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Jersey. Regrettably a lawyer. Angry all the time. Trans rights/equality/safety are non-negotiable issues full stop. Stand by them or lose democracy.
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I'd kill for some good reporting on the sort of lack of unity we see among the left (Mamdani and AOC both discouraging Chi Ossé from challenging Jeffries) that's just comes from a good faith and rigorous understanding of how prominent figures in this movement operate, the advantages they calculate.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'd kill for some good reporting on the sort of lack of unity we see among the left (Mamdani and AOC both discouraging Chi Ossé from challenging Jeffries) that's just comes from a good faith and rigorous understanding of how prominent figures in this movement operate, the advantages they calculate.
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Dealer René Gimpel recalled Monet’s palette piled with “snowy peaks” of lead white.
Unlike earlier painters who worked from dark grounds, Monet painted outward from luminosity. One artist said: “He paints as if light itself were his medium.”
Unlike earlier painters who worked from dark grounds, Monet painted outward from luminosity. One artist said: “He paints as if light itself were his medium.”
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Dealer René Gimpel recalled Monet’s palette piled with “snowy peaks” of lead white.
Unlike earlier painters who worked from dark grounds, Monet painted outward from luminosity. One artist said: “He paints as if light itself were his medium.”
Unlike earlier painters who worked from dark grounds, Monet painted outward from luminosity. One artist said: “He paints as if light itself were his medium.”
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It’s much easier to be right wing in this world. You can destroy things. Assault people. Kill people. Wreck economies. Appeal to people base emotions in blaming the other guy for the things you’ve destroyed/assaulted/killed/wrecked. It’s easy.
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It’s much easier to be right wing in this world. You can destroy things. Assault people. Kill people. Wreck economies. Appeal to people base emotions in blaming the other guy for the things you’ve destroyed/assaulted/killed/wrecked. It’s easy.
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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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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
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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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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
This does call for primarying every Dem senator. I would be willing to believe, as a first term senator @andykimnj.bsky.social bears little blame for all this. Still the Senate Dems failure in March and now this chickenshit nonsense calls for an end to all their careers. Primary every Dem.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This does call for primarying every Dem senator. I would be willing to believe, as a first term senator @andykimnj.bsky.social bears little blame for all this. Still the Senate Dems failure in March and now this chickenshit nonsense calls for an end to all their careers. Primary every Dem.
@replamonica.bsky.social primary Cory Booker please
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
@replamonica.bsky.social primary Cory Booker please
Wow, Peter Coviello. On the contraction of the humanities, universities, public goods, then everything.
"Pleasing as it would be to blame the whole unfolding calamity on Trump, Musk, and the squadron of billionaire looters they so ably represent,
"Pleasing as it would be to blame the whole unfolding calamity on Trump, Musk, and the squadron of billionaire looters they so ably represent,
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Wow, Peter Coviello. On the contraction of the humanities, universities, public goods, then everything.
"Pleasing as it would be to blame the whole unfolding calamity on Trump, Musk, and the squadron of billionaire looters they so ably represent,
"Pleasing as it would be to blame the whole unfolding calamity on Trump, Musk, and the squadron of billionaire looters they so ably represent,
"if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you . . . you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. For no matter how unhinged the position . . . that opinion will . . . possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times."
Brutal.
Brutal.
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you . . . you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. For no matter how unhinged the position . . . that opinion will . . . possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times."
Brutal.
Brutal.
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I been saying I don't think Republicans are uniquely capable of creative legal thinking
personally I would like to see more 'if you wanna act funny, I can act hilarious'-type legal arguments in furtherance of good things
personally I would like to see more 'if you wanna act funny, I can act hilarious'-type legal arguments in furtherance of good things
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I been saying I don't think Republicans are uniquely capable of creative legal thinking
personally I would like to see more 'if you wanna act funny, I can act hilarious'-type legal arguments in furtherance of good things
personally I would like to see more 'if you wanna act funny, I can act hilarious'-type legal arguments in furtherance of good things
For decades the political commentary class claimed moving right was inevitable. That it was a noble retreat from detached ivory tower elitism. Where race and LGBTQ issues were fun sci-fi hobbies but not representative of the vox populi. Bullshit. But I think there's reason to be cautious here too.
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For decades the political commentary class claimed moving right was inevitable. That it was a noble retreat from detached ivory tower elitism. Where race and LGBTQ issues were fun sci-fi hobbies but not representative of the vox populi. Bullshit. But I think there's reason to be cautious here too.
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whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
whos in the social media bubble now you gooncel freaks
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There were millions of dollars spent on anti-trans ads in NJ and VA. Anyone care to comment on those campaigns getting blown out, since we were told trans issues lost Democrats the election in 2024?
so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There were millions of dollars spent on anti-trans ads in NJ and VA. Anyone care to comment on those campaigns getting blown out, since we were told trans issues lost Democrats the election in 2024?
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After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .
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November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
Not only have establishment Democrats failed in this moment but some of the most prominent figures of the left from 2016 are also failing astoundingly. Stand for something. Stand for something. Goddamnit stand for something.
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Not only have establishment Democrats failed in this moment but some of the most prominent figures of the left from 2016 are also failing astoundingly. Stand for something. Stand for something. Goddamnit stand for something.
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Society can survive or this can happen. Not both.
From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Society can survive or this can happen. Not both.
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In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
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the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.
October 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.
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It’s just gutter racism in an attempt to intimidate nonwhite voters in a close gubernatorial election. The county seat of Passaic county, Paterson, is 2/3rds Hispanic and another 23% black.
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s just gutter racism in an attempt to intimidate nonwhite voters in a close gubernatorial election. The county seat of Passaic county, Paterson, is 2/3rds Hispanic and another 23% black.
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i'm just a simple oyster farmer who only supplies my mom's restaurant and my grandpa invented a $5,000 chair and i went to GW and i worked for blackwater and i accidentally got a nazi tattoo even tho i luv history and i said some racist stuff on reddit and i'm offering my staff $15k NDAs and and and
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
i'm just a simple oyster farmer who only supplies my mom's restaurant and my grandpa invented a $5,000 chair and i went to GW and i worked for blackwater and i accidentally got a nazi tattoo even tho i luv history and i said some racist stuff on reddit and i'm offering my staff $15k NDAs and and and