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· Nov 19
Update for quiltsky: here’s the skull quilt with the double border (3/4 inch black border, 1/4 inch multicolor). I will hand stitch the binding to the back this week. I can’t wait to show you the back!
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"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy."
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy."
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my best advice for the new year is block every establishment media figure that appears on your timeline, you will miss nothing of value and you will never regret it
December 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
my best advice for the new year is block every establishment media figure that appears on your timeline, you will miss nothing of value and you will never regret it
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Both Satanic Panic and QAnon are just remixes of anti-semitic blood libel. It's sort of shocking to realize how mainstream this stuff has always been in right wing Christianity, especially among evangelicals
We saw a revival of these witchcraft notions with QAnon. Kids weren’t “merely” abused or trafficked in some of that lore—they were being consumed, sacrificed, their blood transmuted into immortality elixir
December 31, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Both Satanic Panic and QAnon are just remixes of anti-semitic blood libel. It's sort of shocking to realize how mainstream this stuff has always been in right wing Christianity, especially among evangelicals
Yeesh be careful out there
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🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake.php?id=1922972
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🌐https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1922972
🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake.php?id=1922972
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Yeesh be careful out there
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I think about this a lot
December 31, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I think about this a lot
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For once, the straight men appear to be okay, and it gives me genuine hope.
(Also I have been chasing around threads and quote-threads watching these video clips and reading summaries and laughing my fucking ass off.)
(Also I have been chasing around threads and quote-threads watching these video clips and reading summaries and laughing my fucking ass off.)
i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me
December 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
For once, the straight men appear to be okay, and it gives me genuine hope.
(Also I have been chasing around threads and quote-threads watching these video clips and reading summaries and laughing my fucking ass off.)
(Also I have been chasing around threads and quote-threads watching these video clips and reading summaries and laughing my fucking ass off.)
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1995, studying in Prague for a year. I went to Bucharest by myself, fully intending to shell out for a hotel since there wasn’t a lot of backpacker-level tourist infrastructure yet. Showed up to the hotel to check in & the desk clerk took one look at me and said “You can’t stay here.”
I would like to hear about a time someone, a stranger even, was very kind to you without any prompting, ulterior motive, or strings attached.
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
1995, studying in Prague for a year. I went to Bucharest by myself, fully intending to shell out for a hotel since there wasn’t a lot of backpacker-level tourist infrastructure yet. Showed up to the hotel to check in & the desk clerk took one look at me and said “You can’t stay here.”
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THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable.
If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.
If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.
meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??
between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??
between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable.
If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.
If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.
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Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
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Indulgences
He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.
December 31, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Indulgences
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BITCH YOU ARE RECORDING YOUNG CHILDREN FOR CLOUT WITH A FAIRLY OBSCURE PODCASTER
can’t even tell you freaks to find god since if god was real, they wouldn’t wanna fuck with you
can’t even tell you freaks to find god since if god was real, they wouldn’t wanna fuck with you
December 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
BITCH YOU ARE RECORDING YOUNG CHILDREN FOR CLOUT WITH A FAIRLY OBSCURE PODCASTER
can’t even tell you freaks to find god since if god was real, they wouldn’t wanna fuck with you
can’t even tell you freaks to find god since if god was real, they wouldn’t wanna fuck with you
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
Pro Tip: follow Libraries on social media, they’re pretty darn funny
December 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Pro Tip: follow Libraries on social media, they’re pretty darn funny
What would you do if you were in Tampa, Florida for a day?
December 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What would you do if you were in Tampa, Florida for a day?
The wind has gotten bad enough here in SE PA that I am thinking about buying bungee cords to strap the trash cans to the fence🤔
December 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The wind has gotten bad enough here in SE PA that I am thinking about buying bungee cords to strap the trash cans to the fence🤔
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I think a lot of people who don't often write (or who just don't care) understand how easy it is to spot "AI" text once you've been exposed to it. It's gotten to the point that I can look at a piece of "AI" writing and tell if it was written by ChatGPT or some other LLM. They have "house styles."
December 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I think a lot of people who don't often write (or who just don't care) understand how easy it is to spot "AI" text once you've been exposed to it. It's gotten to the point that I can look at a piece of "AI" writing and tell if it was written by ChatGPT or some other LLM. They have "house styles."
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I don’t have words for this one [Mike said “soul-gutting (for all the right reasons)” which is the most emotionally accurate review]. It’s been on my shelf for months and @monteiro.bsky.social recently posted about it which reminded me to read it. So I did. You should read it as well.
December 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I don’t have words for this one [Mike said “soul-gutting (for all the right reasons)” which is the most emotionally accurate review]. It’s been on my shelf for months and @monteiro.bsky.social recently posted about it which reminded me to read it. So I did. You should read it as well.
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It is BARNES AND NOBLE PRESALE TIME! Preorder my book (and many others) for 25% off as a present to next year you!
(The juxtapositon of telling people to buy an anti-capitalist book is not lost on me lol.)
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-my-dea...
(The juxtapositon of telling people to buy an anti-capitalist book is not lost on me lol.)
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-my-dea...
December 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It is BARNES AND NOBLE PRESALE TIME! Preorder my book (and many others) for 25% off as a present to next year you!
(The juxtapositon of telling people to buy an anti-capitalist book is not lost on me lol.)
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-my-dea...
(The juxtapositon of telling people to buy an anti-capitalist book is not lost on me lol.)
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-my-dea...
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Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.
Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.
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"repetitive and meaninglessly vague" are the absolute hallmarks of slop. They're the "too many fingers" of text.
If it reads like a 7th grader trying to stretch their 100-word idea into a 300-word paper, it's almost certainly slop.
If it reads like a 7th grader trying to stretch their 100-word idea into a 300-word paper, it's almost certainly slop.
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"repetitive and meaninglessly vague" are the absolute hallmarks of slop. They're the "too many fingers" of text.
If it reads like a 7th grader trying to stretch their 100-word idea into a 300-word paper, it's almost certainly slop.
If it reads like a 7th grader trying to stretch their 100-word idea into a 300-word paper, it's almost certainly slop.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: the AK Press 50% off sale! Get ALL of our published titles—plus all AK merch—half price, now through 9am on 1/1. Start the new year off with some new reads: www.akpress.org/published-by...
December 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: the AK Press 50% off sale! Get ALL of our published titles—plus all AK merch—half price, now through 9am on 1/1. Start the new year off with some new reads: www.akpress.org/published-by...
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More of you need to let your non-gamer family members try your games and show us their reactions, like how @secretplangames.bsky.social did here
December 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
More of you need to let your non-gamer family members try your games and show us their reactions, like how @secretplangames.bsky.social did here
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Do I have this right?
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Do I have this right?
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
A Wall Street financier is shaping opinions for a newspaper owned by hedge funds to manufacture consent for technology built on intellectual theft to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of narcissistic billionaires while pouring gasoline on a climate crisis? 🤔
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