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Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?
December 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?
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I finally have a blog platform I like, and I'm going to use it to finish posts I started eons ago. If you like 3800 word essays about gender and bigotry and weird rationalist assholes, then you're in luck.
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
Fascist femboys, autogynephilia, and flattering narratives
Among those who believe [autogynephilia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard'stranssexualismtypology) is real and the primary explanation for many or mo...
alpha.weaver.sh
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I finally have a blog platform I like, and I'm going to use it to finish posts I started eons ago. If you like 3800 word essays about gender and bigotry and weird rationalist assholes, then you're in luck.
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
alpha.weaver.sh/did:plc:yfvw...
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Bats and Umbrellas by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Bats and Umbrellas by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882
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To be clear, my own view, for what it's worth, is that people should be supported to do whatever works best for them and the kid, taking into account all relevant considerations, not just some studies that don't take into account the realities of people's lives.
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
To be clear, my own view, for what it's worth, is that people should be supported to do whatever works best for them and the kid, taking into account all relevant considerations, not just some studies that don't take into account the realities of people's lives.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Another neat fact: all wobbegong pups are above average.
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Another neat fact: all wobbegong pups are above average.
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I only just realized that Fan Ho lived till 2016.
I have mostly looked at his work from the 1950s. During the 60s, Ho began a filmmaking career. A whole other life.
I have mostly looked at his work from the 1950s. During the 60s, Ho began a filmmaking career. A whole other life.
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I only just realized that Fan Ho lived till 2016.
I have mostly looked at his work from the 1950s. During the 60s, Ho began a filmmaking career. A whole other life.
I have mostly looked at his work from the 1950s. During the 60s, Ho began a filmmaking career. A whole other life.
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America’s pretty cool, I think we should have as many people here as we can so they can make it cooler
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
America’s pretty cool, I think we should have as many people here as we can so they can make it cooler
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All of the houses in the neighborhood I grew up in are getting sold to big Somali families and I think that’s so cool. I hope they get to ride their bikes around like I did.
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
All of the houses in the neighborhood I grew up in are getting sold to big Somali families and I think that’s so cool. I hope they get to ride their bikes around like I did.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
December 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her
unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her
unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her
unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben.
Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,
wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben
und wird in den Alleen hin und her
unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben.
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This is a happy thought, but as the person interviewed said, I’ll believe it when I see it. You also have to keep in mind that the Chief of Police doesn’t actually run the Minneapolis Police Department. The police union president does. And the police union is fucking racist.
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is a happy thought, but as the person interviewed said, I’ll believe it when I see it. You also have to keep in mind that the Chief of Police doesn’t actually run the Minneapolis Police Department. The police union president does. And the police union is fucking racist.
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More of this please.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
More of this please.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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when you actually know trans people, are in community with them.. shit's different, huh? much love for these leaders. this is how you lead.
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
when you actually know trans people, are in community with them.. shit's different, huh? much love for these leaders. this is how you lead.
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Major in something you actually like and are interested in, minor in whichever of stats, Econ, or some kind computer touching is easiest for you.
I think a lot of "learn to code" people thought high salaries for programmers were a permanent feature of the world rather than the result of unusual circumstances around supply and demand in the labor market. Over last 20 years, CS went from a niche college major to the most popular major in the US
New CS grads are making less than I made as an accounting graduate straight out of college a decade ago, and I don’t mean inflation adjusted, I mean nominally.
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Major in something you actually like and are interested in, minor in whichever of stats, Econ, or some kind computer touching is easiest for you.
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
If you see this quote with your model of masculinity.
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you see this quote with your model of masculinity.
We begin with a nicely decorated tree, and the then ornaments all begin to migrate upward, as the cats pull them off the lower branches and we re-hang them a bit higher.
It’s really a sort of advent calendar.
It’s really a sort of advent calendar.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We begin with a nicely decorated tree, and the then ornaments all begin to migrate upward, as the cats pull them off the lower branches and we re-hang them a bit higher.
It’s really a sort of advent calendar.
It’s really a sort of advent calendar.
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I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
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The bare minimum, and I mean absolute bottom of the basement could not possibly be any lower as a matter of imagination bare minimum position for any Dem going forward has to be:
1) Nuremberg-style tribunals
2) Truth and Reconciliation Committees
3) TRIPLING the size of the Supreme Court
1) Nuremberg-style tribunals
2) Truth and Reconciliation Committees
3) TRIPLING the size of the Supreme Court
I am shocked, shocked I tell ya www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that ...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The bare minimum, and I mean absolute bottom of the basement could not possibly be any lower as a matter of imagination bare minimum position for any Dem going forward has to be:
1) Nuremberg-style tribunals
2) Truth and Reconciliation Committees
3) TRIPLING the size of the Supreme Court
1) Nuremberg-style tribunals
2) Truth and Reconciliation Committees
3) TRIPLING the size of the Supreme Court
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We will never, ever restore a constitutional democracy unless we burn SCOTUS to the ground. First day Dems have the trifecta, it’s gotta be end filibuster, approve a slate of 12+ additional judges — no hearings, just vote — and then 3) start building a New Republic. Otherwise what’s the damn point?
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
We will never, ever restore a constitutional democracy unless we burn SCOTUS to the ground. First day Dems have the trifecta, it’s gotta be end filibuster, approve a slate of 12+ additional judges — no hearings, just vote — and then 3) start building a New Republic. Otherwise what’s the damn point?
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The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...