Beachfox (Before Dark)
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The place for all my political/non-furry retweets and venting.
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But it lets you in on what is in fact central to Franklin‘s story. Seeing this scene helped free me from the idea of having to sanctify characters with whom I or a reader naturally empathize over parts of their story. to make a saint of a character is at least partly to deny them their wholeness
December 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
But it lets you in on what is in fact central to Franklin‘s story. Seeing this scene helped free me from the idea of having to sanctify characters with whom I or a reader naturally empathize over parts of their story. to make a saint of a character is at least partly to deny them their wholeness
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This is one reason Franklin in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a remarkable character for its time. He’s in a wheelchair; his friends and sister help him out, because he needs help; he’s also a giant pain in the ass and his wheelchair makes everything take a little longer. It’s summer. It’s Texas.
there's a certain way certain people write fiction about disability that really sets my teeth on edge, and it's an approach that I can only describe as 'educational hugboxing'
in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
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in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
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December 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is one reason Franklin in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a remarkable character for its time. He’s in a wheelchair; his friends and sister help him out, because he needs help; he’s also a giant pain in the ass and his wheelchair makes everything take a little longer. It’s summer. It’s Texas.
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Atlantic straight up telling on themselves
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Atlantic straight up telling on themselves
When Trump taps her as his new VP, she’ll be running as Sarah Failin’
Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
When Trump taps her as his new VP, she’ll be running as Sarah Failin’
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if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
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2025: America watches Canadian bootlegs of journalism about US concentration camps. Nothing is for sale, everything is for rent. Computers will take your job but will be worse than you at it. You make less than ever but can gamble on your credit balance. One racist ket addict gets paid $1 trillion.
December 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
2025: America watches Canadian bootlegs of journalism about US concentration camps. Nothing is for sale, everything is for rent. Computers will take your job but will be worse than you at it. You make less than ever but can gamble on your credit balance. One racist ket addict gets paid $1 trillion.
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I think the "best" part of this (if there is such a thing) is that no one defied Weiss or smuggled this out or broke any laws to release it.
It was an automatic thing sent to an app in another country, because Weiss pulled the story at the last second without doing it properly.
It was an automatic thing sent to an app in another country, because Weiss pulled the story at the last second without doing it properly.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I think the "best" part of this (if there is such a thing) is that no one defied Weiss or smuggled this out or broke any laws to release it.
It was an automatic thing sent to an app in another country, because Weiss pulled the story at the last second without doing it properly.
It was an automatic thing sent to an app in another country, because Weiss pulled the story at the last second without doing it properly.
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
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December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
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This is not supposition. This is plainly what happened:
People with a financial interest in stealing money from the Pentagon made an "AI" illustration of something World of Warships would reject as "too shit," put Trump branding all over it, and convinced him to let them "build" it.
Fucking idiot.
People with a financial interest in stealing money from the Pentagon made an "AI" illustration of something World of Warships would reject as "too shit," put Trump branding all over it, and convinced him to let them "build" it.
Fucking idiot.
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is not supposition. This is plainly what happened:
People with a financial interest in stealing money from the Pentagon made an "AI" illustration of something World of Warships would reject as "too shit," put Trump branding all over it, and convinced him to let them "build" it.
Fucking idiot.
People with a financial interest in stealing money from the Pentagon made an "AI" illustration of something World of Warships would reject as "too shit," put Trump branding all over it, and convinced him to let them "build" it.
Fucking idiot.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
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Look, we're not sure if adding asbestos to our product is useful or helpful or something our customers are even interested in, but it's a competitive industry and we have to be willing to adopt asbestos rather than be left behind.
We want to assure our audience and our fans that we only use asbestos in our production flow ethically.
We understand there are a lot of concerns about asbestos, but we only use asbestos in small portions and only in places you can't see it.
We promise to expose you to asbestos responsibly.
We understand there are a lot of concerns about asbestos, but we only use asbestos in small portions and only in places you can't see it.
We promise to expose you to asbestos responsibly.
December 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Look, we're not sure if adding asbestos to our product is useful or helpful or something our customers are even interested in, but it's a competitive industry and we have to be willing to adopt asbestos rather than be left behind.
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The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
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Jucika Prepares for the Ball
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Jucika Prepares for the Ball
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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Where we see confirmed that what is being described as an American peace plan was written by Russians and learn that Witkoff advises the Kremlin on how to fool Trump
Read a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president
Putin Advisers Discuss Plans for Dealing With Trump: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president.
bloom.bg
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Where we see confirmed that what is being described as an American peace plan was written by Russians and learn that Witkoff advises the Kremlin on how to fool Trump
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
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Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.
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The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
interc.pt
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
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I'm pretty sure it was this Dick Cheney comic that got me fired from The Washington Post. It was the first time they refused to run one of my weekly comics (after over ten years), and my comic was discontinued soon after.
From 2007:
From 2007:
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm pretty sure it was this Dick Cheney comic that got me fired from The Washington Post. It was the first time they refused to run one of my weekly comics (after over ten years), and my comic was discontinued soon after.
From 2007:
From 2007:
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Is there an application process for the list? Like an online portal or something? Or is it shut down with the government?
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
interc.pt
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Is there an application process for the list? Like an online portal or something? Or is it shut down with the government?
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People has consistently been doing a better job accurately and concisely coving Trump than the NYT for a while. Every member of Congress should have a staffer keeping tabs on their coverage for tips on better communication.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
People has consistently been doing a better job accurately and concisely coving Trump than the NYT for a while. Every member of Congress should have a staffer keeping tabs on their coverage for tips on better communication.
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For my item for today’s edition of @zeteo.com newsletter First Draft (subscribe!!) helmed by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @petertwinklage.bsky.social:
Trumps new enemy of the people is… ‘PEOPLE’??!?!??!?!?!?!
zeteo.com/p/ben-shapir...
Trumps new enemy of the people is… ‘PEOPLE’??!?!??!?!?!?!
zeteo.com/p/ben-shapir...
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For my item for today’s edition of @zeteo.com newsletter First Draft (subscribe!!) helmed by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @petertwinklage.bsky.social:
Trumps new enemy of the people is… ‘PEOPLE’??!?!??!?!?!?!
zeteo.com/p/ben-shapir...
Trumps new enemy of the people is… ‘PEOPLE’??!?!??!?!?!?!
zeteo.com/p/ben-shapir...