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imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop
April 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop
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You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
March 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You know what I’d call for if I was prime minister - more funding of youth clubs , extracurricular activities, and mental health support - but showing a film looks like concern while costing very little
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Sales of Vietnamese doll plunge over face marking like China’s ‘nine-dash line’
Sales of Vietnamese doll plunge over face marking like China’s ‘nine-dash line’
One version of Baby Three doll appears to bear a mark resembling the shape of the ocean border on which China bases its illegitimate claim to most of the South China Sea
Regional tensions over the South China Sea have tanked the sales of a popular…
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Sales of Vietnamese doll plunge over face marking like China’s ‘nine-dash line’
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Wonderful book
Y'all I'm so serious when I say it's time for a reread! She Who Knows was so good! As I read it had me remembering parts from Who Fears Death. I had to immediately dive into this again. #blackbooksky @nnedi.bsky.social these books are incredible! Thank you!
March 16, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Wonderful book
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Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to announce the return of physical buttons. We’re making progress.
Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons
“Honestly, it’s a car. It’s not a phone.”
www.theverge.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to announce the return of physical buttons. We’re making progress.
The sound of rain on water
March 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The sound of rain on water
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feel like this chart is example 1 in why "just do what's popular, based on polls" is so facile
March 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
feel like this chart is example 1 in why "just do what's popular, based on polls" is so facile
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How the RSF's parallel government could divide Sudan - and Africa - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rsf-parallel-government-divide-sudan-africa
How the RSF's parallel government could divide Sudan - and Africa
As the army and Rapid Support Forces vie for legitimacy, Kenyan President William Ruto is accused of profiting from the paramilitary's gold trade
www.middleeasteye.net
February 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How the RSF's parallel government could divide Sudan - and Africa - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rsf-parallel-government-divide-sudan-africa
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Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.
An actual red scare
This has to be one of the biggest opsec fails I've ever seen in my life. The actual director of the FBI driving around in the most conspicuous vehicle imaginable made even more so by it being neon red.
February 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An actual red scare
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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
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There was a guy in the grocery store yesterday who was taller than me and it was legitimately confusing
February 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
There was a guy in the grocery store yesterday who was taller than me and it was legitimately confusing
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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
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Flashback to when Musk told Twitter engineers to print their source code for review.
February 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Flashback to when Musk told Twitter engineers to print their source code for review.
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People are far too caught up in the idea that you’re supposed to “do things” on vacation. I feel like this is so they can get back and brag about the number of things they did. All I want is seemingly what you’ve gotten, to relax
February 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
People are far too caught up in the idea that you’re supposed to “do things” on vacation. I feel like this is so they can get back and brag about the number of things they did. All I want is seemingly what you’ve gotten, to relax
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i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world
if i ever teach a class on argumentative writing i am going to use these paragraphs as an example of how to NOT write persuasively for an audience.
February 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world
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I probably should do something else besides laugh for a minute straight at the Trump administration firing the workers who manage the nuclear stockpile and being unable to figure out how to rehire them, but that's all i got right now
February 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I probably should do something else besides laugh for a minute straight at the Trump administration firing the workers who manage the nuclear stockpile and being unable to figure out how to rehire them, but that's all i got right now
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someone just tried this
February 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
someone just tried this
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Now Online: 'Do Marx – and Engels – have something to say on the national question (and internationalism)?' by Stathis Kouvelakis.
Do Marx – and Engels – have something to say on the national question (and internationalism)? - Historical Materialism
Let me start with some explanations concerning the title of my paper.[1] There is a commonly shared opinion on the relation between the “founding fathers” of historical materialism and the nation. Sha...
www.historicalmaterialism.org
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Now Online: 'Do Marx – and Engels – have something to say on the national question (and internationalism)?' by Stathis Kouvelakis.
There should be a Happy Holidays type greeting but for Valentine's day
February 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
There should be a Happy Holidays type greeting but for Valentine's day