Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
A past vision of the future. Domestic utopia? Or sanitised hell?
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Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists,…
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The Cost Before the Wait
Unpredictable appointments can cost you a day’s wages even when you hardly wait.
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Something Stinks And It Ain’t Us
What have you stopped buying because life got too expensive? I didn’t read a list. I read a mirror. A woman in Chicago said she used to send about 80 Christmas cards a year. She got about the same back. Now she sends a picture by text. The card and the stamp just cost too...
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To The People Who Aren’t Planning On Voting,
An estimated 89 million registered voters did not vote in the 2024 general election. I know many of them. They are family members, friends, neighbors, and people I meet in passing at high school football games, in checkout lines, and at the gym. I meet hundreds more of them every day on social…
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Thursday, October 29, 2026, News and Commentary
From Naked Capitalism: Wall Street is Coming for Your Burger. [Ed: strangely fascinating.] From the Waggington Post: Woman Finds Her Dogs On The ROOF — And Its Just Another Day For Them From Mish Talk: Trump’s Eight Huge Unforced Errors Will Set MAGA Back for Years [Ed: frankly, the Dems are as…
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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
As one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom, I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore. Around the world, people are being silenced, monitored, and denied access to information. Free software can help change that, but only if we build it together. We need tools…
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I Spit on Your Grave, 1978
Less a movie and more an encapsulation of toxic masculinity via 70s grindhouse. I know it’s important historically but god damn you know?
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Here Are the U.S. Attorneys Who Are Carrying Out Trump’s Grievance Agenda
The New York Times, no paywall: “President Trump’s success in demolishing the traditional wallbetween the White House and the Justice Department is apparent at the helm of the agency, now led by his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche. Mr. Trump’s reach can also be seen in the network of U.S.…
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The New Beggars
Every communications pathway I’m likely to use, for whatever purpose, is filled with beggars. My emails are besieged with political and charitable appeals for funds, both with direct appeals, i.e., just give us money; guilt-trips, i.e., if you don’t give us funding the children will die, or the…
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Vote Against the Agenda of the Most Polluter-Positive President in Living Memory
Sometimes people say political parties in the U.S. are both corrupt, that it doesn't matter who is in power, that industry holds sway over our politics and our health regardless. Nothing could be more mistaken. Just now, The New York Times exposed how many Americans -- at least 3.3 million people…
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Josh Allen
Since most of our readers live on the western side of the Atlantic, they might not know what a WAG is. A WAG, a term created by that oh-so-illustrious British media, refers to Wives And Girlfriends of famous athletes. (Since we're talking about England, they are mostly attached to soccer players.)
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You Should Go Vote, and I’m Not a Christian Nationalist for Saying So
This post is going to be really simple. The point of it is summed up in the title above. You should go vote, and it doesn’t make me a Christian Nationalist for saying so. I am a committed Baptist, which means that a major part of my confessional identity is religious liberty—the notion that “church…
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Jabbia’s Endoresement of Heath Panks Forces a Panks Disclaimer
On October 21, 2026, on his personal FB page, former superintendent, Frank Jabbia, endorsed a slate of St. Tammany Parish School Board (LA) candidates, one of whom is District 12 candidate, Heath Panks, who happens to be the candidate for District 12, where Jabbia resides and where he and Panks…
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Obama Mocks Trump in Hilarious and Effective Videos
One does not have to like Obama to appreciate how well he needles Trump.
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The Fourcast: The System is Failing
This came out from Channel 4 this afternoon: The interview happened on Thursday afternoon, and publication was delayed as a result of technical problems with Read the full article...
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Leaves and Leaving
David Miller :: "Exit Memory" :: / inlovewithitart / Instagram * From our days in a religious cult: The real error was not understanding that everything has it's life span. The trick is to know when to leave. In that world [the world we had agreed to join] leaving meant expulsion with no return.…
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hot evil stupid politician in that fucking city that i hate. also surely people dont need a tw for…
morbimoth: hot evil stupid politician in that fucking city that i hate. also surely people dont need a tw for this
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The resource nationalism view of politics
Brazil, which is oil-rich and holds the world's second-largest reserves of rare earth minerals, is the only big country in South America not governed by a right-wing leader, with Lula largely seen as…
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Off The Hook 10/28/2026
The new edition of Off The Hook from 10/28/2026 has been archived and is now available online. Kyle is back, massive trove of DHS data leaked by DDoSecrets, Emma Best joins the panel to discuss the...
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He'll Never Leave Me
A food app pictured a bacon and egg soda as a glass of fizzy drink with an egg in it. McDonald's forecast one man's next six weeks to the penny and gave him zero chance of leaving, so he left. And a 65-year-old writer would rather not ask a machine the date of his death.
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South Florida midterm election report, Rihanna edition
Readers can’t imagine the convenience of ending a class, descending the stairs, and stepping into the early voting site temporarily housed in the building’s conference space. Even though I brought my cheat sheet, it took longer to mark my ballot than standing in line (there was no line). I can make…
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