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Kristin with an i
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Kristin with an i @krispykritter.bsky.social · Jan 14
I’m obsessed with the fact that crows hold grudges and pass them on to their children and friends for YEARS.
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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techwontsave.us
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨

Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Bracket showing the 32 names in the Worst Person in Tech 2025
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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nikilatoya.bsky.social
A phrase I hope we leave in 2025:

Male loneliness epidemic
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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tmcallister.bsky.social
Posts like this reliably do big numbers but I have to say it certainly doesn't reflect my experience at a state school with lots of underprepared and first generation students. Most of them are doing about the same quality and effort they've been doing since I started teaching
jesbattis.bsky.social Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 17d
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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motherjones.com
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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maxtani.bsky.social
amazing q&a with paul krugman
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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getwired.com
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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sesmith.lol
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
i don’t think the axios reporting is entirely off base if you have house members out here soft launching an abolish-the-senate position lmfao
seancasten.bsky.social Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · Nov 9
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I find it strange how rarely people in the U.S. and outside of it truly contend with how VAST the country is geographically.

Folks LOVE to mention France but Paris has a population of 2 million people and is 40 square miles.

NYC has a population of 8.5 million and is over 460 square miles
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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frettie.bsky.social
#nokings
Portland frog brigade
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
Y’all won’t use plastic straws but you’re using GROK to plan your workouts??????????? Go dive off a street curb into a pool of trash bag juice.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 16
Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.

Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
Someone on TikTok said Taylor Swift has contracted “sexually transmitted CTE” and I—
October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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alexandermarks.bsky.social
The plan: get Jimmy Kimmel suspended so his ratings would quadruple. People are more interested in shows they’re not allowed to watch. This also allowed me to manufacture the biggest First Amendment issue in decades.
September 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court will consider expanding Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning 90-year-old precedent.
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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tvmojoe.bsky.social
As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
September 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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incandescent-rage.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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lizthegrey.com
well, I guess TikTok is going to be state media now.
September 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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npr.org
Nepal became the third South Asia country to have its government toppled by protesters in recent years. Generation Z youth led the movement, which was triggered and shaped by social media.
How Gen Z-led protests put Nepal's 1st female prime minister in power
Nepal became the third South Asia country to have its government toppled by protesters in recent years. Generation Z youth led the movement, which was triggered and shaped by social media.
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September 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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greene.haus
Klein is, for whatever reason, fumbling for parts of the coalition to throw overboard for the sake of accommodating authoritarians — the sake of “living here with each other,” to use a line of his this week.

But it’s other people’s liberties he’s bargaining over.
samd.bsky.social Sam @samd.bsky.social · Sep 20
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats. Constitutional Amendment 3 November 5, 2024 Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative Choice Yes X No Results Votes 1,538,659 1,443,022 % 51.60% 48.40% Issue 1 November 7, 2023 Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1] Results Choice Votes % & Yes 2,227,384 56.78% No 1,695,480 43.22% Total votes 3,922,864 100.00% 2022 Kansas abortion referendum KANSAS August 2, 2022 Should there be no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother? Results Choice Votes % • Yes 385,014 40.84% X No 557,837 59.16% Total votes 942,851 100.00% Registered voters turnout 1,929,972 48.85%
September 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
US schools and the children in them are subject to rising threats of school shootings and hoaxes, cyberattacks and cyberbullying, hate crimes, ICE raids and masked police, climate change disasters, censorship, and now the encouragement of unvaxxing.

Then we wonder why absenteeism is a problem.
September 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...
We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM