April
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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"She quit her $390k/yr job" is she fucking *crazy* does she not know how precarious shit is, how fast her spouse can lose their job, how fast you can burn through your savings with one big medical disaster
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"She quit her $390k/yr job" is she fucking *crazy* does she not know how precarious shit is, how fast her spouse can lose their job, how fast you can burn through your savings with one big medical disaster
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Chotiner’s superpower isn’t pointing out to a powerful person’s face that they’re wrong, it’s continuing to work in media after repeatedly doing so.
It’s always fun to see the clips of the Sunday political shows because you get to go “yep the news lets people lie to them for an hour and airs it”
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Chotiner’s superpower isn’t pointing out to a powerful person’s face that they’re wrong, it’s continuing to work in media after repeatedly doing so.
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It’s always fun to see the clips of the Sunday political shows because you get to go “yep the news lets people lie to them for an hour and airs it”
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s always fun to see the clips of the Sunday political shows because you get to go “yep the news lets people lie to them for an hour and airs it”
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lol "dynamic pricing" if they don't gtfo with these fucking euphemisms for "How can we squeeze the last drop of blood from this stone?"
Yeah, the "dynamic pricing" in big box stores is the same. Depending on who is looking at the tag, time of day, etc. the price for items can literally change from the shelf to the register. 😤 Freaking DISNEY is even going to start using it! deadline.com/2025/11/disn...
Disney Will Bring Dynamic Pricing Similar To Airline Model To Domestic Theme Parks, Says CFO
Disney will bring dynamic pricing similar to the model used by airlines to its domestic theme parks as the company looks to boost incremental revenue.
deadline.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
lol "dynamic pricing" if they don't gtfo with these fucking euphemisms for "How can we squeeze the last drop of blood from this stone?"
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Submissions for our next anthology, LIE MACHINE, literally open up tomorrow, and I sure hope someone submits a story about surveillance pricing.
(Submit an idea, folks! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/)
(Submit an idea, folks! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/)
As I have tried to tell my mom unless it’s perishable or literally used to be on fire there’s almost no such thing as a sale, not from the big guys anyway
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Submissions for our next anthology, LIE MACHINE, literally open up tomorrow, and I sure hope someone submits a story about surveillance pricing.
(Submit an idea, folks! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/)
(Submit an idea, folks! ironcircus.com/lie-machine/)
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oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
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I get being annoyed by the consumerist frenzy that accompanies Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday, but believe when I tell you, gang: it makes all the difference in the world to small businesses and independent creatives.
Now is the perfect time to support them.
Now is the perfect time to support them.
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I get being annoyed by the consumerist frenzy that accompanies Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday, but believe when I tell you, gang: it makes all the difference in the world to small businesses and independent creatives.
Now is the perfect time to support them.
Now is the perfect time to support them.
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we're going to have to do a lot more work in the coming months to stop attemps to ban or criminalize the use of VPNs
Missouri's age verification law goes into effect today. 🚫
📈 Searches for VPNs are spiking in the state.
🔐 People know these laws put their privacy and sensitive data at risk. They find ways to get around bad laws, like using VPNs or going to non-compliant websites that don't check age.
📈 Searches for VPNs are spiking in the state.
🔐 People know these laws put their privacy and sensitive data at risk. They find ways to get around bad laws, like using VPNs or going to non-compliant websites that don't check age.
Missouri to enforce mandatory age verification today
This is the latest US state to enforce age verification legislation
www.techradar.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
we're going to have to do a lot more work in the coming months to stop attemps to ban or criminalize the use of VPNs
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Hey US & UK friends! Wanna buy books & comics for Cyber Monday but don’t want to support Big Corpos?
Try Bookshop dot org! Part of every $ goes directly to indie bookstores! 📚
I made a ton of booklists for comics—must-reads, starter packs for kids & teens, and more!
bookshop.org/shop/johanna...
Try Bookshop dot org! Part of every $ goes directly to indie bookstores! 📚
I made a ton of booklists for comics—must-reads, starter packs for kids & teens, and more!
bookshop.org/shop/johanna...
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hey US & UK friends! Wanna buy books & comics for Cyber Monday but don’t want to support Big Corpos?
Try Bookshop dot org! Part of every $ goes directly to indie bookstores! 📚
I made a ton of booklists for comics—must-reads, starter packs for kids & teens, and more!
bookshop.org/shop/johanna...
Try Bookshop dot org! Part of every $ goes directly to indie bookstores! 📚
I made a ton of booklists for comics—must-reads, starter packs for kids & teens, and more!
bookshop.org/shop/johanna...
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anyone i knew at all interested in this stuff a handful of years ago was waiting for this and, like, cures for cancer and the common cold and they made it all gross by demanding the right to violate all global copyright to make an anime sex toy that writes bad emails for you
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
anyone i knew at all interested in this stuff a handful of years ago was waiting for this and, like, cures for cancer and the common cold and they made it all gross by demanding the right to violate all global copyright to make an anime sex toy that writes bad emails for you
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bums me out kinda bad that all the cool life-saving shit ai was always supposed to do, working through immense amounts of data incredibly fast to tailored ends, has to have a disclaimer slapped on it like "no not the plagiarism machine that urges you to commit suicide" now
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
bums me out kinda bad that all the cool life-saving shit ai was always supposed to do, working through immense amounts of data incredibly fast to tailored ends, has to have a disclaimer slapped on it like "no not the plagiarism machine that urges you to commit suicide" now
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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this might be the funniest email etsy has ever sent. I was not prepared.
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
this might be the funniest email etsy has ever sent. I was not prepared.
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Strong Floor, No Ceiling is considerably worse than No Rules, Just Right. Can’t believe we’re gonna lose the messaging war to Outback Steakhouse.
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Strong Floor, No Ceiling is considerably worse than No Rules, Just Right. Can’t believe we’re gonna lose the messaging war to Outback Steakhouse.
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Paying danegeld pre-emptively has always worked out remarkably well for the appeaser. Don't look it up.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Paying danegeld pre-emptively has always worked out remarkably well for the appeaser. Don't look it up.
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Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
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Put guardrails on the pardon power. "No negating criminal verdicts without an official investigation" for starters, and maybe also "no pardoning people you know personally." A president shouldn't be able to wave their hand and make legal verdicts disappear like a stinky, sundowning Galactus.
fraudsters stick together
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Put guardrails on the pardon power. "No negating criminal verdicts without an official investigation" for starters, and maybe also "no pardoning people you know personally." A president shouldn't be able to wave their hand and make legal verdicts disappear like a stinky, sundowning Galactus.
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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Epic Games sent a DMCA notice to my online stores for my geology-themed design involving a crossed pickaxe and rock hammer that said "PICKS...or it didn't happen" because they asserted that Epic owned all rights to artwork/mention of pickaxes, right before an SVP annual conference. Eric cost me $$$
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Epic Games sent a DMCA notice to my online stores for my geology-themed design involving a crossed pickaxe and rock hammer that said "PICKS...or it didn't happen" because they asserted that Epic owned all rights to artwork/mention of pickaxes, right before an SVP annual conference. Eric cost me $$$
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Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono