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· Jun 26
The world would be a better place if we took the burden to "reach out" off the already overburdened person.
If you care, YOU reach out.
If you care, YOU reach out.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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OMG! It won! What a brilliant book!
The winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction is ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ by Omar El Akkad. #NBAwards
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
OMG! It won! What a brilliant book!
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These are not serious people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
These are not serious people.
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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Little girl (to me) on my way home: Excuse me.
Me: Yes?
Little girl: I mean you need to say, 'Excuse me.'
Me: I do?
Little girl: Yes. Because you stepped on my shadow.
Me: Oh! Excuse me.
Little girl: Thank you. It's okay, she's fine.
Me: Yes?
Little girl: I mean you need to say, 'Excuse me.'
Me: I do?
Little girl: Yes. Because you stepped on my shadow.
Me: Oh! Excuse me.
Little girl: Thank you. It's okay, she's fine.
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Little girl (to me) on my way home: Excuse me.
Me: Yes?
Little girl: I mean you need to say, 'Excuse me.'
Me: I do?
Little girl: Yes. Because you stepped on my shadow.
Me: Oh! Excuse me.
Little girl: Thank you. It's okay, she's fine.
Me: Yes?
Little girl: I mean you need to say, 'Excuse me.'
Me: I do?
Little girl: Yes. Because you stepped on my shadow.
Me: Oh! Excuse me.
Little girl: Thank you. It's okay, she's fine.
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."
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A woman on the Tube in a zebra-print dress reads a book which is open to a page illustrated with boats. Swinging from her neck with the swaying of the train, is silver anchor on a silver chain.
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A woman on the Tube in a zebra-print dress reads a book which is open to a page illustrated with boats. Swinging from her neck with the swaying of the train, is silver anchor on a silver chain.
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Ah this thread. iykyk
And of course, it's not limited to Great Men - it's everywhere, among men small & middling, too. Don't tell anyone - the school needs him, the church needs him, the record label needs him, the family needs him, no one will believe you anyway, bc look at all the good he's done!
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November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ah this thread. iykyk
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All of this thread. All of it.
Ferguson and GamerGate should have rung the klaxons from sea to shining sea.
Ferguson and GamerGate should have rung the klaxons from sea to shining sea.
This was ten years ago and people could already clocked the entire play but we’ve had ten years of public debate about what’s happening.
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
All of this thread. All of it.
Ferguson and GamerGate should have rung the klaxons from sea to shining sea.
Ferguson and GamerGate should have rung the klaxons from sea to shining sea.
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Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”
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I’ll never know how much of my disinterest in gender & womanhood was inborn, how much was being treated like prey by adult men from the age of 11 onward, and how much was societal gatekeeping around the performance of femininity. Not a big loss for me personally (not invested in gender at all)
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’ll never know how much of my disinterest in gender & womanhood was inborn, how much was being treated like prey by adult men from the age of 11 onward, and how much was societal gatekeeping around the performance of femininity. Not a big loss for me personally (not invested in gender at all)
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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lemme help ross douthat.
"conservative feminism" is a contradiction in terms. there is no such thing. feminism is inherently antagonistic to conserving the status quo of the past
"conservative feminism" is a contradiction in terms. there is no such thing. feminism is inherently antagonistic to conserving the status quo of the past
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
lemme help ross douthat.
"conservative feminism" is a contradiction in terms. there is no such thing. feminism is inherently antagonistic to conserving the status quo of the past
"conservative feminism" is a contradiction in terms. there is no such thing. feminism is inherently antagonistic to conserving the status quo of the past
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Nintendo Gamma Boy
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nintendo Gamma Boy
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
"this is your last chance to dodge a block" hahahahahahahahahaha
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"this is your last chance to dodge a block" hahahahahahahahahaha
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One thing to like about this chart is that you can try and spot the transformative technologies in the past
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One thing to like about this chart is that you can try and spot the transformative technologies in the past
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
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There's a very real possibility the incoming NYC mayor has seen your nudes
This labeller never misses
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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hooooooooly shit he is not fucking around
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
hooooooooly shit he is not fucking around
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race