Moon Gazing Raccoon
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Los Angeles forever, fascism never
It would be hard to overstate Jimmy Cliff’s influence on worldwide music, culture, and social consciousness, over multiple decades. If you haven’t seen The Harder They Come (or even if you have), this week would be a good time to watch it.
www.criterion.com/current/post...
www.criterion.com/current/post...
The Harder They Come
Perry Henzell’s reggae-infused outlaw film reflects the political climate of the times, when anti-government movements were sweeping America and the world.
www.criterion.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It would be hard to overstate Jimmy Cliff’s influence on worldwide music, culture, and social consciousness, over multiple decades. If you haven’t seen The Harder They Come (or even if you have), this week would be a good time to watch it.
www.criterion.com/current/post...
www.criterion.com/current/post...
Where is the holiday for girls who just want to lay on the floor?
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Where is the holiday for girls who just want to lay on the floor?
I give zero shits about roasting a turkey. I watched for Kenji's nails, and they did not disappoint.
(I am excited to make his roasted potatoes this week, they're always great but this time I get to try it with goose fat)
(I am excited to make his roasted potatoes this week, they're always great but this time I get to try it with goose fat)
We have been using Kenji's turkey advice for a few years. He just posted a NYT Cooking video arguing against using a roasting pan for the turkey.
youtu.be/fU5JE7KdSrE?...
youtu.be/fU5JE7KdSrE?...
A Better Way to Roast Turkey
YouTube video by J. Kenji López-Alt
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I give zero shits about roasting a turkey. I watched for Kenji's nails, and they did not disappoint.
(I am excited to make his roasted potatoes this week, they're always great but this time I get to try it with goose fat)
(I am excited to make his roasted potatoes this week, they're always great but this time I get to try it with goose fat)
the holidays are like CPTSD layer cake, you've got your generational trauma, your religious trauma, your child abuse trauma, your poverty trauma, your eating disorder triggers, your current family dysfunctions and estrangements, all between creamy layers of seasonal affective disorder...
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
the holidays are like CPTSD layer cake, you've got your generational trauma, your religious trauma, your child abuse trauma, your poverty trauma, your eating disorder triggers, your current family dysfunctions and estrangements, all between creamy layers of seasonal affective disorder...
Looking forward to another week of meetings where I'm told that the solution to everything is to increase our social media presence on Meta and X and have to explain, once again, why I don't use these things to a room full of people who do, so they can say they've "never heard any of this before."
It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Looking forward to another week of meetings where I'm told that the solution to everything is to increase our social media presence on Meta and X and have to explain, once again, why I don't use these things to a room full of people who do, so they can say they've "never heard any of this before."
THIS. Every effing bit of this. If you want credibility you have to show some discernment skills and the integrity to act on them.
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
THIS. Every effing bit of this. If you want credibility you have to show some discernment skills and the integrity to act on them.
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the jenga tower of a political-economic movement built solely on transgression: any wrongdoing exposed, then shamelessly bragged about, becomes a point of connection for people who were already primarily connected through their shared transgressions
but you never know when the whole thing will fall
but you never know when the whole thing will fall
The thing is that they don't care because they know it's either part of the draw for their followers or their followers are too stupid to understand what's happening. This prominent Indian account is bragging about it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
the jenga tower of a political-economic movement built solely on transgression: any wrongdoing exposed, then shamelessly bragged about, becomes a point of connection for people who were already primarily connected through their shared transgressions
but you never know when the whole thing will fall
but you never know when the whole thing will fall
why I’m making a Thanksgiving goose🪿
it is tired to the point of cliche to say if turkey was good, people would make it more than once a year. but it is understated that at least one American explodes every Thanksgiving in a brave attempt to make the main dish more palatable
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
why I’m making a Thanksgiving goose🪿
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
“The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes—that there are other ways of living, existing, and being. Arts can exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
This piece about Abigail McGrath was such a joy and a pleasure to read.
This piece about Abigail McGrath was such a joy and a pleasure to read.
The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible
The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“The arts remind us that none of the current truisms are absolutes—that there are other ways of living, existing, and being. Arts can exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”
This piece about Abigail McGrath was such a joy and a pleasure to read.
This piece about Abigail McGrath was such a joy and a pleasure to read.
For so many reasons, I’m hesitant to bring things into my life and my home now, and ‘shopping’ just sounds like piling on more overwhelm. But these perfumes bring me a lot of comfort, and come from a brand/creator with high integrity, so I can feel good about buying & wearing them. On sale now.
Chris Rusak
Chris Rusak creates high-quality, sophisticated perfumes in an edgy, contemporary style for fragrance collectors and perfume nerds alike.
shop.chrisrusak.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For so many reasons, I’m hesitant to bring things into my life and my home now, and ‘shopping’ just sounds like piling on more overwhelm. But these perfumes bring me a lot of comfort, and come from a brand/creator with high integrity, so I can feel good about buying & wearing them. On sale now.
they are really going to make girls pay full-price for co-anda 2x on black friday
these mfers
(and we are going to do it 🤦♀️)
these mfers
(and we are going to do it 🤦♀️)
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
they are really going to make girls pay full-price for co-anda 2x on black friday
these mfers
(and we are going to do it 🤦♀️)
these mfers
(and we are going to do it 🤦♀️)
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Anyway just a reminder that under communism you would have no idea who any of these people were or have to hear about anything they ever did
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Anyway just a reminder that under communism you would have no idea who any of these people were or have to hear about anything they ever did
out here winning hearts and minds
This is very good and important news that we should all be talking about. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America's next pet
The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of early domestication, researchers say.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
out here winning hearts and minds
BRB urgenly unlearning how to read before this happens a third time.
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
BRB urgenly unlearning how to read before this happens a third time.
"if charisma counts as cargo"
Call the coroner, I'm dead.
Call the coroner, I'm dead.
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"if charisma counts as cargo"
Call the coroner, I'm dead.
Call the coroner, I'm dead.
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Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
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Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
this is the compromise tbh, let’s not sugarcoat it
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
this is the compromise tbh, let’s not sugarcoat it
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand
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Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
It seems like all of the rich and powerful people around him patronizingly tolerated the race science stuff (“he has such an inquisitive and childlike mind”) in order to get access to his harem of underage sex slaves
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
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"is the president of the united states currently being blackmailed by pedophiles" is a legitimate question with supporting evidence that needs to be investigated
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"is the president of the united states currently being blackmailed by pedophiles" is a legitimate question with supporting evidence that needs to be investigated
Commonly
I just need to tell you when I was growing up middle aged men used the term "jailbait" as a compliment.
At some point especially once we break 30?
The leftist urge to avoid systemic and historical thinking by triangulation land condescension isn’t neutral
If you start any argument with “Trump is unique in crassness or pedophilic tendencies”
You’re just wrong
The leftist urge to avoid systemic and historical thinking by triangulation land condescension isn’t neutral
If you start any argument with “Trump is unique in crassness or pedophilic tendencies”
You’re just wrong
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Commonly
So black. So matte. So many little moments of joy each day since switching to Platinum Chou Kuro. So fitting for spilling my thoughts into the void. I have three pens inked with it. I never thought I could love a black ink like this. I’ve already bought another bottle. 🖤
#fountainpenink
#fountainpenink
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So black. So matte. So many little moments of joy each day since switching to Platinum Chou Kuro. So fitting for spilling my thoughts into the void. I have three pens inked with it. I never thought I could love a black ink like this. I’ve already bought another bottle. 🖤
#fountainpenink
#fountainpenink