Birthright Citizen
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the hyuck in your yum
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“Either Apartheid is right or it’s wrong.”
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I just need everyone to read this about how the New Jersey legislature works
Also I’m not even really joking, county orgs have calls before voting sessions and the like to tell members how to vote. There’s multiple tomorrow for the voting sessions Monday
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I just need everyone to read this about how the New Jersey legislature works
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also, Spotify doesn't pay royalties at all for tracks with less than a thousand streams.
and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.
and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
also, Spotify doesn't pay royalties at all for tracks with less than a thousand streams.
and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.
and sometimes if an album gets a sudden surge of fan interest, Spotify deems it "unusual listening activity" and just removes the album, as happened to my last EP.
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if you give your financial information to Mr. Beast I think it should be straight up legal to straight up steal your money
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
if you give your financial information to Mr. Beast I think it should be straight up legal to straight up steal your money
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Hey guys, it's Mr. Beast here, with Mark of the Beast Financial Services!
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hey guys, it's Mr. Beast here, with Mark of the Beast Financial Services!
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lol the commodification of existence is wack.
Can we just exist? Damn.
Can we just exist? Damn.
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
lol the commodification of existence is wack.
Can we just exist? Damn.
Can we just exist? Damn.
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seasonal affective disorder be like
"ennui now, our gray apparel"
"ennui now, our gray apparel"
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
seasonal affective disorder be like
"ennui now, our gray apparel"
"ennui now, our gray apparel"
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Mutual aid can be 3-5 ppl you commit to mutually looking out for. It can be sending $1-$20 when you have it. It looks like babysitting. It looks like sharing food stamps. It looks like being of service when you can. It looks like giving af about ur neighbors & ur neighbors giving af about you.
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Mutual aid can be 3-5 ppl you commit to mutually looking out for. It can be sending $1-$20 when you have it. It looks like babysitting. It looks like sharing food stamps. It looks like being of service when you can. It looks like giving af about ur neighbors & ur neighbors giving af about you.
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I suspect this (written up in a paper owned by Amazon's founder and CEO) is a hardball negotiating tactic by Amazon. My understanding is that Amazon mostly uses USPS for last-mile deliveries in remote/rural locations that Amazon can't do itself profitably.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I suspect this (written up in a paper owned by Amazon's founder and CEO) is a hardball negotiating tactic by Amazon. My understanding is that Amazon mostly uses USPS for last-mile deliveries in remote/rural locations that Amazon can't do itself profitably.
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I've posted about this before but one of the most memorable lessons I learned in grad school was about how IQ tests are not a very good indicator of overall intelligence because you can just train for the test - we did this by taking weekly IQ tests and getting better at it over time
I saw this ad on the train and I’m curious how yall feel about it… I’m very much in the center, but slightly more towards than against…
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I've posted about this before but one of the most memorable lessons I learned in grad school was about how IQ tests are not a very good indicator of overall intelligence because you can just train for the test - we did this by taking weekly IQ tests and getting better at it over time
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The ship I was on while stationed there had the Rising Sun flag painted on an anchor chain in the foc’sle. When we stopped in ports throughout the Pacific, it was one of the locations we gave ship tours in. The gasp you’d hear.
They finally painted over it after decades of using it.
They finally painted over it after decades of using it.
...do people not get that the rising sun is a hate symbol or
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The ship I was on while stationed there had the Rising Sun flag painted on an anchor chain in the foc’sle. When we stopped in ports throughout the Pacific, it was one of the locations we gave ship tours in. The gasp you’d hear.
They finally painted over it after decades of using it.
They finally painted over it after decades of using it.
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56 years ago today, the CPD / FBI assassinated Fred Hampton.
Hampton brought together the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (white Chicagoans with southern roots, based in Uptown, who flew the Confederate flag), and Young Lords (Puerto Ricans). The FBI saw (and sees) multi-racial unity as a threat.
Hampton brought together the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (white Chicagoans with southern roots, based in Uptown, who flew the Confederate flag), and Young Lords (Puerto Ricans). The FBI saw (and sees) multi-racial unity as a threat.
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
56 years ago today, the CPD / FBI assassinated Fred Hampton.
Hampton brought together the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (white Chicagoans with southern roots, based in Uptown, who flew the Confederate flag), and Young Lords (Puerto Ricans). The FBI saw (and sees) multi-racial unity as a threat.
Hampton brought together the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (white Chicagoans with southern roots, based in Uptown, who flew the Confederate flag), and Young Lords (Puerto Ricans). The FBI saw (and sees) multi-racial unity as a threat.
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the only think I disagree with Burnham here, circa 2019, is that, no, in these six years it has become self-evident that these people are bad, these companies have evil plans and they're doing this very, very consciously.
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
the only think I disagree with Burnham here, circa 2019, is that, no, in these six years it has become self-evident that these people are bad, these companies have evil plans and they're doing this very, very consciously.
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I got hands to use, people! Elbows, knees, feet, head!
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I got hands to use, people! Elbows, knees, feet, head!
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I need y’all to understand CEOs are not equipped to run the federal government. The goals and motivations are completely different from corporations and both require different skill sets. IDGAF what Palantir or anyone else’s CEO says or thinks about how the fed should be run.
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I need y’all to understand CEOs are not equipped to run the federal government. The goals and motivations are completely different from corporations and both require different skill sets. IDGAF what Palantir or anyone else’s CEO says or thinks about how the fed should be run.
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Klantone
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Klantone
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impressive, very nice
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
impressive, very nice
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black creators of various stripes are often forced into categories so as to make them legible and (i’d say) shrink the ambitions of their work.
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
black creators of various stripes are often forced into categories so as to make them legible and (i’d say) shrink the ambitions of their work.
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it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters
black creators of various stripes are often forced into categories so as to make them legible and (i’d say) shrink the ambitions of their work.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
it's how we end up talking about Sinners and Nope like they're naturally aligned, instead of talking about how Nope, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sinners together mark the dawn of a new age of existentialist blockbusters
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My flabbers are gasted.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My flabbers are gasted.
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Well, that’s one way to sum up the past 11 months.
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Well, that’s one way to sum up the past 11 months.