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Marxian slack-key guitarist. Betty Crocker Homemaker Of Tomorrow Award winner. Holder of liberal arts and tech degrees. Parent of neurodiverse offspring. There is no thought without emotion and no emotion without thought.
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It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

submitted 17 hours ago • 825 comments

Once in a while I rest my brain by watching music documentaries and I was not expecting What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears to be a treatise on soft power and Cold War politics in the Nixon era. Worth a watch.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Imagine if burglars openly complained about how asking for permission to enter victims homes would ‘kill’ the burglary business.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

An LLM does not "help you write your books". An LLM prevents you from writing*your* books, while you are helping the LLM generate its books.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

submitted 11 days ago • 61 comments

Thrilled to find a volunteer Japanese Maple seedling growing amongst the Vinca under the Norway Spruce in the yard. No idea how it got there. Need to do some research on how to nurture and transplant it.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 762 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 23 days ago • 631 comments

When the mayor of Newark gets invited to a press conference and then arrested on the sidewalk, that's not law and order that's entrapment theater. DHS spun a fantasy while the truth stood calmly in the driveway and got handcuffed. Welcome to authoritarian improv.

submitted 22 days ago • 55 comments

Trumpers talking abouu suspending habeas corpus. If your fuzzy on what that is, read this. If you know but say, “just talk,” read this. If you’re one who says, “I can’t even with the news,” read so you’ll know how and why this is next level bad. www.stevevladeck.com/p/148-suspen...

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

nothing good has ever come from presenting disabled and sick people as a literal threat to the nation

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

The best description of Trump economic policy I’ve seen. youtu.be/0obMRztklqU?...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments