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my main takeaway from the oscars: hollywood HATES divisiveness and is still figuring out the rest of their politics

been struggling with the idea that all of human history, all of the destruction, the suffering, the brutality, the razing, the pillaging, the salting of the beautiful fields of this planet has all led up to this. guys burning down everything built over that ruin just so they can do a coy nazi salute

Retweeting myself

david brooks being a never trumper now is ironic because he practically invented conservative politics by way of interactions with liberals at coffee shops

please god go birds

Well, they haven't fixed their hearts, so

This is so goddamn funny

bro you mistook gentleness of spirit for timidity of will again bro. bro you you mistook the succour of justice for the thrill of retribution. bro that fruit's gonna turn to ashes on your tongue i promise

the real threat to free speech in america is that criticizing powerful interests, from israel to elon musk, will cost you your livelihood

I think we all owe it to our guy DL to at least give transcendental meditation a shot

rip to the greatest american artist

#medieval #history

congestion pricing discourse rules because the opponents are just pretending that most of the people driving in Manhattan are poor.

my birthday present

hello on new years day

Obsessed with this

being a misanthrope is cool but it has to be self-inclusive

Dear Henry Cavill, I, a celebrity podcaster, challenge you to a celebrity game of Warmhammer. Loser donates to my favorite charity (Luigi Mangione bail fund)

Truth nuke:

why does the logo from a distance look like purple kotaku am I tripping here?

going to be fun watching the mass discontent when Tiktok is banned, followed immediately by the lawmakers who voted to ban it tripping over each other to disavow their own decision not as fun as watching good tiktoks curated by close friends, but close

lmao

@thenation.com at its bravest and best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

this is the guy y'all are going crazy for on letterboxd wicked reviews, huh? this guy?

Crime reporting be like

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... good article

feels like a broader metaphor for our politics that the divestment from X comes right after Elon found his next thing

do you think edison and tesla ever explored each other's bodies

I'm thinking probably within my lifetime I'll be subjected to AI Ella Fitzgerald singing the Meow Mix theme song

A good, clear lesson in how propaganda works in the U.S. press. This is the story about a UN vote to condemn the blockade on Cuba, where the final vote was 187-2. The 2 were the United States and Israel.

these days kids don't be reading huck finn... they just know about "huck tuah"

hell yeah

i think about this constantly

a little throwback jimmy and billy for the timeline