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Fits with the accounts of Union soldiers motivated by preservation of the Union and wishy-washy on abolition until it was no longer an abstraction as they marched into the South and saw first hand the evil.

I appreciate a lot about Ms. Rachel but in the top 5 somewhere is that she demonstrates how effectively the powers of permanent, irrepressible theater kid energy can be harnessed for good

ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”

👀 it begins

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.

How soon can the plague get here?

no....no!!!!!

the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

kid’s doing passive resistance lmao

This morning I imagined a late night TV commercial for a compilation CD called "Wife Sounds"

Monday: The Workman's Curse Tuesday: The Day of Bastards Wednesday: Heavy is the Burden of Sisyphus Thursday: The Second Day of Bastards Friday: Business in the Front, Party in the Back Saturday: Me Old Ham, My Good Time Charlie Sunday: Fairweather Friend

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans

it's deeply unfair to live with the consequences of your actions, I agree www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

Your kid watches Sound of Music and you realize that every generation of children invents the flying nun from first principles

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all of us are the evil gay in someone else’s story

Happy Batman Day

They should put a little piece of candy under the plastic push-up part that falls off when you're out of deodorant

We built some new cyber weapons Ones that, like many cyber weapons, we can’t really control once deployed, though even more so Then we deployed them The cyber weapons did some things we didn’t totally intend This means you’re all going to die and we’re prophets, give us all the money and power

AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??

rip annie dillard

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

I want to apologize for remarks I made a few years ago suggesting I believe every human is entitled to respect and dignity in addition to basic human rights. I had no way of knowing at the time this sentiment could be interpreted as applying to people of a gendered persuasion

Dad and daughter at this pizza place. Serious faces. Dad sighs. Daughter sighs. Dad says, So your mom wants me to talk to you about that joke on your phone. Daughter nods. Dad takes a deep breath and says, Twenty-five years ago, terrorists flew two planes into a building in New York City,

25 years

thrilled as i am to see the 9/11 high school gymnastic routine do the rounds again, it doesn’t hold a candle to the 9/11 middle school interpretive dance set to the music of lmfao

my 2 cents on material conditions and right wing politics for @hammerandhope.bsky.social "The portrayal of economic anxiety as a standalone rather than complementary explanation to the machinations of plutocratic bigots also flies in the face of what we know..." hammerandhope.org/article/econ...

First of all we already have an AI actress and have had one for years. Her name is Gal Gadot and the results have not been great

Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.

it’s crazy that Sam Altman didn’t go to turbo prison for 10,000 years the first time someone killed themselves because of ChatGPT