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My current Twitter strategy is to scroll until I can’t take it anymore, then manually search for today’s Nancy comic, then close the app and move on.
Peter Birk
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Lunar New Year
I get to enjoy the company of supportive and loyal people who have never bullied me, lied to me or betrayed me. Real people, truthful people, people I respect and value, down to earth with no inflated hallucinations about themselves or their status, and loyally supportive of me. Goodness and
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No more natural than an earthquake
The radicalization is accelerated by advocates’ stringent adherence to the neurodiversity tenet that autism is “natural” and “normal.” This argument constitutes a logical fallacy and immediately crumples upon close examination, as autism is no more natural than earthquakes, syphilis, wildfires, or dementia. Those are all very natural things. So autism
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Beginning of the ninth
My favorite line is “Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth.” Initially I read it as poetically referring to the first part of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 — which is lovely, no doubt — but upon further reflection he probably meant baseball. I read this the same way,
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He left his dog behind
Just when the situation seemed like it couldn’t get much worse for Cruz — his statement about coming back Thursday, after all, had been misleading at best — a cute pooch entered the narrative. Houston-based journalist Michael Hardy had driven by Cruz’s house Thursday and snapped a photo of
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Going Places
It scares me too. This post was so good. Her writing just seems so effortless as she captures these moments that for me would be so hard to wrestle down. * homemade time: going places
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Choice
Whichever way you view this conundrum called “choice”, it is a necessary part of sentient life. * metanoia | bunnyhopscotch
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This is the way
So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. This feels like the truest thing I’ve read in a long time. * The travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber
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When signing into your Minecraft realm feels like going home.
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Blue beads in the tundra
After that great journey, a trader may have tucked the beads into his kayak on the western shore of the Bering Sea. He then dipped his paddle and made passage to the New World, today’s Alaska. The crossing of Bering Strait at its narrowest is about 52 miles of
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Didn’t Take The Bait
But they are no longer setting the terms of the country’s politics. By refusing to engage with the impeachment trial, Biden and his team escaped the trap of letting Trump continue to drive the national narrative. Instead, they are making it a priority to protect voting rights. At the
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Who the f*ck?
Trump did not call off the rioters for several more hours. * February 12, 2021 - Letters from an American