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Sigh. Since pieces are going around using "medieval peasant" as a perjorative again, here's your reminder that they were way better organized, more rebellious, less superstitious, more aware of sanitation and way more ingenious than you've probably been taught. I've written about this *a lot.*
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December 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Sigh. Since pieces are going around using "medieval peasant" as a perjorative again, here's your reminder that they were way better organized, more rebellious, less superstitious, more aware of sanitation and way more ingenious than you've probably been taught. I've written about this *a lot.*
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Some of my most favorite people are principled anti-work grifters. Let’s not sully their fine names by lumping in this shiftless fascist
I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today
December 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Some of my most favorite people are principled anti-work grifters. Let’s not sully their fine names by lumping in this shiftless fascist
i've not paid much attention to his acting but this is a banger quote. brissie lad too 🌞
You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
December 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
i've not paid much attention to his acting but this is a banger quote. brissie lad too 🌞
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fuck ice. ride bikes.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
fuck ice. ride bikes.
just randomly discovered a great artist i'd never heard of before from a footnote in an old book about politics
December 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
just randomly discovered a great artist i'd never heard of before from a footnote in an old book about politics
yikes
Queensland Museum has been accused of misleading teachers and children about the root cause of the climate crisis through a multimillion-dollar misinformation partnership with one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Queensland Museum accused of misleading teachers and children about the cause of climate change
Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group says
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM
yikes
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i wish left wing intellectual types werent so wedded to polemical modes of writing, it makes it a real fucking headache as a reader / wannabe reader to sort through and consider different ideas. theres a time and place for it but not to the extent that it gets used. its a fucking addiction
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
i wish left wing intellectual types werent so wedded to polemical modes of writing, it makes it a real fucking headache as a reader / wannabe reader to sort through and consider different ideas. theres a time and place for it but not to the extent that it gets used. its a fucking addiction
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Giant tape recorder mural on bus shelter, The Strand, Tauranga, 1980s. Designed and painted by Mike Ryan and Corolyn Murphy. Photo: Bob Maysmor; natlib.govt.nz/records/5669...
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Giant tape recorder mural on bus shelter, The Strand, Tauranga, 1980s. Designed and painted by Mike Ryan and Corolyn Murphy. Photo: Bob Maysmor; natlib.govt.nz/records/5669...
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“It’s ONLY coal & mining & social control & lack of privacy & private east India company & conquest & enclosure of the commons with ha-has & hedgerows & polluted waterways & slavery for cotton & opium & gunpowder & silver mining to topple Chinese textiles & time-theft
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“It’s ONLY coal & mining & social control & lack of privacy & private east India company & conquest & enclosure of the commons with ha-has & hedgerows & polluted waterways & slavery for cotton & opium & gunpowder & silver mining to topple Chinese textiles & time-theft
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
Why do you hate cloth so much?”
v theatrical clouds in the sky this evening. lots of dramatic shapes and painterly colour happening
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
v theatrical clouds in the sky this evening. lots of dramatic shapes and painterly colour happening
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"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle."
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle."
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937
im sorry but why tf is hilary duff doing a comeback in 2025 with a song that sounds like taylor swift ripping off katy perrys teenage dream
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
im sorry but why tf is hilary duff doing a comeback in 2025 with a song that sounds like taylor swift ripping off katy perrys teenage dream
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Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing
whats the etymology of "keen" becoming the standard word for describing one's "attention to detail"
describing your "professional skills" to strangers is such a weirdly infantilizing social ritual
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
whats the etymology of "keen" becoming the standard word for describing one's "attention to detail"
omg they're doing it in canada too
A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
omg they're doing it in canada too
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November 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
describing your "professional skills" to strangers is such a weirdly infantilizing social ritual
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
describing your "professional skills" to strangers is such a weirdly infantilizing social ritual
this guy had weird politics. hawkish and imperialist Conservative Party candidate who campaigned against jewish immigration, but was also a marxist and a friend of marx and expelled from IWMA for being a possible spy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltman...
Maltman Barry - Wikipedia
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November 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
this guy had weird politics. hawkish and imperialist Conservative Party candidate who campaigned against jewish immigration, but was also a marxist and a friend of marx and expelled from IWMA for being a possible spy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltman...
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A moment of silence for the lads I got to witness realising they’d hung their billboard upside down 🙃🥲
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
A moment of silence for the lads I got to witness realising they’d hung their billboard upside down 🙃🥲
i'm not smart enough to properly theorise about this but it seems to me that much of the thinking behind the widespread adoption of "AI" (besides just the controlling and replacing workers stuff) replicates the "markets as automatons that solve knowledge problems"
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
i'm not smart enough to properly theorise about this but it seems to me that much of the thinking behind the widespread adoption of "AI" (besides just the controlling and replacing workers stuff) replicates the "markets as automatons that solve knowledge problems"