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i am furious but i am sailing. library worker in nyc.

Joyce Carol Oates' tweet about ISIS from 2015 ("All we hear of ISIS is puritanical and punitive; is there nothing celebratory and joyous? Or is query naive") but with the word "ISIS" crossed out and replaced by "Christopher Nolan's Odyssey." 382 retweets, 341 likes.
Email subject line reading "They Discovered a New Monkey"
Tweet from Ilan Wurman: "It was not 8-1. It was 5-4."
Results of democratic primary in NY13 showing Darializa Avila Chevalier with 51.7% against Adriano Espaillat's 48.3% with 92.7% of votes counted
Lily Pond at Brooklyn College, with aquatic plant life, koi carp, and turtles.
"As large-scale industry advances, the creation of real wealth depends less on the labor time and the quantity of labor expended on the power of the instrumentalities (Agentien) set in motion during the labor time. These instrumentalities, and their powerful effectiveness, are in no proportion to the immediate labor time which their production requires; their effectiveness rather depends on the attained level of science and technological progress..."
Screenings at Cinema Village (22 East 12th St). In The Bricks Festival. New York Theater Workskop x Playco. The Horse of Jenin, a Troupe Courage Production. Screening series produced by 55B Productions / Jenny Tibbels. Written and performed by Alaa Shehada. Directed by Katrien Van Beurden and Thomas Van Ouwerkerk.
iPod Classic Video (5.5 gen) playing "Recipe for Love" by the Ronettes
A dilapidated leather belt or collar discarded on the sidewalk with metal letters reading "PUDDI N"
Rear window of a car with a decal reading "Plava - Gucia, Heart of Albania" with the US and Albanian flags
"Cozy Euro-centric den offering organic wines, small plates for sharing & oysters in dark confines."
Catalog search in the Queens College library for "Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration." Search software has a notification reading "Including 'illegal aliens'"
Youtube comment: "I love how the film manages to stay relevant, even today! And somehow someway, there's actually a decent group of people in my school that like and know about the movie."
New York magazine approval matrix from November 26 2025. https://nymag.com/article/the-approval-matrix-week-of-december-1-2025.html
Seemingly a cookie jar shaped like a hillbilly child on Stephen Miller's kitchen counter
"If only you knew how bad things really are."
The Seven Madmen (Los site locos) by Roberto Arlt in English and Spanish
Review by Ron Howard, Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023: "Technically impeccable, and sustained it’s tension over a long running time. Great ideas meeting great control of the tension that cinema can bring."
“We are trying to teach how to construct useful, exact searching,” she said. “But really [these products’ intent] is to make that not happen. The problem with that in a university library is we’re trying to teach those skills but we have tools that negate that necessity. And because those tools don’t work well, you’ve not learned the skill and you’re still getting crap results, so you’re never going to get better results because you didn’t learn the skill.”
Jair Bolsonaro in a hospital bed looking unwell.
3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values. [from Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism"]
Demsas: (Laughs.) So I think most college-educated liberal people have a sort of knee-jerk reaction to RFK Jr. and his arguments about everything from vaccines to fluoride, and sort of his orientation towards science and public health. And I think that reaction is a combination of fear and dismissiveness. I mean, you're a doctor who's worked with a variety of populations, and, you know, you're supportive of vaccines and public health, and yet you wrote an article that I think might surprise some people.
This was unsurprising. For three decades the latte has been the favored blog-whistle of the trend piece writer. It signals liberalism, femininity, gayness, pretension, gentrification – ideally all of the above – so reflexively that its origins as an insult are rarely revisited. It began in earnest in 1997, when journalist David Brooks writing in the Weekly Standard coined the term “latte liberal”. He was trying, disparagingly, to give name to the crunchy consumerist leftism of the time, in which organic vegetables and world music had become part of the social justice hamper: “You know you’re in a Latte Town when you can hop right off a bike path, browse in a used bookstore with shelves and shelves of tomes on Marxism the owner can no longer get rid of, and then drink coffee at a place with a punnish name that must have the word ‘Grounds’ in it, before sauntering through an African drum store or a feminist lingerie shop.”
post from chefdejour.bsky.social: "My family is GAY. I gave birth to them you fuckwit. I have skin in this. Take your aggrieved, privilaged [sic] ass out of our faces and find a more tolerant therapist to get that huge chip off your self important, fuckwitted shoulder maybe? Do the world a solid fucking favor."
Screenshot from Free Press video. Behind a woman talking, 2 small cubicles with glass doors. A young woman is perched on a stool in one cubicle.