Ms Skippy
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From context I’m going to guess it was deployed as an insult instead of some insightful class analysis….
Still, while I don’t know a whole lot about Marxist terminology, I’m pretty sure artisans literally *are* petite bourgeoisie) by definition (the petite is important though).
Still, while I don’t know a whole lot about Marxist terminology, I’m pretty sure artisans literally *are* petite bourgeoisie) by definition (the petite is important though).
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
From context I’m going to guess it was deployed as an insult instead of some insightful class analysis….
Still, while I don’t know a whole lot about Marxist terminology, I’m pretty sure artisans literally *are* petite bourgeoisie) by definition (the petite is important though).
Still, while I don’t know a whole lot about Marxist terminology, I’m pretty sure artisans literally *are* petite bourgeoisie) by definition (the petite is important though).
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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Having people around me constantly praise the benefits of my masking and having no interest in doing it themselves or being less sick is mystifying.
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Having people around me constantly praise the benefits of my masking and having no interest in doing it themselves or being less sick is mystifying.
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mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.
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The boiling frog progression of so many apps/programs/etc. turning their "no" buttons into "maybe later" will never stop being wildly messed up to me.
You can give consent for what they want, but never revoke it. Not completely. They reserve the right to harass you incessantly.
You can give consent for what they want, but never revoke it. Not completely. They reserve the right to harass you incessantly.
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The boiling frog progression of so many apps/programs/etc. turning their "no" buttons into "maybe later" will never stop being wildly messed up to me.
You can give consent for what they want, but never revoke it. Not completely. They reserve the right to harass you incessantly.
You can give consent for what they want, but never revoke it. Not completely. They reserve the right to harass you incessantly.
This is a really interesting example because you can’t copyright knitting patterns(or recipes) right now.
So if I knitted a scarf, I could sell it. If I baked a cake, I could sell it. If I grew some apples, I could sell them. But if I wrote an article, a story, a poem or a novel, or painted a picture, it would be OK for you to steal it from me? Do I understand you correctly?
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is a really interesting example because you can’t copyright knitting patterns(or recipes) right now.
On one hand, I’m morally opposed to accumulation of obscene wealth. On the other hand, though, it’s fun to fantasize about throwing money around to people who need it and becoming an eccentric patron of the arts who could sponsor this book.
it’s a little funny how hard it’s been to find a home for a book about a data scientist fending off the feds as true AI breaks into the surveillance state, considering
October 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM
On one hand, I’m morally opposed to accumulation of obscene wealth. On the other hand, though, it’s fun to fantasize about throwing money around to people who need it and becoming an eccentric patron of the arts who could sponsor this book.
I really appreciate the way this Current Affairs essay begins to think through what a solution might look like. The title “The Truth is Paywalled but the Lies are Free” also encapsulates the problem perfectly www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/08...
September 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I really appreciate the way this Current Affairs essay begins to think through what a solution might look like. The title “The Truth is Paywalled but the Lies are Free” also encapsulates the problem perfectly www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/08...
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I feel half of the reason Chotiner is so good at this is because the follow up question is apparently a lost art, tbh
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I feel half of the reason Chotiner is so good at this is because the follow up question is apparently a lost art, tbh
I think this is the thing lots of people miss. He does plenty of interesting interviews with non-evil subjects. They just don’t go viral.
So why do people still do interviews with him? Because the “Oh Shit It’s a Chotiner Interview“ interview is not the only kind he does. He also highlights people doing good work, or who are in circumstances that need highlighting.
September 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I think this is the thing lots of people miss. He does plenty of interesting interviews with non-evil subjects. They just don’t go viral.
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I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
September 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
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"Birthing Person" has been used in 9 official e-newsletters. 8 are Republicans making fun of the term and saying Democrats say that and 1 is from Bernie Sanders when his staff was interviewing a midwife.
August 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Birthing Person" has been used in 9 official e-newsletters. 8 are Republicans making fun of the term and saying Democrats say that and 1 is from Bernie Sanders when his staff was interviewing a midwife.
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Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
August 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
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i can't describe it well right now but there's an important difference between "laws aren't real" and "lol nothing matters laws aren't real"
August 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
i can't describe it well right now but there's an important difference between "laws aren't real" and "lol nothing matters laws aren't real"
At 8 or 9–The Spirted Child and all the other books on raising difficult children my parents had hidden away in their bedroom
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
August 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
At 8 or 9–The Spirted Child and all the other books on raising difficult children my parents had hidden away in their bedroom
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every day I'm like, "I need to answer that email" and every day my anxiety is like, "but they'll be mad at you because you're already so late" and I'm like, "you're right, I should wait until i think of the *perfect* email so they won't be mad at me" and the loop continues ever on so it goes
August 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
every day I'm like, "I need to answer that email" and every day my anxiety is like, "but they'll be mad at you because you're already so late" and I'm like, "you're right, I should wait until i think of the *perfect* email so they won't be mad at me" and the loop continues ever on so it goes
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I wrote about how AI chatbots strip cultural and historical context away from language. What remains is merely a ghost in the machine, and it's repeatedly making people confused and scared www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.
www.wired.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I wrote about how AI chatbots strip cultural and historical context away from language. What remains is merely a ghost in the machine, and it's repeatedly making people confused and scared www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
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We will never have true liberation until children have rights.
Which is really dark when I think about it for too long.
Which is really dark when I think about it for too long.
July 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
We will never have true liberation until children have rights.
Which is really dark when I think about it for too long.
Which is really dark when I think about it for too long.
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
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Recognize this as a pro-corporation decision. This will in essence *require* individual sxwrkrs to work for anti-labor monopolies like Porn Hub that have pushed down wages - pay for performances is already ~25% LOWER in straight dollar amount than it was ten years ago - not counting inflation
Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.
Looks like we’re going to get age verification on our phones. gizmodo.com/supreme-cour...
June 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Recognize this as a pro-corporation decision. This will in essence *require* individual sxwrkrs to work for anti-labor monopolies like Porn Hub that have pushed down wages - pay for performances is already ~25% LOWER in straight dollar amount than it was ten years ago - not counting inflation
I see a lot of people pointing out ridiculous contrast to how conservative media covered Brett Kavanaugh’s college “mischief”
To throw it into even starker relief read a college-aged Zohran’s column on the importance of consent and dangers of alcohol bowdoinorient.com/bonus/articl...
To throw it into even starker relief read a college-aged Zohran’s column on the importance of consent and dangers of alcohol bowdoinorient.com/bonus/articl...
July 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I see a lot of people pointing out ridiculous contrast to how conservative media covered Brett Kavanaugh’s college “mischief”
To throw it into even starker relief read a college-aged Zohran’s column on the importance of consent and dangers of alcohol bowdoinorient.com/bonus/articl...
To throw it into even starker relief read a college-aged Zohran’s column on the importance of consent and dangers of alcohol bowdoinorient.com/bonus/articl...
The Toast’s domain is messed up but this is an excellent excuse to share the archived version of one of my favorite “if z was your y” pieces
If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads
web.archive.org/web/20220523...
If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads
web.archive.org/web/20220523...
June 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Toast’s domain is messed up but this is an excellent excuse to share the archived version of one of my favorite “if z was your y” pieces
If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads
web.archive.org/web/20220523...
If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads
web.archive.org/web/20220523...
June 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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People might say:
"$2,000 in savings is reasonable! Newsom wants to make sure Medi-Cal is reserved for those who truly can't afford private healthcare."
We say:
Nothing is reasonable about this budget plan. Asset minimums are punitive and outdated.
$2,000 in savings won't cover a month's rent. **
"$2,000 in savings is reasonable! Newsom wants to make sure Medi-Cal is reserved for those who truly can't afford private healthcare."
We say:
Nothing is reasonable about this budget plan. Asset minimums are punitive and outdated.
$2,000 in savings won't cover a month's rent. **
June 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
People might say:
"$2,000 in savings is reasonable! Newsom wants to make sure Medi-Cal is reserved for those who truly can't afford private healthcare."
We say:
Nothing is reasonable about this budget plan. Asset minimums are punitive and outdated.
$2,000 in savings won't cover a month's rent. **
"$2,000 in savings is reasonable! Newsom wants to make sure Medi-Cal is reserved for those who truly can't afford private healthcare."
We say:
Nothing is reasonable about this budget plan. Asset minimums are punitive and outdated.
$2,000 in savings won't cover a month's rent. **