They couldn’t paint the bottom of a pool, but we’re building on the moon. 🙄
Doesn’t Minnesota have the highest standard of living in the whole USA? Is that why Trump hates it so much? He seeks misery for his own citizens.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
I corresponded with Anne Carson back in 2000, with a treatment to adapt her “Autobiography of Red” for the Montreal Young Company. She didn’t like it and encouraged me to adapt my own myth instead. This is how I came to write my first novel, “The Girls Who Saw Everything,” replete with muchness.
A sitcom that always ends with a voice over of profound reflection based on a revelation that was gained over the course of the episode, except the monologue is the same every single time.
I think it’s a bogus argument, and it’s presented in a particularly rambling way, but let’s not misstate what he is saying.
The PQ has been elected in a minority government and the news outlets need to peddle that into drama.
Thread. Infighting Dems don’t inspire confidence. Signed, Canada
Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 6d agowho the fuck cares what he has to say??
Jesus
Matt Hodges@matthodges.bsky.social · last wk.There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Dear USA, The way to get rid of Trump sooner rather than later is to give Dems a 2/3s majority in the Senate and (I think?) the house next month. I know that’s unlikely due to your partisan divide, but we in the rest of the world would really appreciate it if you could pull that off. Yours,
They were so humbled, in fact, that they spent the next 10 years believing they were gods, not bound by law, human decency, or truth.
I have a bluesky account to follow journalists, mostly. Really don’t ever mean to get caught up in the babble of contrarian opinions.
‘We sought the hollow ash that was shelter from the rain With our pockets full of peas we had stolen from the grain How delicious was the dinner time on such a showry day O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away The ancient pulpit trees and the play’ ~ John Clare #BookWormSat
The Fall Down Effect "takes readers deep into a richly described world, while encouraging them to consider whether they could also do more than just hope.” Michelle Sinclair reviews @lizjohnston.bsky.social's debut novel for @thetemzreview.bsky.social. www.thetemzreview.com/sinclair-joh...
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The lesson here is that people with fifty thousand followers on bluesky will always rush to defend others with fifty thousand followers on bluesky.
Her grandmother's boyfriend sexually abused her many times between the ages of two and five. But do go on about appropriately respecting the background of cruel jokes.
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
The mayor of Campobello island sounded a tad maple MAGA to me on CBC. I think Carney should consider air drops.
Tanning beds and cocaine go together? I wouldn’t have thought someone with a taste for one would be able to lie still for the other.
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2w agoSorkin definitely back into blow this is the look of a man who loves the fucking snow
The US is playing Soviet and trying to West-Berlin Campobello Island.
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
I keep forgetting this audio book exists. Audible came to Coach House a few years ago and read their back catalogue, plucked this title out and recorded it. But I’ve never listened to it. It felt too odd to listen to a stranger read my book out loud. www.audible.com/pd/The-Girls...
The Girls Who Saw Everything
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Woman's Book Club loves to bring to life tableaux from the books they read. But when they begin to enact the Epic of Gilgame...
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The sole reason I know Choosin Texas is because my daughter insists that I play the top 40 radio station with I drive her to school. Otherwise I would have never heard it.
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2w agoThis kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.
Thread: Americans don’t know how their Senate & Congress function. No wonder they’re losing their democracy.
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Ryne Sandberg lived in the Age of Aristotle, David Brooks? Might have to check but I don’t think that’s true…
