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MyPowerGrows

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Dad in flyover country. Formerly London by way of Atlanta. Lore Knower Scribbling at mypowergrows.substack.com

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 19m
My parents couldn't agree on what to call their dog so they each have a different name for him. Winston/Sparky is a sweetie, but pretty dumb.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 23h
*Most racist guy you've ever met:* What the libs don't understand is that it's about economic anxiety.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Btw, I didn’t create the term “utopian porn”. Saw it recently in a post and instantly embraced it.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
2 game silent win streak. This run was carried by double flechettes, upgraded and with +damage from miniature cannon, then with tracking (+dmg from weakness) and upgraded envenom.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As I've gotten older, I've stopped believing in polymaths. If someone pontificates at length about multiple subjects, you are picking up overconfidence and interpreting it as a depth of knowledge
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm reading 2 books from 2024, one fiction one nonfiction. One Simon and Schuster and one Random House. Both are awfully edited. Missing words, blatant comma splices. What are they, to my books man.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Scientist: What is life? All rigorous definitions fail! Me: *throwing a copy of of grammatology at their head so they'll fucking shut up*
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So often I read something by a scientist where they play such stupid word games that I think a seminar on post structuralism should be required to get a B.Sc.
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alex (˙𐃷˙) pizza/tacos/bats/dingers 🍕🌮🦇⚾ 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @batsdingersatk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
good morning
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
do people know there's possibly a serial killer in Michigan rn?? www.wxyz.com/news/lansing...
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Lansing police investigating possible serial killer following 5 unhoused men's deaths along River Trail
Lansing police are examining whether 5 deaths along the River Trail, all involving unhoused men, could be connected to a single killer.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I avoided Maul for a long time because it looks kind of bad, but I've won 2 recent runs with it carrying me. I transformed 5 strikes and a deadly poison this run, and it was absolutely worth it.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another A10 victory. I used up my Lizard Tail in the Test Subject's 2nd phase. The key to victory was Defends gooped to 20ish block, and a gigantification potion for a gigantificous maul.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The name of that steakhouse-heiress? Ruby Tuesday www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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German Officials Arrest Former Spy Chief on Espionage Charges (Gift Article)
August Hanning is accused of helping foreign governments. His arrest shook the German political world and had roots in a steakhouse-heiress kidnapping plot.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ha! No, those are deranged in a very unique way. This book has 8 stock characters, and I'll be shocked if any of them surprise me (4 red shirts, crazy bitch, self-abnegating nona, feckless coward, surprisingly steely schlub, and heroine with trauma to overcome).
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reading a novel with 60k reviews on Goodreads and thinking, "Claude could probably write this." Am I cooked, or is this book?
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good article though. open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave
When you look at state-level election results, fundraising, and the national environment, surprising state polls actually make a lot of sense. Your weekly political data roundup for October 4, 2026.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't understand why writers like @gelliottmorris.com and others insist on calling Matty an economics blogger. He's a political pundit, at best.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Number 9 is Gareth Williams, who was a British intelligence agent who was found padlocked in a duffel bag in his bath tub. The year-long police investigation concluded, "It was most probably an accident."
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The death by suicide of the British Banker who exposed Lutnick's relationship with Epstein and a nostalgia for early 10's internet culture inspired me to write a Cracked-style article about suspicious deaths in the UK and the US. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Nine of the Accidental Deaths and Suicides of All Time
Whistleblowers, Activists, Journalists, and Spooks
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For me it's seeing the playground get nuked in Terminator 2... we were probably about the same age
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For my daughter, it's going to be seeing No Face eat everyone in Spirited Away
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Based on my experience today, a love of U-Pick orchards unites people of all colors and creeds
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My wife (Black) was blocked from joining our local FB group (over 50k people). I (white) was able to join immediately. She never posted anything! There is no way to report this kind of discrimination on FB, so I filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights, which I'm sure has been DOGEd
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They are cooking up a big patch. I'd wait until then at least
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm working on my Silent WR before the next patch (if it ever comes). I looked up my Act 2 ancient relics on Spire Bird and saw that Pael's Blood has a much better WR than I'd have guessed. Also, I took the Crossbow during Act 3 because I was against Queen (extra draw) and Test subject (for burst)
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh, another one is looking into lawsuits against universities by men who obviously committed SA, but are able to win settlements because of ticky tack process failures. Idk how you'd look into it, since I assume most of these are settled out of court.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I will read gratuitously mean writing notes on Substack and hope the person writing it isn't older then 25, but he's probably some 40 year old adjunct in upstate New York who worships Christian Lorentzen and hates his life
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I tried to report it on Facebook but they don't have a drop-down menu that includes [Title II violation] (it's illegal for businesses to discriminate against customers based on the)
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah. I forgot about it, then was reminded yesterday
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also, it's irresponsible of the NYT to write that the police failed by not interviewing the fraternity members before they had lawyers--without explicitly mentioning everyone has the right to have a lawyer present when talking to the police
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I was the NYT assignment desk editor: Were the Title IX investigators at Cornell ATIXA certified? If so, is ATIXA a scam (yes) Did the DA and Cornell have some sort of tacit understanding to avoid bringing embarassment to the school (seen this tacitly implied) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence (Gift Article)
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just reported a Facebook Group (and Facebook) to the Office of Civil Rights. Probably nobody works there anymore, but maybe one day it will be used as one small piece of evidence when the AOC presidency dismantles the Fascist company known as Meta.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't blame us, blame the globalists
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
tennessean.com
Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Title IX regulations vary a lot from Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump because they rely on executive branch guidance. Unsurprisingly, survivors have fewer rights under Trump. But expelling students for SA by fiat wouldn't have flown under any of the administrations. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cornell would be paying the students big money when the students sue them. I hope Jane Doe gets a big settlement, but the University can't go through the disciplinary process, issue a ruling, and then take it back. Idk if they can do another hearing, but they can't issue a unilateral decision.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No, everybody is regulated by the various titles
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And these students already went through this disciplinary process (that's why where the essays came from). You can't just rip up that decision. It's illegal
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are Title IX regulations that govern what and how universities can punish student and faculty accused of sexual assault. They can't just decide to do it. Here is Harvard's formal Title IX complaint process. The "respondent" would be the person accused of SA. csndr.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And of course, the Trump administration is no ally of survivors lambdalegal.org/newsroom/us_...
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm pretty sure they can't legally do #1. There have been quite a few lawsuits around the disciplinary processes for Title IX and it has constrained, not expanded universities' power
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The final question.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This interview with @georgesaunders.skystack.xyz is him being repeatedly asked, "so how does AI help your life," and him responding. "I hate AI. I think it sucks. Keep it as far away from me as possible. For nearly 4000 words! on.substack.com/p/model-beha...
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Model Behavior: George Saunders
“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every morning, I wake up and the Dems are further ahead on the generic ballot and I think It's Over. It's never been more over.
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saw Princess Mononoke in theaters tonight. I hadn't seen it since I was in college (about twenty years). What a film. I'm jealous of anyone who saw it in the 90s as their introduction to anime
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And we like it that way!
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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not really dodging the plagiarism machine accusations with this one www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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