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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Remarkable things happening on Facebook.
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Remarkable things happening on Facebook.
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anyone need anything while i have the cat drawer open
December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
anyone need anything while i have the cat drawer open
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not now, carnivorous death ball
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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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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The bees have discovered Brutalism
I really need this site to get a private option because I have SO much hot gossip that I haven’t been able to update anyone about since I deleted my twitter account
April 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I really need this site to get a private option because I have SO much hot gossip that I haven’t been able to update anyone about since I deleted my twitter account
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You ever think about how crazy these guys would be at posting memes
January 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You ever think about how crazy these guys would be at posting memes
Syria!!! I’m so overcome with feelings about this turn of events. I have so many friends who work on Syria, and seeing this dream come true for them is incredible, even with the inevitable instability and power vacuum that will follow it
December 8, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Syria!!! I’m so overcome with feelings about this turn of events. I have so many friends who work on Syria, and seeing this dream come true for them is incredible, even with the inevitable instability and power vacuum that will follow it
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After Trump was elected, I started to wonder what could the grassroots, cities, and states do to move the needle on climate change without federal support. It turns out, a lot (gift link)
What Can US Cities and States Do for the Climate Under Trump? Plenty
Federal progress on climate may stall, but city halls and statehouses are in a good position to build on recent gains.
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:11 PM
After Trump was elected, I started to wonder what could the grassroots, cities, and states do to move the needle on climate change without federal support. It turns out, a lot (gift link)
I guess it’s a compliment that when I try to take a week off, I get four different people asking me to do something for them, but god is it also exhausting
November 27, 2024 at 11:16 PM
I guess it’s a compliment that when I try to take a week off, I get four different people asking me to do something for them, but god is it also exhausting
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It was called LiveJournal and you told the whole world what you wouldn’t even share with your therapist
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 PM
It was called LiveJournal and you told the whole world what you wouldn’t even share with your therapist
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No guarantees, box.
November 15, 2024 at 6:18 PM
No guarantees, box.
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I’m in the @guardianaustralia.bsky.social today with a piece about how my greyhound is making friends, and it’s incredibly cute
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My greyhound Basil is an awkward loner weirdo – now I know how my parents felt | Patrick Lenton
My mum and dad eventually realised I was happy being a little freak. And so is Basil
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I’m in the @guardianaustralia.bsky.social today with a piece about how my greyhound is making friends, and it’s incredibly cute
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Keep scrolling if you’ve already seen an armadillo playing with a bell today… 🖤
November 11, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Keep scrolling if you’ve already seen an armadillo playing with a bell today… 🖤