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Several women share bottomless mimosas somewhere in the swamps of Jersey.

MARY 1: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hated being alone, and we weren’t that young anymore. I said, “Get off my porch.” Then he said, “You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right.” I said, “Get out of my driveway.”

MARY 2: Get this, he showed up at the courthouse in a new wedding coat after telling me that I’d have no flowers, no wedding dress. I was like, “WHAT?”

BOBBY JEAN: He kept telling me we had a lot in common, “We like the same music, we like the same bands,” he said. I just looked at him and said, “Bruce, that’s not two things we have in common, it’s only one. Music and bands are the same thing.”

CANDY: He told me there was a sadness hidden in my face. I mean, he said I was pretty, too, but I was like, “Don’t tell me I look sad. You have no idea what my life is like.”

What does it mean to ‘be’? This excerpt provides a brief intro to Heidegger’s philosophy, via jazz, cooking and carpentry

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Losing my father to forgetting and my brother to silence, I grieve the living in two different ways

- by Steph Auteri

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We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake

- by Conor Purcell

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Anduril calls itself an “arsenal of democracy.” So why is it partnering with an authoritarian monarchy to build drones?

The post Anduril Partners With UAE Bomb Maker Accused of Arming Sudan’s Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.

If I were to ask you to free-associate on the term ‘psychotherapy’, you might not make it beyond a miasma of imagined jargon. Perhaps, for some of you, the term conjures images of philodendrons dangling from bookshelves lined with titles such as Atomic Habits. You might imagine jute rugs bathed in soft light pinned under a […]

Socialist Alternative/Students for Palestine have been in a bitter fight over the paid office-bearer positions at NUS. But despite all the noise SAlt generated online, their real concern was losing bureaucratic control, not building the Palestine movement.

The post Much ado about paid NUS positions but not about Palestine first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mobilized as the US sought to neutralize Chinese and Indian influence over Kathmandu – now controlled by a leader chosen by an informal social media poll. The US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars tutoring dozens of Nepalese youth on “strategies and skills in organizing protests and […]

The post US regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal first appeared on The Grayzone.

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After months of extrajudicial killings in the waters off Venezuela, the Trump administration opted instead to capture an oil tanker.

The post U.S. Realizes It Can Seize Boats After All appeared first on The Intercept.

As your Santa, it is my right to run the North Pole exactly how I want to, and I have to say, it’s about time we made some changes to this dump. And believe me, there is no bigger problem than a lack of space to throw holiday ragers. Therefore, I am exercising my full authority to demolish this antiquated and boring workshop and build a beautiful ballroom.

To all of you losers getting your stockings in a twist, how could you not see this coming? I literally told you all I was going to remake the role of Santa. And time and time again, I have delivered on what I campaigned on. Promises kept, for those who celebrate.

This is an animation about Demodex -- little parasites that live on your face.

This comic is a lesson in kerning and large fish.