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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

The original post has been deleted or I've been blocked, so my recreation of the greatest political compass of all time.

Y Axis: Good Faith / Bad Faith
X Axis: Can Read / Can't Read

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6h

presume I'm not the first person to say this but real cool that actual human adults can't get up to regular, legal human adult stuff online anymore but somehow the robots doing porn will be fine

real cool!

The Verge @theverge.com · 11h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 11h

on the other hand this explains the extreme increase in volume and success of braindead bro content

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 11h

Protein is probably the most studied OTC supplement related to health & fitness - feels like a big thing to have missed previously! I'll be very curious to see if this article from Consumer Reports is replicated by academic researchers.

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10h

Today just felt like the chill could reach into your bones so...not really no!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11h

at a Frieze private view and got offered a shot of espresso and a shot of mezcal? turned the waitress down but unsure they realised what they nearly unleashed here, pretty sure that "giving me a shot of espresso and a shot of mezcal then setting me loose" is mentioned in the Geneva Convention

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12h

it's extremely autumn in London today isn't it, had been somewhat autumn until now but today the whole season's really smacking us around the face

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14h

Incorrect!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14h

Correction: it isn't

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14h

yes!! agreed!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14h

hahahahahaha

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14h

spent a portion of summer.....I want to say 2014? reading Freedom and listening to Lana Del Rey and still think of those weeks as one of the peaks of my millennial existence

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14h

wrong: Jonathan Franzen has published one (1) truly great novel - Freedom - but the rest of his output can be safely ignored

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

Jonathan Franzen is like somebody trained an LLM to write a pretentious American middle-aged dude novel and then asked it to be more misogynistic.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15h

(I do not count Annie Ernaux in this, Annie Ernaux is obviously in a category of her own and she knows what she's doing)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16h

probably less "unhinged" and more "will lose me some friends" but I think the contemporary lit fic trend of very short pared down sentences is meant to seem clever and pretentious when it just makes people with no attention span/will to properly pay attention feel like they're reading Real Books

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2d

www.worldofmoose.com/products/ape...

Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 17h

"We are all downwardly mobile failsons"

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h

enjoyed every single one of those pictures:

Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 1d

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20h

sometimes - it has to be very occasional, to keep its impact - I'll hate a book so much that once I'm done with it/have given up halfway through, I'll just throw it in the bin so no one has to suffer like I did, it's a real joy

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 21h

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

Can I recommend spending multiple months entirely alone in a flat and not being allowed to leave said flat?*

*I would not in fact recommend this

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

so my excuse is that I got SO bored doing lockdown alone that I ended up creating a massive Drive folder of basically any picture of me and/or a loved one worth saving that was findable on the internet, with keywords and years and everything, and I'm very glad I did it!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

Keiran Culkin winning award after award after award while openly being like "yeah I read my lines for the first time like five minutes before going on set" was, I regret to say, such a good recurring bit of Succession, when Jeremy Strong was busy being Like That

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

you're right and you should say it

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