One fact to add: SNAP benefits have been maintained in every previous shutdown. This is a choice they have made, not an inevitability.
A national disgrace gives us all a chance to do the right thing - Warwick Beacon
It’s galling to watch an American president salivate over plans for a $300-million ballroom on the rubble of the East Wing of the White House while Americans who rely on a little extra …
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"I like it when they struggle against inevitability!~"
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Monarchy spiralling downward with sense of inevitability. President Stephen Fry looking increasingly plausible.
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The Inevitability of Mamdani and The Meltdown of the Establishment
Zohran Mamdani is set to become the first Muslim American mayor of NYC despite an unprecedented smear campaign funded by billionaires and encouraged by Democratic leaders.
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Zohran Mamdani is set to become the first Muslim American mayor of NYC despite an unprecedented smear campaign funded by billionaires and encouraged by Democratic leaders.
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Such a cool costume, it'll be even cooler when she inevitability bwomphs out of it. Happy (almost) Halloween lol
October 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The best summary of this thinking, and the inevitability of authoritarian defeat to liberalism I've yet encountered was, unsurprisingly, written 82 years ago.
Camus' Letters to a German Friend, a Warning for Our Times
In the midst of WWII, Albert Camus wrote 4 letters to a fictitious German. Here is the first, predicting the triumph of truth over falsehood.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I've found that people who have been through real shit are some of the kindest and most emotionally intelligent folks I've ever met. They know what it feels like, and take it seriously. Which means bad shit turning people mean isn't an inevitability, it's a choice.
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I’ve seen people react to this inevitability in a few different ways. One is to dig in and refuse to concede anything: “Young people are alien and wrong, and I know this because I’ve always understood them and now I don’t.” I think this happened to Lepore around 2016 and she’s taken this stance.
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Future heisman recipiant and New York Jet Fernando Mendoza. dread it. run from it. it is inevitability.
It's amazing how much it has not sunken in for the average fan and sports media person alike that Indiana will play for the Natty
These guys are gonna play on January 19, 2026
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Elon Musk continues to try to socialise civil war, political & inter-ethnic violence in Britain. He combines an argument that violence is inevitable with his call at the Tommy Robinson rally for pre-emptive violence, on grounds of an existential threat & the inevitability of violence
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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With endless sympathetic assassination coverage feeding an inevitability aura, an opponent forced to do speedrun swing state meatball surgery and a dozen billionaires blatantly violating electioneering laws? That's the fuckin best he could do?
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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We were cursed with the promise of progress and utopia as an inevitability.
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i reject inevitability
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The Inevitability of Mamdani and The Meltdown of the Establishment
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The Inevitability of Mamdani and The Meltdown of the Establishment
Zohran Mamdani is set to become the first Muslim American mayor of NYC despite an unprecedented, smear campaign funded by billionaires and encouraged by Democratic leaders.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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BROKE: lying in bed at 3am, giving yourself a panic attack thinking about the inevitability of death
WOKE: lying in bed at 3am, giving yourself a panic attack thinking about *surviving* societal collapse to experience the Dark Ages II
WOKE: lying in bed at 3am, giving yourself a panic attack thinking about *surviving* societal collapse to experience the Dark Ages II
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Elon Musk should be excluded from the United Kingdom until he publicly withdraws his 13th September argument for violence in the UK. He should certainly be excluded from the Royal Society given his predictions of the inevitability of civil war *and* his argument for violence as therefore legitimate
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I was very charmed by this episode about a man who thinks he’s invested in his movie collection but who, in my opinion, is struggling with his mortality and the inevitability of leaving the world.
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Podcast Episode · Judge John Hodgman · 10/08/2025 · 1h 5m
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October 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Muriel Spark’s MEMENTO MORI – a novel about the inevitability of death – “is held in perfect balance: play & seriousness, entertainment & challenge, readable plot & postmodern derailment”
—read Prof @zoestrachan.bsky.social’s introduction here
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#BookWormSat 💙📚
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'Memento Mori' by Muriel Spark - The Bottle Imp
One of the many delights of a Muriel Spark novel is the way in which the ground shifts so delicately under the reader’s feet. Memento Mori begins as a mystery: who is victimising elderly people by mak...
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Over on my Substack, I've written about inevitability and the stories we tell about ourselves: open.substack.com/pub/maggiest...
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The only inevitability is Musk actively promoting and bankrolling it.
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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narcissism is a fear of mental pain arising from the inevitability of lose and ultimately death
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability & to demand that technology serve the many, not the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency & justice must come before speed, efficiency & scale.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
We should all be Luddites
Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.
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#31DaysOfGraves Day 31: Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die"); symbols or tropes acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death.The most common motif is a skull, but other motifs include a coffin, hourglass or wilting flowers to signify the impermanence of life. #Edinburgh
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i don’t love the framing of inevitability here. an internal memo or EO saying people can’t refuse is not the same as federal law. which i’m aware matters as little as it ever has. but we can still organize and stop this policy
NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
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