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Political theory &c. Emphasis on the &c.
Samuel Butler, no?
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The word “future” seems awfully anachronistic here
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Maybe Joey could now estimate the revenues gained by having a university which produces college graduates and compare those results.
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Within @aaup.org, there's a lot of advocacy chapters who wonder what power they have without a CBA. We're here to say it doesn't matter. Organizing is organizing is organizing. You want the contract but if you act like a union then you're a union. I call this The Newsies Principle.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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* Before patenting the now-iconic bear-shaped honey container, the inventor also patented other honey bottle designs. We could've had penguins or creepy clowns instead!
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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* Haribo used to sell a gummi candy in Germany called "Asses With Ears."

I promise this image is 100% real and not AI.
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?

They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!

BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.

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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
You misspelled "two exceptions"
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:

"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is also literally the plot of TC Boyle's most recent short story, and (I suspect) his novel coming out in April.
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Because every time something is labeled “vibes”, I go look and it’s just Marxism.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Everyone loves Triplets of Belleville
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"Do you own a vinyl record or CD player?" is just another way of being over 40
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
You can tell “Academica Press” is widely well-regarded by its design team’s choices here: photo, font, layout.
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is Maxinquay erasure
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM