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This explains a lot

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This is such bullshit. There wasn't a single Dem who made bathrooms and sports significant parts of their campaigns. I'm really getting sick of guys like Cuomo and Rahm Emanuel retconning the 2024 election.

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Finished Dying for Sex and have to recommend one last time. Michelle Williams is otherworldly, Jenny Slate and Rob Delaney lovely, Sissy Spacek perfect, and please give me Paula Pell as my hospice nurse. If you're looking for a tender show about cancer and kicking guys in the dick, you're in luck!

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I will never forget the sound of Minnesota Republican House caucus cheering at the news of undocumented Minnesotans losing access to healthcare. They would do the same if I lost my healthcare. They do not care about our lives. We are nothing to them. Those are the stakes for our communities.

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Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

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Happy 100th to a GOAT contender.

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This raises the Painfully Obvious question of why you would ask AI for something humans can provide in this era of easy Googling for actual sources. It's like adding steps. Make it make sense!

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Troubling new idiom: instead of saying "If you look up XYZ in the dictionary, you'd find his picture," people are starting to say, "if you asked AI for a perfect example of XYZ, you'd get him." Um, looking something up in the dictionary and asking AI are Not The Same.

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Attended a celebration mass for Pope Leo XIV at the Basilica. Two notes: the priest noted quite wryly that "almost everyone" seems to get along well with Leo, and in the intercessory prayers we prayed for "autocracies, dictatorships, and democracies in crisis." Ouch.

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This is most Menards thing I’ve ever seen

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"We could not sell center-right positions to moderates to save our lives, but goddamn it why aren't Dems doing it?" — never-Trump Rs who really need to think harder about whether their party actually changed suddenly in 2016 or if maybe they have been wrong about a lot of things for a while

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It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'

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One of my first viral posts on here was about how Stevie’s genius should inspire the same level of obsession and reverence as the Beatles and Bob Dylan. That it doesn’t is a real condemnation of criticism, the musical establishment, and our society as a whole.

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LOL the pope has a Billy Carter www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Whose duty is it to prevent the air, sky, and soil from being poison, to promote scientific discovery to improve health outcomes, or to ensure products meet minimum safety standards? Individuals can't do that, but what if there were some way people could pool resources to work toward these goals?

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Uptown is Dead: nobody comes here, there's no place to park. Uptown is Alive: Lady plants a ton of flowers in her yard, creates more all-day foot traffic than the genius brains at the Uptown Association could ever imagine.

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In the spirit of Mother’s Day, here’s a clip of Björk two-piecing a reporter who was stalking her and her baby.

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One, go to @billchilds.bsky.social to read all these--it will make your day. Two, this made me remember hearing at church that next week baptized kids would join their new church family. I spent 7 long days terrified of the upcoming child swap and being forcibly removed from my parents' house.

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I was also very upset to learn as a child that my dad had a secret stash of Playboys, and when I told my mom she said they had really good articles on psychology (his field) and I unquestioningly accepted this and believed it for over a decade (even after leafing through them).

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So as a young child I learned that boys had a cup in their pants while playing baseball, which I imagined as a styrofoam cup. The only reason I could think of for such a thing was that they had to pee in it so they wouldn't interrupt the game.

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I wish these people could just straight ahead sell some of their audacity. I'm always paralyzed by doubt about doing things I'm overqualified for, and they are out there confidently doing shit they shouldn't. If they could break off little chunks of don't-give-a-fuck for sale, we'd all be better off

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I watched 3 of these one after the other on a long-haul flight. Also, see Sinners. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

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I didn't even get into education, but obvs this goes double for student writing. If student writing means anything—if it has value as intellectual development, personal expression, or knowledge creation—it won't come from AI. That's just reinforcing the idea that writing is regurgitative busywork.

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AI thread incoming. Among other things, I am a paid "content creator" (a label I hate), and I work very closely with people trying to solve real AI problems—making it use less energy, act less biased, perform more accurately, etc.—so AI can solve real problems. So I have AI thoughts. 1/

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Uptown is on the upswing thanks to the work of Council Vice President @aishaforward10.com Lots of politicians can make promises about what they’d like to see happen, but she has consistently backed up her words by showing up and doing the work.

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Just watched EP 6 of this show and wow, it was brutal and intense but so good. Michelle Williams deserves every award. Just watch it already! www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

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