April
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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talkin' about the AI bubble
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
talkin' about the AI bubble
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A treasure trove of rare and historic American music is now available online for free.
5,000 songs from private collectors have already been preserved and uploaded, and "thousands more are in the pipeline".
laist.com/news/arts-an... #MusicSky
5,000 songs from private collectors have already been preserved and uploaded, and "thousands more are in the pipeline".
laist.com/news/arts-an... #MusicSky
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A treasure trove of rare and historic American music is now available online for free.
5,000 songs from private collectors have already been preserved and uploaded, and "thousands more are in the pipeline".
laist.com/news/arts-an... #MusicSky
5,000 songs from private collectors have already been preserved and uploaded, and "thousands more are in the pipeline".
laist.com/news/arts-an... #MusicSky
I wonder how long we gotta wait 'til they give these wpbl teams names and not just "Los Angeles Team", "Boston Team," etc.
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I wonder how long we gotta wait 'til they give these wpbl teams names and not just "Los Angeles Team", "Boston Team," etc.
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"A producer for the podcast sent an email to at least one actor asking that they 'not mention that this audio New Testament Bible was produced years ago,' because 'we'd like it to feel like something that was produced more recently.'"
This feels kind of crazy? Why on earth wouldn't you reach out to these people even if you're just repackaging old work?!
Kristen Bell, Malcolm McDowell, more had 'no knowledge' their voices would be used in Fox News Jesus podcast
Kristen Bell, Malcolm McDowell, and more stars had 'no knowledge' that their voices would be used in a Fox News podcast about Jesus until this week, as they recorded audio for a separate project 15 ye...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"A producer for the podcast sent an email to at least one actor asking that they 'not mention that this audio New Testament Bible was produced years ago,' because 'we'd like it to feel like something that was produced more recently.'"
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she’s a hero
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
she’s a hero
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Surprise surprise, there are men on here dooming the entire venture of the Women's Professional Baseball League because they don't like how the inaugural draft is being run.
Sit down, shut up, and let us play ball, ya losers. #WPBL
Sit down, shut up, and let us play ball, ya losers. #WPBL
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Surprise surprise, there are men on here dooming the entire venture of the Women's Professional Baseball League because they don't like how the inaugural draft is being run.
Sit down, shut up, and let us play ball, ya losers. #WPBL
Sit down, shut up, and let us play ball, ya losers. #WPBL
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10th pick in the Women's Professional Baseball League Draft:
Los Angeles selects Mo'ne Davis
#wpbl #womensprobaseball
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Los Angeles selects Mo'ne Davis
#wpbl #womensprobaseball
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November 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
10th pick in the Women's Professional Baseball League Draft:
Los Angeles selects Mo'ne Davis
#wpbl #womensprobaseball
@wpbl.bsky.app
Los Angeles selects Mo'ne Davis
#wpbl #womensprobaseball
@wpbl.bsky.app
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I just…
WTF is wrong with this society?
WTF is wrong with this society?
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I just…
WTF is wrong with this society?
WTF is wrong with this society?
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OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.
The Pope got to meet Dario Argento! I wonder which of the Three Mothers trilogy is Leo's fav, I'm gonna say Inferno, cos this Pope doesn't seem like a Suspiria kinda guy.
The Pope welcomed a number of Hollywood film stars to the Vatican, where he called cinema a "vehicle of hope".
More than 100 film industry professionals were received at the Apostolic Palace, including Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie and Viggo Mortensen.
jrnl.ie/6875825
More than 100 film industry professionals were received at the Apostolic Palace, including Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie and Viggo Mortensen.
jrnl.ie/6875825
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.
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He forgot the part where you hire a specialized firm to place questionable bulk orders of multiple copies at NYT Bestsellers List-reporting stores.
That's how all his GOP friends land on bestseller lists, with "this is a suspicious entry reliant on bulk order sales" daggers next to the titles. (†)
That's how all his GOP friends land on bestseller lists, with "this is a suspicious entry reliant on bulk order sales" daggers next to the titles. (†)
"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
He forgot the part where you hire a specialized firm to place questionable bulk orders of multiple copies at NYT Bestsellers List-reporting stores.
That's how all his GOP friends land on bestseller lists, with "this is a suspicious entry reliant on bulk order sales" daggers next to the titles. (†)
That's how all his GOP friends land on bestseller lists, with "this is a suspicious entry reliant on bulk order sales" daggers next to the titles. (†)
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There is no reality where algorithmically picking projects for maximum shareholder value creates Art like Earth Girls Are Easy
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
There is no reality where algorithmically picking projects for maximum shareholder value creates Art like Earth Girls Are Easy
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Hollywood was better when execs were just doing a lot of cocaine and greenlighting everything that sounded cool
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Hollywood was better when execs were just doing a lot of cocaine and greenlighting everything that sounded cool
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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if theres a "Turk" in a 19th century novel, that could mean anything. They could be Turkish or Arab or from Central Asia or they could be from Scotland
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
if theres a "Turk" in a 19th century novel, that could mean anything. They could be Turkish or Arab or from Central Asia or they could be from Scotland
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Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![On October 1, 2025, after successfully completing 16 weeks of the FBI Academy's
19-week training program, Maltinsky was handed a letter terminating his employment with the
FBI. The letter was signed by Defendant Patel ("Patel"). In the letter, Patel wrote that he had
"determined that [Maltinsky] exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in [his] work area during [his] previous assignment at the Los Angeles Field Office." In short, Patel fired Maltinsky for displaying a pride flag at his workstation that had been flown by the FBI at the LAFO and then given by the FBI to Maltinsky.
The Defendants' discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech
was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreid5rog4gjpv3qeneunmoyqxoesnuxac2srp3u6ppnjdxphfv7jcoe@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait.
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I know people think I’m too woo-woo about theory and capitalism and markets. But I sincerely believe this kind of degradation of micro-trust is the real social and economic rot. We constantly feel scammed and then we start reacting like marks instead of mutually reliant humans.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I know people think I’m too woo-woo about theory and capitalism and markets. But I sincerely believe this kind of degradation of micro-trust is the real social and economic rot. We constantly feel scammed and then we start reacting like marks instead of mutually reliant humans.
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Trump is rolling out the red carpet for offshore oil and gas—which will inevitably spill into the ocean and increase costs at home. Trump is doing this while sabotaging offshore wind, the energy source that does the exact opposite. He’s not “unleashing American energy”—he’s underwriting Big Oil.
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trump is rolling out the red carpet for offshore oil and gas—which will inevitably spill into the ocean and increase costs at home. Trump is doing this while sabotaging offshore wind, the energy source that does the exact opposite. He’s not “unleashing American energy”—he’s underwriting Big Oil.
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I want to point out that this is how executives and others on Wall Street talk. They say in earnings calls, for example, that the market is demonstrating that they can raise prices on necessities, that consumers are "willing" to bear price increases.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I want to point out that this is how executives and others on Wall Street talk. They say in earnings calls, for example, that the market is demonstrating that they can raise prices on necessities, that consumers are "willing" to bear price increases.
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*taps the sign*
"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow.
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders."
-Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
*taps the sign*
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[P] “you’d be prettier if you smiled more while we stuff you into the fart tube”
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
[P] “you’d be prettier if you smiled more while we stuff you into the fart tube”
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Trump not only take beer; Trump take beer's future.
NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Trump not only take beer; Trump take beer's future.
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man I wish perjury were a crime
Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
man I wish perjury were a crime