metaphile
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Politics and some personal stuff probably. American cis white queer middle-aged woman.
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This THREAD.
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This THREAD.
I wish to stop hearing about Olivia Nuzzi very soon, but a thing that is pissing me off is that for many people her journalistic malpractice is going to obscure the very real fact that Biden was still actually not up to the job of being President for another 4 years, for a variety of reasons.
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I wish to stop hearing about Olivia Nuzzi very soon, but a thing that is pissing me off is that for many people her journalistic malpractice is going to obscure the very real fact that Biden was still actually not up to the job of being President for another 4 years, for a variety of reasons.
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Thread.
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Thread.
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hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
Love Is All Around
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today
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It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
YouTube video by andrew867
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November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.
You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
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I was at a non- English conference this week and I was alarmed at the number of times I heard “I asked Chat GPT” from people who are in social movements and community work. Are these very important debates about the impact of this tech surfacing beyond English first communities?
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I was at a non- English conference this week and I was alarmed at the number of times I heard “I asked Chat GPT” from people who are in social movements and community work. Are these very important debates about the impact of this tech surfacing beyond English first communities?
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This is brilliant
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is brilliant
Everything about this is bullshit, but what is mouth tape??
And yes, the swag bags. Attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags with:
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Everything about this is bullshit, but what is mouth tape??
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Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders
And yes, the swag bags. Attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags with:
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders
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"his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy"
Beyond parody. And utterly disgusting.
Beyond parody. And utterly disgusting.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy"
Beyond parody. And utterly disgusting.
Beyond parody. And utterly disgusting.
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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With just one race left to call (ballots are still being cured), of 222 races up on 11/4, @runforsomething.net had 142 winners, 10 candidates moving to run offs, and 42 (!!!) red to blue flips.
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
With just one race left to call (ballots are still being cured), of 222 races up on 11/4, @runforsomething.net had 142 winners, 10 candidates moving to run offs, and 42 (!!!) red to blue flips.
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Less than $700 away from our goal. Thank you to everyone who has supported us!
Please consider donating $5 to help us reach that mark !
Please consider donating $5 to help us reach that mark !
Imagine not having a place to shower. Days without being able to get clean. Nowhere to go.
We already have the shower trailer. We just need a truck to haul it so we can bring free showers and dignity to people in NJ.
We are only a few hundred dollars short. Every dollar helps.
gofund.me/0b71593db
We already have the shower trailer. We just need a truck to haul it so we can bring free showers and dignity to people in NJ.
We are only a few hundred dollars short. Every dollar helps.
gofund.me/0b71593db
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Less than $700 away from our goal. Thank you to everyone who has supported us!
Please consider donating $5 to help us reach that mark !
Please consider donating $5 to help us reach that mark !
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Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.
JD Vance's steady assertion of hostile claims against Greenland, which rarely ever rate a mention in US newspapers, are front page news across northern Europe.
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Because here’s the thing: thinking someone is hot may be involuntary, but “wandering eyes” don’t wander on their own—ogling anyone is a conscious choice, just like groping or making comments is. Own your choices, and choose not to be a creep.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Because here’s the thing: thinking someone is hot may be involuntary, but “wandering eyes” don’t wander on their own—ogling anyone is a conscious choice, just like groping or making comments is. Own your choices, and choose not to be a creep.
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Notice the straw man here. The crime of pedophilia isn’t “being attracted to 17 year olds,” it’s sexually assaulting children, which includes 17 year olds. It’s not some kind of a thought crime—nobody cares what you’re attracted to until you act on it!
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Notice the straw man here. The crime of pedophilia isn’t “being attracted to 17 year olds,” it’s sexually assaulting children, which includes 17 year olds. It’s not some kind of a thought crime—nobody cares what you’re attracted to until you act on it!
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the number of emails where he's like "I'm gonna force this woman to have sex with me in order to keep a career" is insane how is this creature not being dragged from his house and paraded in a public square
larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
the number of emails where he's like "I'm gonna force this woman to have sex with me in order to keep a career" is insane how is this creature not being dragged from his house and paraded in a public square
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New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Donate Here. archive.org/donate
New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
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I know that this site leans quite left, so I very much hope that people will recognize the significance of this news. The right is cleaving, and the side triumphing — in terms of sheer numbers and media coverage — needs to be understood for exactly what it is: authoritarian and bigoted.
Robert George has resigned from the Heritage board of trustees.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I know that this site leans quite left, so I very much hope that people will recognize the significance of this news. The right is cleaving, and the side triumphing — in terms of sheer numbers and media coverage — needs to be understood for exactly what it is: authoritarian and bigoted.
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it definitely shows why schools like Harvard hated Title IX improvements designed to actually prevent and properly respond to sexual violence.
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
it definitely shows why schools like Harvard hated Title IX improvements designed to actually prevent and properly respond to sexual violence.
The lies are just going to get weirder and weirder as they get more and more desperate
I knew they blamed immigrants for everything, but I didn’t think they would blame immigrant cows for hamburger prices.
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The lies are just going to get weirder and weirder as they get more and more desperate