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laura lee
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you won’t break my soul
the defense “i didn’t kill her but i DID chop her up” is so wild
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Oh, that's where I know him from
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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This is a great appreciation of one of my absolute favorite authors @fotoole.bsky.social
I think I understand, deeply, what goes into this kind of sentence. Research, analysis, craft — this is a sentence where it all meets. This is just masterful.
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
it is so weird to be at the age where you see a frumpy old person and realize you were born the same year
This guy! Born in 1988!! He's a year older than Taylor Swift!
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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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
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Super moon. 8”x6” oil
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Kids these days are so fantastically ignorant that they can't recognize the Grand Nagus himself even when granted a personal audience. The average teenager can barely name 5 or 10 of the Rules of Acquisition.
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
it’s martin for me
Men are like “women won’t even look at a man if they aren’t 6’3 and built entirely of muscle” meanwhile every woman I know would date either of the Kratt Brothers.
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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oh my god
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
i just kneeled for twenty minutes while doing something and now my legs are not working. truly, i have exited my mid thirties and entered my late thirties
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
listening to vibe check is such a balm
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
it riles me up when people act like catcher in the rye is just about a whiny teenager. he was molested! his brother died!! your close reading skills are LACKING!!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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“Let’s go, girls” and “hell yeah, brother” are both gender neutral statements
October 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
perfection
"Alright, gumshoes, this one is serious! Carmen Sandiego and her gang have liberated a load of lucrative loot from the Louvre! You'll need all your wits and knowledge of obscure French royalty to solve this one!"

*cue Rockapella*
a woman is sitting at a desk with her hands folded in front of a map of the united states
ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her hands folded in front of a map of the united states
media.tenor.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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this culture is forgiving the victoria’s secret fashion show a little too quickly
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
i looooove las culturistas but listening to three gay men talk about how fun getting measured for a bra is and how empowering Victoria’s Secret is was WILD. girl, a VS fitting was the same level of traumatic as low rise jeans.
October 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
nearly died in a fiery crash because a spider leapt from my steering wheel onto my lap
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A part of the Project 2028 agenda should be giving Tim Robinson unlimited funds to do his weird projects
October 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
oh my god. the elliott smith song in the chair company heightened the pain of second hand embarrassment to dizzying levels
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Good reporting, HOWEVER!!! I hate the phrase “school choice.” What it really means is “forced resegregation”
The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
the greatest american innovation is hot and sour soup
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
still at the cafe and an unbalanced potted tree just fell over on me. exciting!!
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i am sitting in a cafe next to a woman reading house of leaves and a priest reading the bible. the world is so interesting!!!!!!!!!
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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What a sad day for Abbie Hoffman.
Okay, funny bookstore category
September 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Big personal news - just booked my first international standup gig! Related: can anyone tell me what the Taliban find funny?
September 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM