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In Jacobin, Julia Damphouse observes that losing their "anti-woke" faction helped Die Linke regain its footing as a straightforwardly left party. That's encouraging! Perhaps something similar could be possible in the US. Maybe even at certain left-wing magazines. jacobin.com/2025/02/germ...

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'Falstaff's story... is not unlike one of those folk tales in which a mermaid falls in love with a mortal prince: the price she pays for her infatuation is the loss of her immortality without the compensation of temporal happiness.' 😭

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if i had a thousand sons, the first humane principle i would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack

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the moneylenders?? 🤨

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when the women start crossdressing in As You Like It

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comes a time in every daughter's life when she's stripped of her divinity and sealed behind a wall of fire

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teehee

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If the Germans want to really destroy America long term, they’d invest a few billion into higher ed and poach all of the various scientists and academic researchers who are looking for work in the U.S.

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hmm

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honestly it’s surprising that being a member of a demographic that has (more or less) gay sex practices and (more or less) lesbian discourse styles doesn’t lead to even more interpersonal confusion than it already does

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someone put a steel nut on the end of a 100ft length of hempen rope so they could hit me on the head from the other side of the river - and then retract the nut for another attempt. We are forced to condemn their actions, while recognising their ingenuity - if only it were directed elsewhere

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the resurgence of these politics doesn't in itself mean that the second world war will happen again — but surely the global order of the last 75 years or so is long gone, and those of us who benefited from it are bound for the difficult and terrifying lives we might've expected to avoid

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learning new facts to tell at parties

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horse: another round of straw for the table camel: (nervous laughter) right on man, awesome

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'I seriously compare learning French to playing dark souls. You just need to get good.'

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There is no way this is not coordinated and intentional. Leaders of the mainstream national conservative movement are celebrating actual Hitler, publicly, and our moron institutions are shrugging, our university leaders are talking mainly about how we need more "representation" of this

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"We have nothing against Jews, we just hate Zionists" (vaguely defined) Now has its inverse version "We have nothing against Jews, we just hate anti-Zionists" (anti-MAGA Jews) This version is not put out by noisy yet powerless activists, but rather by the US government.

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I get up to a lot of intellectual work but at the end of the day I'm usually coping with an overwhelming sense of failure a musician — a failure due entirely to my inability to understand my own desires, work meaningfully towards my goals or accept the risks of public life

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think I might save up to take french classes this summer

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homestar runner voice aujourd'hui est vendredi !

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RIP to the iceman 🫡 youtu.be/BufNXY7oCMs?...

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Its been relieving seeing musicians and artists open up about struggling with imposter syndrome. Sometimes I wish i could be as good at dealing with it as they are. Honestly I dont think I even deserve to have it

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Give it up, Sub-Subs!

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man I wish I was still having these debates about communism. people are telling me socialized production will never be possible without the abolition of clock-time

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civilization and its contents

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it's probably really annoying to be my analyst

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theres a live action tintin movie from 1960

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JD Vance: “Our culture sends a message to young Matoran that you should suppress every Toa-like instinct… my message to young Matoran is don’t allow this broken world to make you feel like a bad person because you embrace unity, duty, and destiny, because you enjoy telling a legend, because you

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In Jacobin, Julia Damphouse observes that losing their "anti-woke" faction helped Die Linke regain its footing as a straightforwardly left party. That's encouraging! Perhaps something similar could be possible in the US. Maybe even at certain left-wing magazines. jacobin.com/2025/02/germ...

'Falstaff's story... is not unlike one of those folk tales in which a mermaid falls in love with a mortal prince: the price she pays for her infatuation is the loss of her immortality without the compensation of temporal happiness.' 😭

if i had a thousand sons, the first humane principle i would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack

the moneylenders?? 🤨

when the women start crossdressing in As You Like It

comes a time in every daughter's life when she's stripped of her divinity and sealed behind a wall of fire

teehee

If the Germans want to really destroy America long term, they’d invest a few billion into higher ed and poach all of the various scientists and academic researchers who are looking for work in the U.S.

hmm

honestly it’s surprising that being a member of a demographic that has (more or less) gay sex practices and (more or less) lesbian discourse styles doesn’t lead to even more interpersonal confusion than it already does

someone put a steel nut on the end of a 100ft length of hempen rope so they could hit me on the head from the other side of the river - and then retract the nut for another attempt. We are forced to condemn their actions, while recognising their ingenuity - if only it were directed elsewhere

the resurgence of these politics doesn't in itself mean that the second world war will happen again — but surely the global order of the last 75 years or so is long gone, and those of us who benefited from it are bound for the difficult and terrifying lives we might've expected to avoid

learning new facts to tell at parties

horse: another round of straw for the table camel: (nervous laughter) right on man, awesome

'I seriously compare learning French to playing dark souls. You just need to get good.'

There is no way this is not coordinated and intentional. Leaders of the mainstream national conservative movement are celebrating actual Hitler, publicly, and our moron institutions are shrugging, our university leaders are talking mainly about how we need more "representation" of this

"We have nothing against Jews, we just hate Zionists" (vaguely defined) Now has its inverse version "We have nothing against Jews, we just hate anti-Zionists" (anti-MAGA Jews) This version is not put out by noisy yet powerless activists, but rather by the US government.

I get up to a lot of intellectual work but at the end of the day I'm usually coping with an overwhelming sense of failure a musician — a failure due entirely to my inability to understand my own desires, work meaningfully towards my goals or accept the risks of public life

think I might save up to take french classes this summer

homestar runner voice aujourd'hui est vendredi !

RIP to the iceman 🫡 youtu.be/BufNXY7oCMs?...

Its been relieving seeing musicians and artists open up about struggling with imposter syndrome. Sometimes I wish i could be as good at dealing with it as they are. Honestly I dont think I even deserve to have it

Give it up, Sub-Subs!

man I wish I was still having these debates about communism. people are telling me socialized production will never be possible without the abolition of clock-time

civilization and its contents

it's probably really annoying to be my analyst

theres a live action tintin movie from 1960

this place is popping ever since they started putting trace amounts of caffeine in daves killer bread

Crappy's Galesburg, IL

harassing you in public what say you, huh? what say you bro?