Doctora Malka Older
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"Abolish ICE"
Seen in NYC
Seen in NYC
February 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
"Abolish ICE"
Seen in NYC
Seen in NYC
[will the scriptwriter?]
#TheMummy4 will release in theaters on May 19, 2028.
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are set to return.
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are set to return.
February 11, 2026 at 12:09 AM
[will the scriptwriter?]
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There are so many traditions around the world for picking names you want to go by and they’re all wonderful. Everyone should feel entitled to doing so.
Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.
February 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
There are so many traditions around the world for picking names you want to go by and they’re all wonderful. Everyone should feel entitled to doing so.
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Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
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Well one silver lining for when AI collapses is that once that data centers are defunct, they can be repurposed into hydroponic growth centers for vegetables considering they already have access to freshwater, we just gotta collapse this shit before the aquifers dry up since soil is degrading.
February 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Well one silver lining for when AI collapses is that once that data centers are defunct, they can be repurposed into hydroponic growth centers for vegetables considering they already have access to freshwater, we just gotta collapse this shit before the aquifers dry up since soil is degrading.
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Scrawl on a utility box at a bus stop in downtown Saint Paul: “ICE took somebody here”
February 10, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Scrawl on a utility box at a bus stop in downtown Saint Paul: “ICE took somebody here”
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seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
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at least three here and it rocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cJo...
Lautlos
YouTube video by Deladap - Topic
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February 10, 2026 at 11:48 PM
at least three here and it rocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cJo...
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Andrea Flores is such a great writer.
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Andrea Flores is such a great writer.
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preemptively annoyed that everyone is going to hate the wuthering heights movie for the wrong reasons. it won't be bad bc it's horny :( it'll be bad bc her films uncritically reproduce the paranoias of the entitled, using surface-level deviance to deliver frank conservatism :(
February 10, 2026 at 11:45 PM
preemptively annoyed that everyone is going to hate the wuthering heights movie for the wrong reasons. it won't be bad bc it's horny :( it'll be bad bc her films uncritically reproduce the paranoias of the entitled, using surface-level deviance to deliver frank conservatism :(
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Heated Rivalry should prove that it's not the horniness that's the issue
preemptively annoyed that everyone is going to hate the wuthering heights movie for the wrong reasons. it won't be bad bc it's horny :( it'll be bad bc her films uncritically reproduce the paranoias of the entitled, using surface-level deviance to deliver frank conservatism :(
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Heated Rivalry should prove that it's not the horniness that's the issue
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I have a whole playlist called “No Entiendo” that’s just awesome songs in languages I don’t understand
Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?
February 10, 2026 at 11:51 PM
I have a whole playlist called “No Entiendo” that’s just awesome songs in languages I don’t understand
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A Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored subspecies) on a snowy day. The amount of brown points to this bird being a female hatch-year bird. I wonder what she thinks of her first winter?
February 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
A Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored subspecies) on a snowy day. The amount of brown points to this bird being a female hatch-year bird. I wonder what she thinks of her first winter?
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Since we're re-litigating Ring's sins: How did they grow so fast?
Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.
Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.
Emails from 2016 Show Amazon Ring's Hold on the LAPD Through Camera Giveaways
In March 2016, “smart” doorbell camera maker Ring was a growing company attempting to market its wireless smart security camera when it received an email from an officer in the Los Angeles Police Depa...
www.eff.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Since we're re-litigating Ring's sins: How did they grow so fast?
Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.
Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.
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This is a good point. If there are localities where the rate is 10X the national average—and there pretty much have to be—then in those localities the number will necessarily be above one in a hundred residents.
It must be much closer to 1% in the target areas, which is remarkable
February 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
This is a good point. If there are localities where the rate is 10X the national average—and there pretty much have to be—then in those localities the number will necessarily be above one in a hundred residents.
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Here's a handy screenshot for reference on wording to use when returning your Ring device to Amazon for a refund.
February 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Here's a handy screenshot for reference on wording to use when returning your Ring device to Amazon for a refund.
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Another evening gown from the 1800s, but slightly earlier. Here is an 1869 evening gown with pink stripes and red accented bows- fashionably trendy for the late 1860s' emphasis on trimmings and light silks. It's like a striped #Valentine! ❤️ #ootd #fashionhistory
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Another evening gown from the 1800s, but slightly earlier. Here is an 1869 evening gown with pink stripes and red accented bows- fashionably trendy for the late 1860s' emphasis on trimmings and light silks. It's like a striped #Valentine! ❤️ #ootd #fashionhistory
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It seems to me that Bezos, like many very wealthy people who buy a media outlet, essentially bought himself a toy, and was willing to fund it for as long as it was fun for him, or got him laid, or whatever. Now he's bored, so he broke it.
Also, you'd think money would mean nothing to these people -- they certainly have more of it than God -- but in practice they, like anyone, only pay for what they value, and what they value changes on a dime. A million bucks is nothing if you want something; if you don't, it's a *million bucks*
February 10, 2026 at 11:51 PM
It seems to me that Bezos, like many very wealthy people who buy a media outlet, essentially bought himself a toy, and was willing to fund it for as long as it was fun for him, or got him laid, or whatever. Now he's bored, so he broke it.
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I understand why we keep emphasizing that Bezos had the money to keep the Washington Post a real newspaper -- it is indeed obscene how easily he could float it in addition to other expendatures -- but I sort of worry that people are missing the actual horror of what happened here
Did Bezos decide to kill the Post for political reasons? Probably partially. But we've seen this play out a bunch of times: rich people who buy media outlets as display pieces often eventually get antsy and try and play with them, break them in fits of pique, or just get bored of them. Or all three!
February 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I understand why we keep emphasizing that Bezos had the money to keep the Washington Post a real newspaper -- it is indeed obscene how easily he could float it in addition to other expendatures -- but I sort of worry that people are missing the actual horror of what happened here
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yes!! this video sent meeee
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
yes!! this video sent meeee
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It's the platonic ideal of a halftime show, it was positively *chaste* by those standards, and it's everything that Conservatives say they want championed in culture more.
But because
A) It's black, brown, and spanish-speaking people
B) Some of the dancers were men dancing with men
They hate it.
But because
A) It's black, brown, and spanish-speaking people
B) Some of the dancers were men dancing with men
They hate it.
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 PM
It's the platonic ideal of a halftime show, it was positively *chaste* by those standards, and it's everything that Conservatives say they want championed in culture more.
But because
A) It's black, brown, and spanish-speaking people
B) Some of the dancers were men dancing with men
They hate it.
But because
A) It's black, brown, and spanish-speaking people
B) Some of the dancers were men dancing with men
They hate it.
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Today's vaccine outrage from RFK Jr.'s crew:
The FDA won't review Moderna's vaccine application for a new mRNA based flu shot that it reports is 26% more effective than the licensed jab.
I write over at LinkedIn about the shadow banning effect that makes the decision even worse than it appears.
The FDA won't review Moderna's vaccine application for a new mRNA based flu shot that it reports is 26% more effective than the licensed jab.
I write over at LinkedIn about the shadow banning effect that makes the decision even worse than it appears.
Books - Random House Books | Thomas Levenson
I was hoping to write about something not infuriating today--maybe that pulsar that has been tentatively detected near the center of our galaxy, or, more on my usual focus these days, on the accumulat...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Today's vaccine outrage from RFK Jr.'s crew:
The FDA won't review Moderna's vaccine application for a new mRNA based flu shot that it reports is 26% more effective than the licensed jab.
I write over at LinkedIn about the shadow banning effect that makes the decision even worse than it appears.
The FDA won't review Moderna's vaccine application for a new mRNA based flu shot that it reports is 26% more effective than the licensed jab.
I write over at LinkedIn about the shadow banning effect that makes the decision even worse than it appears.
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With the new movie about to come out, I wrote about whether Wuthering Heights is a) a romance or b) romantic for @aunz.theconversation.com .
Is Wuthering Heights actually romantic? Heathcliff would say no
Heathcliff sneeringly rejected the idea he was ‘a hero of romance’ – though the new film claims Wuthering Heights as the greatest love story of all time. Is it?
theconversation.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
With the new movie about to come out, I wrote about whether Wuthering Heights is a) a romance or b) romantic for @aunz.theconversation.com .
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So do Japan, France, Italy and Germany
Yes, China has impressive high-speed trains. That is no reason for the West to adopt iron-fisted rule
Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?
Yes, China has impressive high-speed trains. That is no reason for the West to adopt iron-fisted rule
econ.st
February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
So do Japan, France, Italy and Germany