Joel
@exadyto.bsky.social
Midwestern Californian. Humanities guy. 🏳️🌈
“In that way, the name acquired a quasi-official status. But not for long.”
“In that way, the name acquired a quasi-official status. But not for long.”
British Hank Hill is like “I sell calor and calor accessories”
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
British Hank Hill is like “I sell calor and calor accessories”
If you simply do without this stupid vehicle in the short term, you can buy it outright in like 4-5 years based on your savings
one of the ways in which I am paternalistic is that I think if you go to a dealership and try to do this you should walk away with a Toyota Corolla and a conservatorship on your assets
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If you simply do without this stupid vehicle in the short term, you can buy it outright in like 4-5 years based on your savings
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Notably not in attendance: the man who sent her there illegally so she could be killed. He's not ruining his Thanksgiving.
New — In light of WV guard member Sarah Beckstrom’s death, a call has gone out to all National Guard members in the DC area asking them to come to the Eisenhower Memorial to line the procession from the hospital.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Notably not in attendance: the man who sent her there illegally so she could be killed. He's not ruining his Thanksgiving.
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oh hell yes
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
oh hell yes
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as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage
I rewatched Babylon 5 three years ago, and I was really struck by how the arcs (mostly) work because of *meaningful changes in pace*
God I do miss the time when tv shows were allowed to be simultaneously 1. good 2. pacey and episodic rather than glacially slow
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I rewatched Babylon 5 three years ago, and I was really struck by how the arcs (mostly) work because of *meaningful changes in pace*
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Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
LSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed his full $54 million buyout
Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
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My high school j-dub teacher had us write out the 100 peers we knew best at school & then explained we could not write about those people as subjects for the school paper. The GHS Grantonian had higher standards than Nuzzi or Lizza could meet.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My high school j-dub teacher had us write out the 100 peers we knew best at school & then explained we could not write about those people as subjects for the school paper. The GHS Grantonian had higher standards than Nuzzi or Lizza could meet.
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Rawls kinda worked this out but everyone just pretended his ideas don’t make sense (they do)
Honestly, it is possible to think 'I work hard to earn money; I deserve that money' and *also* 'it would be good if we created a more equal society: I'll help'. Exhausting to see everything presented as a fight to the death between those two ideas, seemingly forever.
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Rawls kinda worked this out but everyone just pretended his ideas don’t make sense (they do)
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Send Peter thiel to prison for treason and stop talking to me about this guy
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Send Peter thiel to prison for treason and stop talking to me about this guy
I think most people exist comfortably enough within the world of gender but do not rely on gender for their sense of core, truest identity, but I guess there are also people who do and they lose their mind that people are just identifying other than assigned
What I’m sort of fumbling at is that the way in which people Go Nuts over trans folks is so weirdly homogenous and so detached from everyday experience that it seemingly can’t be “about” anything specific to trans folks.
The universal descent into utter bugfuckery by all these “gender critical” or whatever types seems like there’s something else there and they’re all grasping onto trans shit as a way to do something other than mere out-group hatred, you know?
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I think most people exist comfortably enough within the world of gender but do not rely on gender for their sense of core, truest identity, but I guess there are also people who do and they lose their mind that people are just identifying other than assigned
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White ICE agent: First Nations? Sounds fake
Native Am he’s kidnapping: We were here before you, son
Chicano ICE agent from the California territory: <biting his tongue so hard, his abuela spins in her grave>
Native Am he’s kidnapping: We were here before you, son
Chicano ICE agent from the California territory: <biting his tongue so hard, his abuela spins in her grave>
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
White ICE agent: First Nations? Sounds fake
Native Am he’s kidnapping: We were here before you, son
Chicano ICE agent from the California territory: <biting his tongue so hard, his abuela spins in her grave>
Native Am he’s kidnapping: We were here before you, son
Chicano ICE agent from the California territory: <biting his tongue so hard, his abuela spins in her grave>
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Middle class / professional YIMBYs priced out of their own communities are speaking from their own lived experience, and have more legitimacy than college-educated, white shoe lawyers claiming to speak on behalf of "communities in greatest need of housing affordability."
Yes, this is famously why YIMBYs are definitely representative of the communities in greatest need of housing affordability. /s A number of YIMBY groups have even changed strategies around urban housing to be better partners... that was because this is still a very real issue!
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Middle class / professional YIMBYs priced out of their own communities are speaking from their own lived experience, and have more legitimacy than college-educated, white shoe lawyers claiming to speak on behalf of "communities in greatest need of housing affordability."
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Important to remember that this isn’t $1,800 a month for transportation it’s $1,800 a month for Gender.
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Important to remember that this isn’t $1,800 a month for transportation it’s $1,800 a month for Gender.
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Cancel me for being bourgeois or whatever but if you attempt to sign a document saying you’re going to have an $1800 monthly car payment for 7 years they should automatically assign your financial power of attorney to a more sensible relative
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Cancel me for being bourgeois or whatever but if you attempt to sign a document saying you’re going to have an $1800 monthly car payment for 7 years they should automatically assign your financial power of attorney to a more sensible relative
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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i don't think disagreements online are enough to say whatever or not someone has a personality disorder
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
i don't think disagreements online are enough to say whatever or not someone has a personality disorder
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this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
I’m considering going car-free again next year; I paid $20K for my last car write out of my checking account and have decided never to own a car worth more than 5% of my net worth. (I think it’s a good rule!)
setting aside deranged examples like $110K trucks financed over seven years at 10.6%
i don’t care how rich i ever get, my personal pain threshold for vehicles is extremely low
like, i cannot imagine ever leasing, ever. or buying any luxury branded or high-end trims vehicle
i don’t care how rich i ever get, my personal pain threshold for vehicles is extremely low
like, i cannot imagine ever leasing, ever. or buying any luxury branded or high-end trims vehicle
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I’m considering going car-free again next year; I paid $20K for my last car write out of my checking account and have decided never to own a car worth more than 5% of my net worth. (I think it’s a good rule!)
It became a point of orthodoxy online that people don’t need financial literacy, they just need a better social safety net. I have come around to “Oh actually both are important.”
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It became a point of orthodoxy online that people don’t need financial literacy, they just need a better social safety net. I have come around to “Oh actually both are important.”
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RETVRN to when 40 year olds looked 65.
Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
RETVRN to when 40 year olds looked 65.
Ok I get that you think this is funny but for real my dog thinks she’s people
Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ok I get that you think this is funny but for real my dog thinks she’s people
