gauaren.bsky.social
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Hell, Milo Manara drew a two-volume biography of Caravaggio to make this specific point.
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hell, Milo Manara drew a two-volume biography of Caravaggio to make this specific point.
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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im sick of bullshit, im sick of rancor, im sick of aggression, of preening and sanctimony and malice and grandiosity and fraud and corruption. i would like things to be a lot less like the way they are and yet, i am skeptical that the toothpaste is ever going back into the tube
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
im sick of bullshit, im sick of rancor, im sick of aggression, of preening and sanctimony and malice and grandiosity and fraud and corruption. i would like things to be a lot less like the way they are and yet, i am skeptical that the toothpaste is ever going back into the tube
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growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
The noisiest Dem primary so far is probably Maine Senate, and here for instance I think it’s useful to see that despite all the bad publicity Platner still appears to be the favorite:
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
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reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit
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the leader of a college republican group at OU says that the quality of Samantha Fulnecky's essay was "indefensible" and that the trans grad student who graded it graded it correctly: www.kswo.com/2025/12/05/p...
‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy
The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.
www.kswo.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
the leader of a college republican group at OU says that the quality of Samantha Fulnecky's essay was "indefensible" and that the trans grad student who graded it graded it correctly: www.kswo.com/2025/12/05/p...
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cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’
The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster
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It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people
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If true, and we shall have to see, it will make Cole an even stranger suspect because, as far as I and anyone else have seen so far, he doesn't appear to have any prior political associations.
Going from basically nothing to pipe bomber is a hell of a thing.
Going from basically nothing to pipe bomber is a hell of a thing.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If true, and we shall have to see, it will make Cole an even stranger suspect because, as far as I and anyone else have seen so far, he doesn't appear to have any prior political associations.
Going from basically nothing to pipe bomber is a hell of a thing.
Going from basically nothing to pipe bomber is a hell of a thing.
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um okay? Appreciate the candor?
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
um okay? Appreciate the candor?
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“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again
Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again
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republicans who think you have a safe seat: no you don’t
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
republicans who think you have a safe seat: no you don’t
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Journalists have been deliberately misunderstanding this since i started paying attention 25+ years ago, which is to say they understand perfectly well but they are liars
By situating the Times as nobly filling the space between the diametrically opposed wants of the “left” and the “right” and suggesting that all of these critiques are ideologically motivated and are equally valid (or invalid), this misses the point of much of the criticism of the paper’s coverage.
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Journalists have been deliberately misunderstanding this since i started paying attention 25+ years ago, which is to say they understand perfectly well but they are liars
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fundamentally the New York Times sees its job as disciplining its readers rather than informing them
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
fundamentally the New York Times sees its job as disciplining its readers rather than informing them
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The word "doomerism" is horribly abused on here. Some of you use it as code for "telling me what I don't want to hear" and it's childish.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The word "doomerism" is horribly abused on here. Some of you use it as code for "telling me what I don't want to hear" and it's childish.
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
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what do you even do about journalists like this. biggest megaphone on the planet at the times and choosing to promote lies. it doesn't do shit if we all block her, and we can only cancel subs so many times.
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
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 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
what do you even do about journalists like this. biggest megaphone on the planet at the times and choosing to promote lies. it doesn't do shit if we all block her, and we can only cancel subs so many times.
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
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I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
Here’s the text of the Northwestern settlement with the DoJ, which includes a $75 million financial component / payoff (cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social):
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
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Please join us on the next Ezra Douthglesias podcast, where we will once again discuss how The Democrats Must Not Talk Funny & need to Reach Out to Real Folkz with an Abundance of Moderate Popularism 🧐🤔🤷♂️
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Please join us on the next Ezra Douthglesias podcast, where we will once again discuss how The Democrats Must Not Talk Funny & need to Reach Out to Real Folkz with an Abundance of Moderate Popularism 🧐🤔🤷♂️
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the fact that the news media isn't blasting across every front page of the country how completely unhinged the president is on a 24/7/365 basis, tells me that the news media is completely complicit in Trump's regime.
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
the fact that the news media isn't blasting across every front page of the country how completely unhinged the president is on a 24/7/365 basis, tells me that the news media is completely complicit in Trump's regime.
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Jesus. What the fuck? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Jesus. What the fuck? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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If any of the allegations are true, Nuzzi covering for RFK Jr. directly played a role in the gutting of America's public health infrastructure, the defenestrating of the CDC and the promotion of the lie that vaccines causing autism.
If the Nuzzi blast radius doesn't impact both the new editor of VF and the NYT profiler, then something wrong. Holy shit.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If any of the allegations are true, Nuzzi covering for RFK Jr. directly played a role in the gutting of America's public health infrastructure, the defenestrating of the CDC and the promotion of the lie that vaccines causing autism.
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Absolutely insane but not surprising that a major magazine looked at someone who makes Stephen Glass look like a boy scout and said hey let's make her an editor and tie our brand in with hers
Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Absolutely insane but not surprising that a major magazine looked at someone who makes Stephen Glass look like a boy scout and said hey let's make her an editor and tie our brand in with hers