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Bucky would not abide sharing space with our departed cat Hal. If Hal was someplace Bucky wanted to be, Bucky would use “aggressive grooming” to make Hal vacate the space.
So, I am astonished that in less than a week we have reached this point with the kittens:
So, I am astonished that in less than a week we have reached this point with the kittens:
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Bucky would not abide sharing space with our departed cat Hal. If Hal was someplace Bucky wanted to be, Bucky would use “aggressive grooming” to make Hal vacate the space.
So, I am astonished that in less than a week we have reached this point with the kittens:
So, I am astonished that in less than a week we have reached this point with the kittens:
Zirka seems obsessed with computer screens.
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Zirka seems obsessed with computer screens.
My in-laws took a stray cat in last September. The day it was scheduled to be spayed, she gave birth to four kittens. Sunday night, my brother-in-law arrived with a pair of two-month-old kittens for us. 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My in-laws took a stray cat in last September. The day it was scheduled to be spayed, she gave birth to four kittens. Sunday night, my brother-in-law arrived with a pair of two-month-old kittens for us. 1/2
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Astrokittens discovering things
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Astrokittens discovering things
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[looks at White House]
Add the War of 1812 to the list.
Add the War of 1812 to the list.
We are retroactively losing the Civil War, WWII and the Cold War thanks to white identity politics.
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
[looks at White House]
Add the War of 1812 to the list.
Add the War of 1812 to the list.
RIP Daniel Naroditsky 😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
RIP Daniel Naroditsky 😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
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Is it theft to break into the Louvre and take jewels to make AI copies?
October 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Is it theft to break into the Louvre and take jewels to make AI copies?
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"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...
I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media
The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F
www.stopthepresses.news
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...
Happy Thanksgiving to any fellow Canadians out there in the aether.
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to any fellow Canadians out there in the aether.
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I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/
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Linked to this yesterday, but I am re-upping today because this is the best piece of practical research I have seen lately. It deals with what's gone wrong in political coverage.
"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice."
YES.
Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...
Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.
YES.
Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...
Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Linked to this yesterday, but I am re-upping today because this is the best piece of practical research I have seen lately. It deals with what's gone wrong in political coverage.
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I listened to the whole exchange between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, and to the original "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" column, and among the takes this piece is the best I have read. Long-ish, so set aside a bit of time. (Disclosure: I have been on Ezra's show...)
I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
You don’t have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I listened to the whole exchange between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, and to the original "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" column, and among the takes this piece is the best I have read. Long-ish, so set aside a bit of time. (Disclosure: I have been on Ezra's show...)
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Do you really need to stir your reactions? How do you know?
Stirring Bars are Superstition?
www.science.org
September 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Do you really need to stir your reactions? How do you know?
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
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I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
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What can 13C CPMAS NMR tell us about household dust bunnies? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2010/03/hous... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
August 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
What can 13C CPMAS NMR tell us about household dust bunnies? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2010/03/hous... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
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Don't believe I'm not a child sex predator? Well, don't take it from me. Take it from my good friend, the world's worst living child sex trafficker, whom I'm about to pardon!
August 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Don't believe I'm not a child sex predator? Well, don't take it from me. Take it from my good friend, the world's worst living child sex trafficker, whom I'm about to pardon!
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Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s Getting theonion.com/man-who...
August 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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August 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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i love how academics start every talk saying "thanks for the opportunity to speak"
THANKS FOR LETTING ME YAP
I LOVE TO YAP
THANKS FOR LETTING ME YAP
I LOVE TO YAP
August 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
i love how academics start every talk saying "thanks for the opportunity to speak"
THANKS FOR LETTING ME YAP
I LOVE TO YAP
THANKS FOR LETTING ME YAP
I LOVE TO YAP
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This is the definition of "uterus" as appears at the top of a Google search when you're looking to find the meaning of the word.
...and it contains a MAJOR factual inaccuracy. Let's explain exactly what is so wrong here.
...and it contains a MAJOR factual inaccuracy. Let's explain exactly what is so wrong here.
August 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This is the definition of "uterus" as appears at the top of a Google search when you're looking to find the meaning of the word.
...and it contains a MAJOR factual inaccuracy. Let's explain exactly what is so wrong here.
...and it contains a MAJOR factual inaccuracy. Let's explain exactly what is so wrong here.