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Psyched for it to arrive 😎

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.

“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

We often speak of you.

the Master Sword . . . even now it is said to reside deep in the forest . . .

Nicole Kidman leaving her lawyers office meme

Finally admitting I prefer Linux and Mac to Windows after being a life long PC boy

Really excellent read.

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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

Dropping Spotify was so much easier than I thought it would be. In fact, dropping all streaming is a great choice!

Screenshots from My Dinner With Andre. Wallace Shawn, a balding white man looking as tired as a human has ever looked, walks a graffiti-strewn subway platform and thinks, "When I was young, all I thought about was art and music. Now I'm 36 and all i think about is cow tools."

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The fundamental Republican mindset: everything must feel like a tacky, luxury commercial space.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

I'm gonna be eighty years old meeting a sixty-five year old and say like, "Oh so you're a little baby, huh?"

Simply cannot stress enough that you’re gonna have to leave corporate media behind; it is hostile to you, and your lifestyle.

Mamdani!!!!

Accidentally signed an email "Joshua+" so maybe this is the start of something new

We live in the most evil country in the world.

Damn, I’d love to destroy the system... but then I’d have no shot at being a guard one day.

My friend telling me a story about the birth of her first child and I keep interrupting her exposition to demand she "show don't tell".

If you bake your own cobbler you get to go crazy on it

SCENE REPORT: a squirrel carries a half a slice of pizza along the top of a wooden fence. Thank you, Atlanta.

No Novels November

He's talking about a cognitive test for dementia.

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

People have been talking about Bowling for Soup all year.

This thread totally rules. An important piece of the puzzle.

a modest stack

Writing on reading. Twenty-Four Books I Read While Writing My First Novel. I do not think I read the right ones. boldoblique.neocities.org/24books