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New tolkien quote of the day everyday five(ish) days of the week
i RS a lot of mutual aid posts some nsfw🔞
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· Dec 31
You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.
I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
kinda fun that the mega racists are going to probably develop the energy weapon equivalent of gulf war syndrome but yeah it's uh NotPoggers all in all
so wait el paso airspace got shut down in a turf war over DOD letting the worst racists in the government drunk drive a laser cannon
February 12, 2026 at 6:16 AM
kinda fun that the mega racists are going to probably develop the energy weapon equivalent of gulf war syndrome but yeah it's uh NotPoggers all in all
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AOC was Biden’s strongest soldier is a madness rune for people in every faction of the party
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 AM
AOC was Biden’s strongest soldier is a madness rune for people in every faction of the party
will not get over that the people that backed biden right up until the end were most of the squad, handful of progressives, motherfucking joe manchin, and like half the cbc, and they were also the ones quickest to back harris instead of doing an insane primary
plus, the left has shown much better "party loyalty" and harm-reduction instincts in the actual voting booth than the center has. PUMA democrats bail to support the right when a more progressive candidate is on the ballot far more than leftists do when the usual centrist is.
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 AM
will not get over that the people that backed biden right up until the end were most of the squad, handful of progressives, motherfucking joe manchin, and like half the cbc, and they were also the ones quickest to back harris instead of doing an insane primary
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They're gonna try to make the Coast Guard act Greek and Italian.
And it is going to destroy that organization.
And it is going to destroy that organization.
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 AM
They're gonna try to make the Coast Guard act Greek and Italian.
And it is going to destroy that organization.
And it is going to destroy that organization.
NW Gone Girl: The Cleaning Lady
February 12, 2026 at 5:26 AM
NW Gone Girl: The Cleaning Lady
so like...what happens when tehran runs out of water this summer?
February 12, 2026 at 4:59 AM
so like...what happens when tehran runs out of water this summer?
everyone in the legendarium is chaste except the sex pests is i think an accurate description
It's important that I get a large sample size of answers to this:
Is Gandalf horny? Chaste? Somewhere in between?
Is Gandalf horny? Chaste? Somewhere in between?
February 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM
everyone in the legendarium is chaste except the sex pests is i think an accurate description
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its always steam
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
its always steam
love bear mccreary flexing with a banger metal song in this
you might not like it but this is what peak Tulkas fighting morgoths looks like
February 12, 2026 at 4:03 AM
love bear mccreary flexing with a banger metal song in this
so uh ice/cbp moonlighting is def one of the more likely possibilities for the savanah guthrie thing right
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
so uh ice/cbp moonlighting is def one of the more likely possibilities for the savanah guthrie thing right
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you might not like it but this is what peak Tulkas fighting morgoths looks like
December 2, 2023 at 1:37 AM
you might not like it but this is what peak Tulkas fighting morgoths looks like
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From dominatrixes to adult entertainers, we asked several sex workers to take us out to eat, sharing the taco spots that keep them fed across L.A.
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 AM
From dominatrixes to adult entertainers, we asked several sex workers to take us out to eat, sharing the taco spots that keep them fed across L.A.
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
The full story: lataco.com/porn-stars-b...
By Lauren Bethke
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This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
When actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad became a culture war flashpoint last summer, Times journalists noticed, in part through the reports, that right-wing podcast figures were shaping the backlash. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.
www.niemanlab.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 AM
This is an interesting piece about how NYT is using AI in its newsroom. (tl;dr: they generate transcripts of the podcasts they're tracking, those transcripts gets summarized, those summaries get delivered in a report to journalists)
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thsi is a FULL GROWN CAT
February 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
thsi is a FULL GROWN CAT
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Pam Bondi really triggering that fight or flight for anyone who’s ever worked a cash register
February 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Pam Bondi really triggering that fight or flight for anyone who’s ever worked a cash register
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interesting that a company who, I assume, took a bunch of their money is their top donor at 25k dollars
Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for James Van Der Beek's Family, organized by Jason K
James Van Der Beek was a beloved husband, father, and friend who touched the lives of … Jason K needs your support for Support for James Van Der Beek's Family
www.gofundme.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 AM
interesting that a company who, I assume, took a bunch of their money is their top donor at 25k dollars
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It's pretty crazy that this book was published in 2006, and the characters suspect that the alien they are talking to in the opening is an LLM in a sense more or less recognizable to anyone reading it today.
competitive advantage for the LLM era: went insane reading Blindsight a decade ago; confronted the fact that much of what we value as intelligence can be decomposed into component submodules; accepted that sentience/consciousness was not a precondition of effectiveness wrt many cognitive tasks, etc
February 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It's pretty crazy that this book was published in 2006, and the characters suspect that the alien they are talking to in the opening is an LLM in a sense more or less recognizable to anyone reading it today.
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Peter Watts on his novels
February 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Peter Watts on his novels
sucks how much youtube massively cleaned up its nazi and rw problem only for it to seemingly all get reversed in the last year
February 12, 2026 at 1:15 AM
sucks how much youtube massively cleaned up its nazi and rw problem only for it to seemingly all get reversed in the last year
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so happy for the autistic representation in LOTR 1978
February 10, 2026 at 3:40 AM
so happy for the autistic representation in LOTR 1978
This too, is cocaine
February 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
This too, is cocaine
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its like vonnegut said, we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
its like vonnegut said, we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
[puppygirl w/ MS applied physics & bioinformatics PhD]: woof :3 arf arf! ^w^
moderation here is run on the shittiest regex and we’re so lucky 2014 channer brigading culture doesn’t still exist cuz this site is not up to task
who on earth do i even talk to about this?
apparently my account has been flagged as "needs review" and my replies and likes are getting hidden?
apparently my account has been flagged as "needs review" and my replies and likes are getting hidden?
so from my perspective, the posts in the above thread are still visible, but your replies/likes arent
if i followed you, or the op of the thread (which ig is also me) followed you, you'd show up, but because i don't you're hidden
if i followed you, or the op of the thread (which ig is also me) followed you, you'd show up, but because i don't you're hidden
February 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM
moderation here is run on the shittiest regex and we’re so lucky 2014 channer brigading culture doesn’t still exist cuz this site is not up to task