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Elizabeth Sampat
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ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things
ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Computers were a mistake. I'm going to go die now
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Nightnight
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Frantically editing and uploading a different video to post today that will alienate 99% of my audience just because I feel so strongly that people need to leave Tom Daley the fuck alone about his clothes
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Shoutout to Rooney Mara; and oh no what will Olivia Coleman and Emma Stone do now? Oh no they will never become famous
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.

Does this sound familiar?

Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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😈😈😈
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Much like with online sports betting!! And, like with online sports betting, there’s a shit ton of money invested in convincing you it’s Fine, Actually
Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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That money is somewhere it shouldn’t be
The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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what do we call a government with a permanently suspended or frozen parliament that is currently being ruled by decree through a singular executive and his unelected court
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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One of my kid’s closest friends is a wheelchair user who desperately needs a motorized chair in order move more freely, as her disability effects her wrists and elbows - meaning her current push chair limits her independence. Please consider donating!!!

justgiving.com/campaign/sop...
Sophia's Drama
We are fundraising for specialist equipment.
justgiving.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
As someone who thinks about the movie Gladiator 6 times a day, how dare you
didn't know til now that Zuckerberg's daughters are named maxima, august and aurelia. real big "I think about the roman empire as depicted in Gladiator (2000) at least 6 times a day" energy
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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been having a chuckle about this. looking on that subreddit, the mods are constantly running searches for and deleting posts that mention mamdani. the posters have been saying things like "the frontrunner for mayor" and so on to evade getting banned lol
The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.

The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.

www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Non-US folks should really do this survey, the last question is about whether you’ve cancelled travel plans to the US or are reconsidering travel plans due to current policies. GDC needs to know this, maybe some talks could go online live with enough feedback? Maybe they could even lobby? Who knows!
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I’m sorry but I’m not even Christian and this thing where the Trump administration is denying ICE detainees the Eucharist while MAGA fuckheads are hand-wringing about how the entire city of NYC is going to be forcefully converted to Islam bc Mamdani won is fucking killing me
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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If your form for pronouns doesn't have "none/name only" as at least one option, it is not good and you should harass whomever you have to in order to allow people to choose it. And then you've GOT to honor it.
i am going to clarify my post on gender because it is important to make some distinction. keep in mind this is just MY preference and other buckaroos can trot their trot. the simple explanation is i casually prefer buds to assume my gender, but on technical forms to ask AND GIVE OPTION TO OPT OUT
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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my parents have true median voter brain but their one constant is being catholic, which means that they have slowly started to drift left because of successive woke popes lmao
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Dave Portnoy is 5’4. Hope he can find somebody to help him pack up anything on the top shelf of his closet
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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my mother is about to attain levels of woke thought previously impossible
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is the shit that is going to turn my MIL, a retired Perot employee who once skeptically referred to a relative as “a real ‘women’s lib’-er,” into a full blown socialist
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM