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by annieli
 12 comments
on Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 06:55 PM PDT
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My fucking problem is I need a job. If you aren’t familiar with the academic job market, feel lucky. There are the few coveted tenure-track jobs and then there’s everything else. At the lowest rung on the latter are the adjuncts. You’re part time, paid...
by Anthropologist
25 comments
on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 05:02 PM PST
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F***!!!!!!!!!!!!!! �The Grim Reaper is just kicking our butts this year.� David Johansen , leader of the seminal rock band The New York Dolls has died at age 75 of stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor.�
by blueoregon
21 comments
on Sat Mar 01, 2025 at 05:00 PM PST
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So I am struggling right now with the way things are going and how it’s impacting my life —�and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better any time soon.� So as a way to cope, I’ve ...
by Mortifyd
30 comments
on Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 04:57 PM PST
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So this has been a hell of a couple of weeks, and it’s getting to me.� Between the ridiculous people being put up for major government positions to the unelected foreign born illegal who lied on ...
by Mortifyd
7 comments
on Sat Feb 08, 2025 at 04:57 PM PST
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Alexi Navalny knew he was going to die in prison. The Russian dissident, politician, muckraker had been exposing corruption in his country for some years and the protests were becoming larger and more worrisome to Putin and his regime. Getting on that...
by blueoregon
32 comments
on Sat Feb 15, 2025 at 05:00 PM PST
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Never too soon. After the first Trump term there were no real programs for detrumpification and the GOP retained power that allowed them to win in 2024. The time now comes to address the injured canard (“lame duck”) status of Mango Mussolini, and...
by annieli
26 comments
on Sat Feb 01, 2025 at 05:00 PM PST
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Well, the snow show is over down here, the roads were fine yesterday, but it’s been a hell of a week down here in the swamps of Louisiana.� We got 9 inches of snow where I live, and it shut down ...
by Mortifyd
15 comments
on Sat Jan 25, 2025 at 04:57 PM PST
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There will be 'camps', along with round-ups, separations, and Stephen Miller “I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” says one close Trump ally. “Apparently some people think...
by annieli
13 comments
on Sat Jan 11, 2025 at 05:54 PM PST
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So Chanukkah ended the other night, but we had a celebration and educational event at the museum Thursday, after the holiday ended.� I was surprised by the number of people there, given that the ...
by Mortifyd
11 comments
on Sat Jan 04, 2025 at 04:57 PM PST
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“Mirrors for princes” is a genre of book that’s been written since antiquity to advise rulers (usually monarchs, with exceptions) how to rule justly and prevent failure. “Thieves Of State”: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes is an...
by blueoregon
32 comments
on Sat Jan 18, 2025 at 04:57 PM PST
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Musk is busy accruing supranational power and has the implicit backing of the Russian state. Is he explicitly there to be Trump’s minder. Musk, the shadow POTUS, has endorsed the AfD German Nazi party. If Putin Is Running Musk, Trump Should Be...
by annieli
13 comments
on Sat Dec 21, 2024 at 05:23 PM PST
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ABC to Pay $16 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump (the rapist, settlement to be donated to a Trump Presidential Library(sic) fund) Hello and welcome to the Donald J. Trump School of Politics and Public Policy! As you may know, we are...
by annieli
27 comments
on Sat Dec 14, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
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I used to work retail back in the day and dreaded the day� after Thanksgiving —�Black Friday.� We had to come in early and redecorate the store and the Christmas mix was put on the sound system.� ...
by Mortifyd
46 comments
on Sat Dec 07, 2024 at 04:57 PM PST
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MFP: So many moving parts. Major combat happening in Syria, as Russian forces withdraw and Aleppo may have fallen under rebel control. Pro-regime forces have failed to mount an effective defense against the surprise offensive by opposition forces....
by annieli
28 comments
on Sat Nov 30, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
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So I have�outdoor cat I’ve been feeding and getting to know over the last few months I call Moonbeam.� She’s a sweet black and white girl, with a lovely personality.� She’s very thin, I’ve ...
by Mortifyd
35 comments
on Sat Nov 23, 2024 at 04:57 PM PST
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Well, I’ve had another upsetting week. Thursday, I was out of the building for a couple hours volunteering at a local bookstore (they were moving) and came home with a headache to find the ...
by blueoregon
16 comments
on Sat Dec 28, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
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in 1989, during the pro-Democracy movement in China, folksinger, Cui Jian became famous for his song, “Nothing to My Name”. After the movement was crushed by the government, Cui went into hiding, eventually returning to the stage and incurring the...
by blueoregon
19 comments
on Sat Nov 16, 2024 at 04:59 PM PST
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So yeah, we’re fucked.� But how fucked are we?�� Are we inaugurating trump, or vance?� If they let trump have his big crowd day, how long before they shunt him off into a play office while vance ...
by Mortifyd
19 comments
on Sat Nov 09, 2024 at 04:57 PM PST
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Venous Insufficiency. Leg Ulcers. Painful. Itchy. Oozing. More ooze than a zombie movie. The swelling. The alarming shades of red and purple. The leg spasms at night. Nothing has been more alarming than seeing my legs become filled with ulcers that...
by blueoregon
21 comments
on Sat Oct 26, 2024 at 04:59 PM PDT
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