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sociology phd 👥🎓 data engineer 📉🧑🏻💻 american soccer analysis ⚽️ up the fucking pids
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when you're 2 months old and have already seen too much
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
when you're 2 months old and have already seen too much
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
It’s Foucault Week on GBBO! We start with a signature meditation on our biopolitical relationship with the state. Then, our bakers please Prue with some technical corporal punishment for defying the sovereign. And finally the judges will surveil the construction of towering pastry panopticons!
I hope raspberry jelly oozes out
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It’s Foucault Week on GBBO! We start with a signature meditation on our biopolitical relationship with the state. Then, our bakers please Prue with some technical corporal punishment for defying the sovereign. And finally the judges will surveil the construction of towering pastry panopticons!
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If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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we have an addiction in America when we have a crime syndicate in control of the federal government and people still think they are the ones who are tough on crime.
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
we have an addiction in America when we have a crime syndicate in control of the federal government and people still think they are the ones who are tough on crime.
I’m not surprised cuz he’s still got it, but my god. What a machine.
BREAKING: Timbers legend Diego Chara is officially coming back for year-16 with Portland. #RCTID
“Really happy talking about the future”
“Really happy talking about the future”
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I’m not surprised cuz he’s still got it, but my god. What a machine.
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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What life under competitive authoritarianism looks like
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What life under competitive authoritarianism looks like
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Without any animosity, truly and genuinely: Bro, just resign
John Fetterman was taken to the hospital after suffering from a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” and falling near his home
John Fetterman Hospitalized After Fall
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Without any animosity, truly and genuinely: Bro, just resign
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Upslope is the best Boulder brewer!!!! They better not fuck this up!!!
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Upslope is the best Boulder brewer!!!! They better not fuck this up!!!
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As a semi-dyslexic child, I never imagined that I'd need to learn how to spell "eugenics."
But here we are.
But here we are.
U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says
The Trump administration has directed visa officers to consider obesity and other chronic health conditions when deciding whether to grant visas to immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As a semi-dyslexic child, I never imagined that I'd need to learn how to spell "eugenics."
But here we are.
But here we are.
Wilfried dreams of the Liguilla
Wilfried Nancy wants the playoff format to change. Didn't seem to enjoy best of three round one:
“First of all, congrats to Cincinnati. But over three games, how many goals did we score? Five goals? How many did Cincy score? Three goals.
We won 5-3, but we are out?”
“First of all, congrats to Cincinnati. But over three games, how many goals did we score? Five goals? How many did Cincy score? Three goals.
We won 5-3, but we are out?”
Sources: MLS owners are expected to vote on flipping to fall-spring calendar at Thursday's BOG meeting. Could happen as soon as 2027.
Also: Changes to competition format expected too, including single league table + divisions.
w/ @paultenorio.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
Also: Changes to competition format expected too, including single league table + divisions.
w/ @paultenorio.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Wilfried dreams of the Liguilla
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Maybe I'm being too critical, but this NYT headline really grates on me. It assumes the reader doesn't know anyone on SNAP, or isn't on SNAP themselves. Which, I think, says a lot about who is writing the news and who the NYT sees as its audience.
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Maybe I'm being too critical, but this NYT headline really grates on me. It assumes the reader doesn't know anyone on SNAP, or isn't on SNAP themselves. Which, I think, says a lot about who is writing the news and who the NYT sees as its audience.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.
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This is essentially the same story told by the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is essentially the same story told by the Panama Papers of 2016, the Paradise Papers of 2017 & the Pandora Papers of 2020.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
Nearly 7TB of data on released on wealthy people, mostly men, doing terrible things at scale & facing no consequences:barely any prosecutions, miniscule # of convictions.
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
Rate my divisions
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Rate my divisions
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PC Gamers: Consoles are the worst! Ugh!
Console Gamers: When you have a standardized set of specs it makes it easier to develop for and game test and costs less for the consumer
Also PC Gamers: Yay they're making a console for us!
Console Gamers: When you have a standardized set of specs it makes it easier to develop for and game test and costs less for the consumer
Also PC Gamers: Yay they're making a console for us!
new Steam Hardware coming in 2026 store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
PC Gamers: Consoles are the worst! Ugh!
Console Gamers: When you have a standardized set of specs it makes it easier to develop for and game test and costs less for the consumer
Also PC Gamers: Yay they're making a console for us!
Console Gamers: When you have a standardized set of specs it makes it easier to develop for and game test and costs less for the consumer
Also PC Gamers: Yay they're making a console for us!
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The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
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“This is part of the whole problem: These police departments are operating under the impression that everything that happens on the street is fair game, and their systems are not a privacy violation. But then when it comes to the public wanting to know, they say ‘this is a privacy violation.’"
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“This is part of the whole problem: These police departments are operating under the impression that everything that happens on the street is fair game, and their systems are not a privacy violation. But then when it comes to the public wanting to know, they say ‘this is a privacy violation.’"