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Imagine if newspapers instead wrote something like, "According to police, the suspect tried to hit the officers with his car. In 35 out of 37 statements issued by this department over the past 5 years, police gave false initial statements, later contradicted by their own bodycam footage."
October 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Me, watching Ballerina retrieve their knives out of dead bodies: I hope her education included management of exposure to bodily fluids.
August 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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There's always the workaround by Sam Mushy Crouton: I wish for Rowling what she wishes for trans people.
August 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Elon is dumping in millions to make sure that as many people have heard that other name as possible.

You can't fight that by also saying that other name.

Talk about this name instead.

Susan Crawford.

That's who they don't want to win.
March 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I have bad news for you about how attempts to build human progress around gently accommodating eugenicists and bigots usually work out.

NOBODY is expendable. If we organized around that, what a beautiful world we could make.
February 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Yes. And also: defying these requests is a muscle. You have to exercise it. Reject the easy stuff and it gets easier to reject the harder stuff.
If someone won’t resist or reject a terrible request when it’s relatively easy, they will not do so when it’s difficult.
February 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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If someone won’t resist or reject a terrible request when it’s relatively easy, they will not do so when it’s difficult.
February 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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There has been a shift in the Trump team's language in their anti-DEI attacks. All of a sudden they started calling it "DEIA", with the A being "accessibility". If you don't think it's a coordinated effort to remove disabled people from every facet of life, well I have news for you.
February 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Hey so FYI this is why a lot of us believe billionaires should not exist. Because no one should be rich enough to topple a government
February 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Just saw Hegseth referred to as a DUI hire.
January 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In the decade+ I’ve had Spotify, it never made a good recommendation until today. This chick-lib song from 1980 is… everything. youtu.be/DcHsjF2ka1U?...
Bodysnatchers - easy life
YouTube video by deekomodska65
youtu.be
January 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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"our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary."

"creativity and innovation in the merchandise and services that we offer,"

- Costco Board.

98% of Costco shareholders agreed with the board.👍🏿

Segregationists denied.
Costco shareholders vote against anti-DEI proposal
More than 98% of Costco shareholders voted down an anti-DEI proposal Thursday at the company's annual shareholders meeting.
www.axios.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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instead of stressing yourself over news designed to make you want to stress out, read a free story about how, among other things, rent is a curse

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bhat...
Bhatia, P.I. - Lightspeed Magazine
It’s a few minutes before seven on a cold October evening and I’m just reaching into the bottom drawer of my desk for the Old Monk and my well-thumbed copy of The Big Sleep when I hear footsteps hurry...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Elon Musk’s DOGE sued minutes after Trump inauguration [on the basis that] the nongovernmental DOGE panel is breaking a 1972 law that requires advisory committees to the executive branch to follow certain rules on disclosure, hiring and other practices.
January 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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For anyone who missed our comfort reads panel yesterday and needs some comfort today, you can watch the recording here www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...
COMFORT READS PANEL with KJ Charles, T. Kingfisher, Malka Older, and Martha Wells
Register now for COMFORT READS PANEL with KJ Charles, T. Kingfisher, Malka Older, and Martha Wells on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on January 19, 2025, 01:00 PM EST.
www.crowdcast.io
January 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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“Oh yes kids will say ‘golly gee I guess you were right’ and go back to playing marbles on the street corner”?

SIR. HAVE YOU MET KIDS.
January 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"The Haunting of Tram Car 015" by P. Djèlí Clark. The narrator brought it down for me. I'm going to take time away from Clark so can come back with fresh appreciation.
January 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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We do not have an option that does not involve spending trillions of dollars.

I prefer spending trillions of dollars proactively to try to mitigate risk and prevent the situation from getting worse.
January 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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In conclusion, masculinity isn't real. It's just a set of made up, contradictory rules to try to justify pre-existing beliefs and worldviews.

The same exact thing can be more masculine or less masculine, depending on how we've decided to measure.🙂🙃

It's all Calvin ball!

So stop hurting yourself!
January 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Heavenly tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhou - totally compelling.
January 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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A way to think about "AI" is that it's like single-use plastic: Super-convenient, sold as disposable, designed to be used without much thought, and while it's easy to get annoyed with your mom for using it, the real problem are the dudes destroying the planet in order to keep shoveling it out
January 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM