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It used to be men could be little freaks but instead of inventing stupid things to say on the internet they'd write The Incoherence of the Incoherence

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I don't think she's just talking about the sweets (Hiromi Ito, The Thorn Puller)

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cooled off enough last night that I opened up the house and immediately regretted it, living on a burning continent of cities in smoke

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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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the point is that there is no organized opposition. that's what is consistently made clear.

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In biggest land-back deal in California history, the Yurok get back the final piece of 73 sq mi of their homeland on the state's far northern Klamath River. Good piece by Grist highlights how this Yurok land deal is just part of the extraordinary changes taking place in this part of N America.

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Achille Mbembe's description of "necropolitics" has a wide resonance--we are in the middle of a big shift from a liberal politics that believed it was important to save individual lives (while violating that belief constantly) to a politics, as per Joni Ernst, says "we're all gonna die".

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When you went to the Iowa Writers Workshop but ended up in journalism

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Understanding this post means you must touch grass immediately

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The only common ground you find with a Nazi is the dirt you bury them in.

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she's from Jurupa Valley btw, which is less than an hour from LA but could be a thousand miles, it's still semi-rural. people have horses. her mom voted for trump. the community supports her anyway, the anti-trans stuff is from outside, like always, and it is not going to win.

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The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

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Flat pebble conglomerate (Gros Ventre Formation from Wyoming). ⚒️

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elon could offer to buy the democratic party and they'd say yes he doesn't have to make a new one

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I have seen two high agency males going at it and you, sir, are not two high agency males

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At the COPE-A COPE-A-CABANA

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I was gone for twenty minutes and found a fan with a cute funny hardware store sidequest involving mildly confused guys nothing else happened right

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I've meant to walk down the block and buy a fan from the hardware store for over two hours

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this is the 30 rock episode where they turn the gas leak back on and next thing people are on the roof with a gun

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I'd joke this is how civil war starts but honestly it would just be ice doing cosplay against elon's blackwater goons while the military quietly uses the distraction to misplace the secretary of defence

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Oh, I’m sorry. Did your rational and logical economic system not account for what if two terminally online men had a falling out?

submitted 23 hours ago • 85 comments

Night of the Long Tweets

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moving to china, apparently what do people think terminal imperial decline means, it's not a little hiccup you correct

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oh that was the screaming coming across the sky

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california’s peer counseling warmline is at risk. someone i’m close to works here and is at risk of losing their job, and california is at risk of losing a really important resource that prevents emergencies before they happen. pls contact yr reps if you live in ca & sign the petition

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L O L

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poets often write well during imperial decline not because of the exile and hardships etc but because being extremely sick of all this is a highly generative poetic mood

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i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

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“Poster’s Madness” is now a structural theory of international politics and domestic coalition-maintenance and degradation. Throw out that IR degree.

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by the end of the day tump has slapped 1000% tariffs on tesla and elon has the next spacex launch aimed at mar a lago

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