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The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

New piece in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 3 days ago • 389 comments

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

How now fuckass, whither wander you

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I continue to add to this list. I also have removed training info that is now outdated.

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

ethics proceeds from reflection on suffering

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

existential dread tides of the universe trying to stop me from loving being alive, and i just never will. i see joy and love and beauty everywhere i look, bitch, fuck you

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

"Prepare your senses for the ultimate harvarti party, a fromage fest, an un-brie-lievable gouda time!" - me, putting out a sleeve of pre-sliced cheese and box of gluten-free crackers

submitted 40 days ago • 58 comments

video games are an invaluable tool in teaching children to find and kill god

submitted 45 days ago • 232 comments

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

submitted 44 days ago • 346 comments

I don't know if this is an autistic-brain thing, but one of the thing that really freaks me out about the current reality is that I really deeply and fundamentally don't understand why anyone would ever choose cruelty over problem-solving.

submitted 45 days ago • 544 comments

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

submitted 46 days ago • 730 comments

Everyone's favorite weird little world Pluto has an outsized moon called Charon. It's huge, half the size of Pluto itself! But…how did it get there? Here's a new idea: Pluto wasn't just whacked by another object, it underwent a kiss-and-capture. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/pluto-s-hu... 🔭🧪

submitted 46 days ago • 18 comments

anyone who has ever been on Minneapolis roads in winter knows that this is 100% true lol

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

I can't go out because I have to deal with this rodent infestation, this damn mouse arrest

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defined my relationship today (committed to a minneapolis co-op membership) ❤️💞👹✨💕⭐️

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one of my favorite things about being an adult is being invited to call my doctors by their first name. why yes, brian, my arm is feeling much better, thank you for asking

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Years ago, I curated a small project called Meditations. It has a different game or toy, made by a different developer or creative, for every day. If you want to play a tiny playful thing every day of the year - now could be a great day to start. meditations.games

submitted 52 days ago • 19 comments

Assadists: “Syria is finished” Reality:

submitted 53 days ago • 87 comments

new year’s eve is hitting hard this year—had a mutual breakup a couple days ago, and all my friends are already busy tonight, too. even though i’m excited for the future, today feels really lonely. it’s weird and hard to ring in the new year with grief ❤️‍🩹

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing in the Saw franchise compares to the cruelty of Love Actually

submitted 58 days ago • 124 comments

Surprise, surprise... Catch-and-release angling harms the fish (who feel pain, as has been clearly established), and those who survive the ordeal are likely to develop "hook shyness" www.umass.edu/news/article...

submitted 58 days ago • 24 comments

Sabrina Carpenter's tiny desk concert should have been her trying to make a table out of wood in 30 mins or less

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

My hot take tonight is that non hierarchical poly is some shit that 20 year olds think is achievable. If I've been in a relationship with you for 15 years and you start dating a new person this week, bet your ass there's a hierarchy.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

holiday reeses (the egg, the pumpkin, the tree) are better than normal reeses

submitted 63 days ago • 33 comments