Achaemenid
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Excited to hear how McCreesh’s NYT mournful elegy for the rich rapist paradise that was New York City before metoo is actually ironic so it’s ok to write that piece and we all need to learn to read better.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Excited to hear how McCreesh’s NYT mournful elegy for the rich rapist paradise that was New York City before metoo is actually ironic so it’s ok to write that piece and we all need to learn to read better.
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Not to lay my cards on the table but I think this narrow focus in online discourse on who deserves to be rewarded really elides the actual societal value of the education system (teaching members of society important stuff that it's valuable for them to know)
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Not to lay my cards on the table but I think this narrow focus in online discourse on who deserves to be rewarded really elides the actual societal value of the education system (teaching members of society important stuff that it's valuable for them to know)
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It’s good that moderation of violent rhetoric is viewpoint-neutral. It’s good that moderation doesn’t treat you differently based on blue check or celebrity status.
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It’s good that moderation of violent rhetoric is viewpoint-neutral. It’s good that moderation doesn’t treat you differently based on blue check or celebrity status.
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#OtD 26 Oct 1881 communist Indigenous activist Dolores Cacuango was born in Ecuador. She took part in several strikes and uprisings, the landless and indigenous movements, and fought against sexual abuse of Indigenous women by hacienda bosses stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9863...
October 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#OtD 26 Oct 1881 communist Indigenous activist Dolores Cacuango was born in Ecuador. She took part in several strikes and uprisings, the landless and indigenous movements, and fought against sexual abuse of Indigenous women by hacienda bosses stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9863...
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We are going to end up with two political coalitions in which one thinks "fighting antisemitism" means shutting down universities and deporting students, which polls show most actual Jews oppose, and the other thinks all antisemitism is a right-wing wedge issue. And Republicans want it that way.
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are going to end up with two political coalitions in which one thinks "fighting antisemitism" means shutting down universities and deporting students, which polls show most actual Jews oppose, and the other thinks all antisemitism is a right-wing wedge issue. And Republicans want it that way.
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Candy corn is good, actually
October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Candy corn is good, actually
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Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
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video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space
October 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Nonbinary people don’t wear clothes
October 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Nonbinary people don’t wear clothes
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New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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“Should I pretend I, as an intersex person, don’t exist?” - Georgiann Davis www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?
A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.
www.latimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Should I pretend I, as an intersex person, don’t exist?” - Georgiann Davis www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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may I speak with the primary poster in your household?
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
may I speak with the primary poster in your household?
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you can think people making jokes & having fun with kirk’s death are tasteless, degenerate, short sighted, etc. but whatever you think of it, one thing is absolutely true: they more than anyone else here are “continu[ing] his work.” he was a vile piece of shit who encouraged and celebrated violence
The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
you can think people making jokes & having fun with kirk’s death are tasteless, degenerate, short sighted, etc. but whatever you think of it, one thing is absolutely true: they more than anyone else here are “continu[ing] his work.” he was a vile piece of shit who encouraged and celebrated violence
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One of the challenges of this age is these guys are basically moral chimpanzees and the rest of us have to both deal with the America they create while also protecting universal truths for ourselves to draw from AND for these people to rediscover someday.
September 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
One of the challenges of this age is these guys are basically moral chimpanzees and the rest of us have to both deal with the America they create while also protecting universal truths for ourselves to draw from AND for these people to rediscover someday.
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I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects
September 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects
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The New York Post is reporting the Minneapolis shooter was a far-right detransitioner who made TERF claims about their medical care ruining them in his manifesto
Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman confessed he was ‘tired of being trans’: ‘I wish I never brain-washed myself’
In a twisted handwritten journal he shared on YouTube before the massacre, Westman groaned about his long hair and his decision to transition.
nypost.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The New York Post is reporting the Minneapolis shooter was a far-right detransitioner who made TERF claims about their medical care ruining them in his manifesto
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Me when I see my first tree that has a brown or yellow leaf in the canopy
August 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Me when I see my first tree that has a brown or yellow leaf in the canopy
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They are vaccine skeptics because they are dumb, selfish people who were eager to believe lies that give them permission to be dumb & selfish, and there is a vast propaganda machine designed to provide those lies.
They did it. They are responsible for it. It's on them.
They did it. They are responsible for it. It's on them.
August 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
They are vaccine skeptics because they are dumb, selfish people who were eager to believe lies that give them permission to be dumb & selfish, and there is a vast propaganda machine designed to provide those lies.
They did it. They are responsible for it. It's on them.
They did it. They are responsible for it. It's on them.
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Allies of the fascist regime are referring to the residents of our capital city as “cockroaches.”
This is explicitly neo-Nazi language used in service of making Jeffrey Epstein‘s best friend into dictator for life.
This is explicitly neo-Nazi language used in service of making Jeffrey Epstein‘s best friend into dictator for life.
August 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Allies of the fascist regime are referring to the residents of our capital city as “cockroaches.”
This is explicitly neo-Nazi language used in service of making Jeffrey Epstein‘s best friend into dictator for life.
This is explicitly neo-Nazi language used in service of making Jeffrey Epstein‘s best friend into dictator for life.
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I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
August 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
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Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children,
Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country,
But grow like savages—as soldiers will
That nothing do but meditate on blood—
Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country,
But grow like savages—as soldiers will
That nothing do but meditate on blood—
August 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Even so our houses, and ourselves, and children,
Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country,
But grow like savages—as soldiers will
That nothing do but meditate on blood—
Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country,
But grow like savages—as soldiers will
That nothing do but meditate on blood—