Poole Party
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Writing my li'l horror books 💀
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Too much modern culture only understands politics as a form of performance art and not as a form of individual and/or collective action, even though the latter is what politics actually is.
Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community.
"We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...
"We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...
Dolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread Affection
Bipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Too much modern culture only understands politics as a form of performance art and not as a form of individual and/or collective action, even though the latter is what politics actually is.
I'm from Tennessee originally and have had Complicated feelings about the place since I was very young. Dolly Parton wasn't the only thing to be proud of from TN, but she certainly made it better, even joyful to be a Tennessean.
August 25, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I'm from Tennessee originally and have had Complicated feelings about the place since I was very young. Dolly Parton wasn't the only thing to be proud of from TN, but she certainly made it better, even joyful to be a Tennessean.
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This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
August 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
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if you let yourself become reliant on LLMs to the point that you're asking them to do things like "summarize text messages" and "communicate with your loved ones," you suffer from a profound weakness of character.
August 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
if you let yourself become reliant on LLMs to the point that you're asking them to do things like "summarize text messages" and "communicate with your loved ones," you suffer from a profound weakness of character.
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George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo is a book with a unique prose style that asks a lot of the reader, but it also teaches you how to read it within about 25 pages. I have absolutely no respect for people who won’t even fucking try.
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this.
www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
August 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo is a book with a unique prose style that asks a lot of the reader, but it also teaches you how to read it within about 25 pages. I have absolutely no respect for people who won’t even fucking try.
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every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act
March 27, 2024 at 11:55 PM
every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act
If Brad & Chisholm try to start a narrative on Monday that the trade was not driven by finances, they are lying. I can buy that these other (stupid) reasons played their part, but I do not buy that the cost of Jaylen's contract alongside Tatum's was not the driving motivator.
Additional details on Jaylen Brown trade, per Sam Amick, Jay King:
- Trade "not driven by finances"
- Blazers' analytics view Brown as a "negative player"
- One current GM doesn't view Brown as a top-50 player in the league
- Trade "not driven by finances"
- Blazers' analytics view Brown as a "negative player"
- One current GM doesn't view Brown as a top-50 player in the league
July 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
If Brad & Chisholm try to start a narrative on Monday that the trade was not driven by finances, they are lying. I can buy that these other (stupid) reasons played their part, but I do not buy that the cost of Jaylen's contract alongside Tatum's was not the driving motivator.
Love this. My JB as a Celtic wrapped:
-Finished grad school
-Long relationship ended, committed to staying in Boston
-Reconnected with one of my best friends
-Started dating, got engaged to, and then married them
-Adopted a spunky dog
-Wrote a novel
-Had a baby
💚
-Finished grad school
-Long relationship ended, committed to staying in Boston
-Reconnected with one of my best friends
-Started dating, got engaged to, and then married them
-Adopted a spunky dog
-Wrote a novel
-Had a baby
💚
My Jaylen Brown on the Celtics wrapped
- 4 apartment moves 🏢
- 4 jobs 👩🏻💻
- 2 nephews 👶🏻
- 1 relationship/breakup 💔
- 1 pet 😺
- 1 ring (Celtics 😉)
- Paid off college debt
- Endless memories
End of an era...
- 4 apartment moves 🏢
- 4 jobs 👩🏻💻
- 2 nephews 👶🏻
- 1 relationship/breakup 💔
- 1 pet 😺
- 1 ring (Celtics 😉)
- Paid off college debt
- Endless memories
End of an era...
July 2, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Love this. My JB as a Celtic wrapped:
-Finished grad school
-Long relationship ended, committed to staying in Boston
-Reconnected with one of my best friends
-Started dating, got engaged to, and then married them
-Adopted a spunky dog
-Wrote a novel
-Had a baby
💚
-Finished grad school
-Long relationship ended, committed to staying in Boston
-Reconnected with one of my best friends
-Started dating, got engaged to, and then married them
-Adopted a spunky dog
-Wrote a novel
-Had a baby
💚
The Jaylen Brown trade is cheap, loser behavior from the Celtics front office. Chisholm and Stevens should be ashamed, but rich assholes and their flunkies never are. Even if he miraculous spins Paul George into something, anything, I never want to hear "in Brad we trust" again.
July 2, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The Jaylen Brown trade is cheap, loser behavior from the Celtics front office. Chisholm and Stevens should be ashamed, but rich assholes and their flunkies never are. Even if he miraculous spins Paul George into something, anything, I never want to hear "in Brad we trust" again.
Watching WCF Game 7, let's goooo
Play "La Marseillaise". Play It!
Alt: Casablanca scene: 'Play "La Marseillaise". Play It!'
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May 31, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Watching WCF Game 7, let's goooo
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the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive
Yup. It's so tiring hearing that we (as teachers) MUST "prepare our students for an AI future" & "get on the AI train or else be left behind," & I'm aware that some professors are using AI for grading or creating AI lectures using avatars of themselves, but I think if "AI is the future" we're fucked
This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.
May 11, 2026 at 12:10 PM
the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive
I think getting Giannis for Jaylen is a good-on-paper-not in-practice scheme. Now I have to hear about it all off-season, mainly from people acting like Jaylen got a big head. How would "whose team is it" discourse get any better with GIANNIS on the team??
May 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I think getting Giannis for Jaylen is a good-on-paper-not in-practice scheme. Now I have to hear about it all off-season, mainly from people acting like Jaylen got a big head. How would "whose team is it" discourse get any better with GIANNIS on the team??
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the most evil guy in the country wants to feed everything you've ever done into a machine that replicates you so he can eliminate you, and some people still walk around saying "well, there ARE some uses for this technology"
April 14, 2026 at 12:38 PM
the most evil guy in the country wants to feed everything you've ever done into a machine that replicates you so he can eliminate you, and some people still walk around saying "well, there ARE some uses for this technology"
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
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"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 AM
"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it
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They took a 5yo kid, used him as bait to try to capture the rest of his family, and then shipped him to a concentration camp on the other side of the country alone and in secret.
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 AM
They took a 5yo kid, used him as bait to try to capture the rest of his family, and then shipped him to a concentration camp on the other side of the country alone and in secret.
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Right now in Minnesota schools are canceling all field trips indefinitely because it isn’t safe to take students to science museums and water sanitation facilities with agents of the federal government hanging around
January 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Right now in Minnesota schools are canceling all field trips indefinitely because it isn’t safe to take students to science museums and water sanitation facilities with agents of the federal government hanging around
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Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
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a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content
Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:53 PM
a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content
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The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
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You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat