Leotard Musings
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Mostly gymnastics.
Maybe occasionally library things.
Maybe occasionally library things.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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Just when I think Pete Hegseth is the worst person in the Trump administration, Kristi Noem says something, and I change my mind, then Pam Bondi says something, then JD Vance says something, then Stephen Miller says something, but then Donald Trump says something. Contest over.
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Just when I think Pete Hegseth is the worst person in the Trump administration, Kristi Noem says something, and I change my mind, then Pam Bondi says something, then JD Vance says something, then Stephen Miller says something, but then Donald Trump says something. Contest over.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
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If Starbucks’ baristas molested children with the regularity of Christian pastors and priests, you wouldn’t have been able to get your hands on a pumpkin spice latte in decades.
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If Starbucks’ baristas molested children with the regularity of Christian pastors and priests, you wouldn’t have been able to get your hands on a pumpkin spice latte in decades.
Team article for life. I can read so much faster than you video people can speak. A thirty seconds article vs a two minute video?
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Team article for life. I can read so much faster than you video people can speak. A thirty seconds article vs a two minute video?
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
September 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
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Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.
September 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.
I went to Small Press Expo and got Flip by @ngoziu.com and you guys. This graphic novel is fan-fuckin-tastic. It's so funny and so heartwarming but also a little heartbreaking at times? It's official release is later this month and I highly recommend it.
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I went to Small Press Expo and got Flip by @ngoziu.com and you guys. This graphic novel is fan-fuckin-tastic. It's so funny and so heartwarming but also a little heartbreaking at times? It's official release is later this month and I highly recommend it.
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The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.
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Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.
September 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.
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JD Vance's willful ignorance is only exceeded by his gratuitous unpleasantness.
September 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
JD Vance's willful ignorance is only exceeded by his gratuitous unpleasantness.
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How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
September 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
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The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
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Everyone needs to see that these fuckos back down a LOT when they face resistance. Which is why it's SO maddening that so many institutions have capitulated.
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration reverses course and agrees to leave DC police chief in control of department after court hearing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration reverses course and agrees to leave DC police chief in control of department after court hearing.
August 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Everyone needs to see that these fuckos back down a LOT when they face resistance. Which is why it's SO maddening that so many institutions have capitulated.
Me during NCAA gymnastics season.
I am completely fascinated by fandoms that hate the thing they're fans of.
August 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Me during NCAA gymnastics season.
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With NBC's discussion of Donnell never having made an Olympic team, it's my legal obligation to remind you that he should have been on the 2016 Olympic team and had one of the best individual shots at a medal.
August 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
With NBC's discussion of Donnell never having made an Olympic team, it's my legal obligation to remind you that he should have been on the 2016 Olympic team and had one of the best individual shots at a medal.
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fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence.
If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept
If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept
August 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence.
If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept
If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept
There is no such thing as a Ghost Deduction in gymnastics. Someone please give Laurie Hernandez and John Roethlisberger a copy of the code of points. All of the deductions are CLEARLY detailed and not at all a mystery. Please can we get some serious commentary in this sport?
August 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
There is no such thing as a Ghost Deduction in gymnastics. Someone please give Laurie Hernandez and John Roethlisberger a copy of the code of points. All of the deductions are CLEARLY detailed and not at all a mystery. Please can we get some serious commentary in this sport?
Jesus Christ, @nbc show actual routines not people walking on the sidelines. #gymnastics
August 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Jesus Christ, @nbc show actual routines not people walking on the sidelines. #gymnastics
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Adolf Hitler used the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin to promote fascism.
I hope the world deprives Donald Trump of that same opportunity 92 years later.
I hope the world deprives Donald Trump of that same opportunity 92 years later.
August 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Adolf Hitler used the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin to promote fascism.
I hope the world deprives Donald Trump of that same opportunity 92 years later.
I hope the world deprives Donald Trump of that same opportunity 92 years later.
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“What you believe is that some people have less worth than other people, and I think that is an indecent position to take. As a result, there are no details you can present within that framework that interest me in the slightest, and I don’t see any point in any debate about those details.”
I wrote about the debate with the Jubilee fascists, the overall idea of the utility of debate and the alleged need for it in order to arrive at truth, and the malicious and corrosive effect this false idea actually has upon the discourse and society.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
www.the-reframe.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“What you believe is that some people have less worth than other people, and I think that is an indecent position to take. As a result, there are no details you can present within that framework that interest me in the slightest, and I don’t see any point in any debate about those details.”
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I don't like this trend of people being afraid to experience (negative) emotions when consuming art.
Experiencing things outside of your own point of view makes life a lot more interesting, and is honestly necessary to understand the world and people around you.
Experiencing things outside of your own point of view makes life a lot more interesting, and is honestly necessary to understand the world and people around you.
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
![[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreidzblpxefncqr2c73v7myen325wvtk767i7rw4zcc32c3hj4gzv5a@jpeg)
July 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I don't like this trend of people being afraid to experience (negative) emotions when consuming art.
Experiencing things outside of your own point of view makes life a lot more interesting, and is honestly necessary to understand the world and people around you.
Experiencing things outside of your own point of view makes life a lot more interesting, and is honestly necessary to understand the world and people around you.