Alita

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Everything is on fire. While it burns- books, art, trees.

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guess its official that I have little faith in American institutions then

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person." Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...

what i'm doing about alice munroblgtylr.substack.com why i hate art monster discourse

Begging @annleckie.com for more fantasy novels. The number of times I have googled “books like Raven Tower” is reaching the ridiculous. And none of them come close to writing of @annleckie.com

This thread is the best thing on the internet

lemme break it down so the judge had an ex-parte meeting with a witness and the prosecution without informing the defense. this, in layman's terms, is a no-no. the defense found out about this meeting and asked, on the record in open court, (paraphrased) "qu'est-ce que le fuck?"

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Aimee Ogden

This happened to me with THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS I was like "VIOLENCE! I WILL COMMIT VIOLENCE! WAIT NO I CAN'T PUT THAT IN A BLURB"

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“If a former president can be convicted for breaking the law then so can anyone” seems to me the entire ever-fucking point

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seriously yall I think the banks should be nationalized and all property owned collectively and full employment guaranteed by the state, ok? but if you can't party a little because an aspirational fascist got his ass handed to him by working people today, please check your priorities

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If the Democrats choose not to exploit this to win the election in November they don’t deserve to run anything.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, Pearl Jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains,

post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.

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Mary Oliver taking us all to task.

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JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!

Representative Jesse Edwards, a Republican New Hampshire State Representative, called teens “ripe” and “fertile” when speaking against a bill that would raise the state’s minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18. Despite his remarks, the bill passed in the state’s House of Representatives.

New Hampshire lawmaker calls teens 'ripe' and 'fertile' while speaking out against bill that would ban child marriagewww.dailydot.com Representative Jesse Edwards, a Republican New Hampshire State Representative, called teens "ripe" and "fertile" when speaking against a bill that would

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"This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY COLLECTIVE NOUN] overtook the historic [CENTRAL CAMPUS LOCATION NAMED AFTER PROBLEMATIC DONOR]." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/uni...

University President’s Response to Student Dissent Mad Libswww.mcsweeneys.net To our treasured [COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY NAME] community, This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY CO...

@vajra.me Saint of Bright Doors! More people need to read this book!! Creative! Visceral! Completely engrossing! Added to TBR when @premeemohamed.com recommended it and 🤯

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Between the mid 90s when I was joining those marches and 2022, the violent crime rate has fallen 71%: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... Who is served by making women afraid to leave their homes? It's certainly not women.

What the data says (and doesn’t say) about crime in the United Stateswww.pewresearch.org The two primary sources of government crime statistics both paint an incomplete picture, though efforts at improvement are underway.

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"How are you" response chart: 1. "It's a beautiful day" - Things are going well 2. "Pretty good" - Experiencing ups and downs 3. "I'm alright" - Been a rough 72 hours 4. "Hangin' in there" - Take me to a hospital

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Helen Rosner

Nations are fake and gender is fake and borders are fake and money is fake and sorrow and discomfort and death are real and it is INSANE to tie the former group to the latter; we are are just animals who want to feel special and we will go nowhere, good or bad, when we die

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To be clear, antisemitism is happening at protests and on campuses. But...antisemitism is literally happening everywhere all the time and nobody gave a fuck about it until it was a convenient narrative to blow out of proportion and call in the fascist police state. None of this is about antisemitism

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Listen here, you little shit. If you offer someone liberation WITHOUT CHANGING THE SITUATION OF OPPRESSION, that liberation necessarily includes the freedom to become an oppressor. This is one of the problems of liberation within our modern condition.

Hillary was poised to break the biggest glass ceiling ever by being as bloodthirsty and selling out as well as, or better, than any man!! But those fucking men stole her rightful Presidency.

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State tyranny is not the only lens through which women’s oppression can be understood, because in fact most of it is private tyranny: conducted in the home, by men they know. These are the primary agents and beneficiaries of women’s oppression—the state most often acts as their enforcer.

To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive.

Today I am thinking about my late cousin Helen Fagin, and wishing I had her here to talk about the world we are in. www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/18/a...

A 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor on How Books Save Liveswww.themarginalian.org “There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive.”

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"I don't want people to be dependent on drugs" is one of the most bullshit ableist things. I'm dependent on a lot of different drugs. Drugs for my blood pressure and my seratonin and my thyroid and... I mean, being dependent on drugs is not actually baseline bad.

“well I don’t want people to be dependent on drugs” that’s because you have an infantile understanding of dependence and addiction and you don’t have the baseline knowledge needed to participate in this conversation

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It’s so bleak that students are going into lifelong debt to pay for their education and the school is like “for this piddly sum we owe you nothing”

And it makes sense! If you're the dean of an Ivy, like - you don't really make money from undergrads, you make the REAL money from your endowments, big money donors and opening campuses in Dubai. You don't give a fuck about students!!

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Ok but can we also discuss the ongoing Unsolicited Advice Crisis of Bsky because a lot of people On Here seem to mistake “sharing an errant thought” with “asking for a four part reply of advice and lecturing”

yes, I don’t want or need advice, I want collective anger at companies that make wasteful electronics

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Everything is going great!!!

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QFT

A perfect album from the 90s.

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“Is it technically fascism?” “Is it technically rape?” “Is it technically genocide?” Remarkable the smug ease with which so many people have replaced moral inquiries with semantic ones.

“All such celebrations are really reaffirmations of the deterministic structures that run through our civilisation.” @blgtylr.bsky.social always distills the underlying bite of existence in society

HELLO. The Zola essay I have been working on for two years is finally out. Please read it. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Brandon Taylor · Is it even good? Two Years with Zolawww.lrb.co.uk Zola’s naturalism not only holds that one can shape and change one’s fate, but that it is a moral necessity to do so...