Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky
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This is deeply misleading. The agricultural section of the bill does NOT ban hemp-derived cannabinoid products that contain less than .3% THC total. www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is deeply misleading. The agricultural section of the bill does NOT ban hemp-derived cannabinoid products that contain less than .3% THC total. www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp/news/15...
I more or less agree with will that there is just a lot of evidence that the economy in 2024 was quite good relative to (say) 2019 or 1980.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I more or less agree with will that there is just a lot of evidence that the economy in 2024 was quite good relative to (say) 2019 or 1980.
this makes sense.
and I think this is driven at least in part (but only in part) by skyrocketing education costs...
and I think this is driven at least in part (but only in part) by skyrocketing education costs...
this isn't exactly right but not exactly wrong either. share of americans who live alone is at peak, but share of young americans living with "roommates" is *also* up. how is this possible? increases in both are offset by fewer married couples living together, since people get married later.
Okay I'm going to flag this not to dunk on Sandra but because I want to point that one major driver of increased housing costs is that young people today are MUCH more reluctant to have roommates than in the past. I personally know a number of folks who just refuse to consider it!
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
this makes sense.
and I think this is driven at least in part (but only in part) by skyrocketing education costs...
and I think this is driven at least in part (but only in part) by skyrocketing education costs...
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
omg!
fun fact: you do actually get to see him kick it. lucy keeps the ball down as promised and charlie brown totally whiffs it and kicks her in the hand
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
omg!
lucy canonically does let charlie brown kick the football at least once.
so even charlie brown is less of a mark than shaheen and co.
so even charlie brown is less of a mark than shaheen and co.
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
lucy canonically does let charlie brown kick the football at least once.
so even charlie brown is less of a mark than shaheen and co.
so even charlie brown is less of a mark than shaheen and co.
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As we say in my community: Ooooo, that’s gonna leave a mark
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
As we say in my community: Ooooo, that’s gonna leave a mark
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
it's also fun that she's incinerating him in between cute cat posting while he's running around the sight weeping and insisting he has a soul.
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
it's also fun that she's incinerating him in between cute cat posting while he's running around the sight weeping and insisting he has a soul.
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OK, I wasn't driven to weigh in on Oates' masterful Musk takedown until this moment, but this pushes it over the edge into brilliance.
"Elon Musk eats shit"
"I DON'T EAT SHIT"
"Truly I was just expressing general curiosity, as to what would compel someone to gobble shit like a pie eating contest"
"Elon Musk eats shit"
"I DON'T EAT SHIT"
"Truly I was just expressing general curiosity, as to what would compel someone to gobble shit like a pie eating contest"
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
OK, I wasn't driven to weigh in on Oates' masterful Musk takedown until this moment, but this pushes it over the edge into brilliance.
"Elon Musk eats shit"
"I DON'T EAT SHIT"
"Truly I was just expressing general curiosity, as to what would compel someone to gobble shit like a pie eating contest"
"Elon Musk eats shit"
"I DON'T EAT SHIT"
"Truly I was just expressing general curiosity, as to what would compel someone to gobble shit like a pie eating contest"
I like Austen a lot better.
Frankenstein has great ideas and many indelible bits...but also a lot of patches that have not aged well.
Frankenstein has great ideas and many indelible bits...but also a lot of patches that have not aged well.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I like Austen a lot better.
Frankenstein has great ideas and many indelible bits...but also a lot of patches that have not aged well.
Frankenstein has great ideas and many indelible bits...but also a lot of patches that have not aged well.
"I have come on your network of the tv to explain that I am the absolute gooniest fucking mark that ever drew breath on god's earth."
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
"I have come on your network of the tv to explain that I am the absolute gooniest fucking mark that ever drew breath on god's earth."
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Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
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she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂
Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"truly it was out of curiosity"
underrated Musk defenestration from JCO
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
underrated Musk defenestration from JCO
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Multiple people apologizing for Hick and Bennet have showed up to this thread, and just because they didn't moons us on this vote doesn't mean we have forgotten them showing their ass before.
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Multiple people apologizing for Hick and Bennet have showed up to this thread, and just because they didn't moons us on this vote doesn't mean we have forgotten them showing their ass before.
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Just to let people know: yes, I think the caucus is antidemocratic and favor the non-working classes
no we are not going to change that by refusing to participate in them
no we are not going to change that by refusing to participate in them
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just to let people know: yes, I think the caucus is antidemocratic and favor the non-working classes
no we are not going to change that by refusing to participate in them
no we are not going to change that by refusing to participate in them
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late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
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i have missed this drama but this is the most joyce carol oates thing to ever joyce carol oates
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
i have missed this drama but this is the most joyce carol oates thing to ever joyce carol oates
they said joyce carol oates never wrote a single must read masterpiece but that was before her collected tweets owning elon musk
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
they said joyce carol oates never wrote a single must read masterpiece but that was before her collected tweets owning elon musk
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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🎶 look high as my last hope Joyce Carol Oates coming off the top rope 🎶
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
🎶 look high as my last hope Joyce Carol Oates coming off the top rope 🎶