William Heathcote
@subjunctivitis.bsky.social
Word chooser. Game enthusiast. Dog veteran. Cat novice. Rabbit admirer. He/him. https://subjunctivitis.com/
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Every Game I Played in 2024
The grand tradition continues. We survived to ’25. Now what?
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Once more, I have blogged about games. Once more, I am driven to the brink.
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The Gundam kit reviewer I watch regularly gets way more views than this
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The Gundam kit reviewer I watch regularly gets way more views than this
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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.
The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
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american bastard came out last week. it's about degenerates and man's search for faith, that sort of shit. small southern towns as islands of misfit toys. like denis johnson + karen russell cowrote an episode of king of the hill. maybe. idk. check out it or don't. aprilgloaming.com/shop/america...
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
american bastard came out last week. it's about degenerates and man's search for faith, that sort of shit. small southern towns as islands of misfit toys. like denis johnson + karen russell cowrote an episode of king of the hill. maybe. idk. check out it or don't. aprilgloaming.com/shop/america...
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Respectfully, North Carolina is already good on pulled pork
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Respectfully, North Carolina is already good on pulled pork
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No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politically inspired by a good candidate with a good message.
trib.al
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa
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12/ But ProPublica persisted. It’s a sweeping story of how one man, who believes he was called by God, rose to the top of the NC supreme court and used it to transform his state and nation:
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
12/ But ProPublica persisted. It’s a sweeping story of how one man, who believes he was called by God, rose to the top of the NC supreme court and used it to transform his state and nation:
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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This is what 15 years of GOP meddling at UNC gets us! A BOG that can’t govern and doesn’t know how. Lawsuits, infighting, embarrassment. Stop letting out of touch good ol’ boys ruin my university!!!
Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is what 15 years of GOP meddling at UNC gets us! A BOG that can’t govern and doesn’t know how. Lawsuits, infighting, embarrassment. Stop letting out of touch good ol’ boys ruin my university!!!
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the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re
told if the TV says it
told if the TV says it
Carr: We're going to back to that era where local TV stations, judging the public interest, get to decide what the American people think…
I don’t think this is the last shoe to drop… the consequences will continue to flow.
I don’t think this is the last shoe to drop… the consequences will continue to flow.
September 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re
told if the TV says it
told if the TV says it
something happens every hour that makes me want to throw my hands up and go "what is going on??", and it's just the ultimate exasperation to be struggling with maintenance issues on top of everything else
makes it literally feel like everything is falling apart
makes it literally feel like everything is falling apart
September 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
something happens every hour that makes me want to throw my hands up and go "what is going on??", and it's just the ultimate exasperation to be struggling with maintenance issues on top of everything else
makes it literally feel like everything is falling apart
makes it literally feel like everything is falling apart
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Both Ross and fellow representative Valerie Foushee have recently sworn off money from AIPAC, which previously funneled millions into Democratic primaries in North Carolina.
Deborah Ross Won’t Take AIPAC Money in 2026
Both Ross and fellow representative Valerie Foushee have recently sworn off money from AIPAC, which previously funneled millions into Democratic primaries in North Carolina.
indyweek.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Both Ross and fellow representative Valerie Foushee have recently sworn off money from AIPAC, which previously funneled millions into Democratic primaries in North Carolina.
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one of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in
August 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
one of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in
September 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...
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September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
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If Carolina rolls it’ll be an exact replay of the first month of Coach Prime hype at Colorado before reality kicked in
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If Carolina rolls it’ll be an exact replay of the first month of Coach Prime hype at Colorado before reality kicked in
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"I don’t see suffering as a zero-sum game. I want to think about what it means for us to elevate and care about the suffering and pain of men and boys without the inference that that means that women and girls aren’t suffering, too."
“There’s a Softer Way to Hold Gender”: An Interview With Jacob Tobia About Their New Book
Jacob Tobia, a genderqueer icon from the Triangle, released their new essay collection, “Before They Were Men,” on August 26.
indyweek.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"I don’t see suffering as a zero-sum game. I want to think about what it means for us to elevate and care about the suffering and pain of men and boys without the inference that that means that women and girls aren’t suffering, too."
"—had ChatGPT and the entire chatbot phenomenon and its attendant hype and breathlessly credulous press not misled him into the belief that he could get from some lines of code what he needed from another person—"
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Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector
Maybe some things should not be simulated. That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by Kashmir Hill about the death by suicide of a California teenager named Adam Ra...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"—had ChatGPT and the entire chatbot phenomenon and its attendant hype and breathlessly credulous press not misled him into the belief that he could get from some lines of code what he needed from another person—"
defector.com/butlerian-ji...
defector.com/butlerian-ji...
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I think a lot of the LLM horror stories are downstream of the fact that they feign having personalities, feelings and opinions. That is just false information, every time, and it coaxes impressionable users into strange, dark places. These things should be as bland as the computer from Star Trek.
August 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I think a lot of the LLM horror stories are downstream of the fact that they feign having personalities, feelings and opinions. That is just false information, every time, and it coaxes impressionable users into strange, dark places. These things should be as bland as the computer from Star Trek.
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ChatGPT is like an invention that exists on the wrong side of that hypothetical.
August 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
ChatGPT is like an invention that exists on the wrong side of that hypothetical.
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There's a long running Sci Fi idea where if you can just solve the energy problem then you can make huge technological leaps because you can suddenly brute-force solutions to problems, like solving water access by distilling sea water (a hideously inefficient process).
August 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
There's a long running Sci Fi idea where if you can just solve the energy problem then you can make huge technological leaps because you can suddenly brute-force solutions to problems, like solving water access by distilling sea water (a hideously inefficient process).
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average democrat politician sees kier starmer's labour party and prays "lord i have seen what you have done for others and I humbly ask for you to do the same to me"
"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports
“I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
www.them.us
August 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
average democrat politician sees kier starmer's labour party and prays "lord i have seen what you have done for others and I humbly ask for you to do the same to me"
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.