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"The Tech Guild is asking readers to honor the digital picket line and not play popular NYT Games such as Wordle and Connections as well as not use the NYT Cooking app."

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DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

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I'm never gonna love again...

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PLEASE VOTE FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK PLEASE VOTE PLEASE OUR FOREMOTHERS ARE SHAKING YOU BY THE FUCKING SHOULDERS. THEY'RE NOT SCARED, THEY'RE FUCKING ANGRY AND DEMANDING THAT YOU DO THE BARE MINIMUM OF WHAT THEY FOUGHT FOR. VOTE.

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I remember sitting in every history class thinking “I wonder when a woman will show up. I wonder when we’ll learn about a woman in history. I wonder when we’ll hear about a woman.” There are many important female historical figures. We don’t hear about them because men don’t want us to. Men are not the only ones who shaped this world; but they like to pretend they are.

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men shouldn't be allowed to write or access the internet at all I think

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“I’m tired of voting every 4 years”

You’re 26 and there’s 80 year old black women who remember a time when they couldn’t vote but STILL aren’t tired of it. Maybe it’s a skill issue on your part.

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all food tastes better when you’re baked, but chips and salsa while high is better than heroin. only thing better is literal spoonfuls of nutella

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as a (reluctant) film bro I have to say that watching people remove Come And See from its specific context and describe it as simply a general, broadly anti-war film does, in fact, bother the fuck out of me.

Of COURSE it’s an anti-war film, obviously, yes. I’m not contesting that. But it’s a film about the HOLOCAUST. It is a film about the NAZIS, and Operation Barbarossa, and the Einstatzgruppen. It’s not just about “war bad”. It’s about a very specific war, a very specific fascist regime, and their specific goals and intentions, and the very real atrocities they committed that are still within living memory. The Nazi occupation of Belarus and the genocide they carried out there is, in fact, part of the Holocaust, in what we historians now call the Holocaust by Bullets. It MATTERS that this is a Holocaust film.

But honestly people are SO averse to talking about the Holocaust these days because lefties don’t want to touch the subject of antisemitism with a ten foot pole — not only because they don’t care about it, but because they don’t want to be seen as being sympathetic to Jews at all. It’s much easier for them to take Klimov’s film and simply refuse to talk about its actual story and historical context. God forbid they talk about the Holocaust in any meaningful manner. Fuck all of y’all who watch the movie and go “omg wow this is so deep” and then literally refuse to engage with the realities of antisemitism and the Holocaust at all. The Holocaust by Bullets in Eastern Europe is, in fact, inextricably tied with the rest of Holocaust history and, in turn, tied with Antisemitism.

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happy election eve!! make sure u leave milk and cookies out for anderson cooper tonight or he’ll stand outside ur window and squint

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something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

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rhythmic gymnasts making hearts with the ribbon...

Bianka Panova, 1989.

Yana Tsikaridze, 2006.

Team Italy, 2016.

Riko Anakuba, 2010.

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