goth of izar
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31, network operator, second shift vampire, social democrat, rude mechanical, telephone girl.
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Almost everyone in the US has seen these photos at some point: Nazi book burnings, seared into our national psyche as the quintessential expression of fascist tyranny. But few people know what books they were burning, beyond the fact that many of the books’ authors were Jewish.
July 4, 2023 at 11:13 PM
Almost everyone in the US has seen these photos at some point: Nazi book burnings, seared into our national psyche as the quintessential expression of fascist tyranny. But few people know what books they were burning, beyond the fact that many of the books’ authors were Jewish.
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generally somewhere between annoyed and disgusted at the constant practice of fishing up anecdotes from history to prove “trans folks have always been here” — a rhetorical gesture aimed at whom exactly?
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
generally somewhere between annoyed and disgusted at the constant practice of fishing up anecdotes from history to prove “trans folks have always been here” — a rhetorical gesture aimed at whom exactly?
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some people aren't looking to build, just ways to hate that their friends are okay with
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
some people aren't looking to build, just ways to hate that their friends are okay with
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One thing Gwen understands more than most about the Texas and Oklahoma crack down on trans people existing in the university is that this is part of a broader movement by TPUSA and astroturf right wing groups to push society to make having a job while being openly trans impossible again.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
One thing Gwen understands more than most about the Texas and Oklahoma crack down on trans people existing in the university is that this is part of a broader movement by TPUSA and astroturf right wing groups to push society to make having a job while being openly trans impossible again.
Recent events have me extremely glad I'm not an academic, after all.
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Recent events have me extremely glad I'm not an academic, after all.
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Knowing that the instructor was trans is directly relevant here, in that it turns this whole deal from a random terrible essay into a knowing ploy to bait the instructor by not doing the minimum required work, then claim that the professor hated her for being cis
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Knowing that the instructor was trans is directly relevant here, in that it turns this whole deal from a random terrible essay into a knowing ploy to bait the instructor by not doing the minimum required work, then claim that the professor hated her for being cis
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this is the shit that keeps me up at night
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
this is the shit that keeps me up at night
"tough on good porn, tough on the causes of good porn"
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"tough on good porn, tough on the causes of good porn"
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In LucasArts adventure games, the protagonist is often given the chance to say "I'm selling these fine leather jackets." This is a subtle reference to jackets, the popular upper body garment.
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In LucasArts adventure games, the protagonist is often given the chance to say "I'm selling these fine leather jackets." This is a subtle reference to jackets, the popular upper body garment.
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Journalists are jumping all over this guy but what evidence do we have that isn’t true. I’m not even saying it is true, but why would we take their word that it isn’t?
I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Journalists are jumping all over this guy but what evidence do we have that isn’t true. I’m not even saying it is true, but why would we take their word that it isn’t?
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Also I know we all like joking around about former gifted kid burnout but there's actually a full on conspiracy theory full of people who think being sent to a pull out class once a week was actually them being forced into literal MKultra Montauk government psychic kid research it's very upsetting
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Also I know we all like joking around about former gifted kid burnout but there's actually a full on conspiracy theory full of people who think being sent to a pull out class once a week was actually them being forced into literal MKultra Montauk government psychic kid research it's very upsetting
So did Olivia Nuzzi fuck Trump too, or just carry water for him in the press?
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So did Olivia Nuzzi fuck Trump too, or just carry water for him in the press?
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[browsing a synthesizer subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 synthesizers
[browsing a cassette tapes subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 cassette players
[browsing a handheld gaming subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 handheld consoles
etc
[browsing a cassette tapes subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 cassette players
[browsing a handheld gaming subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 handheld consoles
etc
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
[browsing a synthesizer subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 synthesizers
[browsing a cassette tapes subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 cassette players
[browsing a handheld gaming subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 handheld consoles
etc
[browsing a cassette tapes subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 cassette players
[browsing a handheld gaming subreddit] what the hell, some of these people have 100 handheld consoles
etc
I *just* had to refer to this post earlier to describe ordering a bottle of fountain pen ink and getting a baggie of fucking sand!
He should do one about that one bag of dirt, from the guy who in 2004 bought a router at Home Depot, but when he got the box home inside was not a router but a bag of dirt with “puto” written on it
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I *just* had to refer to this post earlier to describe ordering a bottle of fountain pen ink and getting a baggie of fucking sand!
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The friendsification of society.
Ross - whatever his flaws - was constantly shit on for being an expert in a field
Ross - whatever his flaws - was constantly shit on for being an expert in a field
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The friendsification of society.
Ross - whatever his flaws - was constantly shit on for being an expert in a field
Ross - whatever his flaws - was constantly shit on for being an expert in a field
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Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!
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JD Vance holding back tears, shouting "this never happened" through gritted teeth and muttering "daddy never smiles at ME that way," while he berates an intern to fix his botched attempt to photoshop his own face over Mamdani's
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
JD Vance holding back tears, shouting "this never happened" through gritted teeth and muttering "daddy never smiles at ME that way," while he berates an intern to fix his botched attempt to photoshop his own face over Mamdani's
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Re: using poems to sabotage LLMs, I wrote a short story around this premise last year - it's called Manifesto and it's a chatlog from a world where political violence has been automated.
Read here: blairaf.com/library/crea...
Read here: blairaf.com/library/crea...
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Re: using poems to sabotage LLMs, I wrote a short story around this premise last year - it's called Manifesto and it's a chatlog from a world where political violence has been automated.
Read here: blairaf.com/library/crea...
Read here: blairaf.com/library/crea...
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its so cool that our two trans holidays are "please remember we exist" and "please stop killing us"
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
its so cool that our two trans holidays are "please remember we exist" and "please stop killing us"
It is, however, amusing to me that we're all cancelling Keith Olbermann, an activity once only available to management at every cable network on which he's ever aired, and for which I've been preparing since I outgrew the children's programming block that is weeknight primetime on formerly-MSNBC.
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It is, however, amusing to me that we're all cancelling Keith Olbermann, an activity once only available to management at every cable network on which he's ever aired, and for which I've been preparing since I outgrew the children's programming block that is weeknight primetime on formerly-MSNBC.
Something KO will mention from time to time is that he used to live in a Trump building. I wonder if, on some level, he's salty his former landlord never took him to meet his favorite NYC financier... maybe visit his island?
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Something KO will mention from time to time is that he used to live in a Trump building. I wonder if, on some level, he's salty his former landlord never took him to meet his favorite NYC financier... maybe visit his island?
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[in therapy voice]
i'm beginning to feel i may never find myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
i'm beginning to feel i may never find myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
[in therapy voice]
i'm beginning to feel i may never find myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
i'm beginning to feel i may never find myself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
I think the thing that bugs me the most about this is that my late grandmother, without fail, wanted only one thing for Christmas every year: a new pair of dearfoam slippers to wear around the house.
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I think the thing that bugs me the most about this is that my late grandmother, without fail, wanted only one thing for Christmas every year: a new pair of dearfoam slippers to wear around the house.
I can cosign this as a permanently recovering debate kid.
People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I can cosign this as a permanently recovering debate kid.
Keith Olbermann, for encouraging Olivia Nuzzi to write just so he could get some ass: today's worst person in the world!
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Keith Olbermann, for encouraging Olivia Nuzzi to write just so he could get some ass: today's worst person in the world!