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Thinking more about it now: Moby Dick is a book about skateboarding
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
One more try
I am eight times thrust through the doublet
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
One more try
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I will 360 flip again
Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I will 360 flip again
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MUST WATCH REPORTING FROM @thebaltimorebanner.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
MUST WATCH REPORTING FROM @thebaltimorebanner.com
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Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism,
or is just Feudalism with modern technology?
or is just Feudalism with modern technology?
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism,
or is just Feudalism with modern technology?
or is just Feudalism with modern technology?
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"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
—W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
Check the leaves on this bush
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Check the leaves on this bush
Every Hockey video
This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Every Hockey video
German skaters still living in 1989
It is a German conceit, that the vertebræ are absolutely undeveloped skulls.
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
German skaters still living in 1989
Melville startled by a long bluntslide
a sound so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Melville startled by a long bluntslide
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A verbatim quote from Phelps trying to wake up the Hell Ride crew sleeping in the bowl
The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A verbatim quote from Phelps trying to wake up the Hell Ride crew sleeping in the bowl
Love is love, fun is fun, a rose is a rose is a rose
I still think There is an incredible name for a queer skateboard company from Oakland. A lot of levels
I still think There is an incredible name for a queer skateboard company from Oakland. A lot of levels
a laugh’s the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Love is love, fun is fun, a rose is a rose is a rose
I still think There is an incredible name for a queer skateboard company from Oakland. A lot of levels
I still think There is an incredible name for a queer skateboard company from Oakland. A lot of levels
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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One small thing people can do is refuse to consume shitty art that isn’t made by people
Interact with art made by real artists
Interact with art made by real artists
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
One small thing people can do is refuse to consume shitty art that isn’t made by people
Interact with art made by real artists
Interact with art made by real artists
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Yesterday, Ari Melber asked Zohran Mamdani why he was a socialist, and he answered "because I believe in the dignity of all human beings."
It's time to stop being afraid of being called socialists.
Yes, this is a subtweet of Third Way and Matty you know who.
It's time to stop being afraid of being called socialists.
Yes, this is a subtweet of Third Way and Matty you know who.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yesterday, Ari Melber asked Zohran Mamdani why he was a socialist, and he answered "because I believe in the dignity of all human beings."
It's time to stop being afraid of being called socialists.
Yes, this is a subtweet of Third Way and Matty you know who.
It's time to stop being afraid of being called socialists.
Yes, this is a subtweet of Third Way and Matty you know who.
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Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.
![The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ygvvtokrezoev7nol4wgxjc/bafkreict5fc4gs3ctiqtgfxjkx7rliiylycp4bkm37eitwrjzqssbtddiy@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.
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Every day is a good day to not watch cable news, but today is a REALLY good day to not watch cable news.
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Every day is a good day to not watch cable news, but today is a REALLY good day to not watch cable news.
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You should just keep doing things, even if it's dark outside. That's about it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
You should just keep doing things, even if it's dark outside. That's about it.
Melville describes a nice floaty ollie
With a terrific snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank.
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Melville describes a nice floaty ollie
It’s wax. They overwaxed the whale
from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It’s wax. They overwaxed the whale