Aurora Rogen
@rogenaurora.bsky.social
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Facing an intellectual dilemma here. I regard my children as human even though they’re not white. Who will challenge that in this echo chamber? The proposition will be completely untested here. Discourse will suffer. What can I do? I can’t afford to go to Penn Law.
November 22, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Facing an intellectual dilemma here. I regard my children as human even though they’re not white. Who will challenge that in this echo chamber? The proposition will be completely untested here. Discourse will suffer. What can I do? I can’t afford to go to Penn Law.
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Are the Plymouth Santander sailings also cancelled at the same time?
Hopefully it'll return as it was the original crossing for the company...
Hopefully it'll return as it was the original crossing for the company...
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Are the Plymouth Santander sailings also cancelled at the same time?
Hopefully it'll return as it was the original crossing for the company...
Hopefully it'll return as it was the original crossing for the company...
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This is exactly right. Trump’s big advantage is that he’s playing tic-tac-toe without a pencil but somehow convinces people he’s multiverse time-travel chess.
There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.
November 22, 2024 at 2:18 PM
This is exactly right. Trump’s big advantage is that he’s playing tic-tac-toe without a pencil but somehow convinces people he’s multiverse time-travel chess.
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I once had a coworker at Archie tell me I was “one of the good ones” and it was one of those things where I think I was legit in shell shock at the audacity of the comment in general because of how casually/jocularly it was said.
Looking back at the person who said it, it makes a lot of sense now
Looking back at the person who said it, it makes a lot of sense now
I have never been more miserable than when I was trying to be the bigger person. The best case scenario there is that the bigot sees you as 'one of the good ones', a phrase corrosive to my soul.
November 22, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I once had a coworker at Archie tell me I was “one of the good ones” and it was one of those things where I think I was legit in shell shock at the audacity of the comment in general because of how casually/jocularly it was said.
Looking back at the person who said it, it makes a lot of sense now
Looking back at the person who said it, it makes a lot of sense now
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no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
November 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
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Are you sitting down? www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/t...
Trump taps Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general
President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as U.S. attorney general.
www.cnbc.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Are you sitting down? www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/t...
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Awhile ago I came across the concept of the "art kettle," where activism and resistance is contained within creative industries where it's actual impact on power is null, the same way police contain street protesters by "kettling" them with tear gas. See also: academia, nonprofits, social media
i wonder if the sheer size of the US — and the reality of its fractured, polluted media ecosystem — means that some of the most heavy-handed aspects of authoritarian politics might not be necessary. Like, who cares what journalists have to say? No one listens to them anyway.
November 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Awhile ago I came across the concept of the "art kettle," where activism and resistance is contained within creative industries where it's actual impact on power is null, the same way police contain street protesters by "kettling" them with tear gas. See also: academia, nonprofits, social media
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I've lived long enough to become my parents— drinking yesterday's coffee out of a mason jar
October 30, 2024 at 11:37 AM
I've lived long enough to become my parents— drinking yesterday's coffee out of a mason jar
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If you want to go post this on your Twitter (if you still have one) I wouldn't mind.
October 17, 2024 at 1:28 PM
If you want to go post this on your Twitter (if you still have one) I wouldn't mind.
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When you should be asleep but Bluesky
September 30, 2024 at 5:06 AM
When you should be asleep but Bluesky
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genAI has afforded people sooo many new ways to humiliate themselves online. babe they're going the wrong way lmfao
September 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM
genAI has afforded people sooo many new ways to humiliate themselves online. babe they're going the wrong way lmfao
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how it feels when someone says "you said you would email me back and you never did" so you find the email you sent and just forward it to them
September 13, 2024 at 7:45 PM
how it feels when someone says "you said you would email me back and you never did" so you find the email you sent and just forward it to them
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Here's a humbling thing that has happened to me a few times over the years: I try to write an opinion piece or argumentative take. For some reason, I can't crack it. I do draft after draft. Something isn't working. I don't know what.
Then, finally, I figure it out.
My opinion is wrong.
Then, finally, I figure it out.
My opinion is wrong.
September 13, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Here's a humbling thing that has happened to me a few times over the years: I try to write an opinion piece or argumentative take. For some reason, I can't crack it. I do draft after draft. Something isn't working. I don't know what.
Then, finally, I figure it out.
My opinion is wrong.
Then, finally, I figure it out.
My opinion is wrong.
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Touching grass isn’t enough, I need wet leaves and moss and mushrooms. I need to be charmed by a toad.
September 14, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Touching grass isn’t enough, I need wet leaves and moss and mushrooms. I need to be charmed by a toad.