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The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
very new here (Sept 2024)
very new here (Sept 2024)
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I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
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RIP David Lynch
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Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws
January 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws
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Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist
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Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin
The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance
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January 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist
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If nothing / could change all winter long.
Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen
December 25, 2024 at 7:53 PM
If nothing / could change all winter long.
Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen
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Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
December 6, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead
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I love how South Korea was like yeah no and ended that shit before dinner. Goals. 😂
December 4, 2024 at 4:39 AM
I love how South Korea was like yeah no and ended that shit before dinner. Goals. 😂
“Remember. Writer Rebecca Solnit, an essential US liberal voice, emails: “If they try to normalize, let us try to denormalize. Let us hold on to facts, truths, values, norms, arrangements that are going to be under siege. Let us not forget what happened and why.”
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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November 18, 2024 at 9:38 AM
“Remember. Writer Rebecca Solnit, an essential US liberal voice, emails: “If they try to normalize, let us try to denormalize. Let us hold on to facts, truths, values, norms, arrangements that are going to be under siege. Let us not forget what happened and why.”
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“Whether in the artisan villages of Ancient Egypt or in front of New York’s Guggenheim Museum as workers rallied for fair contracts in April, visual culture has recorded one constant truth: artists have always been on the picket line.” - great & insightful essay.
September 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
“Whether in the artisan villages of Ancient Egypt or in front of New York’s Guggenheim Museum as workers rallied for fair contracts in April, visual culture has recorded one constant truth: artists have always been on the picket line.” - great & insightful essay.
“So are we stuck with enshittification? For the time being, probably yes.”
Anyone else bought here by "enshittification" elsewhere? A negative has at least resulted in this platform as a positive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the enshittification of the internet | John Naughton
There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?
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September 5, 2024 at 7:45 AM
“So are we stuck with enshittification? For the time being, probably yes.”