Wisely Quiet

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Currently overeducated burned out bum in between social media sites.

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Do this. If you’re concerned about what’s in your sunblock (and this genuinely is a place where from a cancer prevention pov all formulas are exceedingly not created equal), ewg has got you: www.ewg.org/sunscreen/

Please for the love of god wear sunblock.

Sunscreen Guide - Rated by Scientists | EWGwww.ewg.org EWG scientists rated more than 1,700 products, and only about one in four products meets our standards for adequate sun protection and avoids ingredients linked to known health harms.

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This has been by far my most-read substacky entry yet, which must mean that it's good, I dunno.

A Word About Themopen.substack.com [to say nothing of they]

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what i'm hearing 1. trump is, expectedly, being a shithead 2. moderators, expectedly, suck 3. joe biden really, really, really should have actually taken some uppers

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The Blacksky Starter Pack: a curated list of the 50 most popular (and active) accounts from the Blacksky feed(s). Also includes Blacksky, Blacksky Trending, and the Blackademics feeds. go.bsky.app/2FtgiTK

Blacksky Starter Packgo.bsky.app Join the conversation

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Southern Poverty Law Center laid off a majority of its unionized staff, Alexandra Martinez reports. The decision has ignited frustration from workers calling the organization out on what they say is hypocrisy & abandonment of its core mission. prismreports.org/2024/06/25/s...

Southern Poverty Law Center lays off most of its unionized staffprismreports.org The decision has ignited frustration from workers calling the organization out on what they say is hypocrisy and abandonment of its core mission.

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“Musk is getting about *nine hundred sixty thousand times* the pay of a Tesla production associate.” prospect.org/power/2024-0...

Elon Musk and the Decline of Teslaprospect.org The megalomaniac CEO extracted $48 billion from his shareholders. But the company’s future does not look good.

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Not the Death Star but an evil villain confronted with an ethical contractor.

That Mitchell & Webb Look - Evil Plan [HQ]www.youtube.com HILARIOUS bit! A must-see!(From That Mitchell & Webb Look Season 2 Episode 2)***Disclaimer: I do not own nor claim the rights to this video.***

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Why to read this article past headlines: You, extremely online, already know about Lilly Gaddis. Though not before she said a racial slur, which is what my story is about. Because the right wing trolling economy is what interests me, not this stupid lady. www.salon.com/2024/06/17/a...

A tradwife drops a racist slur: Why the right's trolling economy made this moment inevitablewww.salon.com Cashing in as a "cancel culture" martyr is getting harder, so attention addicts have to get more extreme

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google bombing's back, baby! www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24...

Google still recommends glue for your pizzawww.theverge.com Google bombing is back, but now with AI.

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New blog entry: Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? - Charlie's Diarywww.antipope.org

Doctor Who/Riversong age gap discourse

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if you snatch his beanie his brains spill out like the worst telling of the green ribbon ever

quaking in my fucking boots guys, the beanie podcaster wants to go to war

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Looking to the country under the past several years, we can see that violent threats have shifted from unacceptable statements of intent to harm, to mere acts of speculation that cannot be proven until the harm has already occurred. This is a true story. It happened this week.

"I'm Going to F*cking Kill You"open.substack.com Failure to appropriately address true threats in America has evolved to an unacceptable new normal.

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What happens after the maws of the earth open and slurp you down? Sheol! 👻 Gehenna! 🧟‍♂️The World to Come! 👼And more! There are, unsurprisingly, a lot of ideas about the Jewish Afterlife-- from going down, down under to eating at the Divine Light Cafe ✨ and back again. It's Afterlife Storytime today:

The Land Down Under(world)www.lifeisasacredtext.com Some Jewish Perspectives on the Afterlife

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This is Pulitzer level literature, "The LAPD is not expected to like the existence of 'Fuck the LAPD' merchandise. But their sole remedy is to not do things that result in people wanting to buy and wear 'Fuck the LAPD' merchandise."

I wrote about @questauthority.bsky.social's slightly more detailed letter to the folks claiming IP rights over "Fuck the LAPD" on behalf of the LAPD. www.techdirt.com/2024/05/14/w...

When ‘Lol, No’ Is Not Enough: Lawyer Explains Why Bogus Takedown Over ‘Fuck The LAPD’ Shirt Should Result In Paying Legal Feeswww.techdirt.com You may recall last month’s hilarious story of lawyer Mike Dunforth’s response to a vexatious angry demand letter from IMG, representing the LAPD Foundation, claiming that a t-shirt with the follow…

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Agreed and also it is fascinating watching Jack adopt the exact aesthetic of the totalitarian Rasputin character from Hulu's "The Great"

If your vision of utopia is that no one has to do anything about Nazism, you're ultimately indecipherable from a Nazi.

Analysis | Why Jack Dorsey gave up on Blueskywapo.st He thought technology could solve online speech. It hasn’t.

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The Sick Man of North America is open to bribes in all sectors foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/02/t...

Silicon Valley tech leaders are now openly embracing Middle Eastern oil money, giving Saudi and the UAE unprecedented influence in the U.S. tech industry. “The Khashoggi era is over,” said a prominent venture capitalist. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a Middle East gold rush.www.washingtonpost.com Virtually overnight, the Middle East has emerged as the most powerful geopolitical force in the tech industry, due in part to the Biden administration’s fears about China.

The American Empire Is the Sick Man of the 21st Centuryforeignpolicy.com Failure at the center has left the United States up for sale to the highest bidder.

I have a joke about Al Capone but it's taxing.

i have a really good joke about lethe but

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New blog post! 5 more things I recently learned about #Japanese. Why is kitsune udon called that, why do we つぶやく on Twitter, is "often" よく related to "good" よい, why can 雪 mean "revenge", and where did 下手 come from? Find the answers below: wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/f...

Five Things I Recently Learned About Japanese: Episode 7wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com Did you know that I don't know everything there is to know about Japanese? I know, I'm surprised too. They actually let people get PhDs without checking if they know everything there is to know these ...

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The subject is serious and the history is grim, but the post itself is funny. There are important lessons here, but I promise it won’t feel like homework.

It's hard to talk about something if we can't see how insidious ideas got there in the first place. A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation. My latest:

The Antisemitism Post (tm)www.lifeisasacredtext.com Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

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this is the correct FIGHT CLUB (1999) take and I'll probably just start linking this instead of trying to explain it to people.

I wrote for @bwdr.bsky.social about the Rules of Watching FIGHT CLUB, one of the last great films of 1999, of the 20th century, of the end times: "And the eighth and final rule of watching FIGHT CLUB: "This is a fucking love story." www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...

Fight Club (1999): With Your Feet in the Air and Your Head on the Groundwww.brightwalldarkroom.com I am Travis’ Essay on Love, Sex, Masculinity, and Fight Club.

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You, normal American: Wow, this is a worse dog scandal than Mitt Romney's. Me, an Arkansan: Wow, this is almost as bad as when Mike Huckabee's son killed a dog at a Boy Scout camp and then he fired the state police chief for refusing to tell the district attorney not to investigate it.

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DO YOU LIKE GOTH SHIT? Start with Mort, the first of the Death books. DO YOU LIKE DRAGONS? Start with Guards! Guards! the first of the Watch books. DO YOU LIKE ANTITHEISM? Start with Small Gods, a standalone skewering of organized religion. From there, follow this guide to find your next book.

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Happy birthday to Terry Pratchett, who wrote the books so full of humanity and righteous fury at the injustices of the world that he made me a better person the world is poorer for having lost him, but what a legacy he left behind here is a thread I wrote about Discworld, and why it’s so special

A DISCWORLD PRIMER* *or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about? Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help. (1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)

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This is the response from Northeastern when a reporter pointed out what has actually happened btw

students at Northeastern were arrested under the premise that they were shouting antisemitic slurs and now video is surfacing showing that the slurs in fact came from outside people holding Israeli flags while the pro-Palestine protesters tried to de-escalate i cannot imagine this kind of evil

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I offered a little rebuttal to the viral article claiming "No one buys books" (and dove into some of the math and stats of book sales) countercraft.substack.com/p/yes-people...

Yes, People Do Buy Bookscountercraft.substack.com Despite viral claims, Americans buy over a billion books a year

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i watched this 86 minute long youtube documentary about the creation of the video game OREGON TRAIL and enjoyed it a lot - a reminder that a documentary that isn't trying to be dramatic or suspenseful can still be valuable and entertaining www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qbj...

The Story of The Oregon Trailwww.youtube.com In 1971, three student teachers in Minneapolis, MN created a little computer game about westward expansion in the United States. Over 50 years later, The Ore...

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Fun interview with Matthew Sheffield, where I talk about how the MAGA movement is built on masculine insecurities and bizarre sexual fixations. plus.flux.community/p/maga-has-t...

MAGA is morphing beyond a political identity into a sexual fetishplus.flux.community Columnist Amanda Marcotte on the emergence of ‘tradwives’ and how the Christian right uses sex to sell religion