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Former henchman to mad scientists. TNG sommelier.
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This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development
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I explained to the leopard about my face and -- you're not going to believe this -- he didn't care!
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I explained to the leopard about my face and -- you're not going to believe this -- he didn't care!
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every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"
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I have nothing against Generation X, as a generation, but neither they nor the Millennials nor the Depression Kids nor anyone else are "The Greatest Generation." The very phrase is a pinecone-brained piece of cultural detritus that I will never forgive Tom Brokaw for
December 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I have nothing against Generation X, as a generation, but neither they nor the Millennials nor the Depression Kids nor anyone else are "The Greatest Generation." The very phrase is a pinecone-brained piece of cultural detritus that I will never forgive Tom Brokaw for
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I think other people have made this point, but: if college is just a vocational school -- if its sole purpose is to "prepare young people for jobs" -- then there's no point in college at all! Just create actual vocational schools.
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I think other people have made this point, but: if college is just a vocational school -- if its sole purpose is to "prepare young people for jobs" -- then there's no point in college at all! Just create actual vocational schools.
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There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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1825: the sun never sets on the British Empire
2025: without these tiny plastic soldiers our economy collapses
2025: without these tiny plastic soldiers our economy collapses
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
1825: the sun never sets on the British Empire
2025: without these tiny plastic soldiers our economy collapses
2025: without these tiny plastic soldiers our economy collapses
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
This is bad, but I just can't get over the idea of "PhD student influencers"
The phenomenon of fake PhD student influencers trying to convince young people they should use AI to do work is reeeeeally fucked up. Don’t know if it’s just an emerging grift category for directly seeded by LLM vendors but it’s really insidious and gross.
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is bad, but I just can't get over the idea of "PhD student influencers"
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
If you had told me in 2005 that in 20 years I would find myself frequently agreeing with Bill Kristol I would have said you were either full of shit or that you needed to stop taking whatever psychoactive drugs you were using.
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
If you had told me in 2005 that in 20 years I would find myself frequently agreeing with Bill Kristol I would have said you were either full of shit or that you needed to stop taking whatever psychoactive drugs you were using.
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Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
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I also think rigidly "biologically" defined gender is very useful for cis men who never want anyone to have an expectation that they could could change how they are cis men.
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I also think rigidly "biologically" defined gender is very useful for cis men who never want anyone to have an expectation that they could could change how they are cis men.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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As a US senator, my heart breaks for the families of the Venezuelans that Pete Hegseth ordered executed without trial. If they could see my state’s Republican primary polling data, I think they would understand why I had to vote to confirm him.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As a US senator, my heart breaks for the families of the Venezuelans that Pete Hegseth ordered executed without trial. If they could see my state’s Republican primary polling data, I think they would understand why I had to vote to confirm him.
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Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
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This is a logical progression of his career. The Fast and Furious series is basically what if a rock em sock em robot could drive and had a found family he would die for
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is a logical progression of his career. The Fast and Furious series is basically what if a rock em sock em robot could drive and had a found family he would die for
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power