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We're at a point where reducing prosecutions and incarceration isn't a principled leftist stance, it's the only pragmatic way to keep the system functioning at all. This is an unpalatable reality for carceral ideologues so they have to grope around for magical fixes.
this ongoing crisis of the carceral state is such an infuriatingly blatant opportunity for a public conversation that the carceral state absolutely cannot permit to happen
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We're at a point where reducing prosecutions and incarceration isn't a principled leftist stance, it's the only pragmatic way to keep the system functioning at all. This is an unpalatable reality for carceral ideologues so they have to grope around for magical fixes.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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this is an absolute steal for the AI companies. I've made this much selling my book to one department of one company. huge tech companies should be paying orders of magnitude more than this for the work they've stolen bsky.app/profile/ther...
AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this is an absolute steal for the AI companies. I've made this much selling my book to one department of one company. huge tech companies should be paying orders of magnitude more than this for the work they've stolen bsky.app/profile/ther...
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best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
best ending of all time, let's be real
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
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She was treated to a tankard of mulled nettle ale and a thick slab of pale gold cheese with chives and apples, with a small farl of hot crusty oat bread.
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
She was treated to a tankard of mulled nettle ale and a thick slab of pale gold cheese with chives and apples, with a small farl of hot crusty oat bread.
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We have such an idiotic civilization
October 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We have such an idiotic civilization
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i know it sucks but it must feel a little fun to be that guy with the backhoe destroying the white house. that’s like the final boss of operating heavy machinery
October 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
i know it sucks but it must feel a little fun to be that guy with the backhoe destroying the white house. that’s like the final boss of operating heavy machinery
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from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
October 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"
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Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year
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"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve
October 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve
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Congratulations to Venezuela on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. ❤️🇻🇪
October 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Congratulations to Venezuela on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. ❤️🇻🇪
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It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Reynols - Minecxio Emanations 1993-2018 [Full Album]
YouTube video by Max Alejandro
music.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Every attempt to differentiate "patriotism" from "nationalism" is self indulgent semantics. They are the same thing.
September 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Every attempt to differentiate "patriotism" from "nationalism" is self indulgent semantics. They are the same thing.
