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cousycousy.bsky.social @cousycousy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I read some of the paragraphs from award winning fiction that has been accused of being AI and mostly think the judges are a bit shit or at least have tastes so different from mine their opinions aren't useful to me Like this from an award winning short story published in Granta

Wilfred’s rum-shop leaned into the road like a rotten tooth. Inside, boards blackened by smoke and sweat, the air sweet with cane and forgetting. Coins meant for rice or kerosene slid across the counter and came back white rum hot as apology. One drink opened the chest, two turned fear into courage’s cheap cousin, three steadied the hand enough to write the future in invisible ink.

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cousycousy.bsky.social @cousycousy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Now I am thinking of all the 19th century weirdoes who insisted that vikings came to what would be the USA because of misunderstanding the saga and anti-Latino racism www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-...

So why did late Victorian academics accept the Viking claims but not those for Atlantis, Henry Sinclair, the Phoenicians, etc. based only on similarly vague sagas and myths? For Sir Daniel Wilson, the answer was twofold. First, the literary evidence was overwhelming, and second, “New Englanders above all not unnaturally cherish the pleasant fancy that they had for their precursors the hardy Vikings, who, resenting the oppression of King Harold the fair-haired, sailed into the unknown west to find a free home for themselves.” In other words, they imagined the Vikings as early versions of themselves. In 2012 the literary critic Annette Kolodny published In Search of First Contact in which she echoed Wilson and wrote that elites in New England from Northern European heritage embraced claims of Viking discovery during a time of heavy immigration from the Latin South and adopted the Vikings as fictive ancestors, providing a Northern European prehistory for America that helped to Europeanize New England back to at least 1000 CE.

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cousycousy.bsky.social @cousycousy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That is a problem for future Trump

Trump is inclined to announce a ban by the end of the week and consider any blowback “a December problem,” said one oil industry executive who has discussed the ban with senior White House officials.

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cousycousy.bsky.social @cousycousy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He made it real

Obama era political cartoon contrasting what the president does versus what Americans think the president does with levers labeled gas price and economy for what Americans think the president does

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cousycousy.bsky.social @cousycousy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Funnily enough, transphobes understood it www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

But notably, many of the right-wing groups opposing trans athletes’ ability to play in sports based on their gender identity also pounced on Talarico’s comments, criticizing the Democrat.

“It’s the new way to obscure their position because now they are redefining ‘fair and safe,’” posted Kim Chasby Jones, co-founder of the anti-trans Independent Council on Women's Sports. “You have to ask more direct questions.”

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cousycousy.bsky.social @cousycousy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To this day the arguments for why the 1st Gulf War Highway of Death was a war crime confuses me like arguing that Iraqi forces stopped being legit military targets just because they were retreating without surrendering and only after they got the shit beat out of them