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Mockingbird avatar commissioned from @aledthompson.bsky.social
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I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
December 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
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I hope more kids nowadays understand that GPA does not matter. I grew up being told those who have GPA less than 3.0 were simply dumb or lazy, and while that's not always untrue some of these kids are actually bright. They just didn't submit the homework or participate in class
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I hope more kids nowadays understand that GPA does not matter. I grew up being told those who have GPA less than 3.0 were simply dumb or lazy, and while that's not always untrue some of these kids are actually bright. They just didn't submit the homework or participate in class
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My friend who studies
politics says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
the climate says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
epidemiology says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friends who studies
says at least
some of us
still think.
politics says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
the climate says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
epidemiology says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friends who studies
says at least
some of us
still think.
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My friend who studies
politics says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
the climate says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
epidemiology says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friends who studies
says at least
some of us
still think.
politics says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
the climate says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friend who studies
epidemiology says
it’s worse
than we think.
My friends who studies
says at least
some of us
still think.
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New patreon post for the ink nerds out there: a little breakdown of a recently developed technique for my in progress next book.
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New patreon post for the ink nerds out there: a little breakdown of a recently developed technique for my in progress next book.
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Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.
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Sula's wisdom:
"Y'all, hold my hand.
Feel it: making art based on statistics and market numbers, what the 'audience wants', is like driving only looking at the rear mirrors.
Who knows how to make art is the artist, not the audience. If the audience knew what it wanted, they'd do it themselves."
"Y'all, hold my hand.
Feel it: making art based on statistics and market numbers, what the 'audience wants', is like driving only looking at the rear mirrors.
Who knows how to make art is the artist, not the audience. If the audience knew what it wanted, they'd do it themselves."
Galera, segura minha mão
Sente:
Fazer arte baseado em estatística e número de mercado, o que "o público quer", é dirigir olhando só pro retrovisor.
Quem sabe fazer arte é o artista, não o público. Se o público soubesse o que ele quer, ele mesmo faria a arte.
Sente:
Fazer arte baseado em estatística e número de mercado, o que "o público quer", é dirigir olhando só pro retrovisor.
Quem sabe fazer arte é o artista, não o público. Se o público soubesse o que ele quer, ele mesmo faria a arte.
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sula's wisdom:
"Y'all, hold my hand.
Feel it: making art based on statistics and market numbers, what the 'audience wants', is like driving only looking at the rear mirrors.
Who knows how to make art is the artist, not the audience. If the audience knew what it wanted, they'd do it themselves."
"Y'all, hold my hand.
Feel it: making art based on statistics and market numbers, what the 'audience wants', is like driving only looking at the rear mirrors.
Who knows how to make art is the artist, not the audience. If the audience knew what it wanted, they'd do it themselves."
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Using a doctrine that allows you to correct typos to materially change someone’s position in this country.
You can tell these people do not believe in hell.
You can tell these people do not believe in hell.
December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Using a doctrine that allows you to correct typos to materially change someone’s position in this country.
You can tell these people do not believe in hell.
You can tell these people do not believe in hell.
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And yet are paid less than $3/day for full-time work (per @prisonpolicy.org www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04...)
December 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And yet are paid less than $3/day for full-time work (per @prisonpolicy.org www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04...)
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"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
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conservatives used to mock anti-vaxxers as clueless libs but as soon as it became associated with the right it took over the party and became a mainstream threat to public health
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
conservatives used to mock anti-vaxxers as clueless libs but as soon as it became associated with the right it took over the party and became a mainstream threat to public health
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Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
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Twelve princesses 👑
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Twelve princesses 👑
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Daily bunny no.3166 confronts his two greatest fears
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Daily bunny no.3166 confronts his two greatest fears
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Here's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI
![from a letter by JRR Tolkien to his son Michael:
[here is] the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour. And in addition to this fundamental disability of a creature, is added the Fall, which makes our devices not only fail of their desire but turn to new and horrible evil. So we come inevitably from Daedalus and Icarus to the Giant Bomber. It is not an advance in wisdom! This terrible truth, glimpsed long ago by Sam Butler, sticks out so plainly and is so horrifyingly exhibited in our time, with its even worse menace for the future, that it seems almost a world wide mental disease that only a tiny minority perceive it. Even if people have ever heard the legends (which is getting rarer) they have no inkling of their portent. How could a maker of motorbikes name his product Ixion cycles! Ixion, who was bound for ever in hell on a perpetually revolving wheel! Well, I have got over 2 thousand words onto this little flimsy airletter; and I will forgive the Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring it quickly to you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eawrzkefxggvqbrmagkhsmcc/bafkreiehclqi7gi5ioox33zjtsvsk3aid326opn3ix6a2cadj3morubefq@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here's JRR Tolkien on today's Time Magazine People of the Year and Disney's deal with OpenAI
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the energy i’m bringing to 2025
December 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
the energy i’m bringing to 2025
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I usually renew my National Parks Pass in December anyway, but if you buy a 2025 pass this month, it is valid until the end of December 2026 and has a significantly more attractive Roseate Spoonbill.
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I usually renew my National Parks Pass in December anyway, but if you buy a 2025 pass this month, it is valid until the end of December 2026 and has a significantly more attractive Roseate Spoonbill.
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Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
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If we can't even get rid of this president, who is clearly criminally insane, how in the world will we deal with the next one?
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If we can't even get rid of this president, who is clearly criminally insane, how in the world will we deal with the next one?
The "effort traditionally requires a comprehensive investigative process" BECAUSE THE CORRUPTION ISN'T PUBLIC, DAILY, AND INTUITIVELY OBVIOUS TO THE MOST CASUAL OBSERVER
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The "effort traditionally requires a comprehensive investigative process" BECAUSE THE CORRUPTION ISN'T PUBLIC, DAILY, AND INTUITIVELY OBVIOUS TO THE MOST CASUAL OBSERVER
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if there are kids in your life, show them mistakes. show them so many mistakes. show them the whiteout and eraser dust. show them silly sketches. draw silly sketches yourself. perfection doesn't exist. it never has. everyone has stories and our stories have always been enough
August 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
if there are kids in your life, show them mistakes. show them so many mistakes. show them the whiteout and eraser dust. show them silly sketches. draw silly sketches yourself. perfection doesn't exist. it never has. everyone has stories and our stories have always been enough
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humans have ALWAYS been able to tell stories. it is one of our oldest and dearest accomplishments. children tend to be very good at it. i am sick and tired of greedy adults trying to make kids (everybody, really, but ESPECIALLY kids) feel like suddenly they can't possibly do it on their own anymore
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
humans have ALWAYS been able to tell stories. it is one of our oldest and dearest accomplishments. children tend to be very good at it. i am sick and tired of greedy adults trying to make kids (everybody, really, but ESPECIALLY kids) feel like suddenly they can't possibly do it on their own anymore
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Oh ok so everybody loves this sexy French wolf that was handcrafted by Parisian artists and no one likes the McDonald's creepy human facsimiles made by dorks who stayed up all night writing paragraphs describing how much Christmas sucks into a computer?
Why does the internet hate America?
Why does the internet hate America?
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Oh ok so everybody loves this sexy French wolf that was handcrafted by Parisian artists and no one likes the McDonald's creepy human facsimiles made by dorks who stayed up all night writing paragraphs describing how much Christmas sucks into a computer?
Why does the internet hate America?
Why does the internet hate America?