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Beyond this point you may encounter nude sunbathers! Account for the naturist webcomic Greyfriar's Isle.

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I run Planet Nude, a daily publication exploring nudity and naturism in culture, politics, and art. Essays, news, history, and comics—free to read, with new stories every day. www.planetnude.co
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.

What the fuck are we?
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Now I will say that these epstein emails have been a timely reminder that the wealthy and powerful are not required to form coherent ideas, and are used to unseen underlings transforming their shapeless impulses into real things for which they can take credit
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Like Beethoven invented *new kinds of musical notation* bc he wanted to be very fucking clear about how it was meant to be played

And we already have syntax for describing very precisely what we want computers to do, called "code"
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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All of this natural language everything is a kind of attack on formal systems as tools of expertise

it bakes in a layer of imprecision that makes it harder to express things that capital does not want expressed, and harder to notice the ways it constrains and shapes expression
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Emergency fundraiser to pay for an emergency kidney procedure, anything helps gofund.me/16ef32cb1
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November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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before you’re permitted to gamble, you should be forced to consider yourself as an old person spending your fading years blank-faced and shoveling your dwindling savings into a slot machine that’s decorated with sexy Looney Tunes characters.

this is an essential service real-life casinos provide
November 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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yep. this is, notably, the case wrt to the "brain isn't fully developed until age 25" myth. Brains do not stop developing and there is nothing notable that happens to them at age 25. There's just a development study that stopped following up at that age.
In general you can safely assume that any claim about human bodies that says "this stops at a hard cutoff of [x] years" actually means "the studies on this ran out of funding at [x] years"
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Trump is the nadir of our kakistocracy but it's truly been rule-by-mediocrity all the way down for years.

There's something bleakly comforting about that, that these people aren't better than me, that me and my community truly, objectively deserve more than them.
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I have so many talented, brilliant, hardworking friends who are out of work or precarious or underpaid.

And all of these people who emailed Epstein are people who have the jobs/money/status my friends and loved ones should have.
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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It makes a mockery of those of us who were taught that hard work is what yields the greatest rewards, whose parents sacrificed everything so we could go to school... to be told to look up to people like *this.*
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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One of the most infuriating--and liberating--things about all this is seeing how utterly pathetic our rulers are. A man as powerful as Summers, this empty and sad, with the kind of petty misogyny that he runs crying to *Jeffrey Epstein* about...
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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it's easy to kind of invert the logic, and think they still worked hard at something to get their money, except it was wage theft instead of innovating or whatever.

harder to accept that money acts like mass: the largest amount has the strongest pull
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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There's pretty strong rumors that google made their search engine crappy for financial reasons:

pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/n...
Pluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We can hope.
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Something to ponder at the NaturistSocialProject.com
If it is true that Gen Alpha is de-plugging and choosing real life in person outdoor experiences, how can naturism reach them if we are focused on sharing online naked photos from influencers?

www.instagram.com/reel/DPWPbfi...
Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk on Instagram: "The unplug plug 🔌 : so many of you entrepreneurs are looking for an angle 📐 .. here is one that will continue to trend, everything in life in the macro are pendulum sw...
Get ready to explore the world of experiential business and personal growth. With the increasing trend of unplugging from technology, discover how to create a business that focuses on human connection...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?"

Idk, being a citizen in the country that voted for Trump twice is pretty high up on that list.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"Pastoral Fantasy," Augustus Edwin John, ca. 1938, oil on canvas, 39 x 47 ", private collection.

Augustus Edwin John (1878 - 1961) was a prominent Welsh painter known for his portraits and vibrant, energetic style.

#NudeArt #Naturism #NonSexualNudity
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I have newslettered: Greyfriar's Isle, the regular Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan blast from the past, a quick comment on my experiences with Art Studio Pro (I don't like it) a cute dog courtesy of Cat Valente, some music (not by me) and a short roundup of tech moans.

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Comics by Reinder: The Naked Truth Sessions
Wednesday The 114th Greyfriar’s Isle comic just went live for everyone on Planet Nude + Since my last post, I got sick again! Possibly exacerbated by my new meds…
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November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The nudist charm of Jucika www.planetnude.co/p/the-nudist...
The nudist charm of Jucika
A mid-century Hungarian comic heroine finds new fans—many of them nude
www.planetnude.co
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Great piece (as usual) from @planetnude.co - "The Nudist Charm of Jucita"! I've come across this comic before but @nudernix.bsky.social's breakdown of the comic's qualities is excellent. Here's to a nudist icon! (Also consider following bsky.app/profile/juci... !)

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The nudist charm of Jucika
A mid-century Hungarian comic heroine finds new fans—many of them nude
www.planetnude.co
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM