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Currently at VTS near DC. Recovering Twitter User. I still do cool stuff like read the Western Canon for fun & now MDiv. absurdist 'holy theatre' pashit. Peter Brook (RIP) is still my hero. I live for cats (aka Iggyboos)
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You know what we need is beyond anything I presume to imagine.
So I hope for every one reading this and I hope for the ones you hold dear.
So I hope for every one reading this and I hope for the ones you hold dear.
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When US media companies buckled to Trump's pressure, I started thinking that maybe state-funded media was the solution. But here's state-funded media IN ANOTHER COUNTRY doing it, too. WTF?
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
When US media companies buckled to Trump's pressure, I started thinking that maybe state-funded media was the solution. But here's state-funded media IN ANOTHER COUNTRY doing it, too. WTF?
Come have breakfast at the diner with us, they said.
Let's meet at 8:45, they said.
Let's go in our car, they said.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve, friends. May you never underestimate family plans that leave you dehydrated with a headache. Remember to wear comfortable shoes. Don't be a dumb dumb. 😝🤪🥴
Let's meet at 8:45, they said.
Let's go in our car, they said.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve, friends. May you never underestimate family plans that leave you dehydrated with a headache. Remember to wear comfortable shoes. Don't be a dumb dumb. 😝🤪🥴
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Come have breakfast at the diner with us, they said.
Let's meet at 8:45, they said.
Let's go in our car, they said.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve, friends. May you never underestimate family plans that leave you dehydrated with a headache. Remember to wear comfortable shoes. Don't be a dumb dumb. 😝🤪🥴
Let's meet at 8:45, they said.
Let's go in our car, they said.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve, friends. May you never underestimate family plans that leave you dehydrated with a headache. Remember to wear comfortable shoes. Don't be a dumb dumb. 😝🤪🥴
Wow, a balm for the cynical magats.
New today on the site:
“Both WAKE UP DEAD MAN and CONCLAVE depict faith at work in a world that’s dark and growing darker. Each film holds faith up to the light and asks: In times like these, what are the faithful to do?”
- @dodgyboffin.com
“Both WAKE UP DEAD MAN and CONCLAVE depict faith at work in a world that’s dark and growing darker. Each film holds faith up to the light and asks: In times like these, what are the faithful to do?”
- @dodgyboffin.com
Double Features: Wake Up Dead Man and Conclave
Wake Up Dead Man and Conclave depict faith at work in a world that’s dark and growing darker. Both films hold faith up to the light and ask: In times like these, what are the faithful to do?
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wow, a balm for the cynical magats.
This is the most DISGUSTING display of public human depravity. Why? Because they aren't subtle or secretive about its objective to use & validate the industrial deportation complex to give rich assholes the power to disappear & traffic ANY PERSON THEY HAVE POWER OVER.
That means me, you, all of us.
That means me, you, all of us.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is the most DISGUSTING display of public human depravity. Why? Because they aren't subtle or secretive about its objective to use & validate the industrial deportation complex to give rich assholes the power to disappear & traffic ANY PERSON THEY HAVE POWER OVER.
That means me, you, all of us.
That means me, you, all of us.
Me on the 95 & GW Bridge last night, #NYC
Next time I'll take the Tappanzee. It was like a Gladiatorial Gambit from Hell.
Next time I'll take the Tappanzee. It was like a Gladiatorial Gambit from Hell.
several cars are driving down a street and one has a license plate that says ' aa '
Alt: several cars are racing down a street and weaving in and out of lanes through traffic
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Me on the 95 & GW Bridge last night, #NYC
Next time I'll take the Tappanzee. It was like a Gladiatorial Gambit from Hell.
Next time I'll take the Tappanzee. It was like a Gladiatorial Gambit from Hell.
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I needed to hear this today. Maybe you will find it lifegiving too.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I needed to hear this today. Maybe you will find it lifegiving too.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
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I’m listening
Me about to piss off a bunch of capitalists: If Bezos doesn’t want to pay his fair share in corporate taxes, I don’t see why we shouldn’t nationalise Amazon and make it a subsidiary of the post office.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I’m listening
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
Oh no. What did I do?
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Oh no. What did I do?
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Also, no one seems to talk about all the MeToo accusations leveled at Ratner anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Also, no one seems to talk about all the MeToo accusations leveled at Ratner anymore.
Follow this.
Amplify it, friends.
MSP friends, we are so so devastated to see this happening.
Amplify it, friends.
MSP friends, we are so so devastated to see this happening.
Here now
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Follow this.
Amplify it, friends.
MSP friends, we are so so devastated to see this happening.
Amplify it, friends.
MSP friends, we are so so devastated to see this happening.
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East St. Paul rose Ave
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
East St. Paul rose Ave
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Incredibly great news:
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Incredibly great news:
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I'm not watching that
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I'm not watching that
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Trump’s Anti-Blackness Agenda | Right Now With Perry Bacon • Perry chats with Kimberle Crenshaw.
Trump’s Anti-Blackness Agenda | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Perry chats with Kimberle Crenshaw.
newrepublic.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump’s Anti-Blackness Agenda | Right Now With Perry Bacon • Perry chats with Kimberle Crenshaw.
So much of the post-2024 discourse among Democrats has been infuriating, because it's essentially marginalizing the already marginalized. Dr. Crenshaw unpacks that so well. Transcript (newrepublic.com/article/2036...) and video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihF...)
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I needed to hear this today. Maybe you will find it lifegiving too.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I needed to hear this today. Maybe you will find it lifegiving too.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
Thank you for words of truth, wisdom, struggle, solidarity & authentic reason for hope.
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Floors me year after year that my editor at Del Rey, Tricia Narwani, isn't nominated for all the editor awards. A truly exceptional editor who understands a) how to deliver strong, constructive feedback nestled in effusive praise and b) the best editing identifies a problem without providing the fix
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.
Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.
So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.
So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Floors me year after year that my editor at Del Rey, Tricia Narwani, isn't nominated for all the editor awards. A truly exceptional editor who understands a) how to deliver strong, constructive feedback nestled in effusive praise and b) the best editing identifies a problem without providing the fix
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My cell phone was not up to the task of capturing the colors my eye saw this morning. (There was no yellow, just a deep red with thin lilac shadows on the clouds)
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My cell phone was not up to the task of capturing the colors my eye saw this morning. (There was no yellow, just a deep red with thin lilac shadows on the clouds)
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I designed minicomputer hardware and invented a programming language for a 32-bit minicomputer and wrote a couple of operating systems with it. It was right before RISC processor design became mainstream.
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I designed minicomputer hardware and invented a programming language for a 32-bit minicomputer and wrote a couple of operating systems with it. It was right before RISC processor design became mainstream.
"A critical problem was that there didn’t appear to be a good way for the public to discern the difference between accurate and politicized messaging. 'I don’t know how they would distinguish that,' the Chronic Center staffer said."
#MustRead Calculated, insidious strategy to render info obsolete.
#MustRead Calculated, insidious strategy to render info obsolete.
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"A critical problem was that there didn’t appear to be a good way for the public to discern the difference between accurate and politicized messaging. 'I don’t know how they would distinguish that,' the Chronic Center staffer said."
#MustRead Calculated, insidious strategy to render info obsolete.
#MustRead Calculated, insidious strategy to render info obsolete.
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when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul