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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 5m

Get out of here you clown

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 6m

I don't especially care for it one way or another, but it's a totally harmless thing that a lot of people really enjoy, so why should they not be able to have it?

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 6m

Makes perfect fucking sense

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 10m

Lina Khan desires the same power that she completely boned last time

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 1h

Nobody wants to read about your homely little dirtbag with small dreams

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 1h

And again, even if it were a vibration collar, which it isn't, he clearly and consistently uses it to force his giant dog to stay totally unmoving for 5+ hours, which is something we don't even allow for human prisoners.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 1h

The thing that I expected to happen has happened: people have gone back and found more videos of Hasan Piker shocking his dog, it just wasn't as obvious those times. Again, people looked for the shock collar because the event was so noticeable, but it had been there.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 1h

Good budding writers got convinced to write stories that nobody would want to read and that they didn't even really want to write. Bad ones wrote Mary Sues anyway and these were still more interesting and they found more success.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 1h

The strong online push against "Mary Sues" among budding writers online in the 2000s was actively bad advice and hamstrung the people who followed it and made space for worse writers who didn't care and who won't follow any good writing advice either.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 2h

He is

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