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One of the core beliefs I've adopted in the last few years is that we generally underrate how goofy and stupid the American past was and that being attentive to that helps us see continuities with the present. It's actually not obvious we live in dumber times. Every day tests this belief anew.

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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

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Drake rn:

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A reminder that one of the architects of lo-fi beats was a strip club regular who you know tipped heavy Be like J Dilla and support your local sex workers m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNtM...

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It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

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Rewatched Malcolm X over the last three days (it's long) and I can't get over just visually how gorgeous it is.

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Too beautiful to do math! I feel redeemed.

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The name of the park in Groundhog Day is “Gobbler’s Knob”

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Was on NPR's onthemedia.bsky.social with Brooke Gladstone talking about generative AI. I believe I am the first person to refer to Sam Altman as a nasty little man on the radio podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Happy (belated) anniversary to those who celebrate.

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“Don’t talk to me, I’m in love with Chet Baker.”

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Hey cutie, hope you're finding ways to regulate your nervous system.

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My mother-in-laws Pensacola golden retrievers are simply beside themselves.

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It is not wild to expect a federal ban on abortion soon.

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And so it begins

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Choosing to focus on this today.

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Well we're in a lot of trouble.

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Shout out if you woke up from a deep sleep actively having a panic attack this morning

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These slap

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How could any adult be this pure?

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In heaven everything is fine is a forever ear worm for me. What a treasure David Lynch was.

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If this ceasefire happens, it is because of the immovable and tenacious bravery and ingenuity of the Palestinian resistance, and the humanitarian interventions of Lebanese and Yemeni forces. Palestinian liberation is inevitable; Zionism collapses in its shadow.

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It's so cold and sunny in Portland today. V life affirming.

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The princess of white castle

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What if the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl was about Cher

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When Tobin was in group care he and his fellow toddlers became obsessed with "skeleton bread". What is it? I don't know, they made it up amongst themselves and their teachers who practiced emergent curriculum rolled with it. All year long they were thinking, talking, and playing about it.

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