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nerd for narrative. chaotic good. the people’s princess of the housing crisis.
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Sometimes I bring a “sings ‘Holland, 1945’ at karaoke” vibe to the party that people don’t always love. But they should.
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Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.
Woke up feeling extra blue this morning. Self-medicating with A Charlie Brown Christmas and you know what? It’s not not helping.
December 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Woke up feeling extra blue this morning. Self-medicating with A Charlie Brown Christmas and you know what? It’s not not helping.
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you said it sister
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
you said it sister
So far the Game awards have given me the only scenario where I get excited about a Star Wars game and Miss Piggy. That’s 2-for-2 in the first couple of minutes of a show that normally gives me so many 0s I crawl out of my skin.
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
So far the Game awards have given me the only scenario where I get excited about a Star Wars game and Miss Piggy. That’s 2-for-2 in the first couple of minutes of a show that normally gives me so many 0s I crawl out of my skin.
My theory is that everyone who was actually interested got a review copy. At this same time, this is wild.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My theory is that everyone who was actually interested got a review copy. At this same time, this is wild.
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i like these home details designed for pets
IG meredithsterninteriors
IG meredithsterninteriors
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
i like these home details designed for pets
IG meredithsterninteriors
IG meredithsterninteriors
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The Texas Supreme Court said in October that judges may decline to perform marriages based on their religious beliefs.
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
‘Love is the Only Motherf****** Way’: Big Queer Wedding Party Celebrates LGBTQ+ Joy and Resilience in Texas
the flower-filled Austin event honored the queer community’s commitment to “hold each other up” in dark times.
thebarbedwire.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Texas Supreme Court said in October that judges may decline to perform marriages based on their religious beliefs.
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
In response, Denise Hernández, a queer Latina judge, threw a Big Gay Wedding Party. With the @19thnews.org, we sent a fabulous photographer.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/10/b...
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What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy
Replaying Prey (2017) for the first time in a few years and I would just like to remind everyone, yet again, that this game rules.
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Replaying Prey (2017) for the first time in a few years and I would just like to remind everyone, yet again, that this game rules.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Employers seemingly disregard etiquette, laying off employees right before the holidays
The once common ritual fell out of fashion following the Great Recession, until this year.
www.hr-brew.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
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fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres
New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
3.5 weeks into a 2 month round of steroids for a truly catastrophic Crohn’s flare-up and — while the pain is still bad and I’ve lost like 15 lbs — I’m starting to feel like myself again. Today’s goals may surpass “shower” and “don’t vomit.” Sorry-not-sorry for the flex.
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
3.5 weeks into a 2 month round of steroids for a truly catastrophic Crohn’s flare-up and — while the pain is still bad and I’ve lost like 15 lbs — I’m starting to feel like myself again. Today’s goals may surpass “shower” and “don’t vomit.” Sorry-not-sorry for the flex.
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Animaniacs please do something
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Animaniacs please do something
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This essay inspired by the work of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social.
I wrote my longest post yet on my blog on a topic at the intersection of politics and fitness: Why the Turner clubs of yesteryear are a positive example for a better American society. #gymsky #fitnesssky #politics #voteblue
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Bring Back the Turner Movement
Fitness and music are two of my major interests, but if anyone follows me on Bluesky, they'll know that politics occupies a similarly large portion of my brain. Sometimes, two of these three major...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This essay inspired by the work of @caseyjohnston.bsky.social.
The Pantone color of the year is WHITE. The jokes are all trying to squeeze through my brain at once like the three stooges through a doorway.
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Pantone color of the year is WHITE. The jokes are all trying to squeeze through my brain at once like the three stooges through a doorway.
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The guy who invented it went on to invent a precise medicine dispensing system that Coke used to make the Coke Freestyle, so he did in fact end up creating one of the great inventions of our era
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The guy who invented it went on to invent a precise medicine dispensing system that Coke used to make the Coke Freestyle, so he did in fact end up creating one of the great inventions of our era
Am I…am I insufferable? No! I’m not. Am I? No. (I am.)
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Am I…am I insufferable? No! I’m not. Am I? No. (I am.)
I have been unemployed and terribly sick since October. A lot of pain. A lot of isolation. But it is gray and rainy and my perfect, kind, sexy husband has put up Christmas decorations. I am going to snuggle up and enjoy it today.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I have been unemployed and terribly sick since October. A lot of pain. A lot of isolation. But it is gray and rainy and my perfect, kind, sexy husband has put up Christmas decorations. I am going to snuggle up and enjoy it today.
The stupidest part about this is that we all know computers are absolute sluts and it’s ridiculous to pretend otherwise.
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The stupidest part about this is that we all know computers are absolute sluts and it’s ridiculous to pretend otherwise.
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In the era of AI it’s more crucial than ever that social media sites add a serif to the lower case L
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In the era of AI it’s more crucial than ever that social media sites add a serif to the lower case L
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Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
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If you don't let your theater kid do theater they turn into fascists. That's what I've learned this decade.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If you don't let your theater kid do theater they turn into fascists. That's what I've learned this decade.