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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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The last thing I will say about GenAI: in Those Public Entries
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, has gone on the record about AI: “This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the econom...
Quick reminder: in Those Public Entries
This is how you deal with Nazis.
“If We Cared About Girls,” by Kate Manne in Those Public Entries
If We Cared About Girls By Kate Manne If we cared about girls, trans girls would be cherished and affirmed and not policed, scapegoated, and bullied. If we cared about girls, we would not er...
Originally published here, September 27, 2025. 20 Things You Can Do to Throw Sand in the Gears As the authoritarian regime continues its march to undermine constitutional democracy, it is clea...
Me, waking up and hearing that the US and Israel attacked Iran: in Those Public Entries
(Quick note: This is legit one of my favorite episodes of the show. “I Am Furious (Yellow),” season 13, episode 18.)
I'll teach you all this in eight easy steps in Those Public Entries
This one is for Starhawk, who challenged me to make a list of things in my life that are good, against the backdrop of, well… (I will get good enough at DaVinci Resolve to partially rep...
I'm Italian-American. "Columbus Day" Should Be Permanently Retired. in Those Public Entries
An Editorial, and if Bari Weiss was as “fearless” as she thinks she is, she’d publish this. Come on, Bari; just like Sara Bareilles, I wanna see you be BRAVE. I am a second-generation Italian-A...
Meme-licious in Those Public Entries
Working on some real posts. Until then, memes! Note: I called it. I knew they were gonna stuff it with ads. Enshittification is real, and now it’s affecting things that suck...
Because if we don’t laugh, we’ll go insane in Those Public Entries
In 2022, I took a class called Stalin’s Russia, where our professor had us study Josef Stalin’s life, time as General Secretary of the USSR, and the parallels between him and Vladimir Putin. It’...
STOP USING CHATGPT in Those Public Entries
Stop. Just stop. It’s not a person, it doesn’t know anything, it can’t answer your questions, and it’s going to destroy your mental health, just so billionaires can get richer off your engagemen...
Bondi Beach in Those Public Entries
I want people to understand something about this mass shooting: It was motivated by antisemitism. Hatred towards Jews. In Australia, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in the world. O...
End of 2025 survey in Those Public Entries
What did you do in 2025 that you’d never done before? Cashed out my retirement fund, so I could survive until I got another job. Oh, and I left my federal government job, which I hadn’t anticipa...
Just in case you wondered… ETA: Descriptor and URL in Those Public Entries
I regret nothing I’ve said about Upchuck Kirk, Musk, Trump, Nazis in general, or the sniveling centrists trying to appease them. Not one thing. And I never will. Mrs. Frazzled explains why, her...
The government shutdown is likely going to last for a while, meaning that SNAP and EBT recipients won’t get food money for at least another month. …Have I ever mentioned that I hate Republicans...
Kristi Noem is a stupid b in Those Public Entries
I mean, we all knew that, right? But now she’s got the DHS Xitting out posts about “remigration,” and Denizens of the Box of Prose, this is an idea so fucking stupid, I want her to answer the f...
AI is not our friend. in Those Public Entries
Quiz time! Leave your answers in the notes. What percent of internet traffic is thought to be AI? How are artists and writers compensated when their work is used to train AI? Wh...
And now, to weaponize my oppositional defiance disorder: in Those Public Entries
Dear Diaper Don and Heineken Hegseth: FUCK YOU, MAKE ME. Also, I sincerely hope the 800 generals these two morons called into a loyalty test “top-secret meeting” (hey, dipshits, it ain’t top s...
From The Atlantic: "The Visionary of Trump 2.0" in Those Public Entries
Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making. By McKay Coppins May 16, 2025 Original article here. Non-paywalled version here. The opening act of Donald ...
An Open Letter to Chuck Schumer in Those Public Entries
Dear Chuck: “Strongly-worded letters” don’t have an impact on people who can’t/don’t read. You have to take action. You have to stop fiddling with your glasses¹ and do something. Stop fantasizi...
There's been a lot of talk about "empathy" lately... in Those Public Entries
But I really don’t think a lot of people know what “empathy” actually is. So let’s see if we can change that! Part One: Just What Is This “Empathy” Shit, Anyhow? First, let’s go over what “emp...
One down, several more to go. in Those Public Entries
Turning Point USA co-founder and Trump diaper-sniffer Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck during a “debate” at Utah Valley University, and just died, according to the AP and other news sources. To...
You are not immune to propaganda. in Those Public Entries
I feel like that’s an important idea for everyone to internalize. None of us is immune to propaganda. I’m not. You’re not. No one is. Here’s a video from 2019, about the Soviet Union’s successf...
This is a PSA: in Those Public Entries
If you need to change your cats’ litter boxes, keep in mind the general temperature outside, and any heat indexes. Sincerely, “I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone, wash my cats’ litter ...
You don't need to be special to be valuable. in Those Public Entries
Recently, I became aware of an appearance by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street, in 1971, when he led the kids in a chant of “I am! Somebody!” Clip below: (For anyone about to sea lion...
Five Songs Whenever: Ozzy in Those Public Entries
By William Ware on Simpsons Bortposting
