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@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") retweeted:

@FossilLocator ("Fossil Locator") wrote:

NFTs are awful. Basically burning a forest to own a jpeg.

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@perhapsthebees ("Executive Producer Dick Warlock") wrote:

I don't think I've ever punched BUY TICKETS this aggressively in my life

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@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

In the far-flung future of 1994, two Moosejaw kids compete against music juggernaut BIM and its satanic CEO, MR BOOGALOO. Can they resist the siren song of devilish disco? Or will all the world fall to the mark of the beast…and the power of BIM?!? https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dumpster-raccoon-cinema-the-apple-1980-tickets-192723249427?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Dumpster+Raccoon+Cinema%3A++THE+APPLE+%281980%29&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") retweeted:

@MaxKennerly ("Max Kennerly") wrote:

There are just 11,418 coal-mining jobs in West Virginia. The state is already a chemical and manufacturing hub, one primed to benefit from green technology investment.

This is entirely about Manchin's wallet and the $500k a year he gets from Enersystems, which burns waste coal.

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@nytimes ("The New York Times") wrote:

Breaking News: The heart of President Biden's climate agenda — a push to replace coal- and gas-fired power plants — is said to likely be cut from the budget bill because Senator Joe Manchin opposes it. https://nyti.ms/3aHKAv7

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@Nafleky ("Naff | It's Always Halloween Here") wrote:

Honestly if you can go to this do it bc this is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen.

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@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

In the far-flung future of 1994, two Moosejaw kids compete against music juggernaut BIM and its satanic CEO, MR BOOGALOO. Can they resist the siren song of devilish disco? Or will all the world fall to the mark of the beast…and the power of BIM?!? https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dumpster-raccoon-cinema-the-apple-1980-tickets-192723249427?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Dumpster+Raccoon+Cinema%3A++THE+APPLE+%281980%29&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:

@ironcircuscomix ("Iron Circus Comics") wrote:

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@steveklabnik wrote:

Is this the opposite of Protestantism

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@8POINTEDANGEL_ ("꧁꧂Fionn❌✴️") wrote:

@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") retweeted:

@michaelmina_lab ("Michael Mina") wrote:

Want to see what a “low” positive looks like on a BinaxNOW test?

See photo in tweet below. This is a good example of a positive result

Even if the line is super faint, if it stretches from left to right, and you can see it at all - even faint - it’s positive.

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@WakesurfMum ("Right Matters") replied to a tweet by @constructor1981:

@constructor1981 @michaelmina_lab He had a faint but darker line this morning, on day 2 of symptoms. I tested myself & my other child & we both had negative tests. I’m not taking him back to urgent care to expose others, where yes they tested him indoors despite me telling them his rapid antigen was positive.

@joelle_emerson ("Joelle Emerson") retweeted:

@ryangrim ("Ryan Grim") wrote:

Absolutely wild that a guy who literally owns a coal producing business that generates millions for him — currently — can make this kind of decision for the whole country and it’s not illegal

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@Sen_JoeManchin ("Senator Joe Manchin") wrote:

https://twitter.com/wvgazettemail/status/1449134081233522690

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:

@nickw84 ("Nick Walker") wrote:

This is the greatest "showerthought" of all time. Of all time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/q8rd8d/if_the_queen_wore_a_pair_of_shoes_once_and_sold/

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

So yeah. Something to think about going into this "war on Christmas" season.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

That might mean, in the short term, upsetting those who have tied their identity to scapegoating and hatred of the outgroup in order to systemically improve everyone's lives (take note @Sen_JoeManchin, @SenatorSinema & @POTUS), but we need to change things. Radically.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

Our world sucks because of very human, generational trauma that is perpetuated by a very human drive towards self-preservation and self-soothing.

The only solution is self-awareness, education, and progressive change driven by understanding and compassion.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

Like, all of this is connected. The systems of economics, politics, religion, and psychology.

