duncanmurrell.bsky.social
Stories: fiction, journalism, magazines. Tattoos: dragons, snakes, firebirds. Punk: Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Minutemen. Job: book editor. Harper’s, The Oxford American, Guernica, The VQR. Some track and field content.
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Don't keep apologizing for self promotion every single time you post something good about your book. If you feel that bad about it that you have to apologize every time, you should stop doing it. If you're going to do it, just do it. Save the apologies.
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The administration has made sure that we all know there are no incentives or positive outcomes to negotiating or giving in to their threats. Quite the opposite -- you are assured destruction if you do. They don't stop because you rolled over and showed your belly.
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This is great, congratulations! Let's go!
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Let's make the WaPo the Nextdoor of politics! Might be more fun.
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Creeped out by the way that the AI is obviously familiar with therapeutic techniques and tools, and employs them each time it apologizes. It has memorized the basic form of a sincere and useful apology and acknowledgment of responsibility, and weaponizes this to keep hold of the author.
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This is your weather on ketamine
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These dimwits are proposing randomized controlled trials to study the *side effects* of the Covid vaccines, not their efficacy. They acknowledge its efficacy. If informed consent is in place (for instance: in the case of healthy pregnant women), giving a placebo is ethically wrong.
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Randomized controlled trials for vaccines is highly controversial. A major point in that controversy is that administering placebos to people who may come into contact with a harmful virus is incredibly unethical if a proven remedy or preventative is available.
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I don't want insurance to pay for ED medication, because old men f---ing is gross to me and I shouldn't have to associate with such people.
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It's like playing a really deadly game of charades with an alien fresh off the spaceship.
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I want to go back to paper -- paper manuscripts, paper books, paper magazines, paper, paper, paper for our best work. Yes, they could scan paper and shove the data into AI's maw, but that would mean work and I don't think they want to work any more than they want to respect the work of others.
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Yeah, it's her fault you flew off the handle without doing your own research. She should have done it for you.
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He's Danish, so in Trumpworld that means he's an enemy and an insurrectionist because he hasn't personally handed over Greenland yet.
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They changed their vote in order to invoke cloture, which was the next step in advancing the Republican bill. It puts the bill on track for a final vote, which will likely pass it. Not voting for cloture would have kept the bill stalled. Voting for cloture is what the White House wanted.
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Sen. Ossoff just sold his public service and his integrity to the crypto industry for campaign cash. He's compromised as someone who can tell truth to power. You'd be wise to not make him the face of the DSCC. He's a disgrace.
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You sold your public service to the crypto industry for campaign cash. You're a disgrace. Miss me with your pearl-clutching outrage about the corruption of *others," when you live in the same swamp. Others will have to take up this fight, you're compromised.
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You are a disgrace to the rest of us Marines. How dare you sell your public service to crypto companies? No integrity. Semper Fi does no apply to you. Quit invoking the Marine Corps to cover the fact that you're profoundly unsat.
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Most of them took big money from crypto donors during their campaigns. This is a kind of a corruption, too, and it utterly undermines Schiff, Gallego, Booker, Hassan, Ossoff, etc, when they stand up and denounce Trump and others over public corruption. They are part of the same swamp.v
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Military LGBTQ+ Resources.
Courtesy Marcus Laird for his dedication and service to our Nation and the community.
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My family's house backed up onto Rock Creek, I'm 56, and I don't know anyone who ever swam in it.
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They look like the militia cosplayers from the Tea Party days. Why do they either have no uniform or identification, or the kind of choose-your-own-adventure "uniform" that they imagine wearing in their wet dreams? Why won't they identify themselves?
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When he says he's announcing a "20% cut of 4-stars," he's talking about 8 people. But sure, I guess "20% cut" sounds more like what a WARRIOR does.
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Summer?
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Translation: You didn't admit Barron Trump and the boss is PISSED.
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Translation: You didn't admit Barron Trump and the boss will be forever pissed about that.
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I don't know how it works in the City, but out here in the Country moving around a lot in a heat wave is a terrible way to stay cool.
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Tell me you don’t know how Amazon works without telling me you don’t know how Amazon works.
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Why does he insist on cosplaying as Joe McCarthy? Communism? What communism?
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Attn: Crossfit HTS, Carrboro!