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teaching professor in film; movies, tv, hockey, books, cats, horror, television, irish media. often retweets Hausu and Elsa Lanchester
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The Pakistanis producing pro-Trump content on social media may hail from a different part of the world than American Trump supporters, but they are motivated by the same underlying emotion: economic anxiety.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The new Dawn ads treating the bird chicks like cute mascots instead of wildlife being saved from oil spills is fascinating and creeping me out for how 2025 this is
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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BREAKING: A federal judge has dismissed the indictment against James Comey because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed.

That means the indictment against Letitia James will be dismissed as well.

A stunning decision and a major loss for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Court Dismisses Indictment Against James Comey and Letitia James in Stunning Loss for Donald Trump
Apologies for the back to back emails, but we have massive news right now.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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TRUMP: Thanksgiving costs down 25% 🤥

UT STUDY: “Costs of Thanksgiving Dinner in Tennessee ⬆️ 10.5%” 🦃

www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”

👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Shot + chaser
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Hahaha this town is crazy
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The legal action taken by survivors of Ireland's Magdalene laundries and mother and baby homes is documented, together with some of their stories, in Testimony www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/testi... #filmsky 🎬
Testimony - Film Review - Eye For Film
Women from Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes are suing for justice, accountability, and legal action against church and state institutions, supported by Justice for Magdalenes.
www.eyeforfilm.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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@wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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This is a remarkably consistent story across so many once-helpful digital tools: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, spellcheck, grammar check etc

All have become infected with this aggressive inventiveness that either (a) adds hours of work or (b) puts you at massive risk of using fabricated content
Amazing discussion right now in a small corner of doctor FB about the apparent enshittification of AI scribes. Especially the free versions.

This revolutionary time saver now requires extra time to fact check the note.

Don't lose your note writing skills, friends! Tech will not save us. #medsky
November 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I hate true crime things, but we are trying the Devil in Disguise show (Ricken! et al) and I am feeling paranoid that I also really like clowns ;)
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
super niche post but Amazing Race needs to do better re T1D and other disabilities. Have sugar pills on site. Have OJ on site. It is ridiculous that a common chronic disease derails everything this much (and they have had issues previously with Deaf contestants and people with limb differences).
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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No single individual, especially a political appointee, should ever have this kind of power.
“Should the administration seek rapid changes to vaccine ingredients, certain shots could become less available and protection against dangerous diseases that haven’t been a widespread threat in decades — including measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and polio — could wither.”
Trump and RFK Jr. are mulling their most disruptive vaccine policies yet — alarming manufacturers
Trump and Kennedy are considering removing aluminum from vaccines and breaking up shots that protect against multiple diseases.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM