A Scanner Blackhatly
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writer: Nightscript, @DimShores.bsky.social @ThinkingHorror, @weirdfictionrev, film crit. @ patreon.com/ascannerburkely | mulchsack left. most likely to be mad online, class of 2000. he/him.
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it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
My god do we need UBI
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:56 AM
it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
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re:your "Ace Ventura goes to Epstein Island" script—we like the concept. We th ink its very good. But it borrows too many jokes from AV1 & 2
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 AM
re:your "Ace Ventura goes to Epstein Island" script—we like the concept. We th ink its very good. But it borrows too many jokes from AV1 & 2
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got diced in the resident evil laser hallway a few days ago and i've been a little lucky sure but i've been really careful too. still, i know it's only a matter of time before a bump or jostle makes me cubes on the floor
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 AM
got diced in the resident evil laser hallway a few days ago and i've been a little lucky sure but i've been really careful too. still, i know it's only a matter of time before a bump or jostle makes me cubes on the floor
Now watching boxd.it/FIFe
Swarm (2023)
A young woman's obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn.
boxd.it
February 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Now watching boxd.it/FIFe
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idk how the United States keeps getting picked up for another season when the reviews are awful
February 16, 2026 at 12:35 AM
idk how the United States keeps getting picked up for another season when the reviews are awful
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kinda wild how there's basically no rich person who wants to build or preserve anything useful, not even "medical research to stop cancer"
February 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
kinda wild how there's basically no rich person who wants to build or preserve anything useful, not even "medical research to stop cancer"
Lots of interesting teeth news out there this weekend. Nice to see it.
February 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Lots of interesting teeth news out there this weekend. Nice to see it.
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Only one member of the group is accused of pulling a trigger, but 19 people went to jail on state and federal charges.
Texas “Antifa Cell” Terror Trial Takes On Tough Questions About Guns at Protests Against ICE
Trump hit Prairieland ICE demonstrators with terrorism charges. Jurors will take on issues of guns at protests, criminalization of speech.
interc.pt
February 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Only one member of the group is accused of pulling a trigger, but 19 people went to jail on state and federal charges.
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If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.
look if you want to freak out about people not voting newsom if he's the nominee a week before the 2028 general election, I kinda get it (but don't say you weren't warned). doing it now though is just a weird attempt to strong arm people into supporting him in the primary.
I think most (not all) of the "I will never vote for Gavin Newsom" people are communists who are mad that Americans don't like communism and want to destroy the Democratic party out of revenge. They don't care how many elections Republicans win or how many trans people die as long as the Dems fall.
February 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM
If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.
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This is nuts. Famous and prestigious program. So toxic that it’s now a conservative goal to gut the humanities and universities generally while shoving AI everywhere
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
This is nuts. Famous and prestigious program. So toxic that it’s now a conservative goal to gut the humanities and universities generally while shoving AI everywhere
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Warning: I'm going to be VERY annoying
BUT if you're voting for the BSFA, please consider "Blanquitos" for the ballot (under Short Fiction)
Thank you! (Story link in response)
www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
BUT if you're voting for the BSFA, please consider "Blanquitos" for the ballot (under Short Fiction)
Thank you! (Story link in response)
www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
Vote for the BSFA Awards
www.bsfa.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Warning: I'm going to be VERY annoying
BUT if you're voting for the BSFA, please consider "Blanquitos" for the ballot (under Short Fiction)
Thank you! (Story link in response)
www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
BUT if you're voting for the BSFA, please consider "Blanquitos" for the ballot (under Short Fiction)
Thank you! (Story link in response)
www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
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Detaining people to put them in slave labor camps is violence
Deporting people, especially back to countries we destabilized is violence
ICE always went into communities and shattered them and that is violence
Cooper (and MANY others) have admitted they don't give a single fuck about that tho
Deporting people, especially back to countries we destabilized is violence
ICE always went into communities and shattered them and that is violence
Cooper (and MANY others) have admitted they don't give a single fuck about that tho
I notice Cooper only mentions that the white people would be alive because presumably he believes(correctly) all the black and brown people would still be treated the same
January 27, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Detaining people to put them in slave labor camps is violence
Deporting people, especially back to countries we destabilized is violence
ICE always went into communities and shattered them and that is violence
Cooper (and MANY others) have admitted they don't give a single fuck about that tho
Deporting people, especially back to countries we destabilized is violence
ICE always went into communities and shattered them and that is violence
Cooper (and MANY others) have admitted they don't give a single fuck about that tho
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Me: this MFer just said "set Frasier to stun"
Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, commanding officer of Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant: Shut the fuck up Ensign
Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, commanding officer of Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant: Shut the fuck up Ensign
November 24, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Me: this MFer just said "set Frasier to stun"
Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, commanding officer of Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant: Shut the fuck up Ensign
Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, commanding officer of Deep Space 9 and the USS Defiant: Shut the fuck up Ensign
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Me: the existence of mountains implies the existence of reverse mountains, deep rifts extending down into the rocky earth
(*holding hand to earpiece*) I've received word that this does exist and i have the terminology all wrong. They aren't called "mountains" they are called "reverse canyons."
(*holding hand to earpiece*) I've received word that this does exist and i have the terminology all wrong. They aren't called "mountains" they are called "reverse canyons."
November 24, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Me: the existence of mountains implies the existence of reverse mountains, deep rifts extending down into the rocky earth
(*holding hand to earpiece*) I've received word that this does exist and i have the terminology all wrong. They aren't called "mountains" they are called "reverse canyons."
(*holding hand to earpiece*) I've received word that this does exist and i have the terminology all wrong. They aren't called "mountains" they are called "reverse canyons."
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The singles in your area are hot. Just Incredibly Hot. Some are at 500 degrees and have been fully rendered into a nutritious slurry. Now we must cool them extremely rapidly in deep freeze to preserve the desired complex layers of texture, creating a rich narrative of ingestion.
November 28, 2024 at 10:50 PM
The singles in your area are hot. Just Incredibly Hot. Some are at 500 degrees and have been fully rendered into a nutritious slurry. Now we must cool them extremely rapidly in deep freeze to preserve the desired complex layers of texture, creating a rich narrative of ingestion.
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I simply hate it when, after conspiring with Tamora the Goth and her depraved sons to commit many violent acts of revenge against the hated Andronici, I am sentenced to be set breast-deep in earth and famished to death in public as punishment for my many transgressions
December 20, 2024 at 5:11 AM
I simply hate it when, after conspiring with Tamora the Goth and her depraved sons to commit many violent acts of revenge against the hated Andronici, I am sentenced to be set breast-deep in earth and famished to death in public as punishment for my many transgressions
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I'm raw dogging milk to contract diseases of the gut that will make me shit my body inside out for liberty
December 11, 2024 at 5:44 AM
I'm raw dogging milk to contract diseases of the gut that will make me shit my body inside out for liberty
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Being an adult is cool because you’re exhausted all the time but you also get the satisfaction of not really accomplishing anything
February 15, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Being an adult is cool because you’re exhausted all the time but you also get the satisfaction of not really accomplishing anything
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"We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your lives as they have been are over. Your culture will adapt to service ours. But don't worry, the Dow is over 50,000.“
February 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
"We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your lives as they have been are over. Your culture will adapt to service ours. But don't worry, the Dow is over 50,000.“
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these people need to drown in a lake of fire
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 9:10 PM
these people need to drown in a lake of fire
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ongoing controversy within the figure skating world over the legality of the infamous "Big Bastard" routine. It earns said skater an instant 0 on all fronts, but also halves the score of whichever opponent they choose
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
ongoing controversy within the figure skating world over the legality of the infamous "Big Bastard" routine. It earns said skater an instant 0 on all fronts, but also halves the score of whichever opponent they choose
Are there other departments in our government besides Cops
February 15, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Are there other departments in our government besides Cops