Alana
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My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Bari Weiss is an example of how dangerous mediocrity can actually be.
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bari Weiss is an example of how dangerous mediocrity can actually be.
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What Bari figured out is that you can make a career by ignoring the people who observe the obvious hypocrisies - journalists, academics, medial experts - by catering to ppl who like the idea of righteous integrity right until the moment it impedes on their worldviews
She launched her career trying to get professors fired in the name of academic freedom. Her website publishes a firehose of conservative propaganda in the name of open debate. She is now censoring factual information under the guise of journalistic accuracy.
December 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
What Bari figured out is that you can make a career by ignoring the people who observe the obvious hypocrisies - journalists, academics, medial experts - by catering to ppl who like the idea of righteous integrity right until the moment it impedes on their worldviews
I can't imagine enough money I could be paid to watch this. Like, literally, I'd rather turn down a million dollars than have to see these two 'thinkers' have a chat about God.
December 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I can't imagine enough money I could be paid to watch this. Like, literally, I'd rather turn down a million dollars than have to see these two 'thinkers' have a chat about God.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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started / going
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
started / going
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bigot goes over big in St. Bigotsburg
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
bigot goes over big in St. Bigotsburg
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dead eyes dead hearts will lose
These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
dead eyes dead hearts will lose
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cowboy who stubbed his toe:
December 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
cowboy who stubbed his toe:
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If you're a liberal and you think trans kids even qualify for surgeries, much less that there's any real federal money being spent on them, you're an idiot and you have fucking got to stop listening to Nazi propaganda.
December 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
If you're a liberal and you think trans kids even qualify for surgeries, much less that there's any real federal money being spent on them, you're an idiot and you have fucking got to stop listening to Nazi propaganda.
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Mandatory syllabus publication is like voter ID laws in that its stated goal is an obvious pretext for causing a bunch of externalities that Republicans want but don't want to say they want.
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Mandatory syllabus publication is like voter ID laws in that its stated goal is an obvious pretext for causing a bunch of externalities that Republicans want but don't want to say they want.
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good morning
Wtf even is a "market". Astrology for men who tuck in their shirts. Nobody has a job that's not nuanced slavery or can buy AAA video games but the lines going up. Get real. Grow up. *Pateu!* I spit on the market and it's forces.
December 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
good morning
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
I thought 'Bostoo Yook Yarters' was the best bit but then I saw 2009 "Philadelphia Philies" next to the logo of the NY Giants. That's not even baseball.
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I thought 'Bostoo Yook Yarters' was the best bit but then I saw 2009 "Philadelphia Philies" next to the logo of the NY Giants. That's not even baseball.
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Become ungovernable
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"waaah why aren't things GOOD like when I was a KID!"
Ronald Reagan, u dumb ass holes, that's why
Ronald Reagan, u dumb ass holes, that's why
December 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"waaah why aren't things GOOD like when I was a KID!"
Ronald Reagan, u dumb ass holes, that's why
Ronald Reagan, u dumb ass holes, that's why
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Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
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Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
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I forgot that what I love about “Skyfall” is that it’s basically “Home Alone.”
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I forgot that what I love about “Skyfall” is that it’s basically “Home Alone.”
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Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:
Pretty sure he could sort that out with a 23-hours a day helmet.
Can't help with the fascist worldview. Think maybe he needs a near death experience or some LSD for that?
Can't help with the fascist worldview. Think maybe he needs a near death experience or some LSD for that?
Marc Andreessen is one of the most influential men in America. The billionaire venture capitalist has an audience with everyone from Trump officials to pundits to Democratic senators to tech execs the world over.
So it’s a bit concerning that his worldview leans fascist. 🧵 /1
So it’s a bit concerning that his worldview leans fascist. 🧵 /1
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Pretty sure he could sort that out with a 23-hours a day helmet.
Can't help with the fascist worldview. Think maybe he needs a near death experience or some LSD for that?
Can't help with the fascist worldview. Think maybe he needs a near death experience or some LSD for that?
