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  • @eurozine Laudes Habsburgorum та інші laudes #Culture #Politics #Essays

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    Nov 2, 2026
  • @the_republic_of_letters These Weeks at The Republic of Letters #Literature #Culture #Essays

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    Nov 2, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily How Nothing Came to Matter: Zero as a Technique of Absence #Philosophy #Science #Essays

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily A Dream of John Berger #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily Just in Case You Have to Be Here #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily Trying to Feel at Home #Philosophy #Culture #Essays

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    Nov 1, 2026
  • @ftrain_paul_ford I didn't mean to hurt you I'm sorry that I made you cry Oh now, I didn't want to hurt you I'm just a #Culture #Essays #Technology

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @the_atlantic Against Tallboys #Culture #Beer #Essays

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker The Party Girls at the Heart of "Club Kid" #Culture #Essays #Magazines

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker Surviving "The Graduate" #Culture #Essays #Movies

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker "Chronovisor" Captures the Terror of Thinking #Culture #Literature #Essays

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    Oct 31, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily Death Is a Highway #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily The Great Bernard Williams #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Noah Smith: A Golden Age of Science Is Coming #Science #Philosophy #Essays

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @christopher_butler What the Writing Was For #Design #Technology #Essays

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @ftrain_paul_ford I wrote about how it would be better to discuss the bitter lesson and its tradeoffs today, instead o... #Technology #Culture #Essays

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @longreads Keeping Up Appearances #Journalism #Deathcare #Essays

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @thought_catalog A Planned Mountain Climb Ended With 2 Colorado Mountain College Students Found Dead Near Each Other in a Colorado Basin. Their Cause of Death Remains Unknown. #News #Outdoors #Essays

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    Oct 30, 2026
  • @the_new_yorker "Tip Toe" Is a Rare Outcry Against Social Revanchism #Culture #Television #Essays

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  • @the_new_yorker Do You Feel Needed? #Culture #Essays #Society

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  • @longreads The Top 5 Longreads of the Week #Journalism #Essays #Reading

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  • @the_republic_of_letters Get the Friggin' Ghouls Off the Lawn! #Literature #Culture #Essays

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    Oct 29, 2026
  • @new_york_review_of_books 'A Doubt That Takes Easily' #Books #Culture #Essays

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  • @new_york_review_of_books The Flood of Life #Books #Culture #Essays

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  • @new_york_review_of_books Deer Woman in the Dining Room #Books #Culture #Essays

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  • @new_york_review_of_books Multiplying Selves #Books #Culture #Essays

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  • @electric_literature The Power of Touch in High Art #Literature #Art #Essays

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  • @nik_art The First Time Is the Best and Worst Time #Creativity #PersonalGrowth #Essays

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  • @ftrain_paul_ford A thought I kept having last night was that, in some way that's hard to pin down, Rush now passes th... #Technology #Culture #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Private Capital Markets and Inequality #Economics #Philosophy #Essays

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    Oct 28, 2026
  • @looking_through_the_past New Men and New Minds #History #WorldHistory #Essays

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  • @3_quarks_daily Three Hundred Cheers for Mr. Lemuel Gulliver #Literature #Philosophy #Essays

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  • @ftrain_paul_ford The Great Firmware Flowering #Technology #Culture #Essays

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  • @applied_cartography Three Elmos #Software #Essays #Media

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  • @monochromatic_aberration ✦ Refrakt: 57 -- Knocking All the Magic Out #Essays #Photography #Art

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    Oct 25, 2026
  • @3_quarks_daily End of Term #Philosophy #Literature #Essays

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    Oct 25, 2026
  • @tom_stuart Weeknotes 355: Noxious chat #SoftwareDevelopment #Weeknotes #Essays

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    Oct 25, 2026
  • @kens_blog Quality of life #Life #Quality #Essays

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