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That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic. (Note for free subscriber...

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:

It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!

www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

People suppressing their own moral compass for fear of committing a heresy. "Don't worry, once you are in heaven your newly perfect self will wholeheartedly cheer at the sight of people in hell"

Step 1: Impoverish two or three generations of the working class by depressing wages for decades

Step 2:

Step 3: Profit

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

i’m really digging the new democratic catchphrase “from the window, to the wall”

NFL’s New Overtime Rules - First possession per team - Which comes first: score or possession - If coin flip is heads, elect to kick or receive. Same if tails, once possessions - If a field goal is kicked on first possession, team on field must acquiesce Designed by Jon. Share with your friends if you found this helpful!

The fact that "hypnosis" has become one of the concepts regularly banned on adult websites makes me feel fully insane. We are truly living in the nightmare return of every Christian conservative moral panic we ever laughed at.

Yellow, black, and white text surrounds a scared cat crossing dimensions on a hoverboard. The text reads "Scram Cat, upcoming Slugblaster fan zine, call for pitches, pitch deadline: December 31st, Art! Fiction! Supplements!"

Hey Slugblaster fans! I'm helping make SCRAM CAT MAGAZINE, a Slugblaster fan zine! Got art, trippy fan fiction, or a small supplement you want to share with other fans of the Slugblaster TTRPG?

We're taking pitches until December 31st! Find out more and pitch here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A screenshot of an AI Overview that insists that Charlton Heston's name is pronounced "CHUR-tuhn." The actual text reads: Charlton Heston is pronounced CHUR-tuhn HESS-tuhn. The first part, "Charlton," sounds like "CHUR-tuhn," with the emphasis on the first syllable. The last name, "Heston," sounds like "HESS-tuhn," with the "H" sound at the beginning of the first syllable. Charlton: (CHUR-tuhn): The first syllable is stressed. Heston: (HESS-tuhn): The first syllable is stressed. You can hear pronunciations of the name by visiting sites like Youglish or Forvo.com and listening to the provided audio examples

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the 2 types of businesses that will still exist in 5 years:

globochain that prices everything based on a real-time check of your bank statement. takes apple pay

deli with prices written in marker. the owner hates having customers but you keep going because the egg salad is really good. cash only

slowly starting to type away at a new piece and very seriously considering including the "torture is a form of play that the state nonconsensually drags people into" theory that @nonblnary.bsky.social introduced me to as part of the narration

Hard not to think of all the people who should have know better who fought against grad student organizing over the years.

General Paul-Charles-Francois-Adrien-Henri Dieudonné Thiebault.

I’m sorry, you canNOT have a five part hyphenate first name, this is unacceptable to me

Lane Kiffin's LSU contract is worth nearly the entirety of my Louisiana public university's total budget

we were driving around and my wife said ‘this looks like a place you could get a Chipotle’ and i laughed so hard because damn if that doesn’t summarize the basic urban geography of America in a nutshell

A danger of being, well, me, over the weekends is that more often than I'd like to admit, when scrolling, I see ... numbers in one of your posts ... and immediately investigate further because I think it's a weekend SCOTUS or en banc appeals court ruling.

6-3 gets me the most, obviously.

There are brilliant people who aren't curious and dull knives who thirst for knowledge about the world. I'd much rather talk with a dullard who genuinely wants to know stuff than a genius who can't accept that they might be wrong.

The reason Roboute Guilliman is such a beloved character among the Middle Aged section of the 40k fanbase is basically that he has depression from realising this is true but not quite having enough effective power to make it happen.

"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."

“everyone is just crazy now” i don’t know man i think things are pretty bad and as of now there’s no political force strong enough to make them better. That’s a way of feeling but it isn’t madness. The mind will do anything it can to protect itself from agony. Sometimes that’s bad driving and labubu

yeah the whole "buy more centerfuges than a single nation state should reasonably be able to power" seems to be more of a limiting factor than the knowledge

always wanted to be an ornamental hermit

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Y'all gotta get better at communicating.

Some of y'all are approaching 30, or past it, still unable to communicate your thoughts & feelings with other people.

Even if it feels tough, it's better to communicate your inability to communicate with others than just ghosting them for days or weeks.

older gamers aren't mad about wokeness in games. we're mad that DND 4th Edition was jettisoned for the mechanically inferior 5th Edition

YouTube video by Lizard Leigh how one company broke sewing for EVERYONE

Juuuuust in case you were feeling too relaxed about capitalism today, go watch this FANTASTIC deep dive into clothing history and what the closing of JoAnns means:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VJx...

most devastating comment I’ve ever received on a paper was “you’re not Howard Zinn” in 10th grade and I’m pretty sure even that one was better than this