The Haley Stevens campaign spent about $60 million on the Senate primary campaign in Michigan. By contrast, in the 2025 federal election in Canada, all political parties spent a combined $96 million. Crazy!!
Nathan Alexander
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Historian (race, atheism), Univ. of Ottawa 🇨🇦 Indie fantasy novel, Ashes of the Revolution, now available (think Game of Thrones meets the French Revolution) 🐉 Co-host, Beyond Atheism Podcast https://www.nathangalexander.com
These are insane numbers. If El-Sayed wins after being outspent by this much, wow, watch out!
Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.
Republicans are the party of wife-beaters, rapists, and pedophiles
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump won't call for Max Miller to resign: "I'm going to let the families figure that out ... it's accusations"
I wrote a novel in less than a month. Here is why I felt like it was a worthy challenge to take on, even if the book never sees the light of day.
I Wrote a Novel in 4 Weeks
I wrote a novel in less than a month. Here is why I felt like it was a worthy challenge to take on.
10cities10years.com
Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children
Portland Press Herald@pressherald.com · 6d agoElon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid
Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
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Seems like AI slop
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Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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It's insane he wasn't immediately fired on January 6 after writing this.
This is actually not the worst Religion book cover I’ve ever seen, which was this (preliminary…?) one by Rowman & Littlefield. They changed it eventually because of people [like me] asking about it, but I still can’t believe they were seriously going to use it
Donovan Schaefer@feelingtheory.bsky.social · last wk.Good lord, are serious academic presses already caving to AI-generated garbage for their covers??
A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk."Who's better on..." 🔵Women's Rights: D +18 🔵Environment: D +17 🔵Democratic Norms: D +10 🔵Cost of Living: D +4 🟣Political Violence: Even 🟣Wars/Terrorism: Even 🔴AI: R +1 🔴Corruption: R +1 🔴Guns Control: R +3 🔴Immigration: R +5 🔴Crime: R +14 Ipsos / July 26, 2026
Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
Good lord, are serious academic presses already caving to AI-generated garbage for their covers??
The Relational Structure of Discourse
"The Relational Structure of Discourse" published on 27 May 2026 by Brill.
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There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
I'm tired of seeing AI slop in my feed. Even if I agree with the message conveyed by the slop, my new policy is to just block the person. Sorry, not sorry.
My book officially has a cover! I'm so excited to watch it materialize. Next stop, pre-orders!
Absolutely dystopian how phrases like “innovating the future” have become synonymous with the most regressively pointless curriculum at any given institution.
Radical change in the UK: a prime minister who went to Cambridge instead of Oxford
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoMost people may be surprised to hear its nearly 90 years since there was a Prime Minister who went to the University of Cambridge. (There have been 14 Prime Ministers from Oxford since Baldwin: people talk about that as "Oxbridge" rather than Oxford). Cambridge's closest bid since was Michael Howard
Messi is like the soft-spoken gang boss who says things like, “While I personally abhor violence, some of my associates may be less fastidious.”
Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social · 2w agoBBC panel talking about the post-whistle Argentina scrap taking a moment to talk about Messi being gracious in defeat and, ngl, as a tourist, I feel like that guys gets way too much of a free pass