Are Leiby 🍵🐈⬛
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philosopher at the unfortunately named elon university // tender yellow pony of insomnia // had too much to think
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finding out that Isaac Chotiner does quote dunks now too opens up the delightful possibility of a Chotiner/Derek Menswear guy tag team situation at some point
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
finding out that Isaac Chotiner does quote dunks now too opens up the delightful possibility of a Chotiner/Derek Menswear guy tag team situation at some point
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
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Roses are red,
And so are my dearests.
They’re
And so are my dearests.
They’re
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Roses are red,
And so are my dearests.
They’re
And so are my dearests.
They’re
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
When I arrive at the party
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Poetry is here to help -- not in a self-help kind of way, but in a taking your sadness and wonder and lacing it with bracing beauty kind of way
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Poetry is here to help -- not in a self-help kind of way, but in a taking your sadness and wonder and lacing it with bracing beauty kind of way
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Sometimes I wonder what the other timeline versions of me are doing. At one point I was a parent. At another I was married. And then somewhere in the midst I just huddled down and just focused on either my art or writing.
To them I send all my love regardless.
To them I send all my love regardless.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Sometimes I wonder what the other timeline versions of me are doing. At one point I was a parent. At another I was married. And then somewhere in the midst I just huddled down and just focused on either my art or writing.
To them I send all my love regardless.
To them I send all my love regardless.
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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Finally, a perk
And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Finally, a perk
Stop trying to make Black Mirror happen, it's not going to happen (also, Butlerian jihad when)
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Stop trying to make Black Mirror happen, it's not going to happen (also, Butlerian jihad when)
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
This has been and will continue to be a rough week for folks who have survived sexual assault. The release of this new cache of Epstein emails makes one thing perfectly clear: so many people knew after his conviction and simply did not care.
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This has been and will continue to be a rough week for folks who have survived sexual assault. The release of this new cache of Epstein emails makes one thing perfectly clear: so many people knew after his conviction and simply did not care.
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Permit me a little maudlin gushing. I can’t tell you how good for the soul caring for animals is for me. The animals in question don’t even have to like me or acknowledge me, but spending time feeding and caring about something matters.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Permit me a little maudlin gushing. I can’t tell you how good for the soul caring for animals is for me. The animals in question don’t even have to like me or acknowledge me, but spending time feeding and caring about something matters.
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With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 AM
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
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Honored to be featured on the freshly-relaunched @aftermath.site with this new piece!
It's about AI and Fascism, and also the beloved Y2K-era teen comedy Mean Girls.
It's about AI and Fascism, and also the beloved Y2K-era teen comedy Mean Girls.
AI Is The Ultimate "Forced Meme"
There are few things in this world more insufferable than a rich person trying to force their shitty ideas on everyone else. And in 2025, there are very few things that feel more forced than “Generati...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Honored to be featured on the freshly-relaunched @aftermath.site with this new piece!
It's about AI and Fascism, and also the beloved Y2K-era teen comedy Mean Girls.
It's about AI and Fascism, and also the beloved Y2K-era teen comedy Mean Girls.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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I am increasingly distressed by the thought that university level teaching no longer can meaningfully advance the cause of humanistic progress. one shows up far too late on the scene for students who have by and large already been violently deskilled and stripped of any hope. it is heartbreaking.
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I am increasingly distressed by the thought that university level teaching no longer can meaningfully advance the cause of humanistic progress. one shows up far too late on the scene for students who have by and large already been violently deskilled and stripped of any hope. it is heartbreaking.
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
Today is as good a day as any to look up your local DSA chapters, friends.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today is as good a day as any to look up your local DSA chapters, friends.
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“You’re going to be disappointing other people or you’re going to be disappointing yourself. You have to choose.” — my partner to me today. Thought I’d mess yall up too. Thanks!
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“You’re going to be disappointing other people or you’re going to be disappointing yourself. You have to choose.” — my partner to me today. Thought I’d mess yall up too. Thanks!
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"AI is designed to kill humans, but in the most soulless way possible, stripping away even our ability to own and express our pain."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
Soul Stripping
Against AI, again.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"AI is designed to kill humans, but in the most soulless way possible, stripping away even our ability to own and express our pain."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
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the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice**
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice**
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs
*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize
**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs