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whale loneliness epidemic
nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
whale loneliness epidemic
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animal behavior studies win: we taught wolves to find “67” funny and have received the world’s first negative grant funding. we are currently looking for donations as our lab is now $2 million in debt
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
animal behavior studies win: we taught wolves to find “67” funny and have received the world’s first negative grant funding. we are currently looking for donations as our lab is now $2 million in debt
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
"We have laws not simply to have laws but because the law is the only possible brake on the strong trampling over and exploiting the weak. And if some people become too strong, it becomes impossible for any of us, individually or collectively, to be truly free."
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators
I got a fascinating array of responses to my Tuesday post about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"We have laws not simply to have laws but because the law is the only possible brake on the strong trampling over and exploiting the weak. And if some people become too strong, it becomes impossible for any of us, individually or collectively, to be truly free."
Manic pixie nightmare blunt rotation
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Manic pixie nightmare blunt rotation
hwait
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
hwait
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this gets at the question of whether one can close-read a generated text or image; the contingencies in them indicate something about the training data, but there seems to be nothing aesthetic in it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this gets at the question of whether one can close-read a generated text or image; the contingencies in them indicate something about the training data, but there seems to be nothing aesthetic in it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Pamphlet of poems found in a free library box. This one poem is excellent.
December 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Pamphlet of poems found in a free library box. This one poem is excellent.
Remind you of anyone
December 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Remind you of anyone
Look at this ad y'all. They literally got a black girl baby on one end and a white boy baby on the other end. Not subtle!
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Look at this ad y'all. They literally got a black girl baby on one end and a white boy baby on the other end. Not subtle!
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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There's that old line about Antisemitism is "the socialism of fools." One might say that in the US, anti-government conspiracy theories have often functioned as both "the socialism of fools" and "the fascism of fools." They work like cultural a magnet holding a weak red-brown alliance together.
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
There's that old line about Antisemitism is "the socialism of fools." One might say that in the US, anti-government conspiracy theories have often functioned as both "the socialism of fools" and "the fascism of fools." They work like cultural a magnet holding a weak red-brown alliance together.
My name is KIIIIIIIIIII-
Jitterbug
Jitterbug
Wake me up before you go-go
Dont leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I dont wanna miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go-go
Cause I'm not plannin on going solo
Wake me up before you go-go
Take me dancing tonight
I wanna hit that hiiiiigh
Jitterbug
Wake me up before you go-go
Dont leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake me up before you go-go
I dont wanna miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go-go
Cause I'm not plannin on going solo
Wake me up before you go-go
Take me dancing tonight
I wanna hit that hiiiiigh
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
My name is KIIIIIIIIIII-
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rock n roll mcdoooonalds, rock n roll mcdoooonalds
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
rock n roll mcdoooonalds, rock n roll mcdoooonalds
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The kindest version of Yglesias’ hallucinatory reading of American politics would see a Democratic Party torn between LIBERAL egalitarians and liberal EGALITARIANS but that is not what we see in reality.
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The kindest version of Yglesias’ hallucinatory reading of American politics would see a Democratic Party torn between LIBERAL egalitarians and liberal EGALITARIANS but that is not what we see in reality.
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Well at least we finally got rid of this fuckin guy! Don't let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out Larry. You fuck
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Well at least we finally got rid of this fuckin guy! Don't let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out Larry. You fuck
Pieces missing from your vintage copy of a mouse-extermination-themed board game and now the mechanism doesn't work right?
Problematic cage trap
Problematic cage trap
taking old person siestas every afternoon in your mid-thirties?
problematic age nap
problematic age nap
Been angry so long you can't remember why anymore?
Problematic rage gap.
Problematic rage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Pieces missing from your vintage copy of a mouse-extermination-themed board game and now the mechanism doesn't work right?
Problematic cage trap
Problematic cage trap
"If we, as citizens, decide that we want to resurrect our nation’s dead commitment to a politics of anti-corruption, then we can."
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"If we, as citizens, decide that we want to resurrect our nation’s dead commitment to a politics of anti-corruption, then we can."
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my new bit has been pointing to random houses and hotels while on a drive and saying "someone was killed there"
after doing this with about ten houses, my sister asked me where I would even get that information. "the almanac. farmer's almanac" i said
after doing this with about ten houses, my sister asked me where I would even get that information. "the almanac. farmer's almanac" i said
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
my new bit has been pointing to random houses and hotels while on a drive and saying "someone was killed there"
after doing this with about ten houses, my sister asked me where I would even get that information. "the almanac. farmer's almanac" i said
after doing this with about ten houses, my sister asked me where I would even get that information. "the almanac. farmer's almanac" i said
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
As someone who was raised with religion but never found much of it believable, I learned a new way to think about religion, that helped me to understand my experience with Catholicism, from Karen Armstrong: as an object of anthropological study
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
As someone who was raised with religion but never found much of it believable, I learned a new way to think about religion, that helped me to understand my experience with Catholicism, from Karen Armstrong: as an object of anthropological study
Just can't get a decent Torhrane in this country anymore. Because of Woke
mmmm my favorite mcdonald’s food, Dore, Caprer, and a side of Cchinges
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Just can't get a decent Torhrane in this country anymore. Because of Woke
is there some bricks to maybe and my ma and run in house
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
is there some bricks to maybe and my ma and run in house