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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
“What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh?”
“What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh?”
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
“What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh?”
“What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh?”
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Meanwhile, at Stonehenge… (USA Today coverage: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/12/22/video-cat-stonehenge-winter-solstice-2025/87889642007/)
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Meanwhile, at Stonehenge… (USA Today coverage: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/12/22/video-cat-stonehenge-winter-solstice-2025/87889642007/)
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the fifty year old tech billionaires making ai sex chatbots clearly saw this episode where spike gets the robot buffy gf
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
the fifty year old tech billionaires making ai sex chatbots clearly saw this episode where spike gets the robot buffy gf
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and in the *eighth* box of books she checked today, she hit the motherlode 🌌📕🙌
December 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
and in the *eighth* box of books she checked today, she hit the motherlode 🌌📕🙌
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¡FELIZ FEMBOY FRIDAY!
ITS FEMBOY FRIDAY EVERYONE
December 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
¡FELIZ FEMBOY FRIDAY!
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One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
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Money:
Donated to NAACP, held fundraisers for MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders, hired Black people.
Frank Sinatra was effectively accused of being woke back in 1958. And his response was to tell people, "Shut up. I'm Frank Sinatra. I do what I want. Stop being such a hateful little jerk."
Donated to NAACP, held fundraisers for MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders, hired Black people.
Frank Sinatra was effectively accused of being woke back in 1958. And his response was to tell people, "Shut up. I'm Frank Sinatra. I do what I want. Stop being such a hateful little jerk."
December 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Money:
Donated to NAACP, held fundraisers for MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders, hired Black people.
Frank Sinatra was effectively accused of being woke back in 1958. And his response was to tell people, "Shut up. I'm Frank Sinatra. I do what I want. Stop being such a hateful little jerk."
Donated to NAACP, held fundraisers for MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders, hired Black people.
Frank Sinatra was effectively accused of being woke back in 1958. And his response was to tell people, "Shut up. I'm Frank Sinatra. I do what I want. Stop being such a hateful little jerk."
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Yup.
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
December 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Yup.
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
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the gas station check out clerk just bodied me. she asked if i wanted the golden tobacco vapes because they have a deal on six packs and i said “no, those taste like urine.” and she said, ״well, i don’t know what urine tastes like.”
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
the gas station check out clerk just bodied me. she asked if i wanted the golden tobacco vapes because they have a deal on six packs and i said “no, those taste like urine.” and she said, ״well, i don’t know what urine tastes like.”
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If you need to think about boobs during the holidays, here's an idea
December 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If you need to think about boobs during the holidays, here's an idea
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*kzzt* Good, you grabbed the lube. You should be reaching climax any moment now… oh, and hotshot? Please try to remember the tissue this time. We *don’t* want a repeat of the grey desert incident.
December 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
*kzzt* Good, you grabbed the lube. You should be reaching climax any moment now… oh, and hotshot? Please try to remember the tissue this time. We *don’t* want a repeat of the grey desert incident.
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an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.
December 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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*saruman, just as Gandalf slides off the roof of the tower of Orthanc and flies off into the night on the back of a Gwaihir the great eagle* well fuck
"Lets hunt some fucking orcs"
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"All we have to decide is what the fuck to do with the time that is given us."
"All we have to decide is what the fuck to do with the time that is given us."
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
*saruman, just as Gandalf slides off the roof of the tower of Orthanc and flies off into the night on the back of a Gwaihir the great eagle* well fuck
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"Lets hunt some fucking orcs"
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"All we have to decide is what the fuck to do with the time that is given us."
"All we have to decide is what the fuck to do with the time that is given us."
The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word?
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
"I can't carry it for you, but I can Fucking carry you"
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Lets hunt some fucking orcs"
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The rcbg take that would REALLY give me a sense of dread is "Rashmi is completely blameless and hasn't done anything wrong" like. Rashmi enjoyers tend to love her for her flaws
December 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The rcbg take that would REALLY give me a sense of dread is "Rashmi is completely blameless and hasn't done anything wrong" like. Rashmi enjoyers tend to love her for her flaws
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How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
July 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
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There's something beautiful about writing a story with no less than three twoc, all of whom are complete disasters and morally complex, with a fandom that doesn't treat them as fucking evil for it.
Like genuinely our fans are fucking fantastic
Like genuinely our fans are fucking fantastic
The rcbg take that would REALLY give me a sense of dread is "Rashmi is completely blameless and hasn't done anything wrong" like. Rashmi enjoyers tend to love her for her flaws
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There's something beautiful about writing a story with no less than three twoc, all of whom are complete disasters and morally complex, with a fandom that doesn't treat them as fucking evil for it.
Like genuinely our fans are fucking fantastic
Like genuinely our fans are fucking fantastic
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Hierarchies of status/power and notions of supremacy are only really necessary for determining who has authority over another and that’s only really necessary to determine who gets to abuse who.
If you aren’t looking to abuse someone, then you really have no need for hierarchies or supremacy.
If you aren’t looking to abuse someone, then you really have no need for hierarchies or supremacy.
Have you noticed? When someone points to our responsibility—individual and personal, or collective and societal—to end an abuse, the question asked next is very rarely about *how* to do it, but how to *prevent* us from doing it, for fear of doing it the wrong way.
www.the-reframe.com/f/
www.the-reframe.com/f/
Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
www.the-reframe.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hierarchies of status/power and notions of supremacy are only really necessary for determining who has authority over another and that’s only really necessary to determine who gets to abuse who.
If you aren’t looking to abuse someone, then you really have no need for hierarchies or supremacy.
If you aren’t looking to abuse someone, then you really have no need for hierarchies or supremacy.
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in a size kink non-monogamous relationship,, call that a poly pocketcule
March 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
in a size kink non-monogamous relationship,, call that a poly pocketcule
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Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
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listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.
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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.