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Starting to think NYT got rid of Pamela Paul for being too moderate

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Narrative Magazine has been a scam since it was founded in 2003

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So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

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someday we will have the technology to turn the plastic accumulating in each of our brains into a personalized McDonald’s happy meal toy but until then we must continue gathering

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FYI google have now stopped "-ai" working at the end of your search string. So put this at the end (after a space) instead: &udm=14 Fuck you #google. #AI

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Bad Mouth series of words and music, Feb 8th! 7pm, doors at 6:30. Q-staff theater, Albuquerque.

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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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(repeatedly touching a hot stove until my fingers are blistered and bleeding) this is important work. the stove will surely accept my arguments soon

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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

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This is maybe the funniest April Fools post from a lit journal I’ve ever seen. (Embarrassingly, it turns out it January 9th??) newsletter.atticusreview.org/p/an-atticus...

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i think "i've been demonetized" is not a phrase you'd likely run into if you weren't in a dystopia

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Want some cool stickers? Pre-order my upcoming queer YA horror DEADSTREAM and fill out this form: forms.gle/Ljb5GHhnTmVw...

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🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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Ed Tom Bell: I can't make sense of the violence of this world. Age has not brought me wisdom in this regard. If anything, growing old has only rendered the bloodshed more pointless and illogical to me. Anton Chigurh:

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You also don’t have to repost stuff from the official Atlantic account… I’m just hearing this for the first time

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consider pre-ordering this queer YA horror which is about the internet and eyeballs www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746459...

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This is it. This is why short story collections and short films and poetry etc. don't turn a profit, but TikTok and reality shows and Colleen Hoover are infinite money machines.

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Whispering this into the ear of a centrist democrat as I grasp them by the shoulders and shake vigorously

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The TBQ dudes are real, I lived más and got blackout drunk with them in Seattle. It was the most Literary experience of my life

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ok yes I cackled

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All my homies hate the Salvation Army

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YOU ARE NOT A REFUGEE. YOU ARE A LATE ADOPTER OF A NEW MEDIA PLATFORM. LET'S SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW.

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Check out this auction to support Trans Lifeline - I've got an ARC of my upcoming queer YA horror DEADSTREAM available - plus there's a bunch of other cool books and crafts www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Young dudes have always gone through stupid edgelordy phases but what's changed in my lifetime is there's now a massive ecosystem including a whole political party telling them it's their god-given right to never grow out of it

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stop looking for the helpers and be the motherfucking helper

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“we already survived 4 years of him” yeah actually a lot of people didn’t

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In this crucial time, if you know any undecided voters - ask yourself why you haven’t weeded these morons out of your life. You deserve better.

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In the absence of people, a thriving spambot ecosystem emerges on Threads. Nature is healing

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Heads up, if you're on Linkedin you've been automatically opted in for generative ai training - on everything you have ever posted, including personal data! Opt out: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...