Thotton Mather
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Why not be utterly changed into fire
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michael tracey is in the latest batch of epstein photos. he is sitting in a garbage can like oscar the grouch and flinching at something. there are visible stink lines coming off of him, which i didn't think were real, but they are real.
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
michael tracey is in the latest batch of epstein photos. he is sitting in a garbage can like oscar the grouch and flinching at something. there are visible stink lines coming off of him, which i didn't think were real, but they are real.
By the way, this is going to keep happening. At all levels of university/college. We cannot, as a society, decide what the point of college and education is - if it's just jobs, or something more, or some combination. And with the customer/consumer model leading, this is the result
America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
www.dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
By the way, this is going to keep happening. At all levels of university/college. We cannot, as a society, decide what the point of college and education is - if it's just jobs, or something more, or some combination. And with the customer/consumer model leading, this is the result
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As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
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The main thing I have had hammered home by the past ten years in politics is that we really need pretty much every government office to be run by boring and anonymous nerds who you will never once hear about in the news
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The main thing I have had hammered home by the past ten years in politics is that we really need pretty much every government office to be run by boring and anonymous nerds who you will never once hear about in the news
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With regards to less sex and actual loneliness, women are experiencing these things, too. Women may be more likely to have friends than men, but women are still getting lonelier. Women struggle with dating. The newer male struggle is expecting but not having someone to do your laundry for you
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
With regards to less sex and actual loneliness, women are experiencing these things, too. Women may be more likely to have friends than men, but women are still getting lonelier. Women struggle with dating. The newer male struggle is expecting but not having someone to do your laundry for you
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My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
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This is precisely the intention of vouchers. They are an elaborate plot to destroy the public education system, which is part of a larger plot to enslave the American population
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This is precisely the intention of vouchers. They are an elaborate plot to destroy the public education system, which is part of a larger plot to enslave the American population
childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/peter-spie... This is one of my favorite christmas books, but I've always been a Spier-head you could say
Peter Spier's "Christmas!"
Living Through December
childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
childrenslitpilgrim.substack.com/p/peter-spie... This is one of my favorite christmas books, but I've always been a Spier-head you could say
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I call this "The Lying Screen"
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I call this "The Lying Screen"
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One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.
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Step on a crack, make your mom throw it back
December 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Step on a crack, make your mom throw it back
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
Winter sunset in Värmland. Alfred Ekstam
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Winter sunset in Värmland. Alfred Ekstam
What it feels like once it hits 4pm in December (Vinternatt i skogen, Otto Hesselbom)
December 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
What it feels like once it hits 4pm in December (Vinternatt i skogen, Otto Hesselbom)
Sunset in Värmland, Otto Hesselbom. c1900
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Sunset in Värmland, Otto Hesselbom. c1900
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rough year for mr. met. he's been off his workout routine for months, can't stand listening to the lumineers anymore, mrs. met won't talk to him outside official appearances, he maxed out for cuomo and sliwa, and now the only coworker who likes him took a better job on the other side of the country
December 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
rough year for mr. met. he's been off his workout routine for months, can't stand listening to the lumineers anymore, mrs. met won't talk to him outside official appearances, he maxed out for cuomo and sliwa, and now the only coworker who likes him took a better job on the other side of the country
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Things are under Comptrol.
Lander going after Rep Dan Goldman in NY-10
*BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO
*BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Things are under Comptrol.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
I cannot explain why, but the names of Jeff VanderMeer and China Miéville are both so distasteful to me that I could never consider reading any of their works. Same vein as Chuck Wendig to me, those names.
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I cannot explain why, but the names of Jeff VanderMeer and China Miéville are both so distasteful to me that I could never consider reading any of their works. Same vein as Chuck Wendig to me, those names.
Need a Yoto Wrapped so I know how many times we listened to Mog the Forgetful Cat and how many times we listened to Frog and Toad
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Need a Yoto Wrapped so I know how many times we listened to Mog the Forgetful Cat and how many times we listened to Frog and Toad