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phi!ip james shaw
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Reflections of loneliness in peculiar manners: www.philipjamesshaw.com

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If you buy my book NOW! you will get nothing extra or special as a bonus. Just my gratitude and a promise to apologize much later.

It's a great last gift to give to someone who will have once thought better of you.
Ever feel you wanna scream a bunch of private shit into the ether since you can't say it to anyone else, then you think better of it because of AI, and because it's private shit, & really it's only my own shit perspective which can't by definition be inclusive of others the shit is related to?
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Private Club With Deep Ties to Harrell Gets $183,000 City Grant; Harrell Campaign Paid Consultant $46,000 for Last-Minute "Outreach"
Today's Afternoon Fizz:
publicola.com/2025/12/04/m...
Private Club With Deep Ties to Harrell Gets $183,000 City Grant; Harrell Campaign Paid Consultant $46,000 for Last-Minute "Outreach" - PubliCola
1. On Thursday, Mayor Bruce Harrell announced $27.8 million in new grants through the city’s Equitable Development Initiative—the city’s largest…
publicola.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
uhmmm...this looks rad!
we’ve been working on this for months—introducing a new teaching collective ✨

starting 2/4, Fatimah Asghar, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & I will offer generative & workshop-based classes! In fiction, nonfiction, & poetry!

theministryofwords.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I think we are at the point where Democrats need to be talking about the Nuremberg Principles far more than indulgent fantasies that Republicans will snap out of it.
March 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
last year was definitely a down year and this year was packed with highlights for me, but...as a data story, I like this year's effort and outcome.
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Over the long years, McSweeney's does not miss.
"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
waiting for Give Tell You Throw Up Thursday!
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The Knives Out spin-off we've all been waiting for... youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
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December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military.

They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Press Briefing Recap December 1
December 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hegseth From the Hague will be a shitty podcast, but I can't wait to see him there and convicted and off to life in prison he'll go.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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🚨 ALL THOSE IN TENNESSEE: FUCKING GET OUT AND VOTE TUESDAY, DEC 2. 🚨

@aftynbehn.bsky.social #TeamAftyn linktr.ee/aftyn4tn
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Thou shalt release the full, unredacted Trump MRI.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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One Afghan immigrant shoots two National Guard members, MAGA insists that all immigration from "Third World" (Read: Brown countries) is immediately and permanently halted.
Young white American males gun down dozens of school children each year, MAGA insists we make it easier for them to get guns.
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Just overheard in our independent bookstore: “a pair of black senior dykes just bought the place across the street.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The Monkey King, a rebellious 16th-century Chinese superhero, is finally breaking into the U.S. through Netflix films, blockbuster video games, and a sold-out San Francisco Opera production. n.pr/4rov9hl
A 400-year-old kung fu-fighting monkey is finally having his American moment
The Monkey King, a rebellious 16th-century Chinese superhero, is finally breaking into the U.S. through Netflix films, blockbuster video games, and a sold-out San Francisco Opera production.
n.pr
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This is fun.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
if Seattle could pull it together for a downtown set of schools. Maybe in all those empty tech high-rises.... It's what works.
Way back in 2018 I did a walking tour of Vancouver with @brenttoderian.bsky.social and he explained how that city overcame this problem. You need family-sized units & also, crucially, *good urban schools*.
Young families typically leave cities for the suburbs. Here’s how to keep them downtown.
Urbanist Brent Toderian explains how Vancouver held onto its families.
www.vox.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
If you buy my book NOW! you will get nothing extra or special as a bonus. Just my gratitude and a promise to apologize much later.

It's a great last gift to give to someone who will have once thought better of you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.

The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.

The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.

-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I think the algorithm is broken.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
yep
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM