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hobart mariner
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He Lost Himself Trying To Make Everyone Happy Around Him. Now He's Losing Everything To Find Himself Again.
why? because you deserve an onboarding experience that's f**king magical
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
evil and insanely bad writing
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
got exactly the person i wanted for secret santa. now it's just a matter of waiting to buy them the perfect gift
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
was shopping for a cheap windows laptop to play old games and wife "you know i have two of those just lying around right?" anyway a steal at $800/per
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
really just got my ass beat down all of day off
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
didn't understand the suggestion the ape and JG were knocking boots at the time, but i remember hearing about this foofaraw and it being absolutely foundational. the idea that not only did he not get in trouble, the genuine authority said that joking around was good and valid...
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
unoriginal but worth comparing how this person made the most of a difficult life, spent it working hard to help others, and faced its end with grace, while ~all the elite of our society either freak out thinking they'll go like stan chera or pursue increasingly draculesque extension schemes
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
hey codester. how's your C drive?
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
two paths for the spirit
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
the scientists in Better Off Ted were so crucial as life models
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
just learned pratt's thm on primality being NP. cute. to check that p is prime in O(log p) time, you give a factorization of p-1 into primes q1....qk and an element a with a^{(p-1)/qi) ≠ 1 mod p... but this certificate needs you to prove q1...qk are prime, hence factor q1-1, q2-1, ... and so on
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
i like harpers because you get

1) generally insane main feature, often by someone you hate on twitter
2) charming little snippets
3) often a good short story
4) abysmal cover art
5) decent book review
6) best puzzle money can buy
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
toddler was dancing to kenny rogers last night. pretty good. still don't understand why he's called the gambler when his persona in the song is describing an encounter *with* the gambler
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
the actual matthew 18:19 is wild, you need a hypomajority (2 votes) on earth to pass literally any legislation in heaven
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
July 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
flu shot (L) me (R)
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
used to not get the endless demand for streaming video a la twitch. basically came around to "it's buprenorphine for the experience of hanging out with friends." but now i cannot fathom the insane appetite for chatbots. they're boring! even if they write you a dinky java script once in a blue moon
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Jesus Christ.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
reading the Drift articles in the voice of the guy who tommy lee jones visits for advice at the end of no country for old men
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
good thread
when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM