Ren
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they/them. Bookseller who likes birds. Wear a mask.
Hear me out: no more white house. Build a park or a community center or a sex forest. President can rent an apartment that costs 30% of the US median income.
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hear me out: no more white house. Build a park or a community center or a sex forest. President can rent an apartment that costs 30% of the US median income.
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If you are a billionaire governor I don’t think posting ”damn that’s crazy” counts as doing everything in your power
In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If you are a billionaire governor I don’t think posting ”damn that’s crazy” counts as doing everything in your power
Imagine how much more useful information we’d have to keep people safe if the city’s local reporters weren’t just parroting cop press releases and then fighting with journalists otg when they correct those statements
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Imagine how much more useful information we’d have to keep people safe if the city’s local reporters weren’t just parroting cop press releases and then fighting with journalists otg when they correct those statements
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In retrospect it’s really funny how the moment Brandon Johnson became mayor Carlos Ramirez-Rosa was like hell yeah time to go full crony mode for this guy. RIP to my progressive resume and community goodwill we’re patronagepilled and scandalmaxxed now
September 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
In retrospect it’s really funny how the moment Brandon Johnson became mayor Carlos Ramirez-Rosa was like hell yeah time to go full crony mode for this guy. RIP to my progressive resume and community goodwill we’re patronagepilled and scandalmaxxed now
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I will never apologize for a post
September 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I will never apologize for a post
I’ve seen various people thinking out loud about “what happened at uchicago that they’re collapsing so fast” and pointing to the supposed financial/economic giants on the board and going to u of c disabuses you of that so fast bc you have to hear how batshit insane the friedmanites are irl
August 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I’ve seen various people thinking out loud about “what happened at uchicago that they’re collapsing so fast” and pointing to the supposed financial/economic giants on the board and going to u of c disabuses you of that so fast bc you have to hear how batshit insane the friedmanites are irl
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Democrats: YES WE CAN!
July 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats: YES WE CAN!
Hey so I flew out of ORD this morning - 7 am flight, first one of the day and they held us all at TSA until 20 minutes before boarding, let the sales guy from the pre check vendor come over and go “if you want to skip the line and make your flight, you can come with me. You just need a credit card”
May 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Hey so I flew out of ORD this morning - 7 am flight, first one of the day and they held us all at TSA until 20 minutes before boarding, let the sales guy from the pre check vendor come over and go “if you want to skip the line and make your flight, you can come with me. You just need a credit card”
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I am going to become the Butlerian Jihad
“The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.” 🫠
Exclusive | What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive
The idea is a “chance to do the biggest thing we’ve ever done as a company here,” Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday.
www.wsj.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am going to become the Butlerian Jihad
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May 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Yesterday someone came in, immediately called me an idiot and then followed up with a sales pitch. I said no so she emailed me a second sales pitch but this time included a photo of herself (at least 65 yo) in a prom dress.
May 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Yesterday someone came in, immediately called me an idiot and then followed up with a sales pitch. I said no so she emailed me a second sales pitch but this time included a photo of herself (at least 65 yo) in a prom dress.
Hey I’m gonna venture a hot take that buying pity Mother’s Day presents for people who Are Not Mothers is not actually kind it’s really dismissive and rude. Especially if said non-mother is a trans person and not a woman.
May 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hey I’m gonna venture a hot take that buying pity Mother’s Day presents for people who Are Not Mothers is not actually kind it’s really dismissive and rude. Especially if said non-mother is a trans person and not a woman.
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You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.
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it's not surprising, but it's a pretty clear illustration of the actual problem that the mayor thinks he needs to do more "telling people what he decides" as opposed to "listening to what they actually want"
Mayor Brandon Johnson seems to know that he has dug himself into a political hole, in part, by failing to communicate.
Full interview:
Full interview:
Two years in, Mayor Brandon Johnson admits he's made some missteps, gaffes
As Brandon Johnson approaches the midpoint of his term as Chicago mayor, he confronts a reality that he readily acknowledges. He must do a better job conveying to the city "why and what" he wants to…
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May 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
it's not surprising, but it's a pretty clear illustration of the actual problem that the mayor thinks he needs to do more "telling people what he decides" as opposed to "listening to what they actually want"
Huge day for nerds who took a lot of Latin classes in high school (ego sum)
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Huge day for nerds who took a lot of Latin classes in high school (ego sum)
As an ex cradle catholic, I can confirm that this is a core piece of the theology tbf
CBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."
May 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
As an ex cradle catholic, I can confirm that this is a core piece of the theology tbf
Low stakes book hot take: the trend of including your protagonist's full name in the title is annoying and makes it harder for your readers to find the book. they invariably come to the bookstore and ask for "that new book with the lady's name in it" bc they can't remember the title
May 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Low stakes book hot take: the trend of including your protagonist's full name in the title is annoying and makes it harder for your readers to find the book. they invariably come to the bookstore and ask for "that new book with the lady's name in it" bc they can't remember the title
Looking at blurbs on new titles and press and bracing myself for publishing to start trying to rehabilitate a writer who makes them a lot of money and also assaults his students
April 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Looking at blurbs on new titles and press and bracing myself for publishing to start trying to rehabilitate a writer who makes them a lot of money and also assaults his students
I'm so jealous of what NYC has in Hellgate. Idk how Chicago got saddled with Block Club Chicago, who has fully pivoted to just doing undisclosed ads for bigot's IP.
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm so jealous of what NYC has in Hellgate. Idk how Chicago got saddled with Block Club Chicago, who has fully pivoted to just doing undisclosed ads for bigot's IP.
Dog Days Are Over tbh
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
March 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Dog Days Are Over tbh
full on Who Framed Roger Rabbit shit happening
I know zaslav is a monster but damn, what the fuck is wrong with you, man
deadline.com/2025/03/warn...
deadline.com/2025/03/warn...
Warner Bros. To Raze Looney Tunes Building On Lot
Warner Bros. To Raze Looney Tunes Building On Lot
deadline.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
full on Who Framed Roger Rabbit shit happening
people are not being nearly mean enough to Obama on here tbh
March 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
people are not being nearly mean enough to Obama on here tbh
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Okay, so now that it’s been a few hours, let me just say:
We need fewer pandemic retrospectives that insist we need a reckoning because right-wingers got mad.
We need more pandemic retrospectives that examine how dark money groups have been undermining science.
We need fewer pandemic retrospectives that insist we need a reckoning because right-wingers got mad.
We need more pandemic retrospectives that examine how dark money groups have been undermining science.
This article reveals disengagement on the part of the author with the subject matter.
Big right-wing money undermined public health to block what should have been a moment of major systemic change.
A million+ died, millions more got long COVID, and the virus is still circulating.
Reckon with that
Big right-wing money undermined public health to block what should have been a moment of major systemic change.
A million+ died, millions more got long COVID, and the virus is still circulating.
Reckon with that
America — and the media — needs a Covid reckoning
Our Covid mistakes did lasting damage. No one wants to talk about it.
www.vox.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Okay, so now that it’s been a few hours, let me just say:
We need fewer pandemic retrospectives that insist we need a reckoning because right-wingers got mad.
We need more pandemic retrospectives that examine how dark money groups have been undermining science.
We need fewer pandemic retrospectives that insist we need a reckoning because right-wingers got mad.
We need more pandemic retrospectives that examine how dark money groups have been undermining science.
this tracks for a terf tbh
"Even though 'Dream Count' is set in the Covid era, it's as if no time since 'Americanah' has passed at all. Adichie is hopelessly nostalgic for a feminism of yore. It may be best read in a pantsuit."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ‘Dream Count’ Is Stuck In The Past | Defector
The first thing to know about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest book, Dream Count, is that it is about women. Four women, to be precise. (Why is it always that women are grouped into fours?) This is…
defector.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
this tracks for a terf tbh