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HTX, knitter, therapist.
Let go or be dragged. (Zen proverb)
#chronicpain #longcovid
Let go or be dragged. (Zen proverb)
#chronicpain #longcovid
And the USPS should provide low cost banking services! No-fee checking, check cashing, etc. The Postal Savings System used to exist! It can be done!
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
And the USPS should provide low cost banking services! No-fee checking, check cashing, etc. The Postal Savings System used to exist! It can be done!
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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I think it’s bad that leaders of companies are visibly up to their gills in stimulants now. Did nobody tell them that, contrary to how they make you feel, those things make you stupid? This is why everyone needs some fuck up friends growing up, to teach them that there’s no good way to abuse drugs.
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I think it’s bad that leaders of companies are visibly up to their gills in stimulants now. Did nobody tell them that, contrary to how they make you feel, those things make you stupid? This is why everyone needs some fuck up friends growing up, to teach them that there’s no good way to abuse drugs.
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A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
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It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
www.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
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Justice Kagan in her dissent:
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
BREAKING
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the GOP gerrymandered Texas congressional map to stand in a 6-3 decision, with Kagan, Sotomayor, and Brown-Jackson dissenting.
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Justice Kagan in her dissent:
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
“Today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race.”
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Featured story from @liseolsen.bsky.social and @psskow.bsky.social: Oil and gas wells produce prodigious amounts of waste. One horizontal well generates upwards of 8,000 barrels—or 336,000 gallons—of waste during the drilling and completion process.
East Texans Fight Oil Waste Pits Run by an Operator Cited for Dozens of Violations
In bucolic areas near the Louisiana line, residents ask, "Why are Texas taxpayers liable for other states’ toxic waste?"
www.texasobserver.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Featured story from @liseolsen.bsky.social and @psskow.bsky.social: Oil and gas wells produce prodigious amounts of waste. One horizontal well generates upwards of 8,000 barrels—or 336,000 gallons—of waste during the drilling and completion process.
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The Bathroom Bill goes into effect today across Texas. Not only does it harm transgender people, it subjects all Texans to increased surveillance & harassment.
I stand with transgender Texans today and every day. 🏳️⚧️❤️
#txlege #sanantonio #texas
I stand with transgender Texans today and every day. 🏳️⚧️❤️
#txlege #sanantonio #texas
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The Bathroom Bill goes into effect today across Texas. Not only does it harm transgender people, it subjects all Texans to increased surveillance & harassment.
I stand with transgender Texans today and every day. 🏳️⚧️❤️
#txlege #sanantonio #texas
I stand with transgender Texans today and every day. 🏳️⚧️❤️
#txlege #sanantonio #texas
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FUCK SCOTUS
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
FUCK SCOTUS
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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Once again @theonion.com turns out to be prophetic (article published in January 2025) theonion.com/jd-vance-beg...
JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
PALM BEACH, FL—Noticing everyone else’s phone simultaneously buzzing throughout a meeting, Vice President-elect JD Vance began to suspect there was another group chat among Trump’s senior staff that h...
theonion.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Once again @theonion.com turns out to be prophetic (article published in January 2025) theonion.com/jd-vance-beg...
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The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The postal service is not a business, measuring it by revenue is the wrong frame for understanding its worth.
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She's trying to cast herself as some kind of tragic timeless figure but it just comes off as vapid and self-obsessed. This is the literary version of your most annoying friend on Instagram.
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
She's trying to cast herself as some kind of tragic timeless figure but it just comes off as vapid and self-obsessed. This is the literary version of your most annoying friend on Instagram.
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Via @19thnews.org: Texas’ massive new abortion law taking effect this week represents the most ambitious effort to halt telehealth abortions. But providers say it won’t work.
“If anything, the implementation of this law makes people more determined to help folks.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/t...
“If anything, the implementation of this law makes people more determined to help folks.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/t...
Texas’ New Abortion Ban Aims to Stop Doctors From Sending Abortion Pills to the State
Doctors say they won’t stop providing care.
thebarbedwire.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Via @19thnews.org: Texas’ massive new abortion law taking effect this week represents the most ambitious effort to halt telehealth abortions. But providers say it won’t work.
“If anything, the implementation of this law makes people more determined to help folks.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/t...
“If anything, the implementation of this law makes people more determined to help folks.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/t...
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Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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When I was at The Post, I once wrote about the effort to fight back against seat belt laws. Gift link: wapo.st/48PHVOF
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When I was at The Post, I once wrote about the effort to fight back against seat belt laws. Gift link: wapo.st/48PHVOF
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As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.
We watched The Mask (1994) with my boys recently.
There were some laughs, but also some horror - "Why are they staring at that woman!?!?" "Why are they smoking indoors?!?!?"
Classic 90s - lots of indoor smoking and leching at women as comedy.
There were some laughs, but also some horror - "Why are they staring at that woman!?!?" "Why are they smoking indoors?!?!?"
Classic 90s - lots of indoor smoking and leching at women as comedy.
Public smoking bans just got in under the wire, too. Younger folks might not realize how rare they used to be and how hard they were to enact.
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We watched The Mask (1994) with my boys recently.
There were some laughs, but also some horror - "Why are they staring at that woman!?!?" "Why are they smoking indoors?!?!?"
Classic 90s - lots of indoor smoking and leching at women as comedy.
There were some laughs, but also some horror - "Why are they staring at that woman!?!?" "Why are they smoking indoors?!?!?"
Classic 90s - lots of indoor smoking and leching at women as comedy.
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pantone just named landlord white the color of the year 2026, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSES
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
pantone just named landlord white the color of the year 2026, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSES
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“why isn’t christmas magic anymore” well bitch you’re santa now, sounds like the problem is you’re not magical
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“why isn’t christmas magic anymore” well bitch you’re santa now, sounds like the problem is you’re not magical
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Seatbelts are the next to go!! So much winning 🤔🤔🤔😡😡
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Seatbelts are the next to go!! So much winning 🤔🤔🤔😡😡