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words mechanic. mute me when skating’s on
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It's something that really gets to me in how western corporate feminism seeks to erase motherhood from the stories of women to "make them feminist," the same way they only care about abortion access but not the health of parents or infants. Because that means caring about people beyond aesthetics
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It's something that really gets to me in how western corporate feminism seeks to erase motherhood from the stories of women to "make them feminist," the same way they only care about abortion access but not the health of parents or infants. Because that means caring about people beyond aesthetics
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In my last essay of the year, I discuss Frankenstein, fiction, authorship, responsibility, the art that we owe to ourselves, and the art we owe to the things we create.
The Daughters of Frankenstein
What do we owe ourselves? What do we owe our art?
buttondown.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In my last essay of the year, I discuss Frankenstein, fiction, authorship, responsibility, the art that we owe to ourselves, and the art we owe to the things we create.
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The pictures kind of have "saddest guy on Earth vs the most beautiful woman you've ever seen pre-and-pro transition pics" vibes and it's like, wow.
Shaving your head really can be gender affirming care for cis guys.
Shaving your head really can be gender affirming care for cis guys.
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The pictures kind of have "saddest guy on Earth vs the most beautiful woman you've ever seen pre-and-pro transition pics" vibes and it's like, wow.
Shaving your head really can be gender affirming care for cis guys.
Shaving your head really can be gender affirming care for cis guys.
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I don't even go here, but there's a subreddit where balding men with comb-overs post pictures of themselves before and after finally taking the plunge and shaving their heads, and every "before" picture is "that guy your straight friend is dating (derogatory)" and every "after" one is "yum."
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I don't even go here, but there's a subreddit where balding men with comb-overs post pictures of themselves before and after finally taking the plunge and shaving their heads, and every "before" picture is "that guy your straight friend is dating (derogatory)" and every "after" one is "yum."
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One by one, we require our chosen spokeshumans to stand up for a consensus reality that benefits us all.
December 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
One by one, we require our chosen spokeshumans to stand up for a consensus reality that benefits us all.
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Just rereading @magencubed.bsky.social’s “Stories, Like Houses, Grow” and being moved all over again
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Stories, Like Houses, Grow
There's an excellent chance that if you ever asked me what the most important story in the world is-- The most important story to me is, the most relevant,...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Just rereading @magencubed.bsky.social’s “Stories, Like Houses, Grow” and being moved all over again
buttondown.com/magencubed/a...
buttondown.com/magencubed/a...
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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Sometimes we'll get a school-wide email & my boss will text me with something like "omg this is why I have you write my correspondence"
There must be a high-paying job somewhere editing memos & emails from senior university admin, since they don't seem to realize that their primary audience includes 100s of folks who fixate on grammatical errors & writing issues. Today, I briefly panicked over an email promising a "planful future."
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Sometimes we'll get a school-wide email & my boss will text me with something like "omg this is why I have you write my correspondence"
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Calendars are one of those places where AI really could be used to make life easier but the tech lords have assistants to do that for them and they prefer to plagiarize other people’s work so it never entered the product pipeline
Office 365 is noticeably worse to use now than it was 10, 15 years ago and should be front and center in the list of why monopolies are bad for consumers.
Ah, Microsoft. I have a student who submits her stories by sharing them in the online version of Word 365. Incredibly, I can't export them as Word files. The closest is ODT. I can open them in OpenOffice and then re-export them as Word files, but that's pretty kludgy. (1/2)
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Calendars are one of those places where AI really could be used to make life easier but the tech lords have assistants to do that for them and they prefer to plagiarize other people’s work so it never entered the product pipeline
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The actual hot take because it’s not glamorizing the surveillance state and monetizing/making content out of every one of our actions.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The actual hot take because it’s not glamorizing the surveillance state and monetizing/making content out of every one of our actions.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
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About time. Other publishers should do this, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
About time. Other publishers should do this, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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dammit I was promised redistribution of luxury apartments
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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December 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
dammit I was promised redistribution of luxury apartments
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I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.
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Positive masculinity shown off here:
-Showing tons of empathy and patient attention
-Letting your kids know (through modeling!) that having ugly emotions is okay, just don’t take it out on other people
-Be excited to spend time with the people you love! Let them know you like them!
-Showing tons of empathy and patient attention
-Letting your kids know (through modeling!) that having ugly emotions is okay, just don’t take it out on other people
-Be excited to spend time with the people you love! Let them know you like them!
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Positive masculinity shown off here:
-Showing tons of empathy and patient attention
-Letting your kids know (through modeling!) that having ugly emotions is okay, just don’t take it out on other people
-Be excited to spend time with the people you love! Let them know you like them!
-Showing tons of empathy and patient attention
-Letting your kids know (through modeling!) that having ugly emotions is okay, just don’t take it out on other people
-Be excited to spend time with the people you love! Let them know you like them!
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Pantone met 2025 with the exact effort it deserves.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Pantone met 2025 with the exact effort it deserves.
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Happy Friday
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy Friday
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The interesting, sophisticated thing about games is not whether they can tell stories as well as books or movies (they can’t) or float shocking themes as well as fine art (honestly, who cares).
It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.
It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The interesting, sophisticated thing about games is not whether they can tell stories as well as books or movies (they can’t) or float shocking themes as well as fine art (honestly, who cares).
It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.
It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.
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Why... TF... do i need a
*checks notes*
"Smart Toilet"
*checks notes*
"Smart Toilet"
If Kohler can view the user’s toilet data, as it admits to doing in this email exchange with technologist Simon Fondrie-Teitler, then it’s not—by definition—using end-to-end encryption. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
www.404media.co/kohlers-smar...
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Why... TF... do i need a
*checks notes*
"Smart Toilet"
*checks notes*
"Smart Toilet"
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Dear Brian,
14 years ago you were the 7th choice for a sales team of 6 for a pilot program at an industrial supply company. Someone got a better offer so now you know terms like “pipeline,” quota,” “CRM,” and “PIP.” It’s been fine but if they invent a time machine, work harder in college.
14 years ago you were the 7th choice for a sales team of 6 for a pilot program at an industrial supply company. Someone got a better offer so now you know terms like “pipeline,” quota,” “CRM,” and “PIP.” It’s been fine but if they invent a time machine, work harder in college.
Dear Andrew,
20 years ago, you walked into a radio station not knowing that a life-long dream would change your life. Continue to work hard, be positive, have fun, and never stop dreaming.
20 years ago, you walked into a radio station not knowing that a life-long dream would change your life. Continue to work hard, be positive, have fun, and never stop dreaming.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Dear Brian,
14 years ago you were the 7th choice for a sales team of 6 for a pilot program at an industrial supply company. Someone got a better offer so now you know terms like “pipeline,” quota,” “CRM,” and “PIP.” It’s been fine but if they invent a time machine, work harder in college.
14 years ago you were the 7th choice for a sales team of 6 for a pilot program at an industrial supply company. Someone got a better offer so now you know terms like “pipeline,” quota,” “CRM,” and “PIP.” It’s been fine but if they invent a time machine, work harder in college.
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I’m old enough to remember when the promise of the internet was the removal of middlemen and now it exists solely to create, maintain, and multiply middlemen
We wrap our affordability series with a look at the hidden economic culprits of the cost of living crisis: middlemen. They sit in between transactions and take their profit, raising costs for everyone else. And their interventions can even turn deadly. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports:
Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
prospect.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the promise of the internet was the removal of middlemen and now it exists solely to create, maintain, and multiply middlemen
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Sometimes jokes are just things that happen to you
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sometimes jokes are just things that happen to you
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Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations