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1 week
Joker, enlightened; or, Show Don't Show

I'm watching Todd Phillips & Scott Silver's Joker (2019).
At 1 hour and 7 minutes we see Arthur Fleck, just after being punched hard in the nose by Bruce Wayne's terrible father and shortly before becoming the Joker, walk up to a bathroom sink, plant his hands on its edge, and lean so far over that he's looking straight downwards.
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13 weeks
Non-pony: Amazon workers on strike

I just heard on the news that Amazon fulfillment center workers in the US are on strike at 7 locations.
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17 weeks
Fic Rec: Feeling That Way, by Super Trampoline

Walabio steered me to his group The Skeptics’ Guide to Equestria, which led to a 2016 story by Super Trampoline titled Feeling That Way.
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17 weeks
US Hate Crime Statistics, 2020-2022

One of my side projects for the past year has been studying the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting system's hate crime statistics. I'm not nearly done, but I thought that, given how many people on fimfiction are quite worried about hate crime right now, I should give some basic numbers on the frequency of hate
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18 weeks
Hate

EDIT: I've had an astonishing amount of hate directed at me for writing a post against hate. I think this was because I wrote that the left and the right are basically the same. I didn't mean that they're equally right or wrong on every issue. But I think that for every horrible thing that conservatives want, there is a horrible thing that the left wants. For every insane religious belief
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