I'm not sure what the complaint is here... "leave papayas out of it!"?

"The machines were coming in for the purpose of diminishing their income. They were coming in for that purpose. They were not coming in for the purpose of enhancing life or reducing the hours of toil or improving the products of the human hand. In fact the human hand is on its way out"

"Production is underway on Yaga, a series that reimagines the myth of Baba Yaga on Crave"

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Good Leftists want Zotero. That, and a mesh network of open-source, repairable handhelds that can be used to access a community-controlled Google Sheets alternative

if I were a millionaire I'd get Lux magazine to do a glossier, poppier offshoot and get those girlies on a "my doctor is patronizing af about my birth control side effects" to "reading Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor" pipeline

I think people are not taking seriously enough that this is a Peter Thiel outlet and one of its major successes is validating bad experiences with hormonal birth control while also doing somewhat innocuous pop culture commentary, then putting women on a right wing pipeline before they realize it.

if some guy who sucks has a name that ends in -in you can put an apostrophe after his name in your mind for laffs. Curtis Yarvin’ for example. This works in a different but also good way with guys who kick ass and are cool

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Vacuum aspiration, duh

Matthew Yglomelas, is this anything

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

I took it on cold dark winter evenings after high school swim practice and fell asleep 100% of the time. Don't worry I'm a good driver

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I understand the curiosity, but it feels kind of rude to ask a queer person how they reproduced

“the democrats are the most pro-trans party in the world” okay and they are still massively transphobic???? is this supposed to make me feel better

"you're more fertile after an abortion" babe im begging you to learn about selection effects

I should have written/perhaps should still write a lot more about Russian demographic anxiety and *gestures broadly at the United States*

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

I may need to get a second job to keep providing the grad students, postdocs and staff with high-quality door chocolates 🫡

Reading about the practice of terem and thinking about how if I'm inside my house for more than 16 consecutive hours I start to lose it

Why is every season of Love Is Blind based in a specific city and this one is just "Ohio"

before you mock just think: if that imaginary child had been allowed to grow up they could have gone on to represent the Left at Pro-Natalism conferences. but instead …

fuckin protestants man

I can't stress this enough: Teens have long endured more abortion restrictions than any other population. End all parental involvement laws. End all abortion bans.

Lilies are pink, Their petals are curled. Eugenic logic permeates Our social world.

I... hmm. I don't think that's what happened.

Shabbat shalom to everyone who could use some peace

Aww the dog has Cushing's disease, and it's going to cost a big chunk of money monthly for the rest of his life, but it'll stop him from drinking gallons of water every day and being so hungry he eats trash

I grew up in a russian family (and I think this is also true in the U.S.) where French language is holistically vaporized into High Culture only to move to Canada where the dual-language packaging mandate has me reading debased formulations such as “Cheez-it format familial… 75% plus de Cheez-It”

i was just reflecting this morning that my kid has no idea that i'm actually pretty smart, because he asks me approximately 10,000 questions a day i have no idea of the answer to (for the record, i would be great at explaining the collapse of the soviet union but it hasn't come up yet)

Low birth rates have modest long run negative effects, after good effects for a few decades, and raising birthrates exacerbates dependency. A giant, apparently permanent, disconnect between expert opinion (e.g., below) versus manufactured panic hype on this issue pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

death to the labour party

Karen's the best, everyone should listen to Karen

Where am I emotionally in my quitting choir saga? Thanks for asking, it's "starting a DSA/workers' choir sounds like a good idea"

They're gonna keep escalating this one

Anyone else sometimes think about the red cellophane that boxes of valentines used to be wrapped in in about 1992?

(guy who made AI cigarettes voice) if nobody starts smoking soon the whole thing will come crumbling down!!! (AI cigarette voice, high pitched and very tiny) You're absolutely right! And what's more -- quitting is the brave thing to do

population politics are just going to continue to get dumber and worse, huh

This decision was made without consulting a single CU Boulder professor with AI expertise. And AFAIK there was one professor *total* involved. More info, such as it is, here: https://www.cu.edu/gen-ai Check the "Guiding Principles" section for entertainment.

oh... yay...

Girl, don't take passes / from boys who wear glasses

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Having intrusive thoughts about taking up smoking

Reminder that the submission deadline for this special issue of PRPR is coming up! ⤵️ Send us your work on pronatalism!

the indo-european language family is a conspiracy created by the sims-williams family to sell more languages

I always support dunking on these people but also I think the real answer is that it's hard for them because they've been indoctrinating their kids with compulsory heterosexuality and gender norms since before they were born

Macedonian Roma banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=479a...

Post a banger that's not in English? Y'all are not ready for this Oirat language banger I'm about to send your way: youtu.be/0pvP6jpz5f0?...

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