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Sphexish Quine

@dfeldman.org

Good security advice - and anti-advice
www.hacklore.org/letter

The Letter — Stop Hacklore!

www.hacklore.org

November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM

Adam Vinueza

@adamvinueza.me

I’m traveling soon, need to remind myself to not automatically get in the Starbucks queue

Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.

If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!

November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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Anna Meier

@annameier.bsky.social

Friendly reminder that striking workers are asking you not to patronize ANY Starbucks store.

If you're traveling this week, your airport definitely has other options. Zero reason to even think about crossing a picket line!

November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM

Adam Vinueza

@adamvinueza.me

This is amazing

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8h

Did I ever share this from our NYC atlas with you? "What Is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs," a map whose specificities breaks down the idea of a homogenous population so useful to antisemitism. Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Bernie Madoff to Rose Schneiderman to the Beastie Boys.

November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)

@moudhy.bsky.social

proof that any dog can be a lap dog, provided there is a lap and a dog

Photo of a woman in an armchair with an XL dog lying down across her lap. The dog is light brown, and her back legs are on the floor while her upper body is across the woman’s legs. There are some houseplants to the left of the chair in the photo and a figure of Santa Clause to the right.

November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM

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newyorkcitykopp

@newyorkcitykopp.bsky.social

New Carousel on 33rd St & 6th Ave in New York City thru January 6th, one block South of Macys.

November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Holly Anderson 🍇

@hollyanderson.bsky.social

Everybody loves the guest who does the dishes, this is universal

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 9h

At the in-laws, where there’s always too many cooks in the kitchen but only one dishwasher (me - and that’s why I’m the MIL’s favorite).

November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM

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Zito

@zeets.bsky.social

I wrote about my first experience practicing tai chi, which came after I got in trouble so much that the school made me do it alongside playing volleyball

flaminghydra.com/issue-449/?a...

November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM

Adam Vinueza

@adamvinueza.me

I started using the phrase “crazytown bananapants” probably around 2012 or so

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like an earlier form was crazypants and then shifted to bananapants as crazy underwent taboo replacement in the last decade or two, but someone could do a corpus study. I don't think it's particularly internetty, it's readily pronounceable and I recall people using it out loud early on

November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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Gretchen McCulloch

@gretchenmcc.bsky.social

I feel like an earlier form was crazypants and then shifted to bananapants as crazy underwent taboo replacement in the last decade or two, but someone could do a corpus study. I don't think it's particularly internetty, it's readily pronounceable and I recall people using it out loud early on

November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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Emily M. Bender

@emilymbender.bsky.social

A question for everyone's favorite neighborhood internet linguist @gretchenmcc.bsky.social -- do you have an intel on -pants as a suffix, like "bananapants" or (just spotted in an excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social ) "bizarropants"?

November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧

@charliejane.bsky.social

So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.

Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...

"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night

I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...

buttondown.com

November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM

Adam Vinueza

@adamvinueza.me

We are ruled by stupid, greedy, desperate people

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Launching the Genesis Mission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

www.whitehouse.gov

November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM

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Sharon

@sharonk.bsky.social

"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Launching the Genesis Mission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

www.whitehouse.gov

November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM

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Rabih Alameddine

@rabihalameddine.bsky.social

Zipora Fried
Ocean of Work, 2025

November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM

Adam Vinueza

@adamvinueza.me

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

am I even awake right now?

telegraph article:
Wool of gay sheep passes woke test for New York fashion debut

Designer Michael Schmidt’s I Wool Survive line uses fleece from rams ‘that prefer same-sex partners’

November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Adam Vinueza

@adamvinueza.me

Our (tech, ahem, my) culture has been a low-key dumpster fire for decades, DOGE was just a distillation of it

Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE

November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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Éireann

@eireannmor.bsky.social

thread!

Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really glad this person made this change to the chart. I want to also point out something in the original report, here: www.epi.org/publication/... It says "Our focus on 2019 and 2023 allows us to largely ignore the dramatic swings in employment and wages in 2020 and

bsky.app/profile/dang...

skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 15d

liberals love posting that chart so a few months ago i spent a couple minutes remaking it in terms of dollars. the orange represents the gain in dollars

November 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM

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Justin LaLiberty

@jlalibs.com

RIP, Udo

www.slantmagazine.com/film/udo-kie...

November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Adam Vinueza

@adamvinueza.me

Just dropping a little Stuart Hall casually, like demurely showing your poker hand and it’s a full house

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

In my article, I quoted something from Stuart Hall's "Culture, Community, Nation," an essay first published in a 1993 issue of Cultural Studies. He writes:

"It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, ...

In the early 1990s, Stuart Hall, a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist, wrote about the challenges thrown up by conflicting definitions of culture, community, and nation. As Hall notes, “common culture” and “common society” are two different things, and this is something we should embrace, not run away from. “It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship,” he wrote. “Since cultural diversity is, increasingly, the fate of the modern world, and ethnic absolutism a regressive feature of late-modernity, the greatest danger now arises from forms of national and cultural identity — new or old — which attempt to secure their identity by adopting closed versions of culture or community and by the refusal to engage — in the name of an ‘oppressed white minority’ (sic) — with the difficult problems that arise from trying to live with difference. The capacity to live with difference is, in my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century.” For those of us obsessed with clothes, the question is what an ideal workplace would look like, both in social order and dress culture.

November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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Angus Johnston

@angus.bsky.social

For the next while I'm gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood.

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 2d

"The United States isn’t a nation like other nations, and it never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created."--Gordon Wood www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’

The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.

www.wsj.com

November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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leah toth

@thescrvnr.bsky.social

Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”