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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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liberals are obsessed with identity politics issues like who is and isn't a pedophile while trump is laser focused on unleashing the power of the american economy
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
liberals are obsessed with identity politics issues like who is and isn't a pedophile while trump is laser focused on unleashing the power of the american economy
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Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
I agree with this, but I can't help noticing the irony of what a "party that rules the country for a generation" is likely to get up to...
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I agree with this, but I can't help noticing the irony of what a "party that rules the country for a generation" is likely to get up to...
Truly fucking insane to watch
It is obscene that British media, and her own mother, have fully obscured that Brianna Ghey was murdered.
They've just glossed right over it, smoothly turning it into a narrative about suicide as if that is what happened.
They've just glossed right over it, smoothly turning it into a narrative about suicide as if that is what happened.
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Truly fucking insane to watch
I think this a lot about mathematics. If someone could make a computer that did research mathematics (and fwiw I don't expect that to happen any time soon) it wouldn't stop mathematicians. Might make grants a bit harder to get though...
One comment I sometimes get on my chess posts is that it's demotivating to consider getting into chess now, when a computer can more or less easily beat any human. Respectfully, that's never been persuasive to me. A car can outrace any human, but humans still run track. It's about the joy of doing
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I think this a lot about mathematics. If someone could make a computer that did research mathematics (and fwiw I don't expect that to happen any time soon) it wouldn't stop mathematicians. Might make grants a bit harder to get though...
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Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last
This is a fun question because when I think of my favorite books I usually go to those that I had intense emotional reactions to, rather than those that changed my worldview in some clearly identifiable way. First up is Guy Deutscher's *The Unfolding of Language*. 1/7
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is a fun question because when I think of my favorite books I usually go to those that I had intense emotional reactions to, rather than those that changed my worldview in some clearly identifiable way. First up is Guy Deutscher's *The Unfolding of Language*. 1/7
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they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!
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that's one of mine that, if i'm not mistaken 🫡
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
that's one of mine that, if i'm not mistaken 🫡
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Theresa May, the buffoon of "Brexit means Brexit", was to the left of Keir Starmer on trans rights.
That's the kind of fact that mainstreaming bigotry forces us to recognise.
That's the kind of fact that mainstreaming bigotry forces us to recognise.
The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Theresa May, the buffoon of "Brexit means Brexit", was to the left of Keir Starmer on trans rights.
That's the kind of fact that mainstreaming bigotry forces us to recognise.
That's the kind of fact that mainstreaming bigotry forces us to recognise.
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Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Men like this are transphobes because they are, deep down, misogynists. They simply believe they are better than women at everything, and in trans women they have found a group it is alright to descriminate against. This man believes cis women are his physical inferiors, and needs you to know that.
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If they're still making movies in 15-20 years there will be multiple Oscar noms for playing "remorseful / reflective former ICE agent who knows how Complicated history is"
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If they're still making movies in 15-20 years there will be multiple Oscar noms for playing "remorseful / reflective former ICE agent who knows how Complicated history is"
I try really, REALLY hard to resist the temptation of conspiratorial thinking. But I have to wonder: did "moderate" Democrats cave because they didn't understand the message of this election? Or because they absolutely did and are terrified of it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I try really, REALLY hard to resist the temptation of conspiratorial thinking. But I have to wonder: did "moderate" Democrats cave because they didn't understand the message of this election? Or because they absolutely did and are terrified of it.
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Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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not only am i a guy who likes to watch football, but i'm also a dad. so right off the jump i'm already one of the most fascinating people you've ever heard of. and that's before you find out that i live in brooklyn and post on bluesky a lot
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
not only am i a guy who likes to watch football, but i'm also a dad. so right off the jump i'm already one of the most fascinating people you've ever heard of. and that's before you find out that i live in brooklyn and post on bluesky a lot