Dad of two awesome kiddos. Lucky to be married to my best friend. Interested in interesting things: progressive politics/social democracy, infosec, Linux, organized labor, Yankees, NY Giants,Rick & Morty, Andor, CBS' Ghosts, The Orville, cord cutting before it was cool (since 2012), The West Wing, The Wire. American by birth, citizen of the world by choice, progressive social democrat. Formerly @TheSean before the Masthead.social instance disapeared
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Last Notes npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1ks4…x88p it was absolutely the most cringe inducing political event I've ever seen. Who do you think Harris will pick for her VP? npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmm #ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmm #logic More than one thing can be true at the same time. https://cdn.masto.host/liberalcity/media_attachments/files/112/627/981/284/198/991/original/4b3f81c3deb2ae85.jpg npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1zdp…vqv8 Excel has a limit of 32k rows, at which point one has to migrate the spreadsheet over to database Access or SQL npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #NFL #FreeSpeech https://cdn.masto.host/liberalcity/media_attachments/files/112/448/844/755/534/490/original/9972b7ee7b3086ed.png npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean Terry Anderson ran for state senate in Ohio in 2004, I was working for a get out the vote (GOTV) organization and was responsible for some of the counties that the district he was a candidate for. Along with all the rest of the homophobia that GOP used in the election that year, Anderson's opponent ran ads that alluded that he was gay, because he supported LGBTQ+ community R.I.P. https://apnews.com/article/terry-anderson-dies-associated-press-c266353298c04dbf874ab4d94536f2b3 Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76 npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1kpw…xzz4 I was under the assumption that Dem-leaning voters would either sit out or vote third party. I voted for HRC knowing she could lose and received the toxic behavior from VBNMW. I live in CT and so won't be swinging my state's ECVs by voting for 3rd party, will still get the same abrasive treatment for being a crypto-Trump supporter as I did when I voted for the Dem nom in '16 as I get for voting for the Greens. Lesson needed to be learnt: More flies w/ honey than vinegar @npub18lj…80hq npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub18lj…80hq I don't think that the toxicity drives anyone to be conservative, but may throw their hands up and give up on everything. I agree with you that there should be tolerance for nuance, since reflexive abrasiveness is very off-putting and counter productive if we need as many people as possible to win elections. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1ks4…x88p Hahaha Thanks I needed a good laugh npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1jup…77gr Arrested for as John Lewis used to call "Good Trouble" would draw boos from the crowd, but being arrested for drunken brawls, fraud and 'light treason' gets whoops and hollers from so-called "patriots". npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1ks4…x88p that's also a thought, maybe he gets 10% in TX and that swings the state so that the Great Lake swing states don't matter, I would feel better if RFK and whomever is on the No Labels steers clear of swing states altogether. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean "According to a release sent by his campaign earlier this month, the effort, dubbed the “We The People” party, is showing that Kennedy can get on ballots in Biden’s home state of DE, the reliably Democratic CA and Hi, as well as NC and MS. His campaign said it also created a similar party in TX, on Democrats’ wish list each cycle, under the name the “Texas Independent Party.” https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4430026-democratic-concerns-grow-amid-rfk-jr-ballot-push-in-battleground-states/ RFK in non-swing states = 👍 RFK in swing states = 👎 #Election2024 #RFKjr #Biden #Trump #MAGA npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub19xy…gky4 there is a greater population of Mexicans in the state of Tijuana, why doesn't California have the same problem as Texas? For that matter why not Arizona or New Mexico? Why is it that only Abbott can't seem to abide by federal law and federal courts' determination of that law? It's almost like he's being obtuse to cause a problem, or at least exasperate the problem, and relishing in having a border crisis that he is too incompetent to handle. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean Congratulations Giants on that nailbiter of a win! #NYGiants #GBvsNYG #GBvNYG #MNF #NFL npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean Tommy DeVito is enough of a run threat that it keeps this Packers defense on its heels. They really do not know on which given play he will give it to the RB, keep it and run or roll out and throw. #NYGiants #GBvsNYG #GBvNYG #MNF #NFL npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1ks4…x88p thanks for the heads up, I edited it, so now that Tom should see it. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @[email protected] know that Bryce leaving is a big hit, but did Cordkillers not have a show this week? npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1ks4…x88p @npub1dux…wjvy Matt Gaetz claimed that there were procedural reasons why he lead the effort to vacate McCarthy, including the Omnibus budget rather than 12 distinct budgets, yet nothing he did after booting McCarhty was a step closer to that goal. Justice Democrats should have leveraged their greater than margin of victory number to offer up their votes for McCarthy and get concessions like straight up/down vote for M4A, Paid FMLA, $15/minimum wage, etc. