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there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
me using my humanities education to analyze the background when christopher anderson asks me to pose against this wall
Man in a white button-up shirt and blue pants puts his hands on his hips and looks at a gray background
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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sollizyy.bsky.social
I wish people knew that you could write a queer Eastern European character who's father isn't an abusive alcoholic
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
miracaitlin.bsky.social
Also true for a “native” speaker with a Masters degree in Public Administration and 10+ years of experience in policy roles…
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
WHEW!!!!!!!!
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3d
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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sarakatew.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
fuck right off with this too please.

Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that.

sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.
thenation.com The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 3d
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
A comic called Animals with Misleading Names. There's an electric eel labeled "not an eel". There's a mountain goat labeled "not a goat." There's a maned wolf labeled "not a wolf." There's a king cobra labeled "not a cobra. Also, snakes are typically self-governing." There's a peacock mantis shrimp labeled "Not a peacock. Not a mantis. Also, not a shrimp." There's a horny toad labeled "Not a toad. Only thinks of you as a friend." There's a mayfly labeled "active through the spring and summer." There's an eastern kingbird labeled "found in the west. Many birds do not recognize its authority."
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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whetmoser.com
as always: don't let yourself get attached to any social media platform you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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pervocracy.bsky.social
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
We're running out of good ideas. Al might be how we find new ones. What if the best use of Al is restarting the world's idea machine? by Bryan Walsh Dec 13 Simpsons nuts and gum together at last
December 14, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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rusty.todayintabs.com
I was one of these guys and what I watched happen was that a handful of tech companies took the work of all those free software evangelists and built trillion dollar monopolies on top of it while the free software creators got nothing and went broke.
ktb D @kevinbaker.bsky.social we need to bring back hyperbolic linux posting. guys who say things like "software licenses are modern slavery" and "if john brown were alive today he'd be a gnu contributor." they played such an important role in online discourse and now they're nowhere to be seen. 3:39 PM • Dec 13, 2025 & Some people can reply
December 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
miracaitlin.bsky.social
Me to me
regretteruane.bsky.social Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 5d
Can’t find a way to write this that doesn’t sound like a twee bromide but genuinely, if your end of year review is that you survived painful things happening in your life & the world, stayed empathetic in an inhospitable environment & treated yourself & others decently then that’s achievement enough
December 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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ianboudreau.com
A billion dollars and the idea is basically Star Wars JibJab
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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dan401w.bsky.social
Storm over Panama at 37k feet.

Santiago Borja
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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annetheriault.bsky.social
Me: … and that contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire
14yo: do you mean the WESTERN Roman Empire?
Me: yeah
14yo: then you should say that, because in Constantinople …
Me: yeah, of course, obviously
14yo, talking over me: BECAUSE IN CONSTANTINOPLE THE EASTERN EMPIRE CONTINUED FOR CENTURIES
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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dannyodwyer.bsky.social
look man, i watch a lot of these behind the scenes actor interviews things, but this is on another level.

the opening 2 minutes are deranged. i love them so much.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlY3...
Alexander Skarsgård & Stellan Skarsgård | Actors on Actors
YouTube video by Variety
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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joshsternberg.com
Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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samthielman.com
Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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doodlemancy.com
periodic reminder that the crusade against MSG was just racism and it is actually just magical science salt that gets you More Yummy for Less Sodium
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
This morning, in the largest expansion yet, hundreds of new union baristas are walking off the job in 34 cities.

That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!

We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · Nov 13
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
December 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.
The number of Europeans travelling to the US has cratered under Trump Year-on-year change in visitors to the US, by country of origin (%) Source: International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch OFT
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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root2702.bsky.social
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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juanaidecastilla.bsky.social
Buenos días.
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM