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what if we had a global attentional strike. for one hour, everyone who's awake just stops taking in what is happening, interrupting the flow of consciousness and birthing the crystal silence of unwitnessed pure being. then we lock in and get back to it. to be clear, this only works if nobody cheats

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hey guys what's the best linux distro thanks in advance bye

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difficult to tell from the outside whether a person is resolute, or if that person has judged, correctly or incorrectly, that the most tempting adjustments are simply unlikely to work

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y'know, I am probably not going to fight very hard to stay in an unstable and underpaid job and now to live with the anxiety of being potentially denounced. this is focused on K-12, not college, but I see which way the wind is blowing. I wonder how many others are in the same situation as I am

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“Today, the internet does that job.”

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as a Bandcamp poster this doesn’t affect me

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best version of all www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOVF...

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Federal Marshalls tried to stop what’s being called the Pick and Roll Boys but one guy was sort of running along side and then he was in the way of the guy they were trying to guard. This kept happening and it’s impossible. They’re shooting step back threes as well.

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chris chrisweisman.bandcamp.com/track/what-d...

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perfect song chrisweisman.bandcamp.com/track/hand-s...

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Put me out of my misery.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXBt...

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an interesting piece on drag and class-drag. feminine luxury appears as aspiration not only to have but to be the precious objects. and an out-of-time quality, nostalgia for a sanitized ancien regime, for what one never had. when does dandyism re-circulate? so much original research went into this

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Over a year ago I began research on why many trans women love fashion and (more important) why the industry only sometimes loves us back. On the way I uncovered lost images, unknown models, and got sent way back to the French Revolution. Hope you enjoy trickymothernature.com/postrevmodes...

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I’ve heard there’s crazy spending on Summerisle, at the festival. Possibly the money is hidden inside the wicker man?

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advice to young writers: - begin the first sentence of every paragraph with, "So basically the whole deal is, is that [...]" - begin subsequent sentences with, "And plus, [...]" - end every paragraph with, "So that basically wraps it up as far as all that goes." - 4 blank lines between paragraphs

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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Greenish lullaby youtu.be/PtVw05qCjok

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more blogging, a bit more direct than usual buttondown.com/jackie_ess/a...

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Thanks to @animulavagula.bsky.social, it at least has a source: a book of maxims attributed to Napoleon. Not a smoking saber, but as close, I bet, as we're going to get.

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are you starting to get why I ask you guys not to put me on lists?

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I'd like to keep perspective about something: while these cuts are deep, and insulting in their arbitrary and political nature, we lose much more science and many more scientists to very ordinary factors. there aren't enough jobs, many jobs are unstable, tech and finance beckon

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spent the morning poking at the large document of cancelled-by-keyword NSF grants. what a mess. they are going to waste a whole generation's worth of science

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crazy to think it was ten years ago today that I started squirrel suit base jumping. and now it looks like machines are gonna be better at it than we are

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riff: fix your fidget www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVV...

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guys, I think I just figured out what chatgpt is for.

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music for a film www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANs6...

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so this is real www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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If bird flu gets really bad, only Istanbul will survive. Because of the cats. They will win

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A source tells me Kendrick Lamar has an op-ed in tomorrow’s NYT. It’s called “This isn’t who we are. the attacks on Drake have gone too far.”

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new free newsletter post: I wrote a little guide to hosting a reading series anecdata.substack.com/p/new-ideas-...

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I was thinking we should vote him out but maybe we should try a carrot approach. what does he like? I mean besides turkish delights and sucking puff daddy's toes?

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