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Joel Dodge
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Balance is not a place it's a movement
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Never Forget
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.

Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
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Redirecting...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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hey by the way if you want to be fucked up for the rest of the day, I saw a statistic once that the number of gay men in Florida who died of AIDS was something like 10x or 20x the number of Florida votes the 2000 election was decided by

we don't know what world we'd be living in if they were here
February 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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america boldly answering the question "what if nazi germany and vichy france were the same country"
February 5, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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The harmonica lollllll
February 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Carta spitting
Fantasies inside your own head are morally neutral. Sex between consenting parties is morally neutral. Even and especially the gross, weird, freaky stuff. There is not a moral hierarchy to sexual fantasies.
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Fantasies inside your own head are morally neutral. Sex between consenting parties is morally neutral. Even and especially the gross, weird, freaky stuff. There is not a moral hierarchy to sexual fantasies.
February 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The lives of sex workers keep getting worse while the lives of pedophiles and sexual abusers keep getting easier. Every piece of evidence shows the superstructure loves sexual abuse and hates sexual agency. Destroy it or forever be Protestant.
Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen
Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards
Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,
January 31, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Aranofsky is and has always been a fuckass loser whose misanthropic films are both shallow and hateful.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'

• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War

• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind

• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Enjoy learning about history but when the podcast host and his idiot guest start joking about how it is silly that people were killed over getting TV access in Saudi Arabia in 1975 because "there weren't even any good shows" it is just so unnecessary and so so fucking stupid I have to quit.
January 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Let My Children Hear Music!!
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 AM
"not all congress" is one of the dumber things I've ever seen
January 21, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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british guy: i hope americans are ready to be hated

lib american reply: i'm so ashamed of my countrymen, i hope that the british don't hate me specifically

Hamburglar: i haven't stolen anything since i got sober
January 21, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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KOKO: Koko transsexual rights. Practical Koko human rights
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t call them transsexual rights.
KOKO: Good transition good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve transsexual
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford coherent politics. That’s transmedicalism
KOKO: misogyny professor
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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In case you need a cozy murder mystery distraction from *waves hands* everything.
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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He was a Communist, Elmo.
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Most of today's antiporn nonsense is just warmed over anti-masturbation campaigns. You can tell because none of them ever advocate for masturbating without the allegedly "addictive" nature of porn.

It's old Catholic church dogma for the digital age.
January 19, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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The programming at the Cloisters investigates the past in ways that help us understand the present more than the Met's American Wing does.

(Also, the American Wing is not unusual within the historical American field, sigh.)
At the Cloisters, an exhibition documenting the sexual diversity of the late Middle Ages, when the Church began to enforce its rigid categories of gender. It's an important exhibition during a terrifying moral panic against transgender people. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Review | In ‘Spectrum of Desire,’ the Met takes a nuanced look at gender fluidity
An exhibition of medieval art at the Cloisters is small but potent.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Very accessible and very engaging. Thinking of "AI" as part of the longer program of eugenics is a very helpful frame for understanding it, what its function is, and how you can think about and react to it.

I loved it and highly recommend reading it if it sounds even remotely up your alley.
As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics.

Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM