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@ggg50.bsky.social
Radical Liberal. Anti-Authoritarian.
We live in deeply unconstitutional and upsetting times.
We live in deeply unconstitutional and upsetting times.
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@ggg50.bsky.social
· May 10
My grandma is the nicest, most beautiful person I know. She’s turning 85 this year. I hope she can make it to 90 somehow. She still has her wits about her and we always have an intelligent conversation. If you have someone like this in your life, of any age, be very grateful for them.
This framing by @NewYorkTimes seems irresponsible and lacking in moral clarity. NY Times is introducing symmetry to a debate where there is none. While the video has intensified partisan reactions, it’s still incumbent upon the media to call a spade a spade — in this case, a murder in plain sight.
January 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This framing by @NewYorkTimes seems irresponsible and lacking in moral clarity. NY Times is introducing symmetry to a debate where there is none. While the video has intensified partisan reactions, it’s still incumbent upon the media to call a spade a spade — in this case, a murder in plain sight.
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I got my son a Switch 2 for Christmas, and it turned out he asked my mom for a digital projector, and these gifts have merged, Voltron like, into the kids now playing Mario Cart eight feet wide on the living room wall. Which is very festive.
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I got my son a Switch 2 for Christmas, and it turned out he asked my mom for a digital projector, and these gifts have merged, Voltron like, into the kids now playing Mario Cart eight feet wide on the living room wall. Which is very festive.
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Weird how all the people who tried to get everyone fired for saying anything about Charlie Kirk's murder that wasn't donning sackcloth and smearing ashes on their head have suddenly revisited their opposition to celebrating a murder, isn't it?
January 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Weird how all the people who tried to get everyone fired for saying anything about Charlie Kirk's murder that wasn't donning sackcloth and smearing ashes on their head have suddenly revisited their opposition to celebrating a murder, isn't it?
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The most fun I've ever had watching a football game was when McDaniel's Dolphins put up 70 points on the Broncos and my wife, the hardcore Broncos fan, was out with friends and not watching, so I texted her updates every time someone scored even after she told me she didn't really need live updates.
Dolphins fire McDaniel after 4 seasons
The Miami Dolphins dismissed head coach Mike McDaniel, the team announced Thursday.The 42-year-old leaves the team with a 35-33 record across four seasons, including a 7-10 mark in 2025."After…
www.thescore.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The most fun I've ever had watching a football game was when McDaniel's Dolphins put up 70 points on the Broncos and my wife, the hardcore Broncos fan, was out with friends and not watching, so I texted her updates every time someone scored even after she told me she didn't really need live updates.
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I often listen to the Pali Canon or dhamma talks while working in the garden. @sujato.bsky.social’s translations are all very accessible at suttacentral.net.
SuttaCentral
Early Buddhist texts from the Tipitaka (Tripitaka). Suttas (sutras) with the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness, insight, wisdom, and meditation.
suttacentral.net
January 6, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I often listen to the Pali Canon or dhamma talks while working in the garden. @sujato.bsky.social’s translations are all very accessible at suttacentral.net.
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Always happy to talk about Theravada Buddhism, tropical plants, distance running, and home cooking. I feel like those topics don’t get as much engagement though.
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
January 6, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Always happy to talk about Theravada Buddhism, tropical plants, distance running, and home cooking. I feel like those topics don’t get as much engagement though.
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If I remember correctly, the video mentions that.
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If I remember correctly, the video mentions that.
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This 2001 remake sucks
December 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This 2001 remake sucks
The Conservative Overhaul of the University of Texas Is Underway
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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I don’t think a high number of pardons is a bad thing at all. There are many, many people who deserve clemency, far more than ever get pardons.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I don’t think a high number of pardons is a bad thing at all. There are many, many people who deserve clemency, far more than ever get pardons.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
It’s *who* he’s pardoning that is the bad thing.
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The Las Vegas GP is at least redeemable in that Vegas is still a cool city despite continuous attempts to make it less cool. Miami is Dubai for Americans.
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The Las Vegas GP is at least redeemable in that Vegas is still a cool city despite continuous attempts to make it less cool. Miami is Dubai for Americans.
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"Anti-corruption politics builds coalitions across the ideological spectrum: progressives, centrists, disaffected conservatives, and most importantly, people who have checked out of politics because they think both parties are corrupt," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Anti-corruption politics builds coalitions across the ideological spectrum: progressives, centrists, disaffected conservatives, and most importantly, people who have checked out of politics because they think both parties are corrupt," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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A few what?
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A few what?
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Kinda want to watch Bugonia again
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Kinda want to watch Bugonia again
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That was the book on infinity.
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
That was the book on infinity.
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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Free basketball? In this economy?
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Free basketball? In this economy?
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It’s a little ridiculous how many of these insane talking points would explode if anyone bothered following up with “what is your evidence for that?”
I am planning on going to No Kings gathering this weekend in central Texas. And since I was terminated by MSNBC a few weeks ago, can someone let me know where to pick up paycheck that GOP keeps talking about. I have asked many folks going to No Kings, and none are getting paid.
October 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It’s a little ridiculous how many of these insane talking points would explode if anyone bothered following up with “what is your evidence for that?”
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The Niemoller Parable fits America in 2025 perfectly. Just substitute "immigrant" for "socialist" and "lawyers" for "trade unionists" and...well, you get it.
September 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The Niemoller Parable fits America in 2025 perfectly. Just substitute "immigrant" for "socialist" and "lawyers" for "trade unionists" and...well, you get it.
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Every now and then I get the urge to try writing one again just to see if I've still got it.
September 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Every now and then I get the urge to try writing one again just to see if I've still got it.
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Dear high school English teachers, not every (or even any) paragraph in an essay needs to start with a "topic sentence." In fact, rather a lot of terrific paragraphs in terrific essays have no "topic sentences" at all.
September 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Dear high school English teachers, not every (or even any) paragraph in an essay needs to start with a "topic sentence." In fact, rather a lot of terrific paragraphs in terrific essays have no "topic sentences" at all.
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Trump's "anti-Antifa" EO is far more problematic than a lot of pundits are claiming, as I outline in my latest piece (which also includes #FOIA litigation material on Secret Service Antifa investigations not previously released).
On Trump's Anti-Antifa Executive Order
Trump issued his long-threatened executive order (EO) designating an idea—antifascism, known by its shorthand version, Antifa—a “domestic terrorist organization.”
www.cato.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Trump's "anti-Antifa" EO is far more problematic than a lot of pundits are claiming, as I outline in my latest piece (which also includes #FOIA litigation material on Secret Service Antifa investigations not previously released).
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Blackjack tables at Fountainbleau Las Vegas, the #CaneloCrawford host hotel. #boxing
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Blackjack tables at Fountainbleau Las Vegas, the #CaneloCrawford host hotel. #boxing
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"Don't have empathy because he didn't" is precisely wrong. If we strive to be good, and we must, that means striving to be better than those who aren't. It means being ethical towards even the unethical. It means being virtuous towards even the unvirtuous. It means maintaining our humanity.
September 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Don't have empathy because he didn't" is precisely wrong. If we strive to be good, and we must, that means striving to be better than those who aren't. It means being ethical towards even the unethical. It means being virtuous towards even the unvirtuous. It means maintaining our humanity.