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Sleater-Kinney
Reggie Watts
Bob Dylan
Prince

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

Has anyone made the ‘it’s only autism if it’s from the paracetamol region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling neurodivergence’ joke yet?

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration."

I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

the clearest proof Jackie Robinson was one of the most consequential people in history is that nearly a century after he started playing baseball, cowards are still working tirelessly to shut him up

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

some creepy ass looking guy that laura palmer’s mom sees in a vision in twin peak’s season 1 episode 2

why did nobody tell me curtis yarvin was in twin peaks

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Once again, we need anti-SLAPP laws in every state and a federal anti-SLAPP law. You shouldn't be able to sue a publisher because you disagree with the framing of their accurate story.

Finally read that WSJ article from last week and this confirms everything I suspected.

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

An expression of corporate ideology is how they keep remaking the literally perfect Chuck Jones version of THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS to "update" and "modernize" it instead of trying to make any new children's entertainment in the same style as the extremely successful original.

I must not dunk.
Dunks are the time-killer
Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation
I will ignore bad takes
I will allow them to pass, or block them
And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter
And where the takes have gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.

We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

What’s happened is that the social media consensus changed, in large part because liberals assumed public opinion is an expression of first principles and not merely a reflection of what people are hearing from their social and parasocial networks, and never bothered to actually promote their ideas

LW and her parents are one of three families whose challenge against TN's ban will be heard at SCOTUS on December 4. What Casey says is true--she's a badass and I'm so thankful for her family's fight on behalf of thousands of teens like her.

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

Can’t overstate how dangerous it is that vaccine denial has completely captured one of the two major parties. We’re an election or two from unraveling one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The potential long tail damage is millions of preventable deaths. Just absolutely bonkers.

In current-year it is really tough to be the particular flavour of neurospicy where you care a lot—A LOT—about whether or not something is true.

It’s so weird that the Klan can clearly hear what Trump and Vance are saying while so much of the corporate media somehow can’t.

At this point, doing trust and safety work at Twitter is pretty much like being a fire inspector in hell.

Normal people: Wow, those gymnasts got really high up and flipped around a lot.

Additional normal people: I'm not into the Olympics.

MAGA: I demand Kamala Harris comment on an Algerian athlete in a relatively obscure sport who is not trans, but for the purpose of me getting angry let's say she is.

Principled free speech absolutist Elon Musk has patterned X around his ideological commitments, which means a term used by an outgroup, a term he personally finds icky, gets tendentiously cast as harmful, whereas he’s hospitable toward an *actually hateful* term his allies frequently use.

Public librarian here. Please do what you can to help keep these fuckers away from power. 📚

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