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Lol, extremely sweaty reply

03.03.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If they don't want to be losers they should stop being losers, frankly.

03.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Book #25 of 2026: Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet. I just love her. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/ente...

03.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every single dingus leaping on this RT is just some guy Jamelle personally and rightfully insulted trying to turn it into some kind of general principle. Enabling fascism = not liking me

03.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Narrative Strategist
Kalshi Β· New York, NY (On-site)
$200K-$300K / year

Writer/Researcher
American Museum of Natural History Β· New York, NY (On-site)
$70K-$78K / year

01.03.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

Remember Yglesias and others making a big deal out of Kamala supporting standing law about trans healthcare in prisons? Well, this is the alternative.

02.03.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Book #24 of 2026: Zama by Antonio di Benedetto. Also really enjoyed the movie by Lucrecia Martel. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/zama...

01.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #23 of 2026: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. A searing indictment of the exploitation of the island of Antigua. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-sm...

28.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #22 of 2026: Norwood by Charles Portis. Funny as hell. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/norw...

22.02.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #21 of 2026: The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Some great moments, but didn't add up for me. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

21.02.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.

β€œβ€¦the disjunction between mass media’s conjuring of a college cancel-culture epidemic and the all-too-real impact of one wealthy predator’s billions in specialized funding is glaring…” www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

21.02.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Correct natural trajectory"!

Transphobes believe in teleology, confirmed a million times over. It's a basically pre-modern worldview that gets a lot of cover from the fact that it accords with our erroneous common-sense.

The scientific-world-conception is pro-trans, pre-modern mysticism is TERF.

17.02.2026 07:49 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4

When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."

16.02.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 636 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Book #20 of 2026: The Seers by Suleiman Addonia. Really enjoyed this lusty refugee story. With the addition of Eritrea, my "Countries Read" list is up to 116.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

15.02.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #19 of 2026: Weather by Jenny Offill. Didn't work for me.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/weat...

13.02.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The intention of policies like this proposal is to introduce so much friction, so much pain, so much discomfort and humiliation, that a child desists rather than continue to assert their true identity.

It is nothing less than conversion therapy being written into school policy.

12.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 465 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

13.02.2026 05:44 πŸ‘ 12541 πŸ” 6208 πŸ’¬ 444 πŸ“Œ 785

Book #18 of 2026: Transcription by Ben Lerner. A minor book, but he sure makes this stuff look easy. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/tran...

12.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

12.02.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 4966 πŸ” 890 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 54

Book #17 of 2026: Emily Dickinson Face to Face by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. A lovely little memoir about growing the niece of the queen of all time. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/emil...

11.02.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #16 of 2026: Sugarcane with Salt by James Ng'ombe. The book was fine, but more importantly: with Malawi, my "Countries Read" list is up to 115.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/suga...

09.02.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #15: The War by Marguerite Duras. A collection of memoir pieces about Duras' experiences in the French resistance. Shocking and powerful. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

08.02.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #14: The White Bear by Henrik Pontoppidan. #59/122 Nobel winners down. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

07.02.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #13: Duplex by Kathryn Davis. What a blast. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/dupl...

05.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Heading to πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί next month. Does anyone have reataurant/bar/coffee/park/whatever recs for Sydney or Melbourne?

05.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Book #12 of 2026: Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather. Flop era.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/sapp...

03.02.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Book #11 of 2026: America, America by Greg Grandin. I liked this history of the New World a lot but I'm too lazy to copy the accented "a" again...

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/amer...

02.02.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

🎡
Pastor of Muppets
We preach and we sing
Old men in the balcony still heckling
A frog reads the gospels
And chickens clucking
PASTOR
PASTOR
🎡

02.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Brent's Top Books of 2025 Another year, another list representing another pile of books I read and mostly failed to review. Which I regret every year, but this year i...

Book posts get so little traction here but for those who are interested, here are my favorite reads of 2025 with little write-ups on my nearly 20-year-old blog.

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01.02.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Book #10 of 2026: Indian Tales by Jamie de Angulo, an ethnographer who lived with several Indian tribes of early 20th c. California. An interesting mix of legend and modernist storytelling. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/indi...

01.02.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1