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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The reason fascists are able to exploit your "ew thats icky!" Response is because your sense of morality is tied to your sense of disgust. Things you find "gross" will also seem morally wrong, even if the logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
But you *can* learn to recognize that response!
But you *can* learn to recognize that response!
August 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The reason fascists are able to exploit your "ew thats icky!" Response is because your sense of morality is tied to your sense of disgust. Things you find "gross" will also seem morally wrong, even if the logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
But you *can* learn to recognize that response!
But you *can* learn to recognize that response!
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I see the are-executive-orders-laws thing is coming up again.
1. EOs, by definition, are interpretations of existing law. If they’re not that, they’re illegal.
2. EOs only bind executive branch actors.
3. Exec actors behave differently because of them, and that often affects your legal rights.
1. EOs, by definition, are interpretations of existing law. If they’re not that, they’re illegal.
2. EOs only bind executive branch actors.
3. Exec actors behave differently because of them, and that often affects your legal rights.
July 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I see the are-executive-orders-laws thing is coming up again.
1. EOs, by definition, are interpretations of existing law. If they’re not that, they’re illegal.
2. EOs only bind executive branch actors.
3. Exec actors behave differently because of them, and that often affects your legal rights.
1. EOs, by definition, are interpretations of existing law. If they’re not that, they’re illegal.
2. EOs only bind executive branch actors.
3. Exec actors behave differently because of them, and that often affects your legal rights.
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finishing my lichen embroidery on my hat while my leg is quite literally moulting for a truly immersive Southern Reach experience (Canada’s hard up for alligators) thank you @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
finishing my lichen embroidery on my hat while my leg is quite literally moulting for a truly immersive Southern Reach experience (Canada’s hard up for alligators) thank you @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
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Oh the prescient and righteous critiques of the only Black woman on the court “test her colleagues’ patience”? Hmmm gosh, wonder what’s going on there…
The claim that her opinions have tested “her colleagues’ patience” strikes me as a form of what I have called “elite victimization.” The Court’s majority has made a series of radically extremist decisions—taking away a Constitutional right, offering Trump seemingly unlimited immunity etc.
July 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Oh the prescient and righteous critiques of the only Black woman on the court “test her colleagues’ patience”? Hmmm gosh, wonder what’s going on there…
i need people to realize that there are no quick and dirty “tells” that something was written by AI. those texts are synthesized from actual human-written text, so they take and amplify what is already present
June 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
i need people to realize that there are no quick and dirty “tells” that something was written by AI. those texts are synthesized from actual human-written text, so they take and amplify what is already present
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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.
June 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.
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The US led the way in fighting malnutrition, and USAID provided a miracle peanut paste that brings kids back from the brink -- until now. Starvation is a problem that we can actually solve, but we're now retreating from the fight. Here's what I found in West Africa: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
Opinion | This Problem Is Easy to Solve
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The US led the way in fighting malnutrition, and USAID provided a miracle peanut paste that brings kids back from the brink -- until now. Starvation is a problem that we can actually solve, but we're now retreating from the fight. Here's what I found in West Africa: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
what do you do when u leave ur abusive home and ur new roommate starts acting like ur mother did
June 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
what do you do when u leave ur abusive home and ur new roommate starts acting like ur mother did
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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
June 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
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Nutcracker just off the hook cute
June 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Nutcracker just off the hook cute
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okay but the thing about the CIA is that the mythology of the agency belies the reality, which is that for much of its existence it was a rubber room for WASP failsons and their operations reflect this
Me looking at the CIA like:
June 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
okay but the thing about the CIA is that the mythology of the agency belies the reality, which is that for much of its existence it was a rubber room for WASP failsons and their operations reflect this
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
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NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
www.huffpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.
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this is a Theophite thesis I’m riffing on here but I think that the conflation of consumer choices with civic choices in both directions has been kind of a disaster.
“supporting” a business by transacting with it is really very different from supporting a politician with your vote.
“supporting” a business by transacting with it is really very different from supporting a politician with your vote.
the entire idea of "vote-shaming" is extremely Late Republic. i do not know how to explain to someone who thinks that you aren't responsible for deciding who should be in charge of thousands of nuclear weapons just because you didn't consent to being given the responsibility
this corrosive social media-derived expectation that "lol nothing matters lmao why are you being like this" is destroying society
if you can't take anything seriously you can't take it seriously when fascist lunatics try to take over the government
if you can't take anything seriously you can't take it seriously when fascist lunatics try to take over the government
March 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
this is a Theophite thesis I’m riffing on here but I think that the conflation of consumer choices with civic choices in both directions has been kind of a disaster.
“supporting” a business by transacting with it is really very different from supporting a politician with your vote.
“supporting” a business by transacting with it is really very different from supporting a politician with your vote.
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I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
March 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
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I love this. I once encountered a feminist video essay that entertained body horror as the reality of women in the lens of men as well and these ideas really shift my perspective
March 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I love this. I once encountered a feminist video essay that entertained body horror as the reality of women in the lens of men as well and these ideas really shift my perspective
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check out my friend's game on kickstarter! C:
My latest game, Tales From The Spectral Sea, just went on Kickstarter! This is the game for you if you love:
Over the top, swashbuckling adventure
Folkloric magic and worldbuilding straight out of a story
Putting your characters through an emotional ringer.
Link Below!
Over the top, swashbuckling adventure
Folkloric magic and worldbuilding straight out of a story
Putting your characters through an emotional ringer.
Link Below!
March 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
check out my friend's game on kickstarter! C:
tbc i’ve loved the Wicked musical since i was a little kid!! and i understand that lots of things change in adaptations, but i feel like the musical fails to grasp what the book was *trying* to do
March 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
tbc i’ve loved the Wicked musical since i was a little kid!! and i understand that lots of things change in adaptations, but i feel like the musical fails to grasp what the book was *trying* to do
fascinating to me that someone could read Wicked, resonate with it so much that they feel compelled to write a musical abt it, and yet still sanitize and simplify it so extraordinarily for the stage
March 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
fascinating to me that someone could read Wicked, resonate with it so much that they feel compelled to write a musical abt it, and yet still sanitize and simplify it so extraordinarily for the stage
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One way I trick my ADHD brain is to make a to-do list for tomorrow & tell myself today I don’t have to do anything. But then I see things that I could do so quickly that I just do them now so I can cross them out. Essentially tricking myself to do it all today so I can have tomorrow off.
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
One way I trick my ADHD brain is to make a to-do list for tomorrow & tell myself today I don’t have to do anything. But then I see things that I could do so quickly that I just do them now so I can cross them out. Essentially tricking myself to do it all today so I can have tomorrow off.