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We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
I've lived in enough under-inhabited rental properties in midsized cities that I sincerely doubt this purely a supply issue. Landlords do sit on empty properties until they like the rent conditions.
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!
A loan and because I was a young woman my dad had to co-sign and the car was $2500. My apartment was $200, my share $100, heat and electric included. No IPhones, computers and other must have expensive tech. Once the gas went crazy high from .35 to over .52 sold the Mach and bought a VW bug.
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I've lived in enough under-inhabited rental properties in midsized cities that I sincerely doubt this purely a supply issue. Landlords do sit on empty properties until they like the rent conditions.
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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)
Sing, oh muse, of my wrath at this dipshit.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sing, oh muse, of my wrath at this dipshit.
honestly a little surprised I haven't already gotten texts begging me for money to find the guy who did this.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
honestly a little surprised I haven't already gotten texts begging me for money to find the guy who did this.
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[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy
Their jobs aren't the only thing I'd like to see them lose.
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Their jobs aren't the only thing I'd like to see them lose.
I think everyone who's going to lose teeth from inadequate nutrition and unaffordable healthcare should be allowed to take one from a senate member.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I think everyone who's going to lose teeth from inadequate nutrition and unaffordable healthcare should be allowed to take one from a senate member.
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do the water fountains in the Senate building just run straight lead
Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
do the water fountains in the Senate building just run straight lead
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
I want to [redacted] Chuck Schumer right in the [redacted].
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I want to [redacted] Chuck Schumer right in the [redacted].
I am going to become the joker. I have been watching dems get wallet-inspected every year of my entire fucking life and learning ZERO lessons from it.
It transcends malice! Actively hating the people who vote for you and wanting them to suffer would produce more coherent behavior!
It transcends malice! Actively hating the people who vote for you and wanting them to suffer would produce more coherent behavior!
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I am going to become the joker. I have been watching dems get wallet-inspected every year of my entire fucking life and learning ZERO lessons from it.
It transcends malice! Actively hating the people who vote for you and wanting them to suffer would produce more coherent behavior!
It transcends malice! Actively hating the people who vote for you and wanting them to suffer would produce more coherent behavior!
Look, I get it. Sometimes you're tired. Sometimes other people feel like nails on a chalkboard in your brain. Sometimes the dance of pretending to be fine when you're not fine is aggravating as hell. But small talk is an eminently learnable skill, and being adequate at it makes your life easier.
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Look, I get it. Sometimes you're tired. Sometimes other people feel like nails on a chalkboard in your brain. Sometimes the dance of pretending to be fine when you're not fine is aggravating as hell. But small talk is an eminently learnable skill, and being adequate at it makes your life easier.
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the thing in medieval confessional manuals about being careful not to accidentally introduce your parishioners to ways of sinning they had never yet considered. like that.
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
the thing in medieval confessional manuals about being careful not to accidentally introduce your parishioners to ways of sinning they had never yet considered. like that.
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ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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don't have a lot left to say about the Nazi tat discourse other than the general observation that when some say they oppose "moralism" they mean they oppose self-indulgent or otherwise unprincipled appeals to faux-morality and when others say they oppose "moralism" they mean they oppose morals
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
don't have a lot left to say about the Nazi tat discourse other than the general observation that when some say they oppose "moralism" they mean they oppose self-indulgent or otherwise unprincipled appeals to faux-morality and when others say they oppose "moralism" they mean they oppose morals
I don't really follow baseball (this is not an invitation to explain it to me), but based on my timeline it appears to an elaborate form of transcendental meditation.
Rotating in my head a baseball diamond that is also the wheel of samsara.
Rotating in my head a baseball diamond that is also the wheel of samsara.
October 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I don't really follow baseball (this is not an invitation to explain it to me), but based on my timeline it appears to an elaborate form of transcendental meditation.
Rotating in my head a baseball diamond that is also the wheel of samsara.
Rotating in my head a baseball diamond that is also the wheel of samsara.
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I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
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i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
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remember what they took from you [geocities]
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
remember what they took from you [geocities]
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
People say some wildly condescending things about people they perceive as lower class than themselves, and those class evaluations are *entirely* based on aesthetics.
I've got low-income/on assistance relatives and none of them have been flashing nazi tattoos at me.
I've got low-income/on assistance relatives and none of them have been flashing nazi tattoos at me.
a friend of mine insisted he was 'white trash' and therefore couldn't be judged for a Nazi tattoo, then continued to maintain this after I told her about his family. people don't want to let go of their first impressions of a smooth ad campaign
wait, graham platner's "oyster farm" _only_ supplies his mother's restaurant and two other places?
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
People say some wildly condescending things about people they perceive as lower class than themselves, and those class evaluations are *entirely* based on aesthetics.
I've got low-income/on assistance relatives and none of them have been flashing nazi tattoos at me.
I've got low-income/on assistance relatives and none of them have been flashing nazi tattoos at me.