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as foretold by the prophesy
![Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreiblgfxjkl4p7yos56wttujnqclubnwegqcdc7g74pdovoe24kzonu@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
as foretold by the prophesy
This right here, in the UK, is disgusting. As a British citizen, I will view the ministers responsible as guilty of murder if and when any of these hunger strikers die.
The treatment of the hunger strikers by the British state is truly barbarous
they've been convicted of no crime, are being held w/o trial, & have been on remand for over twice the remand custody limit
they've been subject to degrading & humiliating treatment, & are now in a critical state
they've been convicted of no crime, are being held w/o trial, & have been on remand for over twice the remand custody limit
they've been subject to degrading & humiliating treatment, & are now in a critical state
‘The British state will let them rot in a prison and die’: The Palestine Action supporters on hunger strike
Five people being held on remand are in a critical state, after protesting prison conditions. The government has chosen not to engage
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This right here, in the UK, is disgusting. As a British citizen, I will view the ministers responsible as guilty of murder if and when any of these hunger strikers die.
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Traumatic brain injury as entertainment... I can't get behind it, but sometimes it feels like someone may have asked for it a bit too eagerly.
But I have known people with multiple concussions: there is a quite short list of people I feel deserve it.
But I have known people with multiple concussions: there is a quite short list of people I feel deserve it.
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Traumatic brain injury as entertainment... I can't get behind it, but sometimes it feels like someone may have asked for it a bit too eagerly.
But I have known people with multiple concussions: there is a quite short list of people I feel deserve it.
But I have known people with multiple concussions: there is a quite short list of people I feel deserve it.
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
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Tales from Ōtepoti
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
Pregnant sea lion blocks off family’s front door
The sea lion’s pup can be seen wriggling about inside her.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Tales from Ōtepoti
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
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it annoys me no end when people let their dogs roam the streets with no owner to be seen
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
it annoys me no end when people let their dogs roam the streets with no owner to be seen
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So... cutting taxes; giving tax breaks to landlords; the iRex ferries contract-break fees; scrapping tobacco levies...
...none of that was affordable!?
And Nicola Willis still blames the previous govt - even though she's BORROWED MORE than Grant Robertson ever did?!
This person is inept.
(1)
...none of that was affordable!?
And Nicola Willis still blames the previous govt - even though she's BORROWED MORE than Grant Robertson ever did?!
This person is inept.
(1)
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
So... cutting taxes; giving tax breaks to landlords; the iRex ferries contract-break fees; scrapping tobacco levies...
...none of that was affordable!?
And Nicola Willis still blames the previous govt - even though she's BORROWED MORE than Grant Robertson ever did?!
This person is inept.
(1)
...none of that was affordable!?
And Nicola Willis still blames the previous govt - even though she's BORROWED MORE than Grant Robertson ever did?!
This person is inept.
(1)
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
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#NZpol 😳🤬
“Paul Goldsmith had purposefully omitted some disallowed measures from the Crimes Amendment Bill, in order that they could be added back in as an addendum by the Justice Select Committee, in order to dodge the usual rules about what is allowed.”
“Paul Goldsmith had purposefully omitted some disallowed measures from the Crimes Amendment Bill, in order that they could be added back in as an addendum by the Justice Select Committee, in order to dodge the usual rules about what is allowed.”
This is a quite shocking misuse of Parliament by Paul Goldsmith, buried in this nerdy article: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
#nzpol
Crimes bill adds things outside the usual rules
Parliament has been pushing hard, rushing through bills and working under urgency all week. In that scramble, one bill bypassed the rules, adding things not usually allowed.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#NZpol 😳🤬
“Paul Goldsmith had purposefully omitted some disallowed measures from the Crimes Amendment Bill, in order that they could be added back in as an addendum by the Justice Select Committee, in order to dodge the usual rules about what is allowed.”
“Paul Goldsmith had purposefully omitted some disallowed measures from the Crimes Amendment Bill, in order that they could be added back in as an addendum by the Justice Select Committee, in order to dodge the usual rules about what is allowed.”
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absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
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This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.
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That's "Willis math"
Two things:
First, cleanup of Stockton Mine has cost the govt $260m (The Press).
Second: at their highest, coal royalties were $3.6m a year.
So at best, Bathurst & Talley's would have to mine Denniston coal for 71 years for the government to break even
#nzpol
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
First, cleanup of Stockton Mine has cost the govt $260m (The Press).
Second: at their highest, coal royalties were $3.6m a year.
So at best, Bathurst & Talley's would have to mine Denniston coal for 71 years for the government to break even
#nzpol
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
December 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
That's "Willis math"
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Can someone tell me what Labour’s position on this attack on all our privacy is?
If they’re not outright opposed to it, how much of that is because their Medicard proposal is also an ID requirement by the back door?
#nzpol
If they’re not outright opposed to it, how much of that is because their Medicard proposal is also an ID requirement by the back door?
#nzpol
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Can someone tell me what Labour’s position on this attack on all our privacy is?
If they’re not outright opposed to it, how much of that is because their Medicard proposal is also an ID requirement by the back door?
#nzpol
If they’re not outright opposed to it, how much of that is because their Medicard proposal is also an ID requirement by the back door?
#nzpol
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Mark Mitchell is complaining on social media that Coster is relitigating the Jevon McSk disaster?
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Mark Mitchell is complaining on social media that Coster is relitigating the Jevon McSk disaster?
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
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Here's Frank on the Simpsons, which he voiced while I worked for him. I can not tell you how often I walked around the Gehry partners office saying "yo Frank Gehry, like curvilinear forms much" after this aired www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MyT...
Frank Gehry as featured in The Simpsons
YouTube video by Arch2O
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Here's Frank on the Simpsons, which he voiced while I worked for him. I can not tell you how often I walked around the Gehry partners office saying "yo Frank Gehry, like curvilinear forms much" after this aired www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MyT...
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I thought this was a joke. It’s real.
From JD Vance on Houthi PC small group, the day after Signalgate broke:
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I thought this was a joke. It’s real.
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM