ostrasyn
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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
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Has anyone tried to push Senator Palpatine to the left?
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Has anyone tried to push Senator Palpatine to the left?
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Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.
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wow okok this is literally one of the coolest things ive ever seen. thank you bunnymutt for using my song !!! this is so beautiful and perfect 🥺<3 and thank you everyone whose been listening from this <3
November 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
wow okok this is literally one of the coolest things ive ever seen. thank you bunnymutt for using my song !!! this is so beautiful and perfect 🥺<3 and thank you everyone whose been listening from this <3
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Best suggestions in the comments so far are "stumblebragging" and "The Mandel Effect"
there should be a word in English for when somebody tells a story that they think valorizes them but they're the obvious villain
"No one likes me, I win."
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Best suggestions in the comments so far are "stumblebragging" and "The Mandel Effect"
it's astonishing that someone who claims to be a developmental psychologist (Katie) would not understand the basic notion of age-appropriateness / developmental appropriateness in education.
So your stance is that it's appropriate to discuss sexuality with 5-9 year olds?
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
it's astonishing that someone who claims to be a developmental psychologist (Katie) would not understand the basic notion of age-appropriateness / developmental appropriateness in education.
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A recent comment in that vein, from Ralph Babet.
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A recent comment in that vein, from Ralph Babet.
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It's obvious to anyone with half a brain and I don't understand why people like Yglesias, Klein, and others don't understand this. Abortion was a non-issue to anyone but Catholics until the GOP made it a major plank of their party. You can do things as a party and a politician to move public opinion
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's obvious to anyone with half a brain and I don't understand why people like Yglesias, Klein, and others don't understand this. Abortion was a non-issue to anyone but Catholics until the GOP made it a major plank of their party. You can do things as a party and a politician to move public opinion
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This is the crux of the matter. If the rich can’t use their money to control the political parties-both of them, make no mistake-then they can’t control the economy and extract its wealth, wealth based on our labor and common resources, for their own benefit.
This is the crux of the matter. If the rich can’t use their money to control the political parties-both of them, make no mistake-then they can’t control the economy and extract its wealth, wealth based on our labor and common resources, for their own benefit.
If Schumer & Jeffries have been hostile to his camapign, it's because Mamdani’s ability to raise millions on an explicitly anti-corporate message represents a direct threat to the entire fundraising machinery that sustains Democratic Party leadership. /1
nathannewman.substack.com/p/mamdanis-r...
nathannewman.substack.com/p/mamdanis-r...
Mamdani's Rise is a Rebuke to the DC Corporate Dems like Schumer and Jeffries
Like Bernie & AOC, Mamdani Shows an Alternative to Dem Dependence on Corporate Fundraising
nathannewman.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This is the crux of the matter. If the rich can’t use their money to control the political parties-both of them, make no mistake-then they can’t control the economy and extract its wealth, wealth based on our labor and common resources, for their own benefit.
This is the crux of the matter. If the rich can’t use their money to control the political parties-both of them, make no mistake-then they can’t control the economy and extract its wealth, wealth based on our labor and common resources, for their own benefit.
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nothing is more outdated than a guardian columnist who doesn’t know that kids buy vinyl.
Trade me a goat for some turnips! Nothing is more outdated than the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert
Trade me a goat for some turnips! Nothing is more outdated than the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert
A child going into an actual shop and buying a vinyl? It will make you feel old and decrepit, and it’ll utterly bamboozle young people … but shut up – it’s Christmas!
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
nothing is more outdated than a guardian columnist who doesn’t know that kids buy vinyl.
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I remember my poetry professor in college telling us how the first message transmitted over the internet was simply “lo”
It was going to be a longer message - like “logged on” or some such - but there was a connection hiccup, and it ended up being simply “lo”
Like “Lo! Let there be light”
It was going to be a longer message - like “logged on” or some such - but there was a connection hiccup, and it ended up being simply “lo”
Like “Lo! Let there be light”
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I remember my poetry professor in college telling us how the first message transmitted over the internet was simply “lo”
It was going to be a longer message - like “logged on” or some such - but there was a connection hiccup, and it ended up being simply “lo”
Like “Lo! Let there be light”
It was going to be a longer message - like “logged on” or some such - but there was a connection hiccup, and it ended up being simply “lo”
Like “Lo! Let there be light”
going this route as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwQ...
I stream nothing, and I am happy.
YouTube video by Veronica Explains
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
going this route as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwQ...
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Another fundamentally cynical aspect of this narrative is the idea that pundits like Douthats wouldn't *also* accuse Democrats of radicalism if they passed a bunch of 'kitchen-table' policies. Are we really gonna pretend the NYT op-ed page would support a $20 minimum wage?
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Another fundamentally cynical aspect of this narrative is the idea that pundits like Douthats wouldn't *also* accuse Democrats of radicalism if they passed a bunch of 'kitchen-table' policies. Are we really gonna pretend the NYT op-ed page would support a $20 minimum wage?
Ayer may have been on to something.
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Ayer may have been on to something.
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I'm now in the revisionist camp about Matrix Revolutions, btw (that it was underappreciated how well it did certain things, in a way that should lead us to reassess the quality of the film) because
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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"Talyn. Starburst."
Gets me every time.
Gets me every time.
October 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"Talyn. Starburst."
Gets me every time.
Gets me every time.
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This is a genuine problem with UK politics and how it's covered:
The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be
The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be
Sorry @theipaper.com but WHY is this guy talking to us about what will make the UK poorer? He was happy to grenade our economy twice…
Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss.
He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.
Brexit and then his batshit budget with Truss.
He should be in political oblivion for the mess he made and the price we all have to pay for his party’s failures.
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This is a genuine problem with UK politics and how it's covered:
The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be
The bizarre belief that having achieved power and influence at some point is irrefutable, cast-iron proof that you *deserve* it and should keep it in some form, no matter how wildly incompetent you have shown yourself to be
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ugh even in the 90s you couldn't escape AI being jammed into everything
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
ugh even in the 90s you couldn't escape AI being jammed into everything
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everything i ever posted to bluesky is off the record obvi
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October 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
everything i ever posted to bluesky is off the record obvi
Movieland was pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gr...
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Movieland was pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gr...
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With social media and with politics as they are, I really think that this is a veritable golden age of the fraud, the con artist and the demagogue.
October 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
With social media and with politics as they are, I really think that this is a veritable golden age of the fraud, the con artist and the demagogue.
Rough day in the garden?
October 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Rough day in the garden?