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1l3t…cal9 Zelensky came to seek support that is essential to the continued existence of his country (if the West cuts off Ukraine it would be taken over within months) but he didn't travel "at risk of his life". He's not in danger while in the US, Canada is considering what to do, possibly down the road to go war, with India for their assassination on their territory. If Russia did something similar, F22s would be strafing every military target that Russia had before end-of-business day #FAFO npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean At MattMerk at mastodon.social @npub1sqp…pmmt @npub16le…e33l @npub1yck…ujmw I'm not a Maher apologist in the slightest, I pointed out that he has been intellectually dishonest about how others on the left have changed while he instead has become vocally more conservative. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub189n…satx it's an ideology of traditionalism, not just childish view of everything was better when I was a kid in the (50s/60s/etc), but that progress of modernity is taking us further away from the intrinsic natural order or that the ancient ways were somehow divinely blessed and we are depriving ourselves of this mystical knowledge with facts & science. The Traditionalist view is that the ancients had it mostly figured out and that progress is slowly forcing us in the wrong direction npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub189n…satx there was a study of disenfranchisement in former Confederacy, where 95% of the black voters lost their right to vote between 1875 and 1925, but white men also lost their right to vote to the tune of something like 65%. From 17th century's Bacon's Rebellion up to Lee Atwater's confession that the Southern Strategy hurts white people but hurts blacks more, one can't systemically harm just black people so might as well fight systemic racism out self-interest because you're white npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean "You only get the ones that you pay for though. The rest stay in the amazing skill box" #ClassWarMemes #Funny #Politicalhumor #Polticalmemes #Antiwork #Jokes #Humor #memes #humour #polticalhumour #anitworkmeme https://cdn.masto.host/liberalcity/media_attachments/files/110/991/375/807/584/567/original/3e6fb7f23ad099c4.png npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1ks4…x88p it's probably the fear of losing whatever virtual social capital they've accumulated within the legacy platforms and hyper exaggerated value that they delude themselves that their followers have. TV ratings are an abstraction that requires an agreed upon value between the broadcasters and advertisers, same goes for power users and advertisers/sponsors on legacy TV. They're going to stay in legacy platforms until it's perceived that the masses have moved on - it's not based on reality npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub189n…satx @npub1lvp…rned liberals remain on Twitter because it's the agreed upon metric of clout, and they don't have any other desire other than clout. If they sought out objective truth and the ability to disseminate what they have discovered from their journalistic endeavors they of course would have abandoned Twitter even before Musk bought it, but they aren't seeking truth rather just chasing clout and stature among the elite. How many virtual peasants, I mean, "followers" do you have? npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub189n…satx if anyone ever utters "how are going to pay for that?" this is the answer, the trillions of dollars going to profitable companies that know for certain their product is destroying the biosphere and will make it ever more difficult for human civilization to continue. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #rusiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #putin #Pirgozhin #wagner #wagnergroup #news #worldnews "Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow." ... "None of this, of course, is proof that Prigozhin and his entourage were deliberately targeted. But given the circumstances any claims that his demise, if confirmed, was an accident will see a lot of eyebrows raised." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66599733 npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1fd2…d540 @npub189n…satx Bernie Kerick = convicted felon Rudy Giuliani = soon to be convicted felon npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub182x…36l3 @npub1fp9…wpyl @npub189n…satx @npub1pe7…xpvn @npub1gmx…atcq government taking possession of the voting shares of the company with 1% - 100% based on mandatory sentencing and proportional to the egregious violation of the law. Don't want to be nationalized, follow the law. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1x4f…z796 @npub189n…satx while here in the US, the police believe they're there to play out fantasies of being Dirty Harry/Punisher/Death Wish/[insert vigilante here] just without achieving any semblance of justice. The "good cops" are the ones who don't themselves commit crimes but sit idly by while "bad cops" overtly commit crimes. A couple of bad apples spoil the bunch, and the bunch have been rotting ever since the police progenitor: slave patrols npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1grx…uxfe @npub1v7x…2lu0 tell that to Mondale, Dukasis, John Kerry and HRC, they didn't even feign empathy and lost in trying to get political power in electoral system, but promising to feel your pain or deliver 'hope and change' gets you wins. If Biden pushed for single issue bills for paid maternity leave, $15/hr minimum wage, and buy in to Medicare/public option and win or lose on those votes, hanging around the necks of everyone who voted "no", you think that the 2024 election results would be close? npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1grx…uxfe @npub1ks4…x88p Trump says that the system is broken and corrupt, people agree with that assessment. SQ states that this is as good as it gets, and people strenuously disagree and Biden and the consultant-donor industrial complex buck at the popular demands that would return to the to a social democracy of the New Deal and the Great Society, ratherthat continues to be dismantled and replaced with private for-profit solutions. Trump is wrong with what the solution is, not that there's a problem npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1grx…uxfe @npub1ks4…x88p recognizing that the world isn't going great for a lot, even if its fake "I feel your pain" empathy is better than neolib narrative that only the market w/tweaks can do anything to provide material improvements to your life, just ignore the man behind the curtain of other wealthy nations with robust welfare states and just focus on the great and powerful wizard of the Invisible Hand of The Market. Biden and The Establishment Dems need to "welcome the hatred of moneyed interests" npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1grx…uxfe @npub1ks4…x88p if the status quo (SQ) is propagating the "world is fine as it is" & there's rw demagogues "the world's f**ked & it's because of [insert scapegoat]", the average voter will respond choice of the SQ being willfully ignorant to lived experiences and the demagogues being wrong on the 'why' but at least seeing them as commiserating w/ their plight. Why Latino and black men having greater support for an obvious bigot like Trump, greater than any GOP candidate? He's a bigot of action npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1grx…uxfe the more that Biden and the Establishment refuse to deliver material gains for Americans, the more likely Trump will be seen as change (even if that is really just virtue signaling of chaos, not actual change) and Biden will be seen as sclerotic and out of touch. The status quo isn't worth defending, and the only bulwark against fascism only wants to prevent any systemic change, fascism will be seen as action and Biden will be seen as inaction. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1px9…v9r5 @npub1lnm…624t if a Manchin/Huntsman ticket focused on WV, UT, OK, LA, SC and similar states, would they not be a spoiler for the GOP? If Republicans who held their nose and voted for Trump numbered more than the margin of victory and voted for corporate conservatives like Manchin/Huntsman, flipping one or more states, then No Labels would be a stalking horse for Biden not a threat? I just don't see how No Labels draws votes away from the incumbent Democratic with center-right candidates. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean Oh, but they said it's not "Don't Say Gay" and it's just protect the children from age inappropriate content like...{looks up the offending content} PG rated Disney animated movie that explores ecology, but a character in the movie is {clutch pearls} gay. It was Don't Say Gay Law right from the beginning, Meatball Ron and GQP want to erase the whole LGBTQ+ segment of humanity. If they can't ignore their existence, the next inevitable step will be far more evil. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/florida-teacher-disney-film-strange-world https://cdn.masto.host/liberalcity/media_attachments/files/110/373/050/792/543/812/original/4f33cd3876388a5b.jpg npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean @npub1pqk…z65u isn't bluesky centralized? "For now, Bluesky has set up one main server that everyone is on, but in the future, people will be able to customize their own algorithms and feeds using Bluesky’s underlying technology." When it transitions into a decentralized platform then it should be called that, but not a moment sooner https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/29/23702979/bluesky-twitter-elon-musk-jack-dorsey-chrissy-teigen-aoc-dril-decentralized npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] #[1] Hey, maybe she's into that sort of thing. Let her be herself, no kink shaming here. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] #[1] and have a friend feed you the two cereals blindfolded after telling them "I've got to do this because of this toot last night"... but no further explanation. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] #[1] UH HUH TOTAL-LAY npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] have a friend feed you both cereals blindfolded and see if you can really tell or simply that one having crazy amount of food coloring and the other one having more subdued food coloring and still not tasting like apples or apple juice but just like a less colorful Fruit Loops npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] little known fact, Apple Jacks and Fruit Loops are the same cereal and can't be differentiated in blind taste tests. Food Theory: Fruit Loops and Apple Jacks Are SECRETLY The Same https://youtu.be/LZ8lkhgnCzw npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, WaPo, NYT, et al were aligned with clickbaity zero-information ratings grabbing coverage of a baffoon that none of them thought was ever going to win, because none of them realize how viscerally hated The Establishment is outside their cocktail circuits/social circles. Russia was not as influential as the Pied Piper memo from the Clinton campaign npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] I believe that we differ the on the impact of the Russian interference versus the domestic power structure that made decisions that gave baffoon billions of dollars in media coverage with expectations that he'd lose in a landslide. Russian interference was a not as impactful as the editorial decisions within editorial newsrooms at corporate news outlets. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] root of the problem is that powers-that-be are determined to concentrate wealth and power and destroy the middle class through wage suppression & decimation of labor unions, none of which was the result of Russian intelligence operations. Demagoguery isn't effective when material needs are met for a vast majority ppl, so even if I granted you with Russian intelligence officers were in every news room making every editorial decision, the Establishment was still to blame. npub16yzrnar43fl64pfa3ud73yagn3zqfj8lfz4hpehfm4hyc0l4dpks99fws7 Sean #[0] if only for Russia? You get that Americans hate the powers that be and would've been open to 6 foot tall middle finger had that been a nominee from either of the duopoply parties, rigjt? Russia is not as persuasive as the material well being of the average American worsening, and shifting blame on Russia and not the American oligarchy is just counterfactual to objective reality.