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Tell me about a recurring bit you do among your nearest & dearest (or one of theirs) My grad school brother-from -another-mother and I are partial to compliments-as-threats.

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"Bullies don’t tend to tell you what their motivations were afterward, and they tend to lie about their intentions even to themselves during." Can confirm -- also applies to grifters and scammers (relevant to this administration)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Zero points because I'm old?

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iT aLl hApPeNs oN x, tHe fReE spEeCh pLatForM www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 43 days ago • 16 comments

The team at Complexly did so much RIDICULOUSLY GOOD STUFF in 2024. I mostly stepped down from leadership and in that time: 🧵

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

Something Douglass Coupland said in an interview that stuck with me was when he said that the “future” is relatively new. And it is. The afterlife isn’t the future, he argues, it’s eternity. Eternity, once attained, is permanent, timeless, at least in a spiritual sense. Heaven, Nirvana, etc… (1/?)

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

submitted 331 days ago • 621 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 50 days ago • 1092 comments

Amazing story! 🧵

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In December 2021, I wove, a tapestry of sad and joyful memories that were in the front of my mind that year. It's one of the rare pieces I've written that I felt hit the notes I wanted to hit, exactly the way I wanted to hit them. I reposted it with thoughts: wilwheaton.net/2024/12/the-...

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments

Folk hero in the making.

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🧵

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

SIMPLY HAVING A

submitted 71 days ago • 1119 comments

Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."

submitted 71 days ago • 105 comments

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

submitted 75 days ago • 194 comments

Without meaningful Trust & Safety, this community won't last. Please sign 👇

submitted 73 days ago • 150 comments

Cory Doctorow wrote a short story FIVE YEARS AGO about an online support group for people screwed over by the health system who encourage each other to wage violence against insurance CEOs. Cory let us publish the the story given the obvious timeliness. It's free to read here:

submitted 75 days ago • 22 comments

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

submitted 84 days ago • 202 comments

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

submitted 88 days ago • 1099 comments

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Tech Marketing: The cup has built in N+1 redundancy

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