Emma
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no, I’m from New Jersey- I only work in outer space. (she/they) (scrappy comic relief on Jeopardy season 39)
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I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
I helped, in at least some ways/part of a group, make sure that a 116 year old failing library association merged with a fellow association, instead of dissolving into absolutely nothing.
Every action felt so small when I was doing it over the last 10 months but it did happen.
Every action felt so small when I was doing it over the last 10 months but it did happen.
At this time of “LOOK WHAT I DID LAST YEAR,” let’s do something different.
Not: I WROTE A BOOK; I BOUGHT A HOUSE; I WON AN AWARD
Rather: something small you’re proud of.
I’ll start
I’m better at having “no f*cks left to give”
I stopped owning other people’s judgements of me
Most of the time
You?
Not: I WROTE A BOOK; I BOUGHT A HOUSE; I WON AN AWARD
Rather: something small you’re proud of.
I’ll start
I’m better at having “no f*cks left to give”
I stopped owning other people’s judgements of me
Most of the time
You?
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I helped, in at least some ways/part of a group, make sure that a 116 year old failing library association merged with a fellow association, instead of dissolving into absolutely nothing.
Every action felt so small when I was doing it over the last 10 months but it did happen.
Every action felt so small when I was doing it over the last 10 months but it did happen.
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I don’t know how things are at Harvard, where Hankins is, but I can tell you that military history is popular, but not uniquely so, at my public university.
90% of military history is about where the latrines are dug. You cannot make war if you have dysentery.
December 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I don’t know how things are at Harvard, where Hankins is, but I can tell you that military history is popular, but not uniquely so, at my public university.
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It is hilariously pathetic that they have to do this because gigantic scalper manbabies wont let kids have fun
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It is hilariously pathetic that they have to do this because gigantic scalper manbabies wont let kids have fun
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It is open season on all of us, but I am so deeply concerned about our contingent colleagues, lecturers, and graduate student instructors.
Hope that she sues and wins.
Hope that she sues and wins.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It is open season on all of us, but I am so deeply concerned about our contingent colleagues, lecturers, and graduate student instructors.
Hope that she sues and wins.
Hope that she sues and wins.
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Wood and Astin play a VERY divorced couple who are both fingered for the mysterious murder of their mutual employer the Duchess (Blanchett) by the heir apparent (Miranda Otto) and her personal detective (Vigo Mortensen). A grumpy groundskeeper (Sean Bean) and crew (Hobbits) are the narrators
Forget the Muppets, the cast of the next Knives Out should be all the LOTR actors
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Wood and Astin play a VERY divorced couple who are both fingered for the mysterious murder of their mutual employer the Duchess (Blanchett) by the heir apparent (Miranda Otto) and her personal detective (Vigo Mortensen). A grumpy groundskeeper (Sean Bean) and crew (Hobbits) are the narrators
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the buyer’s remorse on putting horrible little groyper trolls in charge of all your official social media accounts is pretty funny but there are no adults remaining in this or any other room
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
the buyer’s remorse on putting horrible little groyper trolls in charge of all your official social media accounts is pretty funny but there are no adults remaining in this or any other room
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"The Lion in Winter" is the best Christmas movie.
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"The Lion in Winter" is the best Christmas movie.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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it is absolutely maximumly chaotic that there are an absurd amount of likely unnecessary redactions in all these files and then also just throwing out unconfirmed FBI Intake tipline stuff w/ no context about how/if it was vetted or what. just wild stuff.
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
it is absolutely maximumly chaotic that there are an absurd amount of likely unnecessary redactions in all these files and then also just throwing out unconfirmed FBI Intake tipline stuff w/ no context about how/if it was vetted or what. just wild stuff.
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"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
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your insurance company probably already has a thing on the website that gives you discounts for gym memberships and fitness trackers and equipment and supplements and stuff. Because they already knew prevention was cheaper than (denying you) coverage and didn't need the computer men to reinvent it
Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
December 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
your insurance company probably already has a thing on the website that gives you discounts for gym memberships and fitness trackers and equipment and supplements and stuff. Because they already knew prevention was cheaper than (denying you) coverage and didn't need the computer men to reinvent it
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Look at its portfolio. Comic book villain ass company
December 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Look at its portfolio. Comic book villain ass company
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Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud
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This is better biblical exegesis than any actual sermon I’ve heard AND it cites Alan Moore
I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is better biblical exegesis than any actual sermon I’ve heard AND it cites Alan Moore
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Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.
I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
December 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Betcha a shiny nickel this is because they told their LLM to redact all the initials used to identify minor victims and so it also redacted S.D.N.Y.
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The point I wish got emphasized more is that the big winners from congestion pricing are *people who urgently need to drive*. Because they are ones that travel times really matter for. I always thought that instead of congestion pricing it should be called "free streets" - free from other cars.
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
December 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The point I wish got emphasized more is that the big winners from congestion pricing are *people who urgently need to drive*. Because they are ones that travel times really matter for. I always thought that instead of congestion pricing it should be called "free streets" - free from other cars.
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Consumers in 2025 respond to the overwhelming sense of crisis by buying more pie
WASHINGTON (AP) - US consumer confidence falls again in December, sinking to the lowest level since Trump's tariff rollout in April.
@apnews.com #ConferenceBoard
@apnews.com #ConferenceBoard
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Consumers in 2025 respond to the overwhelming sense of crisis by buying more pie
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I don't have any really crazy ones, but a few memorable ones.
#1 Getting my first reader card for the BL, to begin dissertation research, the system accidentally printed the title "Dr." on my card. I alerted a staff member, and he said "well, it's going to be true in a few years. Let's leave it." 😍
#1 Getting my first reader card for the BL, to begin dissertation research, the system accidentally printed the title "Dr." on my card. I alerted a staff member, and he said "well, it's going to be true in a few years. Let's leave it." 😍
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I don't have any really crazy ones, but a few memorable ones.
#1 Getting my first reader card for the BL, to begin dissertation research, the system accidentally printed the title "Dr." on my card. I alerted a staff member, and he said "well, it's going to be true in a few years. Let's leave it." 😍
#1 Getting my first reader card for the BL, to begin dissertation research, the system accidentally printed the title "Dr." on my card. I alerted a staff member, and he said "well, it's going to be true in a few years. Let's leave it." 😍
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There's a pair of little old church ladies that volunteer 4 mornings a week at my train stop to pass out big bags of food and snacks and a giant homemade cookie to passengers bc Amtrak doesn't have a food car on that line. They've been doing it nonstop since Covid.
Then, they found out that that/
Then, they found out that that/
December 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This is an introvert app. I don’t have to have my volume up. I can get off thoughts, say what I have to say, and then leave.
Text based social media is the introvert dream.
Text based social media is the introvert dream.
It amazes me how many of you are homebodies/introverts on here.
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is an introvert app. I don’t have to have my volume up. I can get off thoughts, say what I have to say, and then leave.
Text based social media is the introvert dream.
Text based social media is the introvert dream.
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mr stephen miller sir, have you considered taking up boxing
December 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
mr stephen miller sir, have you considered taking up boxing
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not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so
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I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for