Martha Phillips
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"To a degree unimaginable to modern humans, public spaces in the 2020s were dominated by the constant clattering of enormous metal water bottles being noisily unscrewed, set down on hard surfaces, and, somehow even more frequently, accidentally knocked over"—social historians of the future, probably
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"To a degree unimaginable to modern humans, public spaces in the 2020s were dominated by the constant clattering of enormous metal water bottles being noisily unscrewed, set down on hard surfaces, and, somehow even more frequently, accidentally knocked over"—social historians of the future, probably
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I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
September 16, 2023 at 10:12 PM
I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
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Not saying it’s my favorite time of year but fall giving way to winter has a very specific beauty about it.
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Not saying it’s my favorite time of year but fall giving way to winter has a very specific beauty about it.
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This profoundly repellent man, who should be in a secure psychiatric facility, has made very plain his desire to kill as many of us as possible, and we are being repeatedly asked to read terrible prose about thirsting for him. NO! GET AWAY!
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This profoundly repellent man, who should be in a secure psychiatric facility, has made very plain his desire to kill as many of us as possible, and we are being repeatedly asked to read terrible prose about thirsting for him. NO! GET AWAY!
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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When I think of AI I think of Prince being asked about holograms of dead celebrities:
“That's the most demonic thing imaginable.… If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon."
“That's the most demonic thing imaginable.… If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon."
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
When I think of AI I think of Prince being asked about holograms of dead celebrities:
“That's the most demonic thing imaginable.… If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon."
“That's the most demonic thing imaginable.… If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon."
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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Angus King accidentally said what we all feared when this started, that there was no way to get the ACA extension because Republicans are more dedicated to being evil than centrist Democrats to fighting for us and Republicans knew it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Angus King accidentally said what we all feared when this started, that there was no way to get the ACA extension because Republicans are more dedicated to being evil than centrist Democrats to fighting for us and Republicans knew it.
Said the person who doesn’t depend on food stamps.
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Said the person who doesn’t depend on food stamps.
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So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.
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the timing is very good for us to brand sandwiches as woke and ensure maga folks don't enjoy them anymore
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the timing is very good for us to brand sandwiches as woke and ensure maga folks don't enjoy them anymore
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Wilfred Owen weeps
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Wilfred Owen weeps
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I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
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November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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“Our students are about to turn subcognitive.”
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
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October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Our students are about to turn subcognitive.”
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People died for a 40 hour work week.
The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.
As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week
Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
People died for a 40 hour work week.
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally
A small but growing movement has sprung up in Nashville that is radical in its simplicity: People are building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops where there is no other place to sit. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22/g...
Activists build benches for Nashville bus stops - Nashville Banner
A small movement in Nashville is building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops without seating, providing a simple solution for the elderly, unhoused and others.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally
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“The world’s kind of painful-but God, I can’t get enough of it. I just don’t want it to end. “
“The world’s kind of painful-but God, I can’t get enough of it. I just don’t want it to end. “
How Jeff Tweedy Made a New Magnum Opus
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September 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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“The world’s kind of painful-but God, I can’t get enough of it. I just don’t want it to end. “
“The world’s kind of painful-but God, I can’t get enough of it. I just don’t want it to end. “
Elizabeth Gilbert Can’t Control the Narrative www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | Elizabeth Gilbert Can’t Control the Narrative
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September 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Elizabeth Gilbert Can’t Control the Narrative www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
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Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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“Stop kidnapping our fucking neighbors, you ghouls” would be a nice and easy to understand message for Democrats.
Talking kitchen table issues while the enemy is openly doing fascism seems deranged.
Talking kitchen table issues while the enemy is openly doing fascism seems deranged.
August 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“Stop kidnapping our fucking neighbors, you ghouls” would be a nice and easy to understand message for Democrats.
Talking kitchen table issues while the enemy is openly doing fascism seems deranged.
Talking kitchen table issues while the enemy is openly doing fascism seems deranged.
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if you've never seen a guy try to sound tough while whining about getting his ass kicked by 90 year olds, check this out
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
August 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
if you've never seen a guy try to sound tough while whining about getting his ass kicked by 90 year olds, check this out