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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 4h

she was also just genuinely shocked. long story short AI could never, it takes a #realsicko to move like this

edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 4h

wrote my capstone paper in grad school the day before and got a score so high I didn't have to edit it even though there was a process that almost ensured everyone would have to rewrite. when I told my favorite professor this years later it was the closest I've ever seen her to dissapointed in me

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 16h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 6h

the phillies doing this very fun thing called "what happens if we have a slight lead but don't score more runs just to see what happens?" and I'm not sure I'm having fun personally !

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · 20d

The mythical Joe Rogan of the left is somewhere in a discord server with his friends sending memes and minding his business btw

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · Sep 9

Aquib Talib retired and now receivers wanna run around like they Pac

Mike Golic Jr @mikegolicjr.bsky.social · Sep 9

I know I sound like a boomer but I really wanna know how much money Justin Jefferson is wearing out his neck in a live football game

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Sep 7

really struggling to understand why there's a Hurricane Chris feature on a Justin Bieber album in 2025

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · Sep 5

Raven Jackson's first feature All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is one of the most original of recent movies, and one of the most (justly) influential it's at MOMA at 7 in When the World Broke Open: Katrina and Its Afterlives, programmed by @mayascade.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” Is the Directorial Début of the Year

Raven Jackson’s first feature is a multigenerational saga on an intimate scale.

www.newyorker.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 19

Nothing pissed off more people recently than when I made the reasonable-to-me observation that many Dems are institutionalists which I thought had enough evidence and wasn’t mean or ill-intended. I was saying that they aren’t dangerous radicals.

But yeah. Pissed folk off bad.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Aug 19

<masked agents arrest people in broad daylight.>

Dem elected officials: “what the American people really to know is… why are they feeling so pinched at the gas pump!”

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 15

Liverpool don’t deserve this, justice for Bournemouth (let’s ignore the ignored Bournemouth red)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 15

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · Aug 15

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 14

saw this and almost just restarted my criterion subscription

[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · Aug 14

Now playing (09:30 PM PST):
"Chungking Express" (1994)
By Wong Kar-wai
Runtime: 103 min.

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨The Seventh Issue of Hammer & Hope is now live.

The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues. The damage here is connected to damage elsewhere. But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

It Feels Like Hell on Earth, but Another World Is Possible

A magazine of Black politics and culture

hammerandhope.org

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Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social · Aug 13

about this stuff and say, "Oh well, no one reads anymore" but the larger pattern of it is really soul killing. Look, I don't care personally if anyone reads or doesn't read my precious prose, but don't we all want people to read SOMETHING, to really care enough to want to? And that is going, if...

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 12

songs still feels very 'Endless' to me, which is a good thing because 'Endless' deserves more than what it got www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b_4...

Frank Ocean - Iceman Freestyle (I Can Escape) (REMASTERED AUDIO)

YouTube video by archie_audio

www.youtube.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 12

i think they're handing this medal out to dipshits *because* it's gone to people like rosa parks and MLK

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · Aug 12

The ex-DOGE staffer “Big Balls” may receive the highest civilian honor in the U.S., placing him in the company of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa.

White House May Award ‘Big Balls’ Same Medal as Rosa Parks

The move would appeal to Trump’s MAGA base.

trib.al

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 12

yeah I def don't fully agree with her, but the criticism is interesting ? 1619 Project 6 years later feels like a case study for the growing perception of NYT as an extension of "the part of US liberals and/or the Democratic Party I don't like" for both the right and the left. it's fascinating

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 12

Gotcha, I read the original run of the 1619 project and weirdly catalogued some of the immediate blowback (which came from both sides) so willing to talk more about it. But the long term impacts of it are so strange (especially considering it was released under Trump 1.0)

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is all maybe answering the question from the opposite angle, but maybe interesting. Sorry if it’s not helpful!

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 12

Here's a quote from it: "The Project is on top of everything, a bold attempt to eliminate historical materialism from the teaching and writing of American history while destroying the possibility of solidarity in the American working class."

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edward @edwardalexandrr.bsky.social · Aug 12

Maybe short of explicitly calling it "part of the state" but the book does say the 1619 Project supports and extends the professional managerial class, in some ways an analogue for what is ideated as the worst of the democratic part...and so part of the state.

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