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At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

submitted 18 days ago • 628 comments

quick #sonnet. it's 37 degrees celsius in bangkok today, feels a lot hotter. sometimes i pretend these are allegorical but i don't think this one is about anything other than that. 🥵🥵🥵

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quick #sonnet. it's 37 degrees celsius in bangkok today, feels a lot hotter. sometimes i pretend these are allegorical but i don't think this one is about anything other than that. 🥵🥵🥵

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Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.

submitted 1 day ago • 1492 comments

Latest cut demands from doge www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

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not to tell anyone how to do their jobs or anything but if i was a US attorney i might not write whole letters laying out how i was targeting nonprofits specifically for first amendment protected activities

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After drivers killed a Hartford resident biking on Main St north of downtown & another Hartford resident using her wheelchair on Broad St this month, some elected officials decided to introduce a resolution to weaken protections for pedestrians & cyclists. www.realhartford.org/2025/04/25/h...

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Killing Wikipedia is a huge target of the plot to enslave America, as it's a popular source of knowledge that the slavers cannot find a way to purchase or take over

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A masterpiece and another one of those all-time leaps from first to second album. Salute to 30 years of The Infamous

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rereading some raymond chandler and... it's very distracting how the frequent homophobia is so intermingled with even more frequent signs that chandler may have possibly been gay.

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FINALLY!

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Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

the wright brothers constantly used gravity so therefore planes were never invented

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually

submitted 3 days ago • 186 comments

educated people often miss the fact that factory work intentionally reduces everything to the smallest and most repetitive unit of labor possible

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

how come nobody has saps, coshes, or blackjacks any more? why did technology for hitting people on the head regress

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

today's quick #sonnet draft. it took me so long to think of a topic that i decided that was the topic. thanks for reading! #poetry

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Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

submitted 4 days ago • 144 comments

i've read a lot of mid-century poet biographies lately and... this, but very much more so. berryman for example was a drunken lecherous wreck who was handed job after job after job at a half dozen top universities

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THERES NO TRAINING ITS JUST TYPING PROMPTS INTO A PLAGIARISM MACHINE IM LOSING MY MIND

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

today's quick #sonnet draft. it took me so long to think of a topic that i decided that was the topic. thanks for reading! #poetry

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

haven't posted a #sonnet in a week or so (still wrote a bunch, just got behind, haven't typed them yet, and now can't read my own writing). anyway, here's today's quick draft. thanks for reading & please let me know what you think! 🛖

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

TIL that poet laureate cecil day-lewis payed the bills by writing a heap of pseudonymous mystery novels as "nicholas blake"

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I know we're all sort of inured to it at this point but it's wild that the most powerful man in the world operates, at best, at a first grade reading level

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we watched conclave yesterday. am i the boy in that ray bradbury (?) story who makes things happen with his mind

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

haven't posted a #sonnet in a week or so (still wrote a bunch, just got behind, haven't typed them yet, and now can't read my own writing). anyway, here's today's quick draft. thanks for reading & please let me know what you think! 🛖

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

not in love with recent usage i've seen of the word "treats" to mean anything adult humans enjoy. you're not a pet or a child. enjoy things without degrading yourself and your motives.

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lol

submitted 6 days ago • 388 comments

every tv show and movie should have a volume calibration segment just before it starts. play five sounds. a scream, a whisper, some music from a rave scene, some gunshots, car chase music. THEN the show can start with its frickin four minute silent tracking shot of a windy beach or whatever

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3 #haiku on a very troubled protein shake i tried to drink just now: thick and viscous ooze lay in wait beneath the cap; gross, unpotable. ..... interdependence dulls suspicious instincts; i leapt before i looked. ..... how many more caps will i unscrew, in this life? shock spills into joy.

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Hallelujah, He is risen more than three stories in the air, followed by a 180-degree plunge at speeds up to 55 miles an hour

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