@caryatis

i’ve read the books you’ve read about

 Washington, DC
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Joined January 2011
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I googled a Jesuit saint and the first result is an unrelated rapist and murderer. Poor Alphonso Rodriguez! 85 years of humble holy service and google just remembers the bad guy
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Why am i painfully avoidant about email but perfectly happy to immediately answer texts? How can i fix this
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Finally found the response to this in my magazine on castles: A place not only of great strength, but extraordinary delight, with most pleasant walks
Pay Roll Manager Here
@UsingLyft
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Ladies if a man is in shape, handsome, faithful, at least 6ft, makes over $250k a yr with at least solid career trajectory, knows he wants a family and is willing to commit and is generous with his earnings, what can he expect to get from you?
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This severely underestimates the experiential harm of being in a bad school
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@mattyglesias
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I guess my hottest take about the whole thing is that it’s fine — maybe even good — for a kid to deal with not everything being a perfectly curated experience with his exact needs in mind. A lot of life is like this. slowboring.com/p/why-i-send-…
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I remember a lot of reading while trying to shut out the screaming and swearing
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Replying to @RealDianeYap
If I’m not a “native American” then explain my crippling alcoholism and knack for catching syphilis
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The percentage of Americans raised within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who have stayed affiliated has dropped from 70 percent to 54 percent in the past two decades, according to a new Pew Research analysis. wapo.st/4y4h2AQ

Fewer Americans raised Mormon are staying in the faith, study finds

Most of those leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are becoming religiously unaffiliated, a trend happening among all U.S. faith groups.

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The Bay isn't what I would call a super feminist scene, but everyone just silently agrees that a "good" gender ratio is one with more women. Problematic!
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Road trip to the COVID-conscious lesbian bar anyone?
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It’s inexplicably taken me EIGHT trips to Berkeley to get around to eating at Chez Panisse, but I’m finally doing it
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Nice stray cat. Skinny though
🤖 Made with AI
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I consider myself rationalist-adjacent. I mean sure, I've been reading LW since 2011, and sure I've hosted Aella and Scott Alexander in my house (separately), and I suppose I've run some Secular Solstices, and technically some things that I've written have made their way into other Secular Solstices over the years, and who among us hasn't started an HPMOR subreddit, and I guess I did sign up for cryonics, and it's true that I've donated to MIRI and Lightcone Infrastructure, and I'll confess that I've purchased things specifically to make my workspace more like Lighthaven, and I can confirm that I've gotten a grant from SFF for one of the two orgs I started to reduce AI x-risks - so, you know, adjacent.
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sorry there are black robins???
CNN
@CNN
Sep 21
New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year. cnn.it/4rqzZeL
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"what is this feminine urge to be beautiful and have evidence of that beauty" i ask idk probably just hundreds of thousands of years of evolution
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A lot of Christians are actually polytheists. This was news to me within the past couple of years: real people I know actually believe in demons!
Wilfred Reilly
@wil_da_beast630
Sep 20
As a Christian, do you believe that - say - Hanuman or Tlaloc is a demon who actually exists?
31%Yes
32%No
37%Not Christian
914 votes • Final results
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tbh i think we could replace the word "toxic" with the word "warped" entirely. that's exactly what it's like. it's infuriating bc you KNOW they're good and you want the same things but it just. doesn't. work. you can't even define where the friction and mismatch and exhaustion comes from but it's there. it's a painful process, emotional erosion, and over time you get warped too.
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Last night was peaceful. I read and cooked and talked on the phone. No staying up late on twitter or drinking or partying. So why did i wake up after three hours? 🙁
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Things i learned about myself this weekend: 1) I'm a laundry dirtbag 2) Biking to the sound of sea shanties is fun 3) Just as obsessed with stray kittens as when I was 10
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groceries 69 tea 17 metro 40 car insurance 736 medical 225 drycleaning 15 coffee 7 books 38 donation 20 restaurants 236 sewing supplies 7 toiletries 7 gift 11 wine 47 catfood for stray cats 15 running total 2287
Kayla
@caryatis
Sep 10
it's just getting worse household goods 10 beer/wine 57 restaurant 42 bar 34 drycleaning 15 coffee 7 athletic socks 3 fast food 8 book 10 jewelry 136 groceries 57 medical 50 running total 865 yes, i've gotten pretty nuts about jewelry this month
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Nobody: Nikole Hannah-Jones vs her daughter in the NYT:
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