Nothings Monstered
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The name is a joke from Shakespeare
This account is for whatever I feel like posting about. Mostly pictures that strike my fancy, posts about politics, disability, art, literature, et cetera
The Bronx
one-legged juggler // he
This account is for whatever I feel like posting about. Mostly pictures that strike my fancy, posts about politics, disability, art, literature, et cetera
The Bronx
one-legged juggler // he
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Yep, to this admin, winning arguments on Twitter is more important than serious policy making.
this administration is more twitter pilled than any previous iteration and the only reason it isn’t called out more regularly is because our top political reporters are just as mentally broken
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Yep, to this admin, winning arguments on Twitter is more important than serious policy making.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
Ken Bald, 1948
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Ken Bald, 1948
"Lo, we've dreamed on slavery
and we've dreamed on kings
and still we dream of decency
and the end of evil things."
and we've dreamed on kings
and still we dream of decency
and the end of evil things."
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Lo, we've dreamed on slavery
and we've dreamed on kings
and still we dream of decency
and the end of evil things."
and we've dreamed on kings
and still we dream of decency
and the end of evil things."
I'm glad to see Richie Torres has competition
Union Members Take On Congressional Incumbents in Manhattan and The Bronx www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/24/a...
Union Members Take On Congressional Incumbents in Manhattan and The Bronx
The UAW is known locally for its left-leaning politics and justice-oriented members in academia and legal services. Now two of its rank-and-file members, Dalourny Nemorin and Darializa Avila Chevalier...
www.thecity.nyc
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I'm glad to see Richie Torres has competition
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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured skydiver Gabe Brown falling across the sun in this precisely planned aircraft alignment, solar altitude, and jump, resulting in the striking image “The Fall of Icarus.”
#AstroPhotography #Photography
#AstroPhotography #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured skydiver Gabe Brown falling across the sun in this precisely planned aircraft alignment, solar altitude, and jump, resulting in the striking image “The Fall of Icarus.”
#AstroPhotography #Photography
#AstroPhotography #Photography
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American photographer William Klein
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
American photographer William Klein
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
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first they mock you… :)
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
first they mock you… :)
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I meant to grade papers today, I swear I did, but then I got distracted by a group of Harvard Divinity School students who spent 1834 buying pornography and then turning in the people who sold it to them. One of them, Frederick W. Holland, also ended up with a copy of Walker's Appeal around then 🗃️
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I meant to grade papers today, I swear I did, but then I got distracted by a group of Harvard Divinity School students who spent 1834 buying pornography and then turning in the people who sold it to them. One of them, Frederick W. Holland, also ended up with a copy of Walker's Appeal around then 🗃️
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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American photographer William Klein
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
American photographer William Klein
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
Still from his first short film Broadway by Light, 1958
#WilliamKlein #Cinema #Photography
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That’s a real sentence
BREAKING Jair Bolsonaro, convicted of attempting a military coup and the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, is ordered today to begin his 27-year sentence
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Bolsonaro out of appeals; will start 27-year sentence for coup attempt
The former Brazilian president will begin his sentence in a specially prepared cell at federal police headquarters in Brasília.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
That’s a real sentence
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I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher, and Teri Garr during Thanksgiving Party in New York City - November 21, 1977
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Amy Irving, Carrie Fisher, and Teri Garr during Thanksgiving Party in New York City - November 21, 1977
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The problem is precisely that this is not true. Not-garbage always takes work.
I think Madrigal's claim is wrong because a) it overstates the average quality of shit people see online already, and b) the cost of making not-garbage is going to zero right along with the cost of making garbage
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The problem is precisely that this is not true. Not-garbage always takes work.
I can't help but think of the joyful smugness of people who are sure they are smarter than modern medicine because of the secret wisdom they have gotten from YouTube, Facebook, and forwarded emails.
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I can't help but think of the joyful smugness of people who are sure they are smarter than modern medicine because of the secret wisdom they have gotten from YouTube, Facebook, and forwarded emails.
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Polly Penrose
December 4, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Polly Penrose
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Polly Penrose
October 28, 2023 at 3:46 PM
Polly Penrose
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"You didn’t have other industries scrambling to find steel during the railroad boom."
who knows the future of AI, its real world value, what it can achieve, what profits it will drive. But we can more confidently say something very weird is happening here when we look at the question of resource allocation and the very small number of individuals driving it.
The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s... via @TPM
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"You didn’t have other industries scrambling to find steel during the railroad boom."