Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.

Please.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The cover of the current issue of New York magazine, featuring a beaver throttling a bald eagle and the coverline "You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are"

just spent a week in Toronto and can confirm

nymag.com/intelligence...

Sleep Sweet, BlueSky 💙

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As American as apple pie. 😳

Two screen shots from "The Good Place" showing the character of Chidi Anagonye asking "Okay, but that's worse. You do see how that's worse, right?"

"He didn't mean that he'd end all elections in this country! He just meant that he'd give the white Christian nationalists everything they ever wanted and permanently realign the entire government according to their worldview."

I did hear that the action was pretty good. I'll probably give the show a shot just to see what my take is on it

"No offense" really only goes as far as the original comment, as you said.

It doesn't matter how little offense is meant if the comment itself is insensitive and shouldn't have been said. There is a time and a place to say "No offense," but usually it's said when the comment was unnecessary.

Saw someone commenting on disabled person's video: "Can I ask [invasive personal question]? sorry if that's disrespectful"

Creator politely advised the commenter not to ask disabled people such questions as it was indeed disrespectful.

The commenter then got upset because "I already said sorry" 1/

So, did you enjoy the show overall then and think it was well-written?

I haven't seen it and I'm very behind on SW media, but the consensus I've heard from friends (disregarding the anti-woke brigade) is that the general writing and characters were very poorly done. Action was apparently good tho