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Because we all need a little tear in our eyes sometimes. This is such a good summary of why the final series of Stranger Things was great
Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...
We Are the Stranger Things - Kameron Hurley
CONTENT CAUTION: Contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 and discusses childhood emotional and physical abuse. When I was a child, I lived with a monster. He slept in the big room at t...
www.kameronhurley.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Because we all need a little tear in our eyes sometimes. This is such a good summary of why the final series of Stranger Things was great
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#NollaignamBan
The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives
The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#NollaignamBan
The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives
The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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Today, CERN’s #PhotoOfTheWeek features a series of images captured by Laurent Cabot during the 2025 CERN Photowalk competition, held last year. #PhysPics25
📸 by Laurent Cabot
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📸 by Laurent Cabot
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January 7, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Today, CERN’s #PhotoOfTheWeek features a series of images captured by Laurent Cabot during the 2025 CERN Photowalk competition, held last year. #PhysPics25
📸 by Laurent Cabot
Image size has been adjusted to fit platform requirements.
📸 by Laurent Cabot
Image size has been adjusted to fit platform requirements.
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“Grok’s latest behaviour is disgusting, degrading and cannot be allowed to pass without consequence – but it is also an opportunity for Keir Starmer and European leaders. Musk and X have crossed a Rubicon.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...
Shut down Musk’s AI porn
Grok is churning out sexual images on an industrial scale – some of teenage girls – and pleading free speech. If the UK and Europe don’t act now, they never will
www.thenewworld.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 7:08 AM
“Grok’s latest behaviour is disgusting, degrading and cannot be allowed to pass without consequence – but it is also an opportunity for Keir Starmer and European leaders. Musk and X have crossed a Rubicon.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
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Ok I know people hated the Stranger Things finale and people loved the Stranger Things finale but I personally thought it was ok and it ended on the scene I wanted the most in the world. I was so relieved it's finally over I felt like a resident of Hawkins lmao
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Ok I know people hated the Stranger Things finale and people loved the Stranger Things finale but I personally thought it was ok and it ended on the scene I wanted the most in the world. I was so relieved it's finally over I felt like a resident of Hawkins lmao
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I definitely used to look forward to a new year, they always seemed fresh and exciting and full of possibilities
But these last few years I find myself thinking, what fresh hell will next year bring
But these last few years I find myself thinking, what fresh hell will next year bring
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I definitely used to look forward to a new year, they always seemed fresh and exciting and full of possibilities
But these last few years I find myself thinking, what fresh hell will next year bring
But these last few years I find myself thinking, what fresh hell will next year bring
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i just did it all scared
What gave you courage in 2025?
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
i just did it all scared
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I wonder if this is why I was such a quiet kid.
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I wonder if this is why I was such a quiet kid.
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![Tucker Carlson: "What's [AOC] like?"
Matt Gaetz: "Before Jan. 6 she was incredibly chummy with Republicans, she would regularly come over to our side, sit down, hang out... after Jan. 6 she treated us all like we had horns or something."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreiagl3tmxesoqw6lydhcwey52rczco3joc2m4x3kz4yv7ojrekk6ci@jpeg)
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The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
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Friendly neighborhood biologist here again. I’ve been seeing lots of post on how simple biological sex is. Since sex in society is such a hot-button issue these days, we should be able to find the basis of biological sex in law, right? Let’s do it! Let’s find the basis of sex, round 2! 🧵
Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes right now. Lots of folks make biological sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]
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December 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Friendly neighborhood biologist here again. I’ve been seeing lots of post on how simple biological sex is. Since sex in society is such a hot-button issue these days, we should be able to find the basis of biological sex in law, right? Let’s do it! Let’s find the basis of sex, round 2! 🧵
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Every reference, every citation, every ISBN and page number needs to be meticulously verified.
I have dealt with detailed hallucinated works from GPT 3 through 5.
The AI added nothing that couldn't have been delivered through Elastic Search with the same source data set, EXCEPT for hallucinations.
I have dealt with detailed hallucinated works from GPT 3 through 5.
The AI added nothing that couldn't have been delivered through Elastic Search with the same source data set, EXCEPT for hallucinations.
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Every reference, every citation, every ISBN and page number needs to be meticulously verified.
I have dealt with detailed hallucinated works from GPT 3 through 5.
The AI added nothing that couldn't have been delivered through Elastic Search with the same source data set, EXCEPT for hallucinations.
I have dealt with detailed hallucinated works from GPT 3 through 5.
The AI added nothing that couldn't have been delivered through Elastic Search with the same source data set, EXCEPT for hallucinations.
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
December 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you
Probably breaking down after seeing Ben X (about an autistic kid, not there Cartoon Network series), which played like a magnified version of my own life. The only difference was that I hadn't been beaten up for a plot point
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Probably breaking down after seeing Ben X (about an autistic kid, not there Cartoon Network series), which played like a magnified version of my own life. The only difference was that I hadn't been beaten up for a plot point
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6. So the overall story is that high skilled/high paid workers are strongly fiscally positive, while medium/lower paid workers are (very broadly) fiscally neutral in the long run (although positive in the short run). This is no great surprise to those of us who've looked at the data..
December 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
6. So the overall story is that high skilled/high paid workers are strongly fiscally positive, while medium/lower paid workers are (very broadly) fiscally neutral in the long run (although positive in the short run). This is no great surprise to those of us who've looked at the data..
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"