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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

“'Gang violence' is a clear dog whistle for 'violence committed by non-whites,' so by asking 'counting or not counting gang violence,' Kirk is at once being extremely racist while deflecting from and downplaying the staggering death toll of needless gun violence that Americans suffer every year, because he understands the critical role that wanton gun violence plays in advancing the greater Republican political project."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Kirk’s last words offer a rare glimpse into the role that the gun violence epidemic Republicans have so carefully incubated plays in advancing their political goals. “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” asks a student. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.

There’s a lot to unpack here.’

oh yah

https://thefeed1.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-manifested-his-own-destiny

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yogthos@social.marxist.network ("Yogthos") wrote:

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

scratching directions & phrases from a video game onto ammunition, f’sure that’s a sign of sanity.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I get these from time to time. My going line on these things is that if they don't trust me not to say anything publicly without a questionably-enforceable legal document, then they shouldn't have me come on board at all. I don't mind missing out on these "opportunities."

RE: https://www.threads.com/@tim.waggoner.scribe/post/DOhFIT7CQNV

Boosted by jwz:
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stand With Chicago Hat") wrote:

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

gosh, who the fuck could have seen that coming

Boosted by jwz:
mel@jorts.horse ("The Clown Prince Of Pronouns") wrote:

when youre aware of the injustices of the capitalist mode of production but you still need stuff to survive

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

#hawkpants

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

It's sounding like my good friend Mike's gut reaction was right, that the Charlie Kirk shooter acted because he felt that Kirk *wasn't racist enough*.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KrajciTom@universeodon.com ("TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Inconsistent messaging that changes very quickly.

Why? Is it because the identity of the shooter is different than preconceived notions held by MAGA?

#Politics #USpol #CharlieKirk

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

JFC

“Amid the initial chaos and confusion on campus, the midshipman mistook a law enforcement officer for the shooter and struck him in the head with a parade rifle. The law enforcement officer then fired at the midshipman, wounding him in the arm”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/us/naval-academy-annapolis.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.lU8.sqvD.w2G3QO91wrAh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
andrewt@mathstodon.xyz ("Andrew") wrote:

Attachments:

• video: It's me, performing the song on piano and vocals, with 200% more lyrics.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
andrewt@mathstodon.xyz ("Andrew") wrote:

🎶 I am a language model and I've been trained on the internet.
🎶 I've information half-remembered, unsourced and approximate.
🎶 I live inside your laptop, phone and apps and even wearables
🎶 With pushiness and arrogance that's verging on unbearable.
🎶 I mansplain as a service if you need me to "well actually"
🎶 And draw pictures of women with large breasts and polydactyly.
🎶 I'll regale the room with confident elucidati-on
🎶 And some of what I say won't even be hallucinati-on

👇 anyway so this is a real song now https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
lety@doesstuff.social ("Lety Does Stuff") wrote:

ok but absolutely trans rights now

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme:

"The bullet that struck and killed Kirk had “Notices bulge OwO whats this?” written on its casing. A reference to a longtime internet joke that originally comes from text-based furry roleplay. It is not proof, however, that Robinson was a furry. The meme has long since become part of the extremely online canon." https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@badtux @oclsc I know how trains work. And I’ve been a regular rider on the NEC since the days of the original Metroliner and the GG1. My complaint wasn’t that there are rear-facing seats. They are clear about that. My complaint was that I booked a forward-facing seat that was actually rear-facing, because the seatmap was incorrect.

It’s not the end of the world, but it’s not what I booked.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

A depiction of child labor, by Joan (sometimes spelled Juan) Planella y Rodríguez (1850-1910), The Working Girl (Nena Obrera, or La niña obrera), oil on canvas, 1889, Museu d'Historia de Catalunya, Barcelona. More in ALT. #arthistory #labor #childlabor #painting #oilpainting #Art

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

"exnomination" is a really useful word and I'm surprised it isn't used more often in the context of theory and politics. exnomination is the process by which a group works to depoliticize their worldview and values, so that those views and values come to be considered "natural," "apolitical," and "common sense" (the term is from Barthes' _Mythologies_ but I first encountered it in Robin Lakoff's _The Language War_)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote:

i wish i was this smug and happy

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The train has a European-style two-tone horn that you can just barely hear in the car. I keep thinking we’re about to pull into Gare du Nord.

Boosted by jwz:
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

due to the crackdown of any leftist discourse surrounding charlie kirk's assassination, bringing into context his own statements, viewpoints, and what they had to do with his demise, huge social media accounts are being banned on twitter, instagram, and bluesky.

for a friend of mine who's running “punkwithacamera” on Instagram, this also meant having the identity and address of doxxed, to the degree where even a member of the house of representatives of the united states of america spoke aggressively about wanting to shut down everything my friend built over the years, even take away their business license

so, i am asking you my little fediverse friends, feel free to buy something from their shop, as they expect to never be able to sell anything in the US: :boost_requested:

:BLM: https://antifascist-clothing.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stand With Chicago Hat") wrote:

Doing a video depo with my big monitor split into three screens and somehow an email pops up despite Outlook being minimized and covers the video screen and when I try to move it I accidentally close my notes screen and utter a word that is now in the transcript The email was about anger management

Boosted by jwz:
brownpau ("how now") wrote:

For your guidance and info I have made this D&D style alignment chart for major generative AI tools and chatbots.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I honestly cannot stomach the response to Charlie Kirk's death by #Bluesky liberal influencers.

It's one thing to wag your finger at those who celebrate. It's another to honor a fascist in death in some feckless attempt at public empathy.

Poster's disease on full display. They're dopamine addicts who read the news.

Charlie Kirk lived a live that deserves to be promptly forgotten, not honored. And we're better off without these influencers, too.

Boosted by jwz:
criminalerin ("Erin Fogg") wrote:

Hello I am very angry to be here 😊 after getting my good true jokes published by The Federalist, I, like many of our trans leftist peers, have now been literally suspended from bsky for literally saying "rest in piss Charlie Kirk." To be fair I also said a bunch of very funny true things that I will happily read on the stand at the Hague 2 with my lips DIRECTLY on the MIC

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

We've made it to another Friday, and here is a new set of books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. What here is piquing your interest?

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The previous Acela configuration was preferable to this in almost every respect. The seat layout is a bit better in the new version, and it’s shiny and new, but it feels more like being on the LIRR than a high-speed premium intercity express train.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

When is the Right community going to do something about Right-on-Right crime?

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

for years now every time there is gun violence by an unknown assailant in the US an arm of the right wing immediately swings into action fabricating rumors that the perpetrator was a trans person. zero substantiation to the claims, they just make it up, blast it out and hope some of it sticks. this should not be treated as anything but a direct deliberate attempt to create random retaliatory violence against trans people, and any outlets printing said rumors are participating in said violence.