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song of samsara - 03-02-2025 @ the writer's den RVA
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Haven't posted any poetry in a while. A recent favorite from a slam competition earlier this year:
'song of samsara'
This one gets intense, yall. But if there is one guarantee in life, it's that you will suffer.
#slampoetry #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry
'song of samsara'
This one gets intense, yall. But if there is one guarantee in life, it's that you will suffer.
#slampoetry #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry
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Just to be clear, painting a minority group as the 'root of evil' is exterminationist language.
If this were said about any other minority group, I would expect at least one major media outlet to push back on it.
But that is clearly a level of concern not extended to trans people.
If this were said about any other minority group, I would expect at least one major media outlet to push back on it.
But that is clearly a level of concern not extended to trans people.
December 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Just to be clear, painting a minority group as the 'root of evil' is exterminationist language.
If this were said about any other minority group, I would expect at least one major media outlet to push back on it.
But that is clearly a level of concern not extended to trans people.
If this were said about any other minority group, I would expect at least one major media outlet to push back on it.
But that is clearly a level of concern not extended to trans people.
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Yes. The answer is yes.
Researchers are examining whether a decline in reading and math scores over the last decade is related to the widespread use of smartphones by young people. n.pr/4ank2iN
Test scores in U.S. schools are down. Are smartphones to blame?
Researchers are examining whether a decline in reading and math scores over the last decade is related to the widespread use of smartphones by young people.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Yes. The answer is yes.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Families too frightened to shop for groceries. In America.
While federal agents patrol the Twin Cities, a Mexican grocer in St. Paul is filling a gap for families too frightened to shop.
In the shadow of ICE, a St. Paul neighborhood store steps in to feed its community
While federal agents patrol the Twin Cities, a Mexican grocer in St. Paul is filling a gap for families too frightened to shop.
www.startribune.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Families too frightened to shop for groceries. In America.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
This is like when people in the punk scene think that being a Republican makes them counter-cultute
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is like when people in the punk scene think that being a Republican makes them counter-cultute
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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ICE Points Guns at Crowd Protesting Arrest of Student at Augsburg University in Minneapolis
ICE Points Guns at Crowd Protesting Arrest of Student at Augsburg University in Minneapolis
In Minnesota, students and staff at Augsburg University in Minneapolis say federal immigration agents pointed guns at a crowd that gathered to protest the arrest of an undergraduate student on Saturday.
www.democracynow.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
ICE Points Guns at Crowd Protesting Arrest of Student at Augsburg University in Minneapolis
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California’s DOJ Announces New Online Portal for Public to Document Unlawful ICE Activity
California's DOJ Announces New Online Portal for Public to Document Unlawful ICE Activity
California's Department of Justice has announced a new online portal for members of the public to share videos, photos and other evidence documenting unlawful activity by ICE agents.
www.democracynow.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
California’s DOJ Announces New Online Portal for Public to Document Unlawful ICE Activity
Anyone else lukewarm on the #DragonQuest II remake?
Gameplay is solid but all of the dialogue is tiresome. I played every mainline Dragon Quest game and never felt this strongly. I can't stand any of the main characters.
Gameplay is solid but all of the dialogue is tiresome. I played every mainline Dragon Quest game and never felt this strongly. I can't stand any of the main characters.
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Anyone else lukewarm on the #DragonQuest II remake?
Gameplay is solid but all of the dialogue is tiresome. I played every mainline Dragon Quest game and never felt this strongly. I can't stand any of the main characters.
Gameplay is solid but all of the dialogue is tiresome. I played every mainline Dragon Quest game and never felt this strongly. I can't stand any of the main characters.
You will be visited by 3 spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You will be visited by 3 spirits.
Film you’ve seen more than six times. No Star (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Film you’ve seen more than six times. No Star (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
This is so awful. That poor woman.
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This is so awful. That poor woman.
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“PJM is currently proposing to allow the interconnection of large new data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require load curtailments (blackouts) of the data centers or of other customers at times. That result is not consistent with the basic responsibility of PJM…”
The regional electric grid that covers Virginia should stop plugging in data centers until it has enough high-voltage lines and power plants to meet their demands for electricity, the grid’s
Grid's watchdog: Halt data centers until infrastructure catches up
The regional electric grid that covers Virginia should stop plugging in data centers until it has enough high-voltage lines and power plants to meet their demands for electricity, the grid’s
richmond.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“PJM is currently proposing to allow the interconnection of large new data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require load curtailments (blackouts) of the data centers or of other customers at times. That result is not consistent with the basic responsibility of PJM…”
Anyone else notice that all their extensions in Firefox became disabled? Was just bombarded by ads on a website and realized everything was off. I didn't turn them off.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Anyone else notice that all their extensions in Firefox became disabled? Was just bombarded by ads on a website and realized everything was off. I didn't turn them off.
call me old-fashioned, but if someone approaches me in public and asks for my number, i assume they are single / not married or partnered (which is not the same thing as actively dating around).
"oh? you're monogamous?"
"oh? you're monogamous?"
a bald man is wearing a red sweater with a star trek logo on it
ALT: a bald man is wearing a red sweater with a star trek logo on it
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
call me old-fashioned, but if someone approaches me in public and asks for my number, i assume they are single / not married or partnered (which is not the same thing as actively dating around).
"oh? you're monogamous?"
"oh? you're monogamous?"
oh. good.
A Louisiana health official who ordered his health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations this past winter during a surge in influenza cases has been tapped to serve as the new number two leader at the CDC.
New leader tapped for CDC had stopped pushing vaccines amid flu surge
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
oh. good.
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When will Elon pay the tariffs on all his imported tweets?
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
When will Elon pay the tariffs on all his imported tweets?
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
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