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I came across this Robin Hood concept art today in a book
February 6, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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Do yourself a favor and read this lil fic
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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January 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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My greatest 2025 achievement was surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape. My 2026 resolution is surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape.
December 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My greatest 2025 achievement was surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape. My 2026 resolution is surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape.
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Merry Christmas with the yule logs and the chestnuts roasting on open fires and the reindeer games and whatnot and so forth and so on!
December 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Merry Christmas with the yule logs and the chestnuts roasting on open fires and the reindeer games and whatnot and so forth and so on!
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Spydere Man, Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Spydere Man, Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
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Local woman wakes up, screams into the void again, makes oatmeal.
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Local woman wakes up, screams into the void again, makes oatmeal.
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year ... 🎵🎵
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year ... 🎵🎵
Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Nov. 29, 2025
Can you sort 8 historical events?
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December 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Saying it again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Saying it again.
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“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Apparently Bohemian Rhapsody is 50 yrs old today.
Well that’s just a rude.
Well that’s just a rude.
October 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Apparently Bohemian Rhapsody is 50 yrs old today.
Well that’s just a rude.
Well that’s just a rude.
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She was elected to the House a month ago. But Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in, knowing it would narrow his small majority and provide the final signature needed to force a vote on an Epstein papers resolution. Now she's suing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
As Johnson Delays, Grijalva Sues to Be Seated in the House
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October 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
She was elected to the House a month ago. But Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in, knowing it would narrow his small majority and provide the final signature needed to force a vote on an Epstein papers resolution. Now she's suing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
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Whats great about Columbo Day is it never ends, theres always "just one more thing"....
If you'd like to celebrate Columbo Day, it's streaming all day on the Universal Crime Channel.
On Pluto TV and elsewhere.
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On Pluto TV and elsewhere.
pluto.tv/us/live-tv/6... #ClassicTV #TVSky #ColumbusDay
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Whats great about Columbo Day is it never ends, theres always "just one more thing"....
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So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.