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A white truck parked on the street with a large logo that says R and R Plumbing Services

Mary Midgley that u?

Death by a thousand cuts: refreshing your email and seeing “Updated Just Now” with nothing new.

Fisher-Price Is Pivoting to AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Manufacturing “We at Fisher-Price have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. T...

"We have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. Today, we are proud to announce that we are taking that same spirit of wonder and pointing it at our geo-political adversaries."

Creating a Community of Superfans: Why Mahesh Sadarangani Believes Culture Beats Coffee Every Time - FULL COMP: The Voice of the Restaurant Industry Revolution - Podcast Episode - Podscan.fm Listen to Creating a Community of Superfans: Why Mahesh Sadarangani Believes Culture Beats Coffee Every Time from FULL COMP: The Voice of the Restaurant Industry Revolution (40 min) • Published Feb 16...

One can easily infer from this (nauseating) podcast that one reason that Philz is removing Pride flags is that the CEO is from Texas and wants to expand to Texas (and presumably other red states). podscan.fm/podcasts/ful...

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Urge Philz Coffee to keep pride flags up!

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BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

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I take pride in being the one person in my building who has any sense of urgency when a fire alarm goes off in the middle of the night.

Great question!!!

Two pictures of the pillsbury dough boy: once is on a purple background with the caption “he is risen! happy Easter!”, and the other is tan and brown, similar to a cracker, on a white background saying “he is not! Happy Passover!”

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

Really can’t handle the academic job market anymore

Hi Lucky!

an expert in casual reasoning

I really, really, REALLY hate it that spanking is so popular. It's fucking bad, people. Don't do it.

I’d make a Frege joke but I already messed the set up

I’d make a Frege joke but it shouldn’t be in my set

I am here for AI destroying bad academic writing.

But I now treat anything that sniffs of AI's favourite cheery "why this matters" summaries and listicles as boring boilerplate to be skimmed with extreme prejudice and skepticism

Having an interesting voice as a writer is going to be very valuable

Students who say “Mills” finally vindicated!

No it didn’t set the record, the vast majority of movies don’t get nominated for anything and therefore lose every single award every year!

I think the James Harden experiment has failed.

I think it’s at the very least ableist and possibly also about “manhood”

Is this Arendt?

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

don’t

He’s been out the whole season so far

Meme format of 2000s anti-piracy ad, with text altered to say “YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A CONCEPT”

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All right, the dogs want walks but it's raining so I'm procrastinating. Gonna do a thread that's been on my mind for a long while, about exactly what "never again" means.

"Never again" got famous after the Holocaust & it's frequently deployed since--in response to, say, the US Japanese internment.