Bahá'í Bahá'í Miss American Pie
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I like civil society and dislike misanthropy
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I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
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participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
January 13, 2026 at 12:48 AM
participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
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sometimes i think about how park chung-hee's régime ended
Republicans could end all of this at any time.
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 AM
sometimes i think about how park chung-hee's régime ended
please please more of this. collective song is a great and powerful tool
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 AM
please please more of this. collective song is a great and powerful tool
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
she's running
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
January 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
she's running
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ceding AI to the right is a generational poltical mistake and bullying LLM researchers off bluesky to cook their brains in twitter racism is a self defeating and foolish act from well meaning people deluding themselves into thinking intentional ignorance is a valid form of critique and resistance
January 9, 2026 at 12:33 AM
ceding AI to the right is a generational poltical mistake and bullying LLM researchers off bluesky to cook their brains in twitter racism is a self defeating and foolish act from well meaning people deluding themselves into thinking intentional ignorance is a valid form of critique and resistance
good riddance (?) but also goodbye to the most interesting regional accent in Congress
The era of Congressman Steny Hoyer will end in January after 46 years. First elected in 1981, he's the House's longest-serving Democrat. Served stints as conference chair, whip and House majority/minority leader. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Steny Hoyer, the longest-serving Democrat in the House, to retire
The Democratic congressman has represented Maryland in the House for more than four decades, including two stints as majority leader under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
www.nbcnews.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
good riddance (?) but also goodbye to the most interesting regional accent in Congress
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"More strikingly, a recent study shows that the coup prosecutions did not weaken democratic support among Bolsonaro voters and...strengthened pro-democracy attitudes among non-Bolsonaro voters, despite the fact that confidence in democratic institutions has declined in Brazil in the past decade."
January 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
"More strikingly, a recent study shows that the coup prosecutions did not weaken democratic support among Bolsonaro voters and...strengthened pro-democracy attitudes among non-Bolsonaro voters, despite the fact that confidence in democratic institutions has declined in Brazil in the past decade."
My mom will occasionally drop a fact like "yeah I know someone who was murdered at Carnegie Deli" girl WHAT
January 3, 2026 at 6:08 PM
My mom will occasionally drop a fact like "yeah I know someone who was murdered at Carnegie Deli" girl WHAT
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this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning
January 3, 2026 at 11:34 AM
this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning
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every new yorker's version of this map
December 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
every new yorker's version of this map
I agree with the widespread anti-death penalty sentiment, but I don't understand why so few people seem to be similarly opposed to life sentences. Is a life sentence not effectively a Death by Prison sentence?
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I agree with the widespread anti-death penalty sentiment, but I don't understand why so few people seem to be similarly opposed to life sentences. Is a life sentence not effectively a Death by Prison sentence?
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“Corridors without cameras” are the new “unlocked back doors”
I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...
Trump administration investigates Brown's security after shooting
The Department of Education said its Office of Federal Student Aid would investigate if Brown University violated the Higher Education Act in connection with the deadly shooting on Dec. 13.
www.nbcboston.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
“Corridors without cameras” are the new “unlocked back doors”
I know he's really into it and I'm trying not to harsh his mellow but I really do think most combat sports are pretty awful
*playing weiqi with 15 y/o cousin*
cousin: You're really good with the strategy. Have you ever tried boxing?
me: No, I prefer not getting hit
cousin: That's where the strategy comes in
me: I use my strategic thinking to avoid situations where I have to avoid getting hit in the first place
cousin: You're really good with the strategy. Have you ever tried boxing?
me: No, I prefer not getting hit
cousin: That's where the strategy comes in
me: I use my strategic thinking to avoid situations where I have to avoid getting hit in the first place
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I know he's really into it and I'm trying not to harsh his mellow but I really do think most combat sports are pretty awful
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here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
*playing weiqi with 15 y/o cousin*
cousin: You're really good with the strategy. Have you ever tried boxing?
me: No, I prefer not getting hit
cousin: That's where the strategy comes in
me: I use my strategic thinking to avoid situations where I have to avoid getting hit in the first place
cousin: You're really good with the strategy. Have you ever tried boxing?
me: No, I prefer not getting hit
cousin: That's where the strategy comes in
me: I use my strategic thinking to avoid situations where I have to avoid getting hit in the first place
December 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
*playing weiqi with 15 y/o cousin*
cousin: You're really good with the strategy. Have you ever tried boxing?
me: No, I prefer not getting hit
cousin: That's where the strategy comes in
me: I use my strategic thinking to avoid situations where I have to avoid getting hit in the first place
cousin: You're really good with the strategy. Have you ever tried boxing?
me: No, I prefer not getting hit
cousin: That's where the strategy comes in
me: I use my strategic thinking to avoid situations where I have to avoid getting hit in the first place
Greatest possible birthday gift for me
it's so weird how the president just went missing on January 17, 2026 at approximately 2:13PM Eastern Standard Time
December 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Greatest possible birthday gift for me
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
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I've learned a lot of stuff in my life that I rarely have reason to use, but I've also learned a lot of stuff that I never expected to need to use and do use regularly, and the larger point is that there is value to being an educated person, without everything needing to be instrumentalized.
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I've learned a lot of stuff in my life that I rarely have reason to use, but I've also learned a lot of stuff that I never expected to need to use and do use regularly, and the larger point is that there is value to being an educated person, without everything needing to be instrumentalized.
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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All discourse is the same now.
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
All discourse is the same now.
does anyone else think that the idea of a sex offender registry is frankly insane
December 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
does anyone else think that the idea of a sex offender registry is frankly insane
Look, this is far from empirical but I take my cues from my grandparents. They are healthy for their late 80s: They drank caffeine and alcohol all their lives, and didn't look for maximum purity in their food. They didn't overindulge in anything unhealthy but it's not like they deprived themselves
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Look, this is far from empirical but I take my cues from my grandparents. They are healthy for their late 80s: They drank caffeine and alcohol all their lives, and didn't look for maximum purity in their food. They didn't overindulge in anything unhealthy but it's not like they deprived themselves