Clear and Bright
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an American wandering Paris + fleeing twitter + extremely leftist and a raging feminist + disabled + bisexuality as a revolution + #Wellesley #CovidConscious
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ALL OF US MURDERERS is on cheap on Amazon today! Get your Gothic second chance romance for £/$1.99! (I have no idea how long for or if it's going to other sites, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murde...
www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murde...
All of Us Murderers
All of Us Murderers eBook : Charles, KJ: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
ALL OF US MURDERERS is on cheap on Amazon today! Get your Gothic second chance romance for £/$1.99! (I have no idea how long for or if it's going to other sites, sorry.)
www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murde...
www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murde...
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Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
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Just as a heads up for people who want costume references but don't have the money for the textbooks: Look up historical art from the era. It'll give you good ideas of how things were supposed to look.
My art history training from a failed BFA made my BA Costume Production SO MUCH easier.
My art history training from a failed BFA made my BA Costume Production SO MUCH easier.
"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"
wrong
I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI
get good
wrong
I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI
get good
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just as a heads up for people who want costume references but don't have the money for the textbooks: Look up historical art from the era. It'll give you good ideas of how things were supposed to look.
My art history training from a failed BFA made my BA Costume Production SO MUCH easier.
My art history training from a failed BFA made my BA Costume Production SO MUCH easier.
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I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.
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Btw, french illustrator/animator Lili des Bellons is currently working on his first comic book, "Les premiers humains dans la Lune" (The first humans on the Moon).
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Btw, french illustrator/animator Lili des Bellons is currently working on his first comic book, "Les premiers humains dans la Lune" (The first humans on the Moon).
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Reposting out of a response thread to remind US people: if you make people mad on the internet, it is a VERY worthwhile investment to add an umbrella policy to your homeowners' or renters' insurance. I recommend a $2m per incident minimum; we increased ours to $5m recently just in case.
This is part of why I *strongly* recommend anyone who makes assholes on the internet mad a lot should have a umbrella liability policy added to their homeowners' or renters' insurance, with a minimum coverage of $2m per incident, although we just increased ours to $5m just in case.
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Reposting out of a response thread to remind US people: if you make people mad on the internet, it is a VERY worthwhile investment to add an umbrella policy to your homeowners' or renters' insurance. I recommend a $2m per incident minimum; we increased ours to $5m recently just in case.
excellent thread 🧵
Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
excellent thread 🧵
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A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
It also robs students of learning *how* to research.
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic.
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
December 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Because it’s not just Bari Weiss’ CBS asking this question—in the last few months, I’ve been approached by half a dozen different shows looking to ‘debate’ the same topic.
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
I even got a request from NPR-distributed “Open to Debate” to see if I’d weigh in on “Has Feminism Hurt Women?”
NPR!
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Bringing back a classic that people got really mad at me for saying 6 months ago
I think the Democratic establishment severely underestimates the extent to which the younger half of the electorate would cheerfully send Bill Clinton to Gitmo ourselves
December 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Bringing back a classic that people got really mad at me for saying 6 months ago
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I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
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if democrats think trans people's lives are worth sacrificing then i don't think they get to whine about losing their votes too
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
if democrats think trans people's lives are worth sacrificing then i don't think they get to whine about losing their votes too
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It is the winter solstice tomorrow (in the northern hemisphere) this is your reminder that English Heritage live stream the sun rising over Stonehenge on their YouTube channel from 7.30am tomorrow morning.
www.youtube.com/live/FEnQmoc...
www.youtube.com/live/FEnQmoc...
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It is the winter solstice tomorrow (in the northern hemisphere) this is your reminder that English Heritage live stream the sun rising over Stonehenge on their YouTube channel from 7.30am tomorrow morning.
www.youtube.com/live/FEnQmoc...
www.youtube.com/live/FEnQmoc...
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Fake references should lead to academic sanctions for the researchers involved, from both industry as well as from institutions. It needs to happen now, before every norm of academic integrity ends up sacrificed on the altar of production.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Fake references should lead to academic sanctions for the researchers involved, from both industry as well as from institutions. It needs to happen now, before every norm of academic integrity ends up sacrificed on the altar of production.
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It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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The lack of consent *and* the lack of inhibitions between impulse and expression. Both are fundamental to generative AI.
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The lack of consent *and* the lack of inhibitions between impulse and expression. Both are fundamental to generative AI.
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GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
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There is not much difference between a drunk bigot proudly and loudly shouting slurs, and someone birthing into existence an incredibly racist ai slop video.
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
There is not much difference between a drunk bigot proudly and loudly shouting slurs, and someone birthing into existence an incredibly racist ai slop video.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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I know we all think it’s cute when a man says that his wife is his best friend but have we considered that it’s actually a sign that men don’t know how to foster friendship outside of a romantic relationship
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I know we all think it’s cute when a man says that his wife is his best friend but have we considered that it’s actually a sign that men don’t know how to foster friendship outside of a romantic relationship
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
only time i've been sick since covid started was norovirus. brutal.
Norovirus is incredibly contagious and is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis.
Outbreaks peak this time of year, in particular.
For more, including tips to prevent illness, read today’s newsletter:
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Outbreaks peak this time of year, in particular.
For more, including tips to prevent illness, read today’s newsletter:
news.immunologic.org/p/its-the-mo...
It’s the Most Violently Ill Time of the Year
Norovirus is back, it's brutal, and it doesn't care about your hand sanitizer.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
only time i've been sick since covid started was norovirus. brutal.