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you probably can't say this on tiktok but casey is absolutely right:
The idea that what you like, or what you should like, can be boiled down to a bunch of keywords—irreverent 18th-century cryptozooromance—is a lie that all the MBAs of the publishing world are desperate for you to believe. There are a million ineffable qualities of a writer’s voice and tone and style that can’t be captured or overcome by marketing, as much as marketers would like to think it’s possible.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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welp
screenshot from the article: Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite? It’s a storied gambit of the right at its most grimly predictable. “People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003. Anyway, it was clearly time to get the elaborate machinery of manufactured bewilderment and sour indignation up and running again.
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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oh my god?
screenshot of article text: “They say horrible things about me and make everyone hate me and think I’m a bad person,” he said. He was staring at a point in the distance, speaking like he was in some kind of trance. “What did they say about you?” I asked. He snapped out of it. “Oh, not me,” he answered. “I meant Donald Trump.”
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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girl…
(Jean-Pierre, who served for more than two years in her role, which consisted of defending the Administration to the press and explaining its policies, also blames the Democratic Party because it "couldn't articulate the achievements of the Biden/Harris administration well enough.")
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I went to one of this Singalong tours - he really had *it* 😭
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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about someone in a relationship with what?
Still of Billy Joel staring at Bill Maher
July 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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still of Donald Trump pointing to his ear, from his reaction to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
July 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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wtf are we doing here
screen shot of Instagram ad for an article from The Cut, “The Case for Marrying an Older Man: a woman’s life is all work and little rest. An age gap relationship can help.”
July 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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“Their conspiracism alters their reality, not the other way around” - exactly
If and when more details about Trump’s connections with Epstein come out, my guess is that his supporters will coalesce around him further. Their conspiracism alters their reality, not the other way around. This isn’t to say that this won’t hurt Trump at all. Not every Trump supporter's brain operates by this framework. It’s possible that this will erode his support among the low-trust, low-information voters who aren’t particularly partisan but gravitated toward him in 2024. But if you’re holding out hope that his base will abandon him, you’re wasting your time.
July 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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from July 2024
“… with a sea of signs calling for “Mass Deportation Now.” If former president Donald Trump is elected for a second term, he and his advisers promise to remove from the U.S., via forced expulsions and deportation camps, as many as 20 million people—a number larger than the country’s current estimated population of undocumented residents. Put into effect, this scheme would devolve quickly into a vast 21st-century version of concentration camps, with predictably brutal results.”
July 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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why is everything so grim
article screenshot: The ideal of college as a place of intellectual growth, where students engage with deep, profound ideas, was gone long before ChatGPT. The combination of high costs and a winner-takes-all economy had already made it feel transactional, a means to an end. (In a recent survey, Deloitte found that just over half of college graduates believe their education was worth the tens of thousands of dollars it costs a year, compared with 76 percent of trade-school graduates.) In a way, the speed and ease with which AI proved itself able to do college-level work simply exposed the rot at the core. “How can we expect them to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?” Jollimore wrote in a recent essay. “Or, worse, to see it as bearing no value at all, as if it were a kind of confidence trick, an elaborate sham?” It’s not just the students: Multiple AI platforms now offer tools to leave AI-generated feedback on students’ essays. Which raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots — or maybe even just one.
May 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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abolish ICE yesterday man. jesus.
“They walked the full length of the train and questioned every single passenger about their citizenship status. According to the conductor, who has worked nearly 40 years on that route, this was a first. In all his decades of service, federal agents have never boarded his train like this.“
April 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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yeah, as another protestant youth group vet this feels weird, to say the least lol
Quote screenshot: But having spent a lot of time in youth groups in a variety of Protestant flavors, I do know and attempt to make the church ‘Cool’ when I see one. screenshot: One anonymous seller was selling “supposedly authenticated locks of Acutis’ hair that were fetching upward of 2,000 euros ($2,000 US), according to the Diocese of Assisi, before being taken down” the AP reported. "It's not just despicable, but it's also a sin," one reverend who has a tiny fragment of Acutis' hair in a chapel by his office told the AP. "Every kind of commerce over faith is a sin." There is a lot of non-relic commerce happening at the Shrine of the Renunciation, however. It's free to enter the church, but there is a gift shop around the corner at the exit.
April 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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sobbed watching Good Will Hunting tonight. and then sobbed again while logging it on @letterboxd.social
“I hope there was a point in time where someone told Robin Williams that it’s not his fault” - 5-star letterboxd review by user shay
March 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM