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Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
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I feel like there need's to be some clarification around use of "harm's way" here... 99.9999 of the time this is a super super super super safe area. The point is there was never a real reason for the National Guard to be here.
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I feel like there need's to be some clarification around use of "harm's way" here... 99.9999 of the time this is a super super super super safe area. The point is there was never a real reason for the National Guard to be here.
one of my favorite book series almost wasn’t finished because people kept pirating the books, it had a pretty big fandom on tumblr. the author posted a fake link to the pirating website and her sales went up with the next book.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
one of my favorite book series almost wasn’t finished because people kept pirating the books, it had a pretty big fandom on tumblr. the author posted a fake link to the pirating website and her sales went up with the next book.
It’s actually wild to see people agree with the hive in Pluribus, I think there’s a lot of ways that one can view the show, but to me…that view just doesn’t make sense.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s actually wild to see people agree with the hive in Pluribus, I think there’s a lot of ways that one can view the show, but to me…that view just doesn’t make sense.
I only read one physical book this month and one audiobook 😭
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I only read one physical book this month and one audiobook 😭
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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'To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures. As I’ve done before as a physically disabled person, I will now crip the world ... It takes a tremendous amount of emotional and physical labor to crip the world.'
What ‘Crip Time’ Means to Disabled People Like Me
Becoming a nonspeaking person changed my relationship with time and with other people.
www.teenvogue.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
'To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures. As I’ve done before as a physically disabled person, I will now crip the world ... It takes a tremendous amount of emotional and physical labor to crip the world.'
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Such a beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social about the luminous treasure we've lost, Alice Wong.
lithub.com/remembering-...
lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Such a beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social about the luminous treasure we've lost, Alice Wong.
lithub.com/remembering-...
lithub.com/remembering-...
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Not long before she died, Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social posted a short video of an idle Waymo blocking the curb ramp in a pedestrian crossing, making it impossible for her as a wheelchair user to cross the street safely.
![Pop Crave & @PopCrave • 12h
Waymo co-CEO warns fatal crashes in self-driving cars are coming, and the company is already planning for them:
"We don't say "whether.' We say 'when.' And we plan for [fatal crashes]."
WAYMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ymipjgi2ebiptelhrw6zezas/bafkreicjmclzthikst76hsm4ntxz5qc44ixfgkbjlkteua4ld4clmethly@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Not long before she died, Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social posted a short video of an idle Waymo blocking the curb ramp in a pedestrian crossing, making it impossible for her as a wheelchair user to cross the street safely.
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I often think about how I can't safely do protest coverage because what if this happens to me and I can't get my meds.
Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I often think about how I can't safely do protest coverage because what if this happens to me and I can't get my meds.
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Susan Sontag "offered a more apt metaphor than journey, though she ultimately preferred straight, unadorned talk: illness as a place, and often a dark and lonely one, 'the night-side of life' in 'the kingdom of the sick'":
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Susan Sontag "offered a more apt metaphor than journey, though she ultimately preferred straight, unadorned talk: illness as a place, and often a dark and lonely one, 'the night-side of life' in 'the kingdom of the sick'":
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
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they should invent a nap that does your chores
August 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
they should invent a nap that does your chores
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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one in five americans still getting their brains poached in elon's racist, self-worshipping bullshit
X is still used by 21% of U.S. adults, Pew found, only down from 23% in 2021, despite increased competition from Meta, startups, and decentralized social media.
Pew's latest social media report shows X's staying power in the U.S., despite competition | TechCrunch
X is still used by 21% of U.S. adults, Pew found, only down from 23% in 2021, despite increased competition from Meta, startups, and decentralized social media.
techcrunch.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
one in five americans still getting their brains poached in elon's racist, self-worshipping bullshit
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1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
people are getting very q-anony around some of the epstein stuff, so much so, that I think it flattens the evil we know for sure that he did.
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
people are getting very q-anony around some of the epstein stuff, so much so, that I think it flattens the evil we know for sure that he did.
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He’s comparing healthcare to home insurance.
Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.
It’s eugenics.
Disability can happen to anyone.
You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?
That’s chronic illness.
It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.
Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.
It’s eugenics.
Disability can happen to anyone.
You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?
That’s chronic illness.
It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
He’s comparing healthcare to home insurance.
Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.
It’s eugenics.
Disability can happen to anyone.
You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?
That’s chronic illness.
It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.
Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded.
It’s eugenics.
Disability can happen to anyone.
You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had?
That’s chronic illness.
It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.
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“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I honestly do think that we can vote harder than they can cheat because one of the downsides of the US right now (we're 50 states & several territories in a trench coat & everyone has different human rights right now) makes it hard to actually cheat everywhere all the time
so, yes, at a basic level I think Tuesday showed that we can vote our way out of this
and so we have to be clearer than ever about making sure the people we vote in are willing to do what's necessary to rebuild - packing the court, adding states, etc.
or we'll find ourselves right back here
and so we have to be clearer than ever about making sure the people we vote in are willing to do what's necessary to rebuild - packing the court, adding states, etc.
or we'll find ourselves right back here
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I honestly do think that we can vote harder than they can cheat because one of the downsides of the US right now (we're 50 states & several territories in a trench coat & everyone has different human rights right now) makes it hard to actually cheat everywhere all the time
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people made at recon haven't read enough books to understand that intentionally and publicly cutting off the food supply—especially primarily for the sake of some kind of political gain—to the working poor has never happened before and is easily the most baffling move in the history of civilization
Fighting courts to cut off the grain dole is facially an insane thing for a government to do! Just begging to get blamed for an extremely destabilizing move for no benefit!
you would think this website knows about the existence of hyperbole
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
people made at recon haven't read enough books to understand that intentionally and publicly cutting off the food supply—especially primarily for the sake of some kind of political gain—to the working poor has never happened before and is easily the most baffling move in the history of civilization