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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜
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Even if you have no idea what this is or who these people are, even if you're not that into magic, bookmark and watch this masterpiece of oration and showmanship
Here is a Christmas gift months in the making: an RF rip of the greatest magic special in history. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, directed by David Mamet, never released on home video, sourced from an internal HBO Production tape sourced by @pulsingcinema.bsky.social: archive.org/details/rick...
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Even if you have no idea what this is or who these people are, even if you're not that into magic, bookmark and watch this masterpiece of oration and showmanship
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A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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What Do Economists and Assassins Have in Common? www.medievalists.net/2025/11/what... #castles #medievalsky
What Do Economists and Assassins Have in Common? - Medievalists.net
An examination of the economic pressures behind the medieval Assassins, from costly fortresses to the financial realities that influenced their role as hired killers.
www.medievalists.net
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What Do Economists and Assassins Have in Common? www.medievalists.net/2025/11/what... #castles #medievalsky
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Im trying to find more information about P.E.C. (Publisher’s Export Co.). It was a 60s/70s San Diego smut publisher founded by Donald Patrick but I’m really stuck trying to find out anything about him or the company. I know lots of you have P.E.C.s in your collections but does anyone know more?
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Im trying to find more information about P.E.C. (Publisher’s Export Co.). It was a 60s/70s San Diego smut publisher founded by Donald Patrick but I’m really stuck trying to find out anything about him or the company. I know lots of you have P.E.C.s in your collections but does anyone know more?
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This is why I am so vehemently down on people scaremongering the trans community. The assault on the trans community is one on our dignity, trying to drive us to suicide. Scaremongering does their work for them.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
In the case of trans people, I think most of this Administration would be plenty happy if they drove us to suicide or to voluntarily detransition. They're lazy, they're focused on optics and le epic owns, and even where they are marshalling state capacity (ICE, et al) they're at a breaking point.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is why I am so vehemently down on people scaremongering the trans community. The assault on the trans community is one on our dignity, trying to drive us to suicide. Scaremongering does their work for them.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
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somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself
Sometimes they just say the part they’re not supposed to say out loud.
I guess why not though?
Mainstream news won’t cover anything that shows the cracks in the red v blue narrative.
I guess why not though?
Mainstream news won’t cover anything that shows the cracks in the red v blue narrative.
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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I think one great service Trump will do for America is dismantle the very widely held belief that rich people are rich because they have some special capacity.
They had at least a well off dad and happened to have something that had been worthless but people suddenly wanted in a hurry.
They had at least a well off dad and happened to have something that had been worthless but people suddenly wanted in a hurry.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I think one great service Trump will do for America is dismantle the very widely held belief that rich people are rich because they have some special capacity.
They had at least a well off dad and happened to have something that had been worthless but people suddenly wanted in a hurry.
They had at least a well off dad and happened to have something that had been worthless but people suddenly wanted in a hurry.
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A rule to live by.
Follow The 2 Rogers Rule:
If neither Steve nor Fred would do it, you shouldn't either.
Protect your team. Be a good neighbor. Punch a Nazi. All are great examples of World Kindness Day.
If neither Steve nor Fred would do it, you shouldn't either.
Protect your team. Be a good neighbor. Punch a Nazi. All are great examples of World Kindness Day.
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A rule to live by.
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we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
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The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org
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I swear. I don’t care if you watch or use porn. If you are in the Internet you need to support porn. Without porn most of the Internet you love wouldn’t have happened and wouldn’t be happening. Porn makes the wheels go round. Not that enough ppl pay for theirs but that’s a diff issue. (Cont)
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I swear. I don’t care if you watch or use porn. If you are in the Internet you need to support porn. Without porn most of the Internet you love wouldn’t have happened and wouldn’t be happening. Porn makes the wheels go round. Not that enough ppl pay for theirs but that’s a diff issue. (Cont)
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Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
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This is true! "Diot" was a diminutive of "Dionisia" (a forerunner of "Denise"), and "Coke" was a variant of "Cook," so a modern version of "Diot Coke" might be "Niecy Nosh."
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is true! "Diot" was a diminutive of "Dionisia" (a forerunner of "Denise"), and "Coke" was a variant of "Cook," so a modern version of "Diot Coke" might be "Niecy Nosh."
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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In my new interview with the author currently known as qntm, he talks about the new version of his previously serialized online supernatural #ScienceFiciton thriller novel, "There Is No Antimemetics Division."
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Interview: "There Is No Antimemetics Division" Author qntm ... .
Exclusive Interview: "There Is No Antimemetics Division" Author qntm \ In which he talks about this supernatural sci-fi thriller novel.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In my new interview with the author currently known as qntm, he talks about the new version of his previously serialized online supernatural #ScienceFiciton thriller novel, "There Is No Antimemetics Division."
paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...
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paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...
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Wishing our friends at Subterranean Press the best of luck while they work with Amazon to get this straightened out. You can also buy their ebooks direct from them at subterraneanpress.com. (Cutting Amazon out of the picture.)
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Wishing our friends at Subterranean Press the best of luck while they work with Amazon to get this straightened out. You can also buy their ebooks direct from them at subterraneanpress.com. (Cutting Amazon out of the picture.)
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there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting
again, i am not exaggerating
again, i am not exaggerating
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting
again, i am not exaggerating
again, i am not exaggerating
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I've been working on the Mesopotamian rpg for a year and a half or so, and I've only today finally found an appropriate place in which to quote Inana/Ištar being her absolute baddest self:
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I've been working on the Mesopotamian rpg for a year and a half or so, and I've only today finally found an appropriate place in which to quote Inana/Ištar being her absolute baddest self:
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LABYRINTH (Two Palindromes)
Daedalus, nine pass….
I, Minos, add a son.
I miss a peninsula, dead.
Spool's end: Air, an isle….
Vary. A way ravels in
Ariadne’s loops.
Daedalus, nine pass….
I, Minos, add a son.
I miss a peninsula, dead.
Spool's end: Air, an isle….
Vary. A way ravels in
Ariadne’s loops.
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
LABYRINTH (Two Palindromes)
Daedalus, nine pass….
I, Minos, add a son.
I miss a peninsula, dead.
Spool's end: Air, an isle….
Vary. A way ravels in
Ariadne’s loops.
Daedalus, nine pass….
I, Minos, add a son.
I miss a peninsula, dead.
Spool's end: Air, an isle….
Vary. A way ravels in
Ariadne’s loops.
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With all these crooks lining up to smear ibuprofen and acetaminophen, I can only assume that they have all invested in some new miracle painkiller that will be approved any day now.
So when the new miracle painkiller is announced, uh, don't take it.
So when the new miracle painkiller is announced, uh, don't take it.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
With all these crooks lining up to smear ibuprofen and acetaminophen, I can only assume that they have all invested in some new miracle painkiller that will be approved any day now.
So when the new miracle painkiller is announced, uh, don't take it.
So when the new miracle painkiller is announced, uh, don't take it.
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.