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I am so proud of the small group of people that has been grinding on this project for 10 years. Looks like there will finally be a ground-breaking in 2026 - thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...

you're a fucking monster

i dunno i think it's normal to be all caps about all the fucking murdering going on in broad daylight

The idea that enhancing surveillance in academic buildings will protect students from mass shootings is absolutely fucking preposterous. What it will increase is the criminalization of our students. Reject it!!! GUN CONTROL IS THE ANSWER TO GUN VIOLENCE. BEAT THE GUNS INTO PLOWSHARES.

What they’re doing at CBS is the equivalent of my aspiration to open a coffee shop/wine bar/book shop/record store it’s a business idea based on what EYE like rather than what customers may demand.

Some of you are getting signed copies of Dreyer’s English for Christmas.

really enjoying Blue Prince but cannot figure out how to upgrade from the melee weapon

Sitting at a bar enjoying a drink and a young woman approaches me to ask if I’d like some black sesame tres leches…

What are unspoken rules that apply everywhere in the world. Like how if the bartender likes you, your drink magically gets stiffer

This sounds like a case of GenAI??

"You're not special. You can go access it on The Atlantic like everyone else"

the thing about the court of public opinion is that having charisma cannot guarantee a win but an absolute lack of it usually equals a loss

Let answer your question with a question, why don’t you think the majority of white people who voted for him should also be repelled by a racist pig?

Oh no I’ve hit the Discover page

There are many great things about this Hollywood Reporter interview with Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams, especially his dad's autism and his own unmedicated ADHD, but the section on doomscrolling Twitter stuck out to me immediately: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Thoughts and prayers with Nuno Loureiro's family after he was killed in his home last night. It is shocking to lose any physicist of my generation because we are still relatively young, much less in this terribly violent way. Beat the guns into plowshares.

Honest question: Is Nate Silver influential? Are politicians etc... following him and taking up what he puts down?

Just to be clear, he means the people who are Democratic county chairs, the people who go canvassing, the people who are making sure that doors get knocked on and we get out the vote.

BREAKING: I just was reminded of another, besides Gimmick and Betty Garrett. Hint: sung by a beloved belter in a beloved (by many) flop.

I feel like it might have been a bad idea to get rid of all the people who know how to find mass shooters because like, DEI

Want to circle back to this because they have gotten what they want and a big part of what they’re doing is justifying why we should continue pushing Black people out of public life regardless of who’s in office.

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I always love matching my plugs to my outfits but tbh I really outdid myself today

I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.

publishers weekly pushing an AI workshop to help master Amazon's algorithms, among other horrors... is a thing. jesus. this mass delusion is going to destroy everything if there isn't enough pushback.

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things you would not believe are happening on the resist lib version of this website

Alice is finally watching “Wake Up Dead Man” and we are having a great time

"what do journalists like" versus "what do Americans want to watch on TV," exhibit 9000

excited for my Mom to visit and help me drive back to Toronto; less excited about navigating Christmas crowds and trying to buy Broadway tickets or book restaurants during the busiest week of the year for NYC tourism

skdfj lmao ...also that lil wink and flex? I might have a crush

Most people didn't know who Charlie Kirk was when he was alive and could only be startled or coaxed into caring about his death for a very short time. They never cared what Erika Kirk had to say at all.

Bari’s skill set is being interpersonally charming to very powerful people—a thing that, by all accounts, she does quite well—but it wouldn’t have taken a genius to predict that those people might at some point begin to overestimate the universality of her appeal beyond their social circle

Okay so setting aside…so many things here, the argument has gone from “suspected drug dealers” to “were on a part of the ocean where we claim drug dealers also once were.”

shout out to the Nigerians who bought the whole "we've got to intervene militarily for the sake of Nigerian Christians" thing they tried out that one week

the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music

Another darkly comic story when placed against the backdrop of writers *still* whining about “wokeness.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Love a good 10 PM panicked “I need cookies for school tomorrow”

They’re pricing people out of the ACA market while *also* making cuts to Medicaid.

Adapting a deeply personal story in a way that makes the person who wrote it experience it all over again is a real kindness and a small miracle. There's been a lot of pain adjacent to this film, a lot of sad stories that touch it. But Reiner seems to have done his part with great kindness.

This is likely going to get me yelled at or at least grumbled about again but lots of young people were not told the truth about PhD programs over the past 2 decades. There wasn't an honest accounting that most of them were not going to get tenure track jobs even if they really wanted them.

I don’t doubt it, this is a big part of why “c’mon, you know you think it too” is the persuasion strategy for conservatives.

Your painted gloss discovers, To men that understand you, words and weakness.

Just realized I'm inevitably going to be a character in this guy's 10k word substack self-pity saga.

I dunno, Laura sounds like a 5 star asshole, I prefer my mom, I too would not talk to this one

Someone I connected with on here in December when they felt bereft and unsure of what to do has been periodically updating me on the terrific actions they have been doing. Yesterday, they shared news about a very successful project and I was happier for them than if I had done it. Congrats!

there’s so much love in this thread. go scroll for a few minutes if you’re having a rough day

there's no way this was the costume budget for a Matt Damon movie lmaao

People hate nothing more than being debunked about a fact they tell people at cocktail parties

thank god, I feel like we never hear from parents

I watched this game and it was legitimately the worst announcing I have ever heard in any event in my life. It's like they were watching a game from 2010. They were literally lying about what was happening on the screen. It's like they thought heir job was to narrate a Hallmark movie

this was too mean and seemed to offend some nice people and I understand why. sorry, folks in Arkansas, you have a very nice state that deserves better

House Republicans holding a hearing on the “hate” fomented by the SPLC while Trump is crowing over the murder of a critic is too rich.

It will not shock you to learn that this was a lie.

Dropping this the same day as the sad white guy essay is diabolical work from Reuters and I salute it.

I'm from Los Angeles douche bag

And let the congregation say: Sure, Jan.

When I first got here, and people were demanding everyone not to talk “political,” I remember someone explicitly arguing it’d be bad to make white people upset since they’re the majority. It was pathetic.

I am asking people to please stop being ridiculous. The powerful white woman knew she was on record. Y'all think a person who ran a successful fascist Presidential campaign is naive about interviews and especially politics? Come on.

imagine getting so wasted you don't even remember getting back home and wake up wondering if you made a fool of yourself and if anyone you know noticed and then log onto the internet and discover it's so much worse than that

FUCKING HICKENLOOPER AGAIN!?????!?!??!!??!?!

Usually you can just say you disagree with something or someone instead of creating a fake story to justify this.

men may have mean and meagre faces

From last night's Writers Bloc Shirley Jackson evening with the glamorous Annabeth Gish and @kerryomalley.bsky.social and our special guest star the extremely gracious and charming Laurence Jackson Hyman (SJ's son!).

Let's please be serious.

hoping to keep my “didn’t blow up the house” streak going through at least 2026

me: wow this article is awful, who are these people? these people: "Compact, an online magazine founded in 2022, seeks a new political center devoted to the common good." me: ah

i wondered why my eyes were burning and i had a slight headache until i went into the kitchen and saw one of the burners has been releasing gas for an hour

since doing this math the other day I find myself wondering if I should get a new headshot done I love my headshot, but it's also from roughly 50 pounds ago lol. altho it's not like it's not readily recognizable as me or anything, just there's slightly more of me lol

Ending 2025 with the grounded sense of hope I picked up in Chicago, as told here:

this is perfect

It’s amazing to me that this piece of shit is a senator and not a freshman rep from butthole county, arkansas

Just a note that when I post excerpts from novels in progress, something about sharing helps me and also sometimes I have to make language more precise to meet the word count. But I'm also not fixing mistakes on purpose. I don't want you to point out typos because sometimes a typo is an opportunity.

He’s a cormorant in the black throes of the night, following the currents, the icy slap of kelp liquid and solid against the feathers and he in the dark and mewling. Here is his beak and here is his eye, these parts that are not part of him, as if his eye might as well be a leaky barnacle. - wip

I could read that Compact essay about a sad white man or I could literally do anything else with my already stressful life as a quad minority undergoing an international move due to restrictive US immigration policies

Ben would be a great name for a dead guy

This reminded me so much of the men in my family shooting the breeze: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLy... - I smiled all the way through.

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

Publishing the first one the same year journalists of color continue to experience mass layoffs and freelance budgets have shrunk even more, further limiting opportunities for new and non-staff writers from marginalized backgrounds, is wild.

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People are going to die

she could fix me

I am seeing videos on Instagram about "the Great Millennial Career Crisis" and I am tempted to respond "this is significantly worse if you are a non-white person because pay and promotion discrimination didn't get better despite increases in education, personal effort and experience".

Did someone tell them that the whites only fountains used to have Kool Aid or something?

Fascinating thread. Why is this breaking through when so much hasn't? I think it's 2 things. 1) Never underestimate the emotional intensity of people's relationships to entertainment figures. And 2) How to behave when someone is murdered is the simplest, lowest-bar character test in all of politics.

jet after jet of white smoke was agonizingly shot from the spiracle of the whale

Why isn’t Al Green garnering more support as an opposition figure?

Team of Weirdos by Doris Kearns Goodwin

So the new Spielberg summer movie is … terrifying and upsetting? Okay.

I've had two meetings today and I am not at my best. My apologies to the folks meeting with me.

Fighting the military industrial complex by ordering up a bunch of bombs and missiles.

i've said it many times before - mobility is one of my favorite books. i LOVED it.

art is a journey, not a destination

peak male performance

And this may be a little psychoanalytic but look at the rhetoric used by almost everyone who’s on this particular train

I just met with Karen Vellensky for our consultation. We figured a list of tasks, things that would help me, what to outsource, priorities for the next week, and what resources she could provide. I have a much clearer understanding of what makes me feel overwhelmed and what to focus on for today.

Got buddy making wrestler intro music, damn.

Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”

That man opened up that laptop to tap out that whiny ass essay whole time he could’ve went out for a drink lol

People support the idea. The issue is whether people will organize to make it happen. Hochul does not want to tax the rich and that's how universal childcare can happen.