And lest this come off conspiratorial: it's not. The capitalists and Conservatives are driven by the same drive to depersonalize. They are, by and large, neither happy or secure people.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

Who benefits from the commercial monstrosity that is modern Christmas? The rich and the church(es). Who pushes the "war on Christmas" rhetoric? Conservative news organizations owned by rich, white Christians.

Who do they target they're messaging to? Destitute white people.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

Do you really think it's a coincidence that Conservatives in the US are overwhelmingly very rich or very poor white people? Rich people in the US are white because of historical and current exploitation/colonialism; poor whites can feel they're in group because the same skin/race

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

And, of course, the thread linking all of this together is capitalism (i.e. monetary feudalism or oligarchy via money, instead of divine right). Capitalism leads to exploitation, which leads to misery, which leads to cope, which strengthens capitalism.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

So this one idea (the "War on Christmas") becomes an assault on your entire group identity, which you've supplanted your own identity with (because your own identity is miserable, powerless, and hopeless).

How sad is that? It's understandable, but it's tragic.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

So now the idea of an attack on Christmas is an assault on your happiness and Baby Jesus by godless liberals, who are also trying to take over and destroy the country (which you've also tied your identity to because nationalism and Conservativism are also mutual gateways)

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

And you aren't limited to one group identity for cope.

Christianity and Conservativism are very strongly linked in the US (mutual gateways), and Conservativism suggests any change/thing that makes you sightly uncomfortable is a calculated assault by the outgroup: 'liberals'

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

Even for abuse victims, it's often the one time of year where your caregivers at least PRETEND they care about you. And even when there are arguments and/or passive aggression, you often at least get something out of it (i.e. a gift).

So by adulthood it's a happiness lifeline.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

Combine that with the pressure of staying in a group identity—which, remember, you're doing because you're coping with other shit—and it makes sense the one would get furious at the very thought of an "attack" on Christmas. Even when it's benign as not wanting to participate.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

And they brook little to no deviation from their tenets, if you want to stay in their ingroup, so joining requires accepting other ideas.

Like Christmas, which is an easy sell since it's a positive memory of many people's childhood due to presents and treats and songs.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

In the case of US Conservatives, they often attach themselves to forceful and/or Evangelical Christianity. This type of Christianity works by blame shifting injustices from their origin systems to individuals (self-blame) and/or their congregations' outgroups (scapegoating)

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

When things get desperate and people feel like they have little to no agency/self in their life, they may cope by adopting a group identity. This gives them a sense of belonging and purpose.

On the benign end, this can be fandom; on the malignant end, cults & hate ideologies

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

How much of their identity is tied up in this festival of gingerbread and gift giving, and what does it mean that their identities are so tired up in it?

One avenue of explanation is a concept covered in a Social Behavior I'm taking: depersonalization as a coping strategy

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") wrote:

The "War on Christmas" rhetoric is old hat for the GOP, and the fact that they're starting it 2 months early is notable because it suggests none of their other messaging is working.

But have you ever thought about why it's so effective?

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/16/its-not-even-halloween-and-are-already-claiming-biden-is-stealing-christmas/

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @Maryxus:

Like, how sad are Republicans/Conservatives generally that they be can be whipped into such a frenzy over the very idea of a threat against their one widely-accepted excuse to pretend the world is okay for a month each year?

Pretty sad, I'd imagine, even if they can't admit it.

@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:

Congratulations @mortgerberg (my hero)

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@NatCartoonSoc ("National Cartoonists Society") wrote:

Go watch now http://NCSFest.com

@Blithe ("Blithe Rocher, Ph.D.") wrote:

I’m glad the rest of the baseball world is learning about @kikehndez this season.

@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:

This is a real fun time that involves me, someone who will next year be co-writing a Suicide Squad comic about the origin of Amanda Waller…

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@Elana_Brooklyn ("Elana Levin") wrote:

I’m not above using #DCFanDome to reach new listeners to check out our #SuicideSquad podcast episode with @aboynamedart @attackerman. It’s for a good cause. https://bit.ly/IsStarroCubanEmbargo