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Shirley0401
@shirley0401.bsky.social
· Sep 19
In retrospect maybe it wasn't so great for society that we spent a half-century telling ourselves we're all basically selfish pieces of shit and need to accept that we're selfish pieces of shit, and therefore we should encourage being a selfish piece of shit and reward being a selfish piece of shit.
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I really don't think it's great for our society that we place such high value on degrees from a few select universities with a small number of slots. The final decisions will basically always be determined by a borderline random process and leave perfectly qualified applicants out.
December 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I really don't think it's great for our society that we place such high value on degrees from a few select universities with a small number of slots. The final decisions will basically always be determined by a borderline random process and leave perfectly qualified applicants out.
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also you kind of definitionally can't be a doormat for someone who. isn't talking to you.
i also notice none of these moms discuss why their kids don't talk to them 👀👀
i also notice none of these moms discuss why their kids don't talk to them 👀👀
December 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
also you kind of definitionally can't be a doormat for someone who. isn't talking to you.
i also notice none of these moms discuss why their kids don't talk to them 👀👀
i also notice none of these moms discuss why their kids don't talk to them 👀👀
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Everyone who watched it is also profiled in that article about estranged parent influencers
Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop
Bari Weiss’ much-hyped CBS News town hall with Erika Kirk was a massive ratings flop
www.independent.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Everyone who watched it is also profiled in that article about estranged parent influencers
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This professional wrestler has a stronger moral and ethical grounding than the leaders of most civil society institutions, and I think it’s worth reflecting on why.
Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
December 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This professional wrestler has a stronger moral and ethical grounding than the leaders of most civil society institutions, and I think it’s worth reflecting on why.
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Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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san antonio has a publicly owned energy utility, and after the great freeze, while other texans had utility bills that were thousands of dollars, CPS stretched our costs over the next 10 years, so no one got more than an added dollar of charges
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
Public ownership of energy production makes sense for.... the public.
How to Fight Rising Utility Bills? Take Over the Company, Activists Say.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
san antonio has a publicly owned energy utility, and after the great freeze, while other texans had utility bills that were thousands of dollars, CPS stretched our costs over the next 10 years, so no one got more than an added dollar of charges
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
publicly owned utilities and co-ops are where it’s at
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Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
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Trump take beef www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
As the Price of Beef Soars, Restaurants Are in ‘Code Red’ Mode
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump take beef www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/b...
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I hate these fucking ChatGPT commercials that show it helping folks like planning a date that seems "chill," or how to become a "morning person," all things that should've been learned from a community not a goddamned spicy autocorrect.
Fuck all that noise.
Fuck all that noise.
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I hate these fucking ChatGPT commercials that show it helping folks like planning a date that seems "chill," or how to become a "morning person," all things that should've been learned from a community not a goddamned spicy autocorrect.
Fuck all that noise.
Fuck all that noise.
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"... it has been happening for a long time, and we know why, and we understand it, and we can make credible projections.”
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true » Yale Climate Connections
Even without today’s advanced modeling tools, scientists made a ‘remarkably’ accurate estimate.
yaleclimateconnections.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"... it has been happening for a long time, and we know why, and we understand it, and we can make credible projections.”
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
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Hot take: affordability doesn’t mean affordability. That just a convenient handle given to ppl by the media. It a proxy for greater and more subtle discontent, feelings of powerlessness, distrust of elites. Mamdani won bc he addressed that. We will make NYC our city and no a city for the rich alone.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Hot take: affordability doesn’t mean affordability. That just a convenient handle given to ppl by the media. It a proxy for greater and more subtle discontent, feelings of powerlessness, distrust of elites. Mamdani won bc he addressed that. We will make NYC our city and no a city for the rich alone.
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I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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This is the head of the company that CNN just partnered with, insisting that prediction markets are a great way to cut through the noise and determine what’s true and what isn’t.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is the head of the company that CNN just partnered with, insisting that prediction markets are a great way to cut through the noise and determine what’s true and what isn’t.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
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I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime
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I say we demand every Democrat running for office to commit to having the United States sign the Rome Statute and join the International Criminal Court. Because they are going to pardon themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I say we demand every Democrat running for office to commit to having the United States sign the Rome Statute and join the International Criminal Court. Because they are going to pardon themselves.
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“Dr. Prasad declined to be interviewed for this article.”
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“Dr. Prasad declined to be interviewed for this article.”
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
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i hope their donations dry up
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i hope their donations dry up
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Hell of a way to tee up America’s 250th year.
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Hell of a way to tee up America’s 250th year.
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in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States