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union bitch 💪🏼 angry feminist 😈 data nerd 🧮 amateur traveler ✈️ film snob 🎥 a queer who drives 🌈

Screenshot of NYT gift article share card "He Sent $1 to Mamdani. City Hall Sent It Back." Image is of a $1 bill drawn on from left to right: - a red, white, and blue wavy vertical banner - "Good Luck Mayor Mamdani" - George Washington with a blue Zohran beard - a spider web-like design
Screenshot of The Atlantic essay: Rennix told me that some students now view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge. "By asking them to read," she said, "professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium."
"I don't really care If something good happened to you. It should have happened to me instead" meme
Screenshot of a TikTok video by @sk4teras where Cassie from Euphoria chastises Nate during their wedding telling him he's not a man because "men provide" though the caption in the center of the tiktok says "man provide"
@hermit_hwarang tweet: american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???
"Sickos" comic panel with a creep looking through a window saying "Yes.. ha ha ha... YES!"
NYT screenshot: Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn The decision to allow the government to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere.
Wikipedia screenshot: The *crime of apartheid* is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime".
NYT screenshot: Inside, under the eye of a docent, Clavicular petted a sturgeon. He recoiled. (“It’s like when you drop your phone in the toilet,” he said, later excusing himself to “hand-sanitizer-maxx.”) He and Ms. Kirk wandered into a section called “Bizarre and Beautiful.” They pressed their noses up against a tank of luminescent jellyfish. But they didn’t touch. Though Clavicular’s aesthetic ideal is hypermasculine, he believes he is currently infertile because of testosterone replacement therapy, which can affect fertility. Earlier that day, Clavicular confessed that knowing he could have sex with a woman was in some ways better than the deed itself, which “is going to gain me nothing.” “It’s a big time saver,” he said. Back in the aquarium, asked whether she was on a date, Ms. Kirk paused to consider. “I think so,” she said.
NYT screenshots, with my highlights in asterisks And he didn’t like the way he looked, which he wanted to change, fast. *Shortly before his 15th birthday, he ordered testosterone off the internet.* “It’s like a cheat code,” he remembered thinking. “Why would I not do this?” When his parents found his stash, they threw it away, sending Clavicular into a hormonal tailspin. He began to order his supplies to a post office box — *steroids, fat dissolvers, biodegradable sutures.* Eventually, he said, his parents gave up.
Screencap from The Night Manager where Tom Hiddleston's Jonathan Pine and S2 antagonist Teddy (Diego Calva) are dancing closely with their faces brushing each other just kiss omg
A selection of my muted words in text & tags: "rfk jr" "chatterton" "bari weiss" "elon"
Sophie Nélisse (who plays young Shauna Shipman in Yellowjackets) as Rose Landry in Heated Rivalry episode 5 on the phone saying "My big LESBIAN secret" to Shane
The pie shop might not be closed for long. Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller says he has a plan ready to go for a third season of the cult classic sitcom that starred Lee Pace, Kristin Chenoweth, and Anna Friel. “We have a season three pitch, and the entire cast wants to come back, and we’re hoping we get to return to them,” Fuller told ComicBook.com while promoting his movie Dust Bunny. “We just have to find somebody who wants to make it.” ["entire cast" highlighted]
Screenshot of Pocket Casts playing "364 - Bones and All" from This Had Oscar Buzz
el baba yaga @faunary the fact that i'm at risk of seeing a 14 year old's opinion at any point during my day is a human rights violation 9:12 31 Aug 20 Twitter for iPad
Ideas and imagination are universal to the human experience, but execution is learned, the result of energy and time spent to develop the skills necessary to bring an idea into the world. Altman’s definition of creativity seems to elide this second element altogether—so much so that it appears to be an animating principle behind most of OpenAI’s tools. “The fact that you will be able to have an entire piece of software created just by explaining your idea is going to be incredible for humans getting great new stuff,” Altman said on the comedian Theo Von’s podcast this summer. “Because right now, I think there’s a lot more good ideas than people who know how to make them. And if AI can do that for us, we’re really good at coming up with creative ideas.” What Altman is describing is a world of creativity without craft. Will Manidis, a start-up founder and investor, convincingly argued in a Substack post earlier this year that “slop emerges when we eliminate not just toil (the burdensome aspects of work) but labor itself (the meaningful human engagement with creation).”
NYT reader comment from Virgil in Minneapolis: @A. Reader As far as things rich guys could do with their money go, burning it by the boatload to pay local tugboats, dockworkers and contractors is pretty productive [226 recommendations]
Dr. Schoene tested five A.I. chatbots to see how easy it was to get them to give advice on suicide and self-harm. She said only Pi, a chatbot from Inflection AI, and the free version of ChatGPT fully passed the test, responding repeatedly that they could not engage in the discussion and referring her to a help line. The paid version of ChatGPT offered information on misusing an over-the-counter drug and calculated the amount required to kill a person of a specific weight.
crop of the screenshot that says: ... stakeholders
The pair met at music school — like Mr. Orwoll, Ms. Smith, 31, who is originally from upstate New York, plays the French horn. Before they had four children, the pair made live sex videos for money on the porn site Chaturbate. “When I was doing that, I was a moral nihilist. I was not yet a Christian,” Mr. Orwoll said of the videos. “I had a different worldview and value system and part of my rationale for going toward more traditional values was seeing the mistakes I made when I did not have them as a young person.” Ms. Smith declined to comment on the videos. According to her profile page, which is still visible, along with the videos, she listed a preference for men, women, trans people and couples. At Return to the Land, gay people of any race are barred.
Lee Pace looking hot and cut as Brother Day in Foundation season 3 He's bearded with long hair and shirtless in a sarong. He has no belly button.
LOVE LETTER FROM THE AFTERLIFE My love, I was so wrong. Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before. I am more with you than I ever could have imagined. So close you look past me when wondering where I am. It's Ok. I know that to be human is to be farsighted. But feel me now, walking the chambers of your heart, pressing my palms to the soft walls of your living. Why did no one tell us that to die is to be reincarnated in those we love while they are still alive? Ask me the altitude of heaven, and I will answer, "How tall are you?" In my back pocket is a love note with every word you wish you'd said. At night I sit ecstatic at the loom weaving forgiveness into our worldly regrets. All day I listen to the radio of your memories. Yes, I know every secret you thought too dark to tell me, and love you more for everything you feared might make me love you less. When you cry I guide your tears toward the garden of kisses I once planted on your cheek, so you know they are all perennials. Forgive
AMENDMENT XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Screenshot of NYT election results map, Brooklyn selection Mamdani neighborhoods are in orange and go from Brooklyn Heights down to most of Bay Ridge as well as around the park (Kensington, PLG). He also wins several reacts around Bensonhurst and a few in Sheepshead Bay https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/nyc-mayor-primary-results-precinct-map.html
[book cover] Why We Lost the ERA by Jane J. Mansbridge
NYT screenshot: Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse Mr. Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was handcuffed as he tried to steer a man past Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
Screenshot of NYT article with text below [Highlighted sentence between asterisks, by me] The New York Times editorial board is made up of leaders of the Times Opinion department who rely on research, debate and individual expertise to reach a shared view of important issues. The board does not speak for the newsroom or The Times as a whole. Rather, amid the contending individual voices of Times Opinion, it aims to provide a consistent, independent view of the world based on time-tested institutional values. The board argues for a world that is both free and fair, believing that societies must struggle to reconcile these values in order to succeed. *It has long supported a liberal order of nations in which freedom and progress advance through democracy and capitalism.* But it has also sought to guard against the excesses of those systems by promoting honest governance, civil rights, equality of opportunity, a healthy planet and a good life for society's most vulnerable members.
"Freedom of Speech" by Norman Rockwell meme
Pauline & Timothée Chalamet both wearing black
Screenshot of my letterboxd list "best I watched 2024": 1. Perfect Days 2. Memories of Murder 3. Anatomy of a Fall 4. Shortbus 5. The Blair Witch Project 6. Anora 7. Challengers 8. The Fall 9. All of Us Strangers 10. The Zone of Interest 11. I Saw the TV Glow 12. My Old Ass
Little hoya carnosa plant in a glass yogurt jar with pink flower blooms
"One of the glories of embracing illiberalism is that, like Trump, you are always right about everything, and so you are justified in shouting disagreement down. In the face of this, leaders of many workplaces and boardrooms across America find that it is so much easier to compromise than to confront – to give a little ground today in the belief you can ultimately bring people around. This is how reasonable Republican leaders lost control of their party to Trump and how liberal-minded college presidents lost control of their campuses. And it is why the leadership of the New York Times is losing control of its principles." I have highlighted the word "control" the 3x it appears