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Shoot - it's embargoed for our university gateway because it's too new. Ping me in a couple months so I don't forget?

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Outlier opinion: Much Ado About Nothing is an extraordinarily *mean* play with a bunch of memorable bits of comedy that are all anyone ever remembers.

I might have a heart attack and die from not-surprise.

If you find something that looks like my writing in Claude, here's a good reason: it's on the legal record that Anthropic stole every fucking book I've ever written. That's not the AI's writing. It's mine.

The NYT knows this, by the way. This is pro-AI propaganda and they fucking know it.

First thing we do, let’s fire all the consultants.

I am wearing the one of yours I won last year RIGHT NOW and I am SO excited to see more of your work this year!!

Maddening and important.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

While we talk about oil, water is the underpinning of Gulf life and it is so fragile… 🧵 below

No hell hot enough.

Christ.

The deuce you say.

I think it makes a lot of cis, straight people deeply uncomfortable to remember just how queerphobic society was, because a lot of them mostly went along with it in public, no matter how they might have personally felt about it.

Can he go away please? There are BETTER CHOICES. Get over your crush!

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Opa was a WWII vet (accepted the Okinawa surrender!) who was a head of sales for a large glass company and then organized young people’s concerts for his local symphony; Grandpa was likewise a vet who became a professor and then a dean for athletics at several universities. I am a lousy proletariat.

A picture of the asexual flag the trans flag the bi flag and the pride flag all labeled "it's fine of you haven't always known"

Exploration of who you are, your identity and sexuality is super important.
It is also so discouraged socially.
You can find out. You can get to know yourself.
There is always time, it is never too late.

It does not make you lesser, fake.

It is fine if you haven't always known.

Ooooooooh!!!

If you were waiting for a reason...

Fucking yikes.

Yippee thank you so much!

I am coming back to this delight because someone YET AGAIN squealed about my beautiful scarf and this time they asked me for the pattern. Would you be able to connect me so I can spread the love even further?

(I am wearing mine today!)

30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.

This is incredible. The frozen distaste in his eyes, the way he holds it like it's contagious, the tiny cut to hide some sort of giveaway recoil, and the way he isn't going to take a second bite at gunpoint. Amazing.

Like the neocons, Trump’s neo-neocons repeatedly invoke the West’s complacency and unwillingness to defend its own values, a frailty that can be rectified only through the ritual use of military force against weaker targets. The conservative writer Jonah Goldberg once articulated what he called the “Ledeen Doctrine,” after the neoconservative Michael Ledeen, which was: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” Despite Trump’s rejection of George W. Bush, MAGA bears many similarities to the right-wing politics of that era—a fetishization of violence and torture, the treatment of opposition as treasonous, a disdain for due process, and an anti-Muslim bigotry at odds with fundamental American principles.

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“So called international organizations…no stupid rules of engagement.” We are a rogue murder state now, and positively proud of it.

a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.

The number of people who seem utterly convinced this dude can’t be a Nazi because he says he’s pro-worker is just depressing.

I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me

🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time:

• Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting
• Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf

These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.