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More evidence of the hellscape war-ravaged Bay Area we keep hearing about. Yummy.
Go Oakland 💪
Go Oakland 💪
For the second year in a row, Bay Area city is named best food city in the US
The travel magazine also ranked San Francisco as No. 5 on the 2025 list.
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
More evidence of the hellscape war-ravaged Bay Area we keep hearing about. Yummy.
Go Oakland 💪
Go Oakland 💪
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Blue Jays having a bit of a scrum in the snow.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Blue Jays having a bit of a scrum in the snow.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.
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If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
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Yes, indeed, I will be running the annual gift guide again this year!
Authors, artists, makers of all kinds, don't miss the chance to be featured on @scalzi.com blog The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide Starts Monday!
The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide Starts Monday!
Every year as the holiday season begins we’ve run a gift guide for the holidays, and over the years it’s been quite successful: Lots of people have found out about excellent books and crafts a…
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November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Yes, indeed, I will be running the annual gift guide again this year!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my amazing followers! 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all my amazing followers! 🦃
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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“A nation of sheep will always beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
― Edward R. Murrow
Can someone show the White House Press Corpse a montage of the reporters who covered previous administrations, the ones who weren't complete cowards?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“A nation of sheep will always beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
― Edward R. Murrow
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
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We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
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Cosign.
bailing out SVB (beyond the usual $250k per account) was such a bad move, in terms of policy and politics. People–supposedly guys good with money–that irresponsible shouldn't get made whole.
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Cosign.
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
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Took a day trip yesterday to see the Sandhill Cranes gather at sunset at the Jasper-Pulaski FWA and it was absolutely and totally worth it. 😍 #birds
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Took a day trip yesterday to see the Sandhill Cranes gather at sunset at the Jasper-Pulaski FWA and it was absolutely and totally worth it. 😍 #birds
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Came for the sheep. Stayed for the Alt Text.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Came for the sheep. Stayed for the Alt Text.
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Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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36-year-old white men: boys
16-year-old white female children: underage women
14-year-old Black male children: dangerous
14-year-old Black female children: either dangerous or invisible, whichever is politically expedient
this is the consensus machine in action manufacturing consent
16-year-old white female children: underage women
14-year-old Black male children: dangerous
14-year-old Black female children: either dangerous or invisible, whichever is politically expedient
this is the consensus machine in action manufacturing consent
This is some weapons-grade nonsense
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
36-year-old white men: boys
16-year-old white female children: underage women
14-year-old Black male children: dangerous
14-year-old Black female children: either dangerous or invisible, whichever is politically expedient
this is the consensus machine in action manufacturing consent
16-year-old white female children: underage women
14-year-old Black male children: dangerous
14-year-old Black female children: either dangerous or invisible, whichever is politically expedient
this is the consensus machine in action manufacturing consent
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Rodney King Riot Videos Reveal a Lost Los Angeles
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Rodney King Riot Videos Reveal a Lost Los Angeles
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I’m old enough to remember when “blending family and governance” was spelled C O R R U P T I O N
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’m old enough to remember when “blending family and governance” was spelled C O R R U P T I O N
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A Wild Turkey takes to the air to head into the woods.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A Wild Turkey takes to the air to head into the woods.
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Whenever Ken Starr returns to the news, it's fun to remember that one deputy investigating Bill Clinton (and Vice Foster) was ... Brett Kavanaugh!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Whenever Ken Starr returns to the news, it's fun to remember that one deputy investigating Bill Clinton (and Vice Foster) was ... Brett Kavanaugh!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.
Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!