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People have suggested that direct historical experience with autocrats help
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speed dating but it’s just a scholastic book fair for adults
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
speed dating but it’s just a scholastic book fair for adults
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The thing about modern life is that we have denormalised beating someone up for bad takes, and that's an actual disaster for humanity.
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The thing about modern life is that we have denormalised beating someone up for bad takes, and that's an actual disaster for humanity.
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Good morning guys and gals and nonbinary pals, today is a wonderful day to work on your creative projects. This is not optional, get some work done. This is a threat.
Unless you have to do family stuff because it's that time of year. In which case this is a threat to enjoy time with family.
Unless you have to do family stuff because it's that time of year. In which case this is a threat to enjoy time with family.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Good morning guys and gals and nonbinary pals, today is a wonderful day to work on your creative projects. This is not optional, get some work done. This is a threat.
Unless you have to do family stuff because it's that time of year. In which case this is a threat to enjoy time with family.
Unless you have to do family stuff because it's that time of year. In which case this is a threat to enjoy time with family.
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i’m sorry but if i have to eat the amount of shit i do on here for keeping up to date with my field (programming and data science) somehow making me responsible for sam altman, journalism doesn’t get to plead uwu small not true scotsman
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
i’m sorry but if i have to eat the amount of shit i do on here for keeping up to date with my field (programming and data science) somehow making me responsible for sam altman, journalism doesn’t get to plead uwu small not true scotsman
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The fact the biggest reduction in child poverty in my lifetime didn't result in overwhelming electoral support really is a damning indictment of the whole system we've got going on.
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The fact the biggest reduction in child poverty in my lifetime didn't result in overwhelming electoral support really is a damning indictment of the whole system we've got going on.
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That’s why the expanded child tax credit was so popular and there was mass public support for its renewa.. *looks at notes* oh no
I think every major policy initiative has to come with a specific Really Obvious Immediate Benefit for voters; if BBB had come with $1000 checks or nationwide free buses or some such, it would have been a huge success. You could fund universal preschool with a fraction of this year’s tax cuts.
Unlike the far right, liberals and progressives do not live inside an endlessly mutable reactionary phantasmagoria where the search for energizing narratives rules all. We have actual policy objectives. Those objectives are doomed to fail in the media dreamland we’re building
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
That’s why the expanded child tax credit was so popular and there was mass public support for its renewa.. *looks at notes* oh no
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Melding the experiences of 2008 - 2024, it appears that the most effective political strategy would be to extend recessions into a long period of low-inflation malaise while looting the Treasury to periodically send out stimmy checks (ideally with your face on the envelope). Yeah.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Melding the experiences of 2008 - 2024, it appears that the most effective political strategy would be to extend recessions into a long period of low-inflation malaise while looting the Treasury to periodically send out stimmy checks (ideally with your face on the envelope). Yeah.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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I have fallen back into the old ways myself, but we are going to have to stop trusting images (and videos) as truth without a cryptographically-verifiable chain of custody.
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I have fallen back into the old ways myself, but we are going to have to stop trusting images (and videos) as truth without a cryptographically-verifiable chain of custody.
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the rest of your life is going to be at least partially defined by knowing how to avoid getting scammed. you share that with your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents and ancestors going back to wherever they came from.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
the rest of your life is going to be at least partially defined by knowing how to avoid getting scammed. you share that with your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents and ancestors going back to wherever they came from.
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This is exactly why I made Bluesky feeds for every type of family member—to capture maximum holiday mess
remember to stream your family fights live tomorrow! share that holiday spirit with those of us without our own seasonal tension!
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This is exactly why I made Bluesky feeds for every type of family member—to capture maximum holiday mess
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i’m so happy for him
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i’m so happy for him
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The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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i like how the one example we have of mass scale homeschooling was the pandemic and it was a complete disaster that burnt out every parent on earth and resulted in half a generation being socially and intellectually stunted forever
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
i like how the one example we have of mass scale homeschooling was the pandemic and it was a complete disaster that burnt out every parent on earth and resulted in half a generation being socially and intellectually stunted forever
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Our president is an idiot, but we only have ourselves to blame.
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Our president is an idiot, but we only have ourselves to blame.
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It's not nice rewatching a show from my childhood about adults and realising I'm now much older than all the main characters.
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It's not nice rewatching a show from my childhood about adults and realising I'm now much older than all the main characters.
Xennial Indie Edition: Airbag (Radiohead) Silent Shout (The Knife) Get Innocuous! (LCD Soundsystem) Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe (K.Dot) Big Exit (PJ Harvey) * hon mentions: Cowboys (Portishead) Small Stakes (Spoon) The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (The Postal Service) Fear Not
Of Man (Mos Def)
Of Man (Mos Def)
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Xennial Indie Edition: Airbag (Radiohead) Silent Shout (The Knife) Get Innocuous! (LCD Soundsystem) Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe (K.Dot) Big Exit (PJ Harvey) * hon mentions: Cowboys (Portishead) Small Stakes (Spoon) The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (The Postal Service) Fear Not
Of Man (Mos Def)
Of Man (Mos Def)
No disrespect to Richard Armitage, but he isn’t quite the brooding method heavyweight on screen that Viggo Mortensen was
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
No disrespect to Richard Armitage, but he isn’t quite the brooding method heavyweight on screen that Viggo Mortensen was
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
human beings are a type of animal
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
human beings are a type of animal
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Defence policy discourse on the left is actually the peak of childishness, akin to immigration discourse on the right. You can provide fucking piles of data on what actually provably happens and requires action and people will still growl PFFFFT SHUT UP LIB LOL and go watch tons of porn instead
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Defence policy discourse on the left is actually the peak of childishness, akin to immigration discourse on the right. You can provide fucking piles of data on what actually provably happens and requires action and people will still growl PFFFFT SHUT UP LIB LOL and go watch tons of porn instead
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so basically all of these are real political tendencies now, I was so early
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
so basically all of these are real political tendencies now, I was so early