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I am strongly in favor of survivors speaking up and I also note: look---look!---who has to be public and who gets to be private
and then ask yourself: if there are around a thousand survivors, how many rapists are just going about their morning, privately
and then ask yourself: if there are around a thousand survivors, how many rapists are just going about their morning, privately
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I am strongly in favor of survivors speaking up and I also note: look---look!---who has to be public and who gets to be private
and then ask yourself: if there are around a thousand survivors, how many rapists are just going about their morning, privately
and then ask yourself: if there are around a thousand survivors, how many rapists are just going about their morning, privately
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Mary Shelley: I subtitled my book The Modern Prometheus as a cautionary tale
Tech company: At long last,
Tech company: At long last,
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Mary Shelley: I subtitled my book The Modern Prometheus as a cautionary tale
Tech company: At long last,
Tech company: At long last,
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all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
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More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.
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www.bloomsbury.com/us/abusing-a...
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
More publication news: "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by @drhelenroche.bsky.social and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/abusing-a...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/abusing-a...
I teach middle school, and every time I tell someone what I do the response is some version of "Oh, bless you, I could never, that age, etc!" While I generally find it a little annoying because these kids are actually really great, it does prove a point: We know that 14 yr olds are not adults.
Agreed 👍
If anyone in your life is justifying this coverup by saying 15 year olds are legal. Do. Not. Let. Them. Around. Your. Children. 🗣️
If anyone in your life is justifying this coverup by saying 15 year olds are legal. Do. Not. Let. Them. Around. Your. Children. 🗣️
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I teach middle school, and every time I tell someone what I do the response is some version of "Oh, bless you, I could never, that age, etc!" While I generally find it a little annoying because these kids are actually really great, it does prove a point: We know that 14 yr olds are not adults.
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Because here’s the thing: thinking someone is hot may be involuntary, but “wandering eyes” don’t wander on their own—ogling anyone is a conscious choice, just like groping or making comments is. Own your choices, and choose not to be a creep.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Because here’s the thing: thinking someone is hot may be involuntary, but “wandering eyes” don’t wander on their own—ogling anyone is a conscious choice, just like groping or making comments is. Own your choices, and choose not to be a creep.
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The Don’t Be A Lecherous Creep Challenge is just not that fucking hard, and unlike your intrusive thoughts, it’s entirely within your control. You just…don’t.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The newsletter includes a number of other comparisons — and several other topics and visualizations. Check it out!
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Putting the real world down on paper
This week's newsletter looks at how we use maps. I review a new book on the subject, interview a mapmaker and show how maps can reshape our assumptions about borders. It's all topped off with what I t...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The newsletter includes a number of other comparisons — and several other topics and visualizations. Check it out!
8/8
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This story does a good job of arguing that there’s nothing happening to men that isn’t happening to everyone else. It’s just that this is the first time a broken system has caught up with men, and unlike the rest of us, they don’t know how to cope with the system being against them.
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This story does a good job of arguing that there’s nothing happening to men that isn’t happening to everyone else. It’s just that this is the first time a broken system has caught up with men, and unlike the rest of us, they don’t know how to cope with the system being against them.
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
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“In predicting who votes for or against Trump, racial resentment is one of the most powerful variables out there—more predictive than income, gender, education, geography, or attitudes about economic policy, gender, or religious traditionalism.”
“The kids are alright. The real problem might be older generations projecting their own racial anxieties onto them.”
This is a must-read piece by two of the finest scholars of U.S. politics, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
This is a must-read piece by two of the finest scholars of U.S. politics, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“In predicting who votes for or against Trump, racial resentment is one of the most powerful variables out there—more predictive than income, gender, education, geography, or attitudes about economic policy, gender, or religious traditionalism.”
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I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
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A huge amount of state resources intended to fight crime - from the FBI to state and local police to DEA agents to IRS tax enforcement - have been redeployed to immigration enforcement. It is a great time to be a criminal in America.
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A huge amount of state resources intended to fight crime - from the FBI to state and local police to DEA agents to IRS tax enforcement - have been redeployed to immigration enforcement. It is a great time to be a criminal in America.
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Boosting this for the not-up-ridiculously-early-on-a-Sunday crowd. Creatives! Can YOU donate an item to the #Creatives4Sudan auction? Could be signed books, original art, a phone call talking about how to get into your industry, or [insert your idea]. Funds going Emergency response rooms in Sudan.
Creatives from any industry more than welcome to submit auction lots - whether it's a half hour chat about breaking into your industry, a piece of art, a poem, a curated booklist by a librarian, say! Sign up and more info here! #Creatives4Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
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November 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Boosting this for the not-up-ridiculously-early-on-a-Sunday crowd. Creatives! Can YOU donate an item to the #Creatives4Sudan auction? Could be signed books, original art, a phone call talking about how to get into your industry, or [insert your idea]. Funds going Emergency response rooms in Sudan.
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these are all condom brands
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
these are all condom brands
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@scalzi.com you say this? bc it’s the best - and your the best but people should know it’s you for realz.
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
@scalzi.com you say this? bc it’s the best - and your the best but people should know it’s you for realz.
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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Just a note that the US passed landmark civil rights legislation enforcing the rights of disabled students to reasonable accommodation. This is a form of segregation. And segregationists like this also tend to believe in other forms of segregation.
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Just a note that the US passed landmark civil rights legislation enforcing the rights of disabled students to reasonable accommodation. This is a form of segregation. And segregationists like this also tend to believe in other forms of segregation.
My friend's family always did a full Practice Thanksgiving (before her mom died) that was allegedly to try out new recipes before the actual dinner, but realistically about doubling the person-hours spent together. I loved it.
Strip away the formal trappings of Thanksgiving dinner. The core of the joy is in the ability for loved ones to come together and celebrate the abundance on the table.
IOW, it’s a day dedicated to the person-hours of cooking.
There are so many other things you can make with those person-hours!
IOW, it’s a day dedicated to the person-hours of cooking.
There are so many other things you can make with those person-hours!
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My friend's family always did a full Practice Thanksgiving (before her mom died) that was allegedly to try out new recipes before the actual dinner, but realistically about doubling the person-hours spent together. I loved it.
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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Yes. A lot of this is downstream of educational outcomes becoming a status competition between parents, which I think has become significantly worse in part as a result of shrinking bourgeois family sizes bsky.app/profile/mort...
Yeah you would think the goal of education is to give important knowledge and techniques to as many people as possible but the way a lot of people (parents especially) want to approach it is a competition where the goal is to "win" and they get mad if you touch rankings or level the playing field
Not to lay my cards on the table but I think this narrow focus in online discourse on who deserves to be rewarded really elides the actual societal value of the education system (teaching members of society important stuff that it's valuable for them to know)
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Yes. A lot of this is downstream of educational outcomes becoming a status competition between parents, which I think has become significantly worse in part as a result of shrinking bourgeois family sizes bsky.app/profile/mort...
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Just dropping in with a PSA that @greekmythcomix.bsky.social new sweater designs absolutely SLAP and you’ve got until next weekend to order them for Christmas arrival.
Just LOOK at them!! God my pals are cool.
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Also I can’t stand still in photos I guess.
Just LOOK at them!! God my pals are cool.
greekmythcomix-1-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
Also I can’t stand still in photos I guess.
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Just dropping in with a PSA that @greekmythcomix.bsky.social new sweater designs absolutely SLAP and you’ve got until next weekend to order them for Christmas arrival.
Just LOOK at them!! God my pals are cool.
greekmythcomix-1-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
Also I can’t stand still in photos I guess.
Just LOOK at them!! God my pals are cool.
greekmythcomix-1-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
Also I can’t stand still in photos I guess.