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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
To all the parents who had to make a Halloween costume in 3 days mostly with stuff lying around the house. We did it.
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
To all the parents who had to make a Halloween costume in 3 days mostly with stuff lying around the house. We did it.
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Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"National have taken the kind of tactics you usually find in real estate advertising and applied them to government statistics".
"that stat ... about the average beneficiary being on a benefit for 18 years, isn’t what she makes it sound like.
It’s a modelling estimate ... that projects how long people might receive a main benefit over their lifetime"
#NZPol #Beneficiaries #EmilyWrites
www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-governme...
It’s a modelling estimate ... that projects how long people might receive a main benefit over their lifetime"
#NZPol #Beneficiaries #EmilyWrites
www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-governme...
The government's creative storytelling must be addressed
Today, I'm happy to share a guest post from one of the best people I know. My dear friend Helen Gilby is so bright and so funny. And y’all loved her last posts, Seymour's Aotearoa: How to Lose a Count...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"National have taken the kind of tactics you usually find in real estate advertising and applied them to government statistics".
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Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed
September 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Psychologists and psychiatrists call this "concrete thinking." It reflects an inability to engage in abstract thinking, and a strong propensity to think of all nouns as depicting physical objects.
It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.
It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.
September 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Psychologists and psychiatrists call this "concrete thinking." It reflects an inability to engage in abstract thinking, and a strong propensity to think of all nouns as depicting physical objects.
It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.
It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.
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A great piece from Alex Casey about the noxious soup: "It’s like men’s potential suffering is tragic, and women’s actual suffering is just our lot in life."
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
Decoding the ‘cult of masculinity’ around Tom Phillips
The support for the Marokopa fugitive reveals several pervasive myths about masculinity, fathers and the court system.
thespinoff.co.nz
September 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
A great piece from Alex Casey about the noxious soup: "It’s like men’s potential suffering is tragic, and women’s actual suffering is just our lot in life."
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.