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December 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The original Mavis Beacon was, curiously, also a very good typing tutor.
December 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The original Mavis Beacon was, curiously, also a very good typing tutor.
It’s my last name and I still haven’t forgiven myself for failing to lock “alladi at gmail” even though I was one of the first 1000 Gmail users in the world
explain your username
i feel clammy a lot
i feel clammy a lot
Explain your username:
so ורד (vered) is Aramaic for rose.
while the orphanim is a poetic pun on both the english transliteration ophanim, a type of angel, and personal and esoteric connotations of "orphan". even if the Hebrew for orphan is יתום or "yatom" but yatomim doesnt make the pun work
so ורד (vered) is Aramaic for rose.
while the orphanim is a poetic pun on both the english transliteration ophanim, a type of angel, and personal and esoteric connotations of "orphan". even if the Hebrew for orphan is יתום or "yatom" but yatomim doesnt make the pun work
December 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It’s my last name and I still haven’t forgiven myself for failing to lock “alladi at gmail” even though I was one of the first 1000 Gmail users in the world
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Not to be confused with the man who broke wind offshore
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Not to be confused with the man who broke wind offshore
I’ll make them a five course meal. Seriously. The people we sent there deserve everything.
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I’ll make them a five course meal. Seriously. The people we sent there deserve everything.
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it's genuinely striking how these people will not only be completely, utterly morally bankrupt racists in public, but also expect everyone else to agree with them when they say this shit. uh yeah I would absolutely let an innocent man with a "mom" tattoo crash on my couch
I'd be delighted to have a hairstylist or a youth soccer coach visit for a night
December 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
it's genuinely striking how these people will not only be completely, utterly morally bankrupt racists in public, but also expect everyone else to agree with them when they say this shit. uh yeah I would absolutely let an innocent man with a "mom" tattoo crash on my couch
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Poor thing. Do you feel alienated? Maybe you could fuck right off to Poland.
Phrases like "relinquish whiteness" turn people away from liberatory movements. Think about what that sounds like to the average white person who is unfamiliar with basically everything. This just sounds like racism to them. If you want more help, meet people where they are and lead them.
December 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Poor thing. Do you feel alienated? Maybe you could fuck right off to Poland.
Are we still doing this in the year of our lord 2025
Phrases like "relinquish whiteness" turn people away from liberatory movements. Think about what that sounds like to the average white person who is unfamiliar with basically everything. This just sounds like racism to them. If you want more help, meet people where they are and lead them.
December 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Are we still doing this in the year of our lord 2025
The WhatsApp chats are exploding with commentary on Durandhar. This movie sounds disgusting. My mother hated it. So did my brother.
December 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The WhatsApp chats are exploding with commentary on Durandhar. This movie sounds disgusting. My mother hated it. So did my brother.
This also Metafilter’s business model.
I think one of the lessons that the huge success of congestion pricing in NYC is that charging a nominal upfront fee- even one far less the the levellized cost you are paying for elsewhere- is very good at cutting off the bottom 5% of bad behavior that makes things worse for everyone.
December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This also Metafilter’s business model.
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Films in Criterion Channel’s “Black Debutantes” list.
“This celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first—and in some cases only—feature film reveals a rich lineage of artists whose works open up into fascinating dialogue with one another.” boxd.it/QUx1W
“This celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first—and in some cases only—feature film reveals a rich lineage of artists whose works open up into fascinating dialogue with one another.” boxd.it/QUx1W
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Films in Criterion Channel’s “Black Debutantes” list.
“This celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first—and in some cases only—feature film reveals a rich lineage of artists whose works open up into fascinating dialogue with one another.” boxd.it/QUx1W
“This celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first—and in some cases only—feature film reveals a rich lineage of artists whose works open up into fascinating dialogue with one another.” boxd.it/QUx1W
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That's why it doesn't matter if bluesky is an "echo chamber" because it's a critical mass.
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
That's why it doesn't matter if bluesky is an "echo chamber" because it's a critical mass.
Clearly I am in a Mood
December 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Clearly I am in a Mood
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Robert Bly, born on this day in 1926
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Robert Bly, born on this day in 1926
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I wish I could QT a random Siddhartha and be like THAT'S RIGHT, APPA but that would be weird as hell. anyway, I really really miss my dad.
December 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I wish I could QT a random Siddhartha and be like THAT'S RIGHT, APPA but that would be weird as hell. anyway, I really really miss my dad.
I look forward to Woke 2.0 because I won't have to give people like this a second thought
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I look forward to Woke 2.0 because I won't have to give people like this a second thought
the weather is trash, and I really, really miss D'Angelo. may he rest in peace.
December 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
the weather is trash, and I really, really miss D'Angelo. may he rest in peace.
Woah I’ve never seen a politician so obviously coked out in my whole life. (Rubio)
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Woah I’ve never seen a politician so obviously coked out in my whole life. (Rubio)
I do this because my mom does it and it feels right
I hope you get to experience this the family that doesn’t go inside until you’re out of sight
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I do this because my mom does it and it feels right
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Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
This is an immune system response. Young millennials learned to do this during the lead up to the Iraq war … maybe our current darkness will give rise to a new generation of tech savvy people.
it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is an immune system response. Young millennials learned to do this during the lead up to the Iraq war … maybe our current darkness will give rise to a new generation of tech savvy people.
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With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism:
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism:
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