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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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November 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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"is Max Verstappen within touching distance of Lewis Hamilton" he better not be
October 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"is Max Verstappen within touching distance of Lewis Hamilton" he better not be
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it's been a minute so I'd forgotten how singlemindedly deranged Verstappen becomes as soon as he's racing Hamilton. the hell, man
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
it's been a minute so I'd forgotten how singlemindedly deranged Verstappen becomes as soon as he's racing Hamilton. the hell, man
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FORMULA 1 IS GOOD AGAIN EVERYTHING IS FINE I LOVE THIS SPORT I'VE NEVER SAID IT'S A HUGE PILE OF SHIT THAT MAKES ME HATE MY LIFE THANK YOU KINGS
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
FORMULA 1 IS GOOD AGAIN EVERYTHING IS FINE I LOVE THIS SPORT I'VE NEVER SAID IT'S A HUGE PILE OF SHIT THAT MAKES ME HATE MY LIFE THANK YOU KINGS
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"And you need to defend yourself from that imagination."
This tracks 😆
The old "my life will never be as complicated or screwed up as these people's lives!" thing is also a great benefit
This tracks 😆
The old "my life will never be as complicated or screwed up as these people's lives!" thing is also a great benefit
I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.
September 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"And you need to defend yourself from that imagination."
This tracks 😆
The old "my life will never be as complicated or screwed up as these people's lives!" thing is also a great benefit
This tracks 😆
The old "my life will never be as complicated or screwed up as these people's lives!" thing is also a great benefit
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PoP! Goes My Heart - Hugh Grant - Music and Lyrics- HD Quality!
YouTube video by Engrish94
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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It’s ok, she has a multipass and is allowed
“an unidentified woman with red dreadlocks" snuck into an empty N train at the Broadway station in Astoria and drove it for one stop at four thirty in the morning, presumably just for the sheer joy of it, before vanishing, and I would just like to say congratulations
July 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s ok, she has a multipass and is allowed
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Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
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It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked…
www.propublica.org
May 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social
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Fandom is a kind of desire, and desire famously by definition diminishes once its fulfilled
It is actually so pleasurable and INVOLVING to fill in the blanks and use your imagination as a viewer. It binds you to the material, makes you invested. and there are fewer and fewer mainstream entertainments that give you room to do that
May 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fandom is a kind of desire, and desire famously by definition diminishes once its fulfilled
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This is also why people got obsessive over GOT I think. And why ANDOR feels like such good Star Wars. But 99% of exec notes ESPECIALLY for world buildy stuff demand that everything be airtight, explained, bulletproof before a greenlight is even a whisp of a percentage of a possibility
It gives the feeling that you really are witnessing a tiny little slice, a tiny episode, in what is a real, ongoing, vast universe, with its own history. It does this, again, by *not* explaining. By *not* showing. By leaving 95% of what it discusses & references to your imagination.
May 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is also why people got obsessive over GOT I think. And why ANDOR feels like such good Star Wars. But 99% of exec notes ESPECIALLY for world buildy stuff demand that everything be airtight, explained, bulletproof before a greenlight is even a whisp of a percentage of a possibility
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This movie fucking rocks and foresaw so much of what our world has become. It is also a DARK WATCH.
🚨HOLY SHIT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!🚨
STRANGE DAYS is streaming on Criterion Channel as part of their 3 By Bigalow collection. This movie is ALMOST NEVER available and slaps so hard it'll hurt your mama. A must see for any Sci-fi/Cyberpunk/Neo-Noir fan. Such a great fucking movie.
LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!
STRANGE DAYS is streaming on Criterion Channel as part of their 3 By Bigalow collection. This movie is ALMOST NEVER available and slaps so hard it'll hurt your mama. A must see for any Sci-fi/Cyberpunk/Neo-Noir fan. Such a great fucking movie.
LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!
May 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This movie fucking rocks and foresaw so much of what our world has become. It is also a DARK WATCH.
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Ok the Final Destination Bloodlines logging truck thing is pretty great marketing.
May 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Ok the Final Destination Bloodlines logging truck thing is pretty great marketing.
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When you have intrusive thoughts the Final Destination movies are like a Booster Pack. “Huh, I wasn’t even thinking about glass potentially hurting me like that, well played”
May 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
When you have intrusive thoughts the Final Destination movies are like a Booster Pack. “Huh, I wasn’t even thinking about glass potentially hurting me like that, well played”
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Perpetual mood
March 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Perpetual mood
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You're telling me
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
December 29, 2024 at 11:48 PM
You're telling me
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
that Margo Martindale
and Wayne Knight
were once partners
on a team of character actors who moonlit as private investigators
to supplement film/tv income by busting bad guys with their acting skills
and this has never been adapted into the longest-running show on NBC?
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You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
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It was called LiveJournal and you told the whole world what you wouldn’t even share with your therapist
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 PM
It was called LiveJournal and you told the whole world what you wouldn’t even share with your therapist