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Trey Lawson
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I come to this place for magic.
Educator. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor. Co-host Tomb of Ideas, a Marvel Horror Podcast | he/him
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If their massive payout to Rogen didn’t convince you to leave Spotify, here’s some more data from you about how you screw over artists by using it.
"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more."

Los Campesinos:
Here’s how much money Los Camp! make from streaming… - Los Campesinos!
loscampesinos.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Urgent!
I have 3 days to sell my last 8 art/book/prints bundles! THREE days. EIGHT bundles. And we are safe for another month! Any help is appreciated.
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Tess Fowler Art
A collection of art by Tess Fowler. - High end art prints - Original art - Comic books
tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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It is legitimately infuriating that yotuube can go "ah yeah this video raising charity money for the Trevor project has a fictional slot machine game in it, that's gambling, take away the money" while allowing fanduel and draftkings to run ads as much as they want, someone's ass needs kicking tbh
I am so furious at YouTube for doing this. You have literal gambling ads plastered across your website. The video you take action on contains no real gambling, and is promoting an LGBTQ+ children's charity fundraiser. Absolutely horrendous image and optics for the website. Completely moronic
I am beyond upset, YouTube has age restricted my video tonight for thinking it depicts real actual gambling. The video is on CloeverPit and contains no real gambling, but does contain a massive charity push for The Trevor Project. Last time this happened I almost quit YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This description of It's a Wonderful Life from Apple's store is technically accurate in every detail yet also somehow very funny.
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Yes the HHS Secretary just attempted and failed to do one complete pull up while rocking an untucked shirt and pit stains on TV, totally normal behavior for the HHS Secretary
In line for the TSA behind this guy
December 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"US Census Bureau data show that AI adoption by companies with more than 250 employees may have *already peaked and began declining or flattening out this year.* Most businesses still don’t see a significant return on their investment when trying to use the latest generative AI tools"
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”
Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom
AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy but warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
thebulletin.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud
The practical effect of overturning Humphrey’s will be that Republican presidents can stack the formerly independent agencies with their copartisans and SCOTUS will be cool with everything they do but when a Dem POTUS does the same Roberts et al will declare all those agencies’ actions unlawful.
In a memo John Roberts wrote just 4 yrs out of law school, he said the “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence” of independent agencies & bring them back into the executive branch. Now he’s poised to end what he has long called “a constitutional anomaly.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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1. Some manuscripts have real character.
They are often not the smartest, shiniest manuscripts, but rather the ones that have seen things. The manuscripts that have really been used (and abused). Today I spent the day with a very charismatic manuscript at the NLS, Edinburgh...🧵
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"Hamlet might be the big man on campus, but that doesn’t mean he’s got it all figured out. This drama puts a much-needed spin on a classic by imagining a world where Hamlet is young and hot."
Casting Notice for the Unaired CW Pilot Young Hamlet
SYNOPSIS High school is no picnic for anyone, but especially if you’re one of Shakespeare’s most iconic leading men. Hamlet might be the big man on...
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The floor for who I’m going to vote for in 2028 is rising quickly. You’re gonna have to tell me you’ll break up every monopoly, expand the Supreme Court, abolish and prosecute ICE, tax billionaires out of existence, and provide healthcare for all. Like this stuff is becoming non-negotiable to me.
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Perfect 10, no notes
The Golden Globes announced their nominations this morning, narrowing down the list of people from which they expect bribes.
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The only popups I want in my games are ones that inform me that I have the option to watch Steiner and Quina engaged in some wacky hijinks on the other side of the city.
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.

Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
WTF
Bafflingly, Bondi now says they're appealing. I have no idea whether the case is now moot or not. Kudos to Alina Habba, who has managed to make even a resignation confusing
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I get *why* people believe this, but I think if you priced out "total available content on cable per dollar of monthly subscription" vs "total available content on Netflix per dollar of monthly subscription" (without even accounting for almost no sports) they'd actually be much closer than you think
Opinion: Netflix did not invent the world of streaming, but it is the most successful operator in this new dispensation. However, it remains to be seen whether its success in knowing what its customers want to watch can be matched by an enduring ecosystem for creative talent. on.ft.com/48FvQul
December 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Also, I don't understand how stories can mention Andreessen Horowitz without mentioning that they hired a partner solely on the basis that he strangled a man to death. It seems pertinent when they're trying to stop laws about software that encourages kids to die.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM