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VC, Life Science, Biotech, Space Nerd
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
Had to vote in person for the first time in over a decade and.... man even with poll workers doing an excellent job it still took two hours to get my ballot cast. It is truly insane that in this day and age that many people are still forced to do this.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Had to vote in person for the first time in over a decade and.... man even with poll workers doing an excellent job it still took two hours to get my ballot cast. It is truly insane that in this day and age that many people are still forced to do this.
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new NoVA winemom yard sign just dropped
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
new NoVA winemom yard sign just dropped
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
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In those days nobody thought anything of you until you'd seen the sandwich. Felt the splatter of tuna salad across your tabard. Felt sweet onion teriyaki dressing soak your hand.
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In those days nobody thought anything of you until you'd seen the sandwich. Felt the splatter of tuna salad across your tabard. Felt sweet onion teriyaki dressing soak your hand.
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You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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MMT is entirely correct about the economics + resources angle but struggles to deal with the politics of the crisis is where I'm at
I mean, they are right, you can print money with deficit spending and tax it back to prevent inflation. The issue is that this isnt new, and its very hard for democratic governments to execute on higher taxes into inflation
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
MMT is entirely correct about the economics + resources angle but struggles to deal with the politics of the crisis is where I'm at
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.
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bluesky is an app where distressingly well-read queer people will take turns kicking ill-informed new york times reporters (laudatory)
October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
bluesky is an app where distressingly well-read queer people will take turns kicking ill-informed new york times reporters (laudatory)
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Possible culprits:
- Antofu
- Miso-13
- Tempeh de Aragua
- NATTO expansion
- Antofu
- Miso-13
- Tempeh de Aragua
- NATTO expansion
A grain bin filled with soybeans collapsed in Iroquois County, Illinois, taking out power lines but causing no injuries.
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Possible culprits:
- Antofu
- Miso-13
- Tempeh de Aragua
- NATTO expansion
- Antofu
- Miso-13
- Tempeh de Aragua
- NATTO expansion
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📣This #FellowshipFriday we're spotlighting Aman Merchant!
Aman is a mission-driven futurist, educator, board advisor, and angel investor with over 25 years of experience across ventures in education, social impact, and disruptive innovation.
Aman is a mission-driven futurist, educator, board advisor, and angel investor with over 25 years of experience across ventures in education, social impact, and disruptive innovation.
October 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
📣This #FellowshipFriday we're spotlighting Aman Merchant!
Aman is a mission-driven futurist, educator, board advisor, and angel investor with over 25 years of experience across ventures in education, social impact, and disruptive innovation.
Aman is a mission-driven futurist, educator, board advisor, and angel investor with over 25 years of experience across ventures in education, social impact, and disruptive innovation.
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“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.
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i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris
SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
October 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris
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My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
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Dont say she didn’t warn us, either. The press actively covered for him, but she warned us.
This was always the plan.
Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.
Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.
October 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Dont say she didn’t warn us, either. The press actively covered for him, but she warned us.
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Call me Paul Thomas Anderson the way i be fighting one battle after another
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Call me Paul Thomas Anderson the way i be fighting one battle after another
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I get a lot of strange looks when I say this in meatspace, but I unironically mean it: algorithm discipline is an extraordinarily important skill for navigating modern life without going insane, and it should be taught in K-12 schools.
I *think* a lot of the algos on Insta/Tiktok are pretty good at avoiding right-wing content if you're clearly someone who hates right-wing content, but you have to be a fairly committed person not to have a background of it.
It's really everyone. Your parents. Your kids. Your friends. Your boss. Your elected leaders. Everyone is just constantly On Their Phone or On Their Computer and when they are, they are constantly being fed political information that that they personally find resonant, regardless of veracity.
September 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I get a lot of strange looks when I say this in meatspace, but I unironically mean it: algorithm discipline is an extraordinarily important skill for navigating modern life without going insane, and it should be taught in K-12 schools.
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Yeah pretty much. I don’t want to really live out in sprawl with a giant truck i don’t need and have to drive everywhere. But so long as you actually pay the cost of your water, emissions, infrastructure, etc. I don’t really give a shit. I just don’t want to be forced to subsidize your preference.
My steelman of this argument is that the broad liberal coalition should support the liberal principal that people should be given choices about where they live; density and non-auto neighborhoods have been suppressed, you can unsupress them and the market will handle suppressing the other way.
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Yeah pretty much. I don’t want to really live out in sprawl with a giant truck i don’t need and have to drive everywhere. But so long as you actually pay the cost of your water, emissions, infrastructure, etc. I don’t really give a shit. I just don’t want to be forced to subsidize your preference.
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