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user experience strategist ✦ hermeticist ✦ flâneur ✦ recovering natural philosopher ✦ nerdy & geeky
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I put together a proper website ❝ My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity. Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days. ❞
www.apskilledmymom.com
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Arizona Public Service killed my mother
https://www.APSKilledMyMom.com
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Daniel Drezner
about 1 hour ago
Just gonna leave this here.
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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❝ Most of what gets shared as heartwarming stories are usually temporary, small-scale responses to systemic failures. I wish we found it just as inspirational to make structural changes to unjust systems, but I don’t know if our culture knows how to tell those stories. ❞
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Against a certain kind of “heartwarming” news story
Personal blog of Jonathan Korman
https://miniver.blogspot.com/2024/04/against-certain-kind-of-heartwarming.html
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Just so. Many good policy programs include some form of rent stabilization regulation. No good policy programs rely on it as the primary instrument.
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about 4 hours ago
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
about 4 hours ago
May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️🔥
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Me. That would be me.
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about 6 hours ago
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Ashcan
3 months ago
David Lynch being a total fucking coffee freak is so funny, he's characterizing people with it in such effective shorthand. The Northwestern Hotel has bootleg La Pavoni machines, Colonel Briggs has an electric percolator while Pete has a stovetop model, and Harry has the most insane carafe ever
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John Cutler
about 14 hours ago
Reductionism can be wrong, but actionable. Complexity can be right, but paralyzing.
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-389-ov...
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TBM 389: Overthinker!
From a young age, being accused of “overcomplicating” or “overthinking” things felt like a dismissal of who I was.
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-389-overthinker
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Kari Dru
about 21 hours ago
For the fifty billionth time: I don't want society to shut down. I want you to mask at the fucking hospital, bus, airport, school, and grocery store, if you can. If you cannot, I want everyone else to, to protect you.
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BeijingPalmer
about 23 hours ago
'i'm into heterodox ideas in science' 'what heterodox ideas?' 'oh, you know the ones'
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Faine Greenwood
1 day ago
It would sure be nice if more of our species could evolve beyond “needing to literally have a bad thing happen to them personally before they’re capable of even *starting* to grasp that it’s also bad when it happens to other people”
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I am inclined to be a Prison Almost-Abolitionist and this thread is frustratingly correct about the abolitionist discourse
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about 23 hours ago
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
1 day ago
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
wrote about how the core emotional appeal of reactionary thought is it lets you feel like a conquering king and put-upon victim at the same time a border patrol agent literally crying to the cops about being doxed? yes. this.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-modern-f...
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mcc
about 23 hours ago
I don't want this but I am having a real hard time convincing myself I don't want it
www.kickstarter.com/projects/100...
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OmniOne Pocket PC – Work, Create, and Play Anywhere
Small in Size, Big in Power — A Pocket PC with Intel Performance and All-Round Ports for Every Need.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1002116890/omnione-pocket-power-mini-pc-with-screen-and-battery?ref=android_project_share
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Al Sweigart
1 day ago
I made an ascii art moon phase tracker that runs whenever I open a new terminal window, and it makes me aware of the passage of time more than any calendar.
github.com/asweigart/as...
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github.com/asweigart/as...
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Nick Harkaway
1 day ago
Taking a moment to realise that in the movie 2010 its revealed that HAL in 2001 goes nuts because he is asked to lie.
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bring on the dancing turkeys
1 day ago
dystopian ass weather report
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An adult raping a prepubescent child is significantly worse than an adult violently forcing sex on an adolescent which is significantly worse than an adult coercing sex with an adolescent which is significantly worse than an adult having sex with an enthusiastic adolescent which is very bad
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JP
1 day ago
Speaking of Wu-Tang, a new family moved into the neighborhood and put this in their yard. I’m gonna fry up a pound of Bacon and give it to them as a housewarming gift.
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mtsw
1 day ago
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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GeezerMagazine.com
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WeirwoodTreeHugger
1 day ago
Either he's lying, or he genuinely doesn't know. If it's the latter, that means he must have a medical power of attorney who is signing off on procedures for him. If we had a press that cared about anything more than access to Trumpworld figures, they'd be looking into that.
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Ray Newman
1 day ago
I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
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Scott Horton
4 days ago
Republican legal icon and Clinton scourge Ken Starr signs off a touching note to Jeffrey Epstein with "hugs." Amazing.
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ROCKWELL < thread >
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#Pluribus
isn’t subtle. I love it.
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Brian PJ Cronin
1 day ago
It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
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Remain In Hell Without Despair
2 days ago
There is a subsection of MAGA who were *really serious* about "hunt elite pedos" and "no more foreign wars" and they've realised that Trump in office has a lot of people he owes favours to who are warmongering pedos
bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
2 days ago
She wants to run for president. In her mind, she’s not exploding her own career, she’s setting it up for a post-trump but still Trumpist / MAGAfied gop
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Arvind (has towel, not panicking)
2 days ago
This is a whole new level of minimalism.
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Andy Craig
2 days ago
My “I am not a malformed creep who groomed a child for years and then abducted her to my secret dungeon, I’m just a misunderstood tragic romantic” playlist is raising a lot of questions already answered by my playlist.
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post malone ergo propter malone
2 days ago
this one is a mistake
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Randall Munroe
2 days ago
Car Size
xkcd.com/3167/
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Michael Hobbes
2 days ago
The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts
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Checking TikTok I find that the Youngs do not use King Crimson as music for their clips. We have failed them.
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Plausible.
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Black Aziz Anansi
2 days ago
Somebody should start a show called "A diner in Bankhead" that just goes around to majority Black places and interviews potential voters.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
2 days ago
So, this thread--particularly
@lizthegrey.com
's useful explanation of how the relevant databases actually work--is worth reading in response to the Erin in the Morning story that's terrifying our community today. But I'll add a few broad points about Where We Are and scaremongering.
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Dan LK ➡️ PaxU
2 days ago
This is, of course the divide between conservative and liberal/leftist thought. The right wing is obsessed with what's in people's hearts because they think evil is inherent, something you are or aren't. On the left, we care about actions. Evil is what you DO.
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Always wise to get an assortment of sorts when one can
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
2 days ago
I am honestly a little shocked that I haven't heard more pundits and interview subjects pointing back to the Trump/Miss Teen USA stuff from 2016, in light of all the once-again-increased Epstein scrutiny. I mean, it's right there.
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A Timeline of Donald Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe
From walking into a teen dressing room to joking about his obligation to sleep with contestants, Donald Trump is a storied pageant creep.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/a-timeline-of-donald-trumps-creepiness-while-he-owned-miss-universe-191860/
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Noah Berlatsky
2 days ago
I think it was also jonathan bernstein who pointed out that trump uses "hoax" to mean, "a thing I don't like" rather than the dictionary definition.
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Lindsay Beyerstein
2 days ago
The Marshall Plan was literally one of the best idea in human history. Up there with vaccines. So of course the right is against both.
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Jake Grumbach
2 days ago
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/michael-flynn-doj-in-settlement-talks-over-50-million-claim
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❝ Analysis of documents released this week by Congress shows President Trump was mentioned in more than half of the messages ❞
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ryan cooper
2 days ago
the story is about how the American elite is rotten to its very marrow, to the extent that half of it was plotting and scheming about how to use Trump to advance their own venal interests before he even won
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It means that there is much, much worse than we have seen 😨
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It suddenly occurs to me that fans have a lot of liberty to invent Starfleet uniform designs justified by how mutable the canonical examples are
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David Roberts
2 days ago
This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly. NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
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Simon is literally the only person on Earth I can respect saying this. His conception of “reform” does not fuck around.
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Well, so much for my teeth-gritting At Least He Is Good At Fielding Bad Questions From TV Journalists acceptance of Buttigieg
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