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weird way you admit you might commit murder ?
If I knew skipping jail time was one of the perks of the gifted program I would’ve made an effort
March 26, 2024 at 4:43 AM
one option is just to ignore Christopher rufo
March 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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I’ve… never read an obit like this before. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/a... (via @theferocity.bsky.social, 🎁 link)
March 20, 2024 at 7:44 PM
lol
February 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Inspired by feeling kind of anxious on an airplane for the first time in many decades, I wrote about the broad industrial movement towards Making Things Worse. Not to give anything away, but I am not really in favor of it. defector.com/how-will-the...
How Will The Golden Age Of "Making It Worse" End? | Defector
One of the more poignant and ridiculous and enduringly popular contemporary American insanities is the belief that one person—it’s almost always a man, although Jennifer Garner did get to do it in...
defector.com
January 29, 2024 at 7:25 PM
the trope detectives are back
"your culture does not and cannot exist; whatever you claim is your culture is stolen" is tiptoeing awfully close to some very familiar, very cursed ground
exciting to see that sumptuary laws leftism has broken containment and is out there doing bad in the real world now
December 8, 2023 at 11:07 PM
I’m watching journalists / academics / researchers full time balls to the wall posting on two sites now. genuinely what do you guys do all day
November 7, 2023 at 6:12 PM
essentially what Novalis and Schlegel were proposing with the romantic fragment
On the other site we’re talking about thunks.
October 24, 2023 at 3:19 PM
Eric Levitz has funniest job in the world. uses the twitter for literature reviews; does ‘friendly’ and ‘internal’ critiques of an organization he is not a member of, in a publication meant for external consumption. prob makes like 65k a year to report on Left Twitter
October 23, 2023 at 9:25 PM
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New from me in the Drift: on the "fog of war" and the ideological work it performs www.thedriftmag.com/propaganda-d...
Propaganda, Disinformation, Ideology
The image of the “fog of war,” former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara explains in Errol Morris’s 2003 documentary of the same name, suggests that “war is so complex it’s beyond the abil...
www.thedriftmag.com
October 23, 2023 at 3:02 PM
hell yes … it’s 2015 again
The Catcher in The Rye.

I made one exception to this and it was a huge mistake. Grown adults enamored with the story of an overprivileged, angsty, teenager judging people while blowing his daddy's money on booze are...not the most mature or self-actualized folks out there.
October 22, 2023 at 1:43 PM
October 21, 2023 at 11:14 PM
vibes are vastly superior here
August 20, 2023 at 11:17 PM
do you need an instagram for threads or what is the deal w that
July 6, 2023 at 8:04 PM
me on twitter: you moron. you absolute and complete dolt. I can’t even begin to fathom this level of idiocy.
me on blue sky: hi guys :)
May 15, 2023 at 2:09 PM
the posting world is dying and the skeeting world is yet to be born. now is the time where the majority of your blue sky timeline is Jake Tapper for some reason
May 12, 2023 at 3:53 PM
Can we get some clips from the TV show ‘The Good Doctor’ on here … haven’t seen enough of those floating around
May 10, 2023 at 9:21 PM
I’ve developed a specific sort of sardonic and smart yet approachable persona on the other site — for here I’m transitioning into a more accurate ‘30 year old wife guy who only listens to the ECM record label’ character
May 10, 2023 at 9:18 PM
love all the moments of honesty from big posters on here … all you ppl do is eat chip and lie
May 10, 2023 at 2:29 PM