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When you ask Judith Butler what gender is, they always respond with the most boundless, meandering answer about cultural history and labor and government and queer liberation. It refuses the very question and is so punk rock and anti-fascist. They’re keeping me alive during these terrible times.

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A thing of beauty for February 25, 2025: "Vorhor, the Green Wave" (1896-7), egg tempera on canvas by Georges Lacombe.

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Some writers immediately fill me with the impulse to also write. Like, I can hardly get through a page without being moved to something in my own work. This is happening now while reading Slaughterhouse Five for the first time. I guess I didn’t believe people when they said Kurt Vonnegut is good.

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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

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When I visited grandma in the nursing home yesterday, she was in a terrible mood. I said, “Grandma, what's going on? Do you feel bad?” And she said, “Well, everyone here used to think I was beautiful. Now I just don't know.” So we burned the nursing home to the ground.

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I would eat the pudding of my enemies out of this.

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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Imagine being the sort of guy who needs to tell his wife, “I’m an alpha.” Obviously the whole idea of alpha and beta men is stupid and made up but why are they always definitely not alphas.

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there is absolutely no need for a single human being to own a stupid house like this, which is why billionaires should be forced out of existence

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I can’t even get out of bed in the morning until I’ve had my biblically accurate energy bar.

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He planted the flower seeds. “Now seeds,” said Toad, “start growing.”

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Just wrapped up our review of The White Lotus: Season 3.

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I misused “ironic” while giving a presentation last week and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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Just wrapped up our review of The White Lotus: Season 3.

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your identity in a capitalist society

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He who saves his Country does not violate any Law. lolololol. Not the forefather’s cosplay. They literally have no idea what words even mean. What is this AI sounding bullshit.

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Didn’t one of you mention desperately needing a beautiful 10-hole ocarina to help you through these terrible days.

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inexplicable that part of my brain that can think of the silence of my yard at 2am and bridge it to a hospital chapel where the chaplain is eating a ham sandwich

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Ope. Guess what time it is. It’s Melissa Febos Valentine’s playlist o’clock. Not Miguel AND The Pointer Sisters AND Mitski. BRB.

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well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

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Tonight at dinner I had TWO desserts. Pecan pie AND bread pudding. Happy Valentine’s Day and fuck the police. 🥰

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the community college I graduated from in 2005 invited me to give a presentation about writing and publishing and it was so fun and all these sweet people hung around afterwards to tell me about their own works in progress—the kids are writing science fiction apparently and I fucking love them.

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Like a child’s understanding of the military.

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this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

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Have you been to a concert lately? Because I went to see the St. Louis Symphony perform David Bowie’s album Black Star last night and it was so fucking good and I don’t think I realized how overwhelmed I’ve been until Gail Ann Dorsey (one of Bowie’s bandmates) sang “Lazarus” and it got me good.

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Oops 😬

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In the break room at work furiously trying to fact check my coworkers while they talk about the millions of dollars Elon Musk is saving the country but I’m so tired and I can’t keep up. I’ll just awkwardly bring it up tomorrow to correct everything they’ve said. No big deal. They’ll be so excited.

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“An exhilarated hatred now parades as freedom, while the freedoms for which many of us have struggled for decades are distorted and trammeled as morally repressive ‘wokeism’.” Judith Butler on the first few weeks of Trumpism

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Fox News was on the TV at the restaurant and Laura Ingraham said these are the most momentous first weeks of any presidency in history and what a leader and then she pulled a hairless rat out of her mouth and broke every bone in its body as she folded the rat into a swastika. I wonder what it means.

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Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

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Fox News was on the TV at the restaurant and Laura Ingraham said these are the most momentous first weeks of any presidency in history and what a leader and then she pulled a hairless rat out of her mouth and broke every bone in its body as she folded the rat into a swastika. I wonder what it means.

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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

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One thing that makes me feel totally fucking insane, is this constant assertion from the right that if you talk about genocide, or race, or gender equality, or even mention a trans person, they respond with: No YOU’RE trying to divide the country. Accusations in a mirror, of course, but also FUCK.

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The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Oh my god, I can’t wait for the rest of this to air now. It has everything: • a look inside the maze of designer fashion. • a young, smart, working class girl gaining access to affluence through a mysterious friendship. • a slow-burning nightmare.

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the sky was giving it all she had over the little amphitheater on the edge of town.

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this black history month, we’re enslaving white men

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This scene from All Fours when her 9 year old they/them kid wants to print out pictures of their role models to hang up in their bedroom. lololololololol

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the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”

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If you think about it, having a bussy is the only thing we all have in common.

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“the phenomenon of ever-multiplying subjective identities” is one of the most beautiful phrases I’ve ever heard. why would you be against this. the project 2025 girlies are so void of imagination and serve as proof that religion is often a place where people go when curiosity is just too painful.

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