having social permission to be jerks and bullies and hiding behind politics or ideology to do it. NO JERKS has gotta be the rule.
The problem is that anyone on the left who speaks out about it gets mass harassed or doxxed and slandered into silence in return and their friends and ostensible allies are afraid to stand up for them bc they don’t want to get harassed and doxxed and slandered either.
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The issue is not typically radlibs, or ideology or identity politics. It’s just people being bullies and jerks. The left needs to stand up to jerks and bullies among our ranks.
i was pushed out, along with multiple others, of union organizing at a progressive school bc of an interpersonal conflict that started with someone calling me racist bc i got rlly high and said that i thought the barbie movie was good
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Here is Wendell Berry writing about algorithmic bias. In 1983! (Wendell Berry has never owned a computer. He doesn’t need one.)
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