Just wrote my first song since over a year. Sneezed it out in under an hour.
Finally, I'm coming back to life.
Finally, I'm coming back to life.
March 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Just wrote my first song since over a year. Sneezed it out in under an hour.
Finally, I'm coming back to life.
Finally, I'm coming back to life.
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every cop in America is so horny for this exact outcome
like every single one of us knows that money is getting converted directly from food into tanks, and they know we know it
like every single one of us knows that money is getting converted directly from food into tanks, and they know we know it
You cut SNAP benefits and Medicaid? Crime is gonna SKYROCKET.
February 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
every cop in America is so horny for this exact outcome
like every single one of us knows that money is getting converted directly from food into tanks, and they know we know it
like every single one of us knows that money is getting converted directly from food into tanks, and they know we know it
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And since I'd achieved all of my goals as country destroyer in 7 terms, there was no need for an 8th.
February 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
And since I'd achieved all of my goals as country destroyer in 7 terms, there was no need for an 8th.
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Well, food is about to get a lot more expensive, and I manage stress by info-dumping, so I'm gonna share some of the survival strategies I learned spending my first 30 years food-insecure:
First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day
First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day
February 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Well, food is about to get a lot more expensive, and I manage stress by info-dumping, so I'm gonna share some of the survival strategies I learned spending my first 30 years food-insecure:
First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day
First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day
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Here's a fuller version of that Bertrand Russell quote that's been going around:
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity..."
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"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity..."
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February 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Here's a fuller version of that Bertrand Russell quote that's been going around:
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity..."
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"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity..."
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Workers at a Philly Whole Foods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Workers at a Philly Whole Foods have just released the results of their union election—AND THEY WON!!!! 130-100, baby! 🦅
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
Philadelphia is now home to the first unionized Whole Foods Market in the U.S. One down, 500 more to go!
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“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...
January 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...
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The corollary to "don't obey in advance" is "don't obey more than you have to" - do the minimum legally required, and make them fight you for everything else
Here's the thing about the Tuskegee Airmen history - there was nothing in the EO about it. Someone in the Air Force interpreted it that way -- which is far worse.
January 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The corollary to "don't obey in advance" is "don't obey more than you have to" - do the minimum legally required, and make them fight you for everything else
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I am tired of people saying and believing this. Our lives are not a game of chess and these leaders aren’t making brilliant political maneuvers. Please stop the delusions. It’s embarrassing.
You realize this is a game of chess right?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am tired of people saying and believing this. Our lives are not a game of chess and these leaders aren’t making brilliant political maneuvers. Please stop the delusions. It’s embarrassing.
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DOOMERISM ISN'T A STRATEGY.
a woman is holding a red megaphone in front of a crowd of people .
Alt: a woman is holding a red megaphone in front of a crowd of people .
media.tenor.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
DOOMERISM ISN'T A STRATEGY.
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As it turns out, we weren’t overreacting, were we?
January 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
As it turns out, we weren’t overreacting, were we?
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Wasn't there just a bunch of pearl clutching over saying he made the Nazi salute. Him encouraging Nazi language/argument is actually worse. Before ppl @me, I grew up in Germany, this argument of not rehashing history was always a neo-Nazi staple.
January 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Wasn't there just a bunch of pearl clutching over saying he made the Nazi salute. Him encouraging Nazi language/argument is actually worse. Before ppl @me, I grew up in Germany, this argument of not rehashing history was always a neo-Nazi staple.
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I just learned that Michael Jackson allegedly would get up and set down tracks whenever the thought came to him because he was afraid if he didn't do it asap the muse/God/etc would give it to Prince instead and if this concept is true I have some work to do.
January 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I just learned that Michael Jackson allegedly would get up and set down tracks whenever the thought came to him because he was afraid if he didn't do it asap the muse/God/etc would give it to Prince instead and if this concept is true I have some work to do.
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The thing is “cancer research” is *incredibly* popular. Everyone knows people with cancer. This is slam dunk shit.
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The thing is “cancer research” is *incredibly* popular. Everyone knows people with cancer. This is slam dunk shit.
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"Israel’s illegal annexation of the West Bank boosted by Trump. While the ceasefire in Gaza has been in effect since January 19 and a new exchange of prisoners and hostages took place Saturday... supporters of the annexation of the West Bank are becoming louder and more violent than ever in Israel."
L’annexion illégale de la Cisjordanie par Israël boostée par Trump
Par Rachida El Azzouzi
Par Rachida El Azzouzi
L’annexion illégale de la Cisjordanie par Israël boostée par Trump
Alors que le cessez-le-feu dans la bande de Gaza est en vigueur depuis le 19 janvier et qu’un nouvel échange de prisonniers et d’otages a eu lieu ce samedi 25 janvier, les partisans de l’annexion...
www.mediapart.fr
January 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Israel’s illegal annexation of the West Bank boosted by Trump. While the ceasefire in Gaza has been in effect since January 19 and a new exchange of prisoners and hostages took place Saturday... supporters of the annexation of the West Bank are becoming louder and more violent than ever in Israel."
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president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...
'People aren't going to work': A surprising immigration raid set off fears in California farm country
‘If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,’ says local economist.
calmatters.org
January 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...
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The mainstream US media refuses to speak honestly about Musk. Meanwhile, in France...
"A few days after his Nazi salutes, Elon Musk renews his support for the German extreme right."
"A few days after his Nazi salutes, Elon Musk renews his support for the German extreme right."
Quelques jours après ses saluts nazis, Elon Musk renouvelle son soutien à l’extrême droite allemande
Quelques jours après ses saluts nazis, Elon Musk renouvelle son soutien à l’extrême droite allemande
Le milliardaire trumpiste est intervenu samedi 25 janvier par visioconférence lors d’un meeting de l’AFD, en pleine campagne électorale allemande.
www.liberation.fr
January 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The mainstream US media refuses to speak honestly about Musk. Meanwhile, in France...
"A few days after his Nazi salutes, Elon Musk renews his support for the German extreme right."
"A few days after his Nazi salutes, Elon Musk renews his support for the German extreme right."
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Make sure people know this.*
*also, when’s out protest?
*also, when’s out protest?
Ok I watched the full Musk speech for AfD, it was as bad as I thought and even worse. But hey also dozens of thousands of Germans went into the streets today to protest such crap. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Proteste gegen AfD: Bundesweit mehr als 80 000 Demonstranten gegen rechts
Vor allem in Köln und Berlin gehen Zehntausende Menschen gegen die AfD auf die Straße. Auch Unionskanzlerkandidat Merz bekommt Kritik ab.
www.sueddeutsche.de
January 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Make sure people know this.*
*also, when’s out protest?
*also, when’s out protest?
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again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded
it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
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rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it
It's grim thinking about how many men and women in society have mental models of valorous male behavior that primarily consist of being abusive and violent.
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
January 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it
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I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch