Contra Tenore
Contra Tenore
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Some guy. https://linktr.ee/contratenore
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As a writer, your ear is your most important attribute. Language is music, has its own rhythm, meter, lilt, flow. When I edit my own work it's to get it to sound right.
I've been thinking a lot about visible vs invisible skill layers. i.e every craft has outer layers of skills that laypeople can recognise, and inner layers that you need expertise and experience to perceive at all. Could y'all think of examples of visible vs invisible skills in your own discipline?
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Donald Trump: eco radical.
Tomorrow, U.S. distillate inventories will likely fall under 100 million barrels for the first time in over 20 years, exacerbated by high exports due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz- this is a powder keg waiting to go off if a deal to reopen the Strait doesn't happen soon
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The top use of Doug Ford's strong-mayor powers was corporate organization, including hiring and firing staff, according to the Star's analysis of more than 4,200 decisions
The social contract continues to erode. We don't teach or understand ethics any more.
Earlier this month, an Ontario Court Justice stayed charges against a man accused of striking a police officer with a motorcycle after the judge found Goldenberg angrily told a cop who testified for the defence and whose evidence risked hurting the Crown’s case: “We protect our own.”
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I'm going full luddite. Nuke the data centres.
NEW: An "independent label" is publishing huge amounts of AI slop featuring AI-generated "viking" rappers and Christian rockers and blasting it across social media + streamers, where it's raking in views/listens. The guy behind the label claims the artists are real: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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dozens were injured in the stampede as hundreds of centrist influencers clamored to jerk senator mcconnell off after hearing this statement
BREAKING: Mitch McConnell just slammed the Trump slush fund: "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick."
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They all look so fucking old
Through twilight-hour shifts, President Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post. Her work has included posts of the Obamas as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. trib.al/qySE74R
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sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about
What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.
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Anyone who has ridden a bike in a city knows something else about speeding cars: it doesn't even help! We all end up together at the next red light anyway, but not all of us needed to travel at killing speeds to do it
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...
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#Exclusive: An unknown number of Toronto police drug squad officers will be the subjects of a conduct investigation by Ontario’s police watchdog, the Star has learned.
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In a just world, Elon Musk would be charged with crimes against humanity.
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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Children as young as 4 years old are subjected to frequent hearings and forced to provide updates on their cases, in some instances without legal help, and in such fear, they wet themselves. trib.al/LXzTEZx
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But you'll never get articles about how the Republican Party needs to move to the left and adopt more mainstream positions on transgender issues because that isn't something that animates the dozen or so individuals setting the agenda the way the reverse does.
1. A new Fox News poll shows Democrats at +13 on transgender issues. Voters find Democrats positions on trans people much more preferable to Republicans. This includes urban and suburban voters, moderates, religious voters, and more. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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All it took was creating an international energy crisis that rivals the 1970s literally out of nothing.
New Fox poll is absolutely crushing for Trump: *Approval on economy: 34-66 *Approval on inflation: 28-72 (!) *Dems now lead GOP on economy *55% say Trump mentally unfit for office On the pod, @gelliottmorris.com is so illuminating on all these numbers and much more: newrepublic.com/article/2094...
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“If shortages continue to deepen, the city could implement rolling blackouts of water availability, shifting its supply to sections of the city at a time.” “After that, authorities would oversee managed evacuations, and most residents of Corpus Christi would need to find somewhere else to live.”
"No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first..." "While city pools and splash pads consume almost 2 million gallons of water over the course of a summer, a single Exxon plastics plant consumes 13 million gallons per day." hmmm
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This law is as authoritarian and undemocratic as anything Trump has ever pushed. Members of the Conservative party and ONLY the Conservative party are now 100% shielded from any Freedom Of Information requests from the public or reporters. And it's retroactive, too. Some real Innocent Guy shit.
Ford’s PCs vote to end access to political officials’ records
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Ford’s PCs vote to end access to political officials’ records