Coffee and Fingernails
@coffeenfingernails.bsky.social
Lover of art and people. Political watcher and doer. Descendant of Sapelo. Auntie of Adrianna. Dog mom of Phineas McGee.
Principal @ kscadvocacy.com
Principal @ kscadvocacy.com
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You have to love people in need more than you hate the other side, even when the other side is full of malice. You have to want progress more than you want vindication of a world view or the intoxication of self-righteousness. Otherwise, it's not activism--just ego.
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one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
I'm a great lover of hateful reviews (book or film) but this is the first time a positive review convinced me not to read the book: "The business cycle is nothing more than the collective expression of human nature..."
NO IT FUCKING IS NOT...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
NO IT FUCKING IS NOT...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Making Sense of Dollars and Cents
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'm a great lover of hateful reviews (book or film) but this is the first time a positive review convinced me not to read the book: "The business cycle is nothing more than the collective expression of human nature..."
NO IT FUCKING IS NOT...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
NO IT FUCKING IS NOT...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
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“This out gay man who was sixteen years old and living in Indiana when Matthew Shepard was murdered used to wish he could be straight. This proves that he is homophobic.”
Do these people hear themselves?
Do these people hear themselves?
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“This out gay man who was sixteen years old and living in Indiana when Matthew Shepard was murdered used to wish he could be straight. This proves that he is homophobic.”
Do these people hear themselves?
Do these people hear themselves?
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
This is less an opinion column than a fundraising letter...
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is less an opinion column than a fundraising letter...
Does the ability to get regular health screenings and early treatment for illness improve health outcomes? We may never know...
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Does the ability to get regular health screenings and early treatment for illness improve health outcomes? We may never know...
Our current bullshit moment in a nutshell
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our current bullshit moment in a nutshell
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While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
Haven't had this thought in a while with everything else going on but the Puritans really fucked us up.
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Haven't had this thought in a while with everything else going on but the Puritans really fucked us up.
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“People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.” ― Terry Pratchett
#Discworld #TerryPratchett #DailyPratchett #SirTerry
#Discworld #TerryPratchett #DailyPratchett #SirTerry
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.” ― Terry Pratchett
#Discworld #TerryPratchett #DailyPratchett #SirTerry
#Discworld #TerryPratchett #DailyPratchett #SirTerry
Alternate headline: Pro-Palestine Group Reveals Itself to Be Not so Much Pro-Palestine as Anti-Jewish
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Alternate headline: Pro-Palestine Group Reveals Itself to Be Not so Much Pro-Palestine as Anti-Jewish
White men can never fail, they can only be failed
Thinking about the many times I've seen "Obama is ignorant" or "AOC doesn't understand economics" or the like while Trump belches out a half-baked insincere proposal for a two-step version of the same ACA subsidy he's trying to eliminate.
Hey kids the Trump Healthcare
Plan just dropped!
Plan just dropped!
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
White men can never fail, they can only be failed
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Thinking about the many times I've seen "Obama is ignorant" or "AOC doesn't understand economics" or the like while Trump belches out a half-baked insincere proposal for a two-step version of the same ACA subsidy he's trying to eliminate.
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thinking about the many times I've seen "Obama is ignorant" or "AOC doesn't understand economics" or the like while Trump belches out a half-baked insincere proposal for a two-step version of the same ACA subsidy he's trying to eliminate.
Usually it's just the mainstream Democrat position
Name the ‘moderate position’ on literally any issue. Quickly.
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Usually it's just the mainstream Democrat position
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I was literally just telling someone on Wednesday that this had died down and then this airs last night. Poor Tommy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I was literally just telling someone on Wednesday that this had died down and then this airs last night. Poor Tommy.
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but "shows more feminism" is such odd phrasing. It's giving "Hello, fellow feminists" energy
JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT:
“Being a conservative woman in a law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism than just falling into some predetermined vision of what a woman should be.”
“Being a conservative woman in a law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism than just falling into some predetermined vision of what a woman should be.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but "shows more feminism" is such odd phrasing. It's giving "Hello, fellow feminists" energy
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If a superhuman intelligence came into being and we said, “how do we end scarcity?” I promise you the people who had one hand on the plug to that superhuman intelligence would pull that plug if the AI gave the actual answer, because they don’t want to end scarcity.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If a superhuman intelligence came into being and we said, “how do we end scarcity?” I promise you the people who had one hand on the plug to that superhuman intelligence would pull that plug if the AI gave the actual answer, because they don’t want to end scarcity.
I keep watching this because I simply can't process what an absolute hollowed out prick of a man RFK Jr. Is
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I keep watching this because I simply can't process what an absolute hollowed out prick of a man RFK Jr. Is
Increasingly convinced that letting a bunch of half educated misanthropic baby men enthralled by perpetual, low level acid trips and thinly disguised eating disorders build the infrastructure for modern social and political life was a mistake.
I realize it is not the most useful piece of analysis but I feel like we don't talk enough about the plain fact that a relatively large chunk of the country has just kinda lost their minds
Hmm
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Increasingly convinced that letting a bunch of half educated misanthropic baby men enthralled by perpetual, low level acid trips and thinly disguised eating disorders build the infrastructure for modern social and political life was a mistake.
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we genuinely have to take LLMs away from people like openai because this is too transformative a technology to let them render it radioactive like this
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
we genuinely have to take LLMs away from people like openai because this is too transformative a technology to let them render it radioactive like this
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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.
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someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself
i will not share the video
but if you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself