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I really don’t get this crisis of masculinity. I just don’t. You can join the Army or become a paramedic or live in the woods. You can wear camo. You can go hunting or fishing. You can be a little rowdy. I’ve done all these things. Just don’t be a dick.

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started tracking my daily word count on 7/27/2024. today, around 9 months from that start, i have managed to write 1,000 words or more for ~6 nonconsecutive months. & this morning i hit a total word count of over 365,000 words since that time

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every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

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very cool to realize the students who were freshmen in the 1st class i ever taught are not graduating. mazel tov to you all. sorry about how much worse things are now

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weeks are thursday to wedneaday now on my writing schedule bc i missed a wednesday & started my count over. for the week ending today i've written just over 30k words, mainly bc i wrote 14k, a stupid manic number, on sunday. imo the sunday count is less important than the fact that i kept going

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

can't spell tariffs without ffs

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

i resign today, as president of the bank

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the 1 thing i'll say is i think it's at least fair to ask how the technologies/products available to us shape our desires & behaviors rather than just reflecting them or fulfilling them. i think that is an okay conversation to have

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yesterday i wrote over 14k words & in so doing finished a ~57k word story that's part of a big project i'm working on & also will never see the light of day. so today i wrote a poem & a totally self-contained flash. about 2k. normal amount of words

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okay today's word count is 14,342 & i think i have moved beyond "new record please clap" territory into "i don't know how i did that & feel like something is wrong" territory, that is too many words for one day. that is a weird thing to have done

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i am not eligible to be pope in case anyone was worried

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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 7 days ago • 565 comments

have exceeded 120k words written so far in 2025. on track ish for my target of 250k by the end of june or 500k for the year. thinking also i'll be able to make 365k for the academic year, considering i'm at 341k already between last semester and this one

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

anyone else notice an uptick in AI ads where the AI doesn't even succeed at the task it's used for?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 12 days ago • 1428 comments

RFK Jr viscerally hates disability and disabled people at a fundamental level; he considers having to think about them an imposition and the idea of care and support for them as monstrous. He’s got this very old fashioned magical idea about health as a virtue and its absence as an insult

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

thinking i just committed to adding 7 new minor characters to this project & i'm sure that will be fine for pacing

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welp. wrote 10,500 words in a single day. please clap

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me: well if i finish this book odds are pretty good this character is fully cut out & never shows up also me: what if i wrote 20,000 words of backstory for that character, the one who probably won't exist in the final draft

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To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just think her opinions, she doesn’t just say them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.

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one takeaway for anyone trying to oppose the actions of any large institution in any way (not just government): they will find a bullshit way to save face. they will never just say "fine, you win," they'll make doing the thing they were forced to do their idea. & that's still a win, it's fine

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the thing that's alarming to me: this, in particular, is the kind of tool a state would not give up even if there was meaningful regime change & serious course-correction (which itself is of course already a long shot)

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More people should pause before lashing out at folks who share their hatred of this administration and ask themselves, "Am I using this person as a punching bag because I don't know how to strike back at the people responsible for all of the kidnappings, killings, deportations, and destruction?"

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

90s bruce willis

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"my arm fell asleep" bullshit. you don't know what your arm is thinking. have you considered maybe it's the only part of your body that is Awake

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honestly a humane new regime would mandate some kind of rehab or therapy for everyone who even understands what this image means. yes that includes me. we should all be treated like we've been poisoned a little

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if the economy collapses this summer & the country is in ruins i will crawl to the last remaining movie theatre to catch zach cregger's WEAPONS on opening night

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i think this is a great development & i also wonder where a strategy of "both of us go back or neither of us do" would lead idk if it would work & won't pretend to know, but like, i feel like they wouldn't kill or imprison a us senator. i'm not sure we're there yet

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