Half Asleep
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I'm tired, okay. She/her. Librarian, archivist, runner. Formerly in Ohio, which sucks politically but has all the good ice cream.
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what if one stopped taking the view that there is any single "The Authentic People" in the US, a concept which is in itself rooted in volkishness and fascism. what if instead we took the position that any attempt to determine "authenticity" is some fascist bullshit and everyone deserves care.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
what if one stopped taking the view that there is any single "The Authentic People" in the US, a concept which is in itself rooted in volkishness and fascism. what if instead we took the position that any attempt to determine "authenticity" is some fascist bullshit and everyone deserves care.
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TRUTH
Scholars who do historical research, eat your Wheaties (or whatever else fuels you). In the year of the nation's 250th birthday, there will be all sorts of nonsense that we will counter-program with actual history.
a bowl of cereal with milk being poured into it and the words `` got wheaties '' written on the bottom .
Alt: a bowl of cereal with milk being poured into it and the words `` got wheaties '' written on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
TRUTH
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The lessons to take from this:
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
December 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The lessons to take from this:
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!
2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.
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This still goes so hard
A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) - 4K SuperSampled
YouTube video by topher3683
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This still goes so hard
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The document says, "Educators must learn how they can use AI to simplify their working lives."
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The document says, "Educators must learn how they can use AI to simplify their working lives."
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
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got a feeling this is gonna hurt bari weiss pretty badly. she'd been wallowing in this "free speech"/pro-Israel/anti-"cancel culture" muddy space that so many "centrist" pundits inhabit, but now she's fully revealed to all as a fascist propagandist for Trump's concentration camps and torture.
December 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
got a feeling this is gonna hurt bari weiss pretty badly. she'd been wallowing in this "free speech"/pro-Israel/anti-"cancel culture" muddy space that so many "centrist" pundits inhabit, but now she's fully revealed to all as a fascist propagandist for Trump's concentration camps and torture.
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I say this ALL THE TIME
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I say this ALL THE TIME
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Every night at Embassy Suites near I-70 and Cleveland Ave.
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Every night at Embassy Suites near I-70 and Cleveland Ave.
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THERE IS NO EARTHLY REASON ALDIS HODGE ISNT EVERYWHERE
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
THERE IS NO EARTHLY REASON ALDIS HODGE ISNT EVERYWHERE
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Just once, I'd like to see Dick Durbin *try* to explain the actual mechanisms by which repealing 230 will protect children from being exploited and abused. There will be hand waving about how it will "open them up to litigation" but that's not an answer.
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Just once, I'd like to see Dick Durbin *try* to explain the actual mechanisms by which repealing 230 will protect children from being exploited and abused. There will be hand waving about how it will "open them up to litigation" but that's not an answer.
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Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
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Which is to say – opposition rhetoric needs to sow doubt among the trumpist lackeys and their oligarch funders that they will just get away with their crimes. They need to worry and know we will come after them - and any wealth they try to pass on to their heirs - forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Which is to say – opposition rhetoric needs to sow doubt among the trumpist lackeys and their oligarch funders that they will just get away with their crimes. They need to worry and know we will come after them - and any wealth they try to pass on to their heirs - forever.
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Jasmine Crockett is the only House rep my 83 year old white Catholic mother in an entirely separate state knows the name of because quote “I like her, she fights”.
December 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Jasmine Crockett is the only House rep my 83 year old white Catholic mother in an entirely separate state knows the name of because quote “I like her, she fights”.
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"Well, what about Walt Disney?" He's DEAD and hopefully rolling around in his grave over Tiana. If Rowling dies tomorrow you can all run around with brooms in your behind, but until then have some decorum.
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Well, what about Walt Disney?" He's DEAD and hopefully rolling around in his grave over Tiana. If Rowling dies tomorrow you can all run around with brooms in your behind, but until then have some decorum.
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Good news here in Columbus, according to Columbus News Guild on Instagram @dispatchnewsguild
Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate are forming a union.
Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate are forming a union.
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Good news here in Columbus, according to Columbus News Guild on Instagram @dispatchnewsguild
Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate are forming a union.
Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate are forming a union.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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If Shapiro and Newsom are so concerned about Trump supporters they should run as Republicans.
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If Shapiro and Newsom are so concerned about Trump supporters they should run as Republicans.
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I love the Midwest
My friends and I are at dinner and this is a deep dish pizza composed entirely of mac and cheese.
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I love the Midwest
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it is hard to think of another political figure in my lifetime I have turned on harder than Hillary Clinton. I am exactly the right flavor of Middle Aged White Lady to have been DEEPLY emotionally invested in her way back when, but every time she opens her mouth now I’m like “holy shit lady 🤯”
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
it is hard to think of another political figure in my lifetime I have turned on harder than Hillary Clinton. I am exactly the right flavor of Middle Aged White Lady to have been DEEPLY emotionally invested in her way back when, but every time she opens her mouth now I’m like “holy shit lady 🤯”
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Ok but “Students, faculty, staff and alumni need to create a subversive alternative university lurking within the shadows of the university itself.”
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators."
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
Northwestern’s Complicity With the Trump Regime
We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators.
www.insidehighered.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Ok but “Students, faculty, staff and alumni need to create a subversive alternative university lurking within the shadows of the university itself.”
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
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Sci-fi authors were right about AI destroying humanity. They were wrong about the means though. It's not taking over the world, it's driving everybody insane.
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Sci-fi authors were right about AI destroying humanity. They were wrong about the means though. It's not taking over the world, it's driving everybody insane.
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So it turns out it’s the massively overpaid execs who could be replaced by AI… who’d have guessed
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So it turns out it’s the massively overpaid execs who could be replaced by AI… who’d have guessed
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Really exciting that AOC is considering a run for president. Don't listen to the people who stuck us with Joe Biden. She can win — and she can do it for two terms.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
AOC built her own political machine. Now she’s deciding her next move.
Seven years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Really exciting that AOC is considering a run for president. Don't listen to the people who stuck us with Joe Biden. She can win — and she can do it for two terms.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I did not mute enough words jesus christ
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I did not mute enough words jesus christ