Craig DeBlock
@cdeblock.bsky.social
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“It is my miserable fate to possess more miscellaneous information about U.S. one-cent coins than, possibly, any other person on this planet,” @caity.bsky.social writes, in an investigation of what will happen to the penny now:
What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?
The government has no plan.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“It is my miserable fate to possess more miscellaneous information about U.S. one-cent coins than, possibly, any other person on this planet,” @caity.bsky.social writes, in an investigation of what will happen to the penny now:
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My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
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Again, if they can learn from Mamdani, it's stay on message. If Rufo says Democrats want to teach homosexuality manuals, the response is not 500 words about sensitivity and so forth. It's, "I won't dignify that. I'm busy fighting for equal rights, equal protection, and money in your pocket."
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Again, if they can learn from Mamdani, it's stay on message. If Rufo says Democrats want to teach homosexuality manuals, the response is not 500 words about sensitivity and so forth. It's, "I won't dignify that. I'm busy fighting for equal rights, equal protection, and money in your pocket."
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Schrodinger's immigrant: driving down our wages with their cheap labor, and also buying up all of our houses.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Schrodinger's immigrant: driving down our wages with their cheap labor, and also buying up all of our houses.
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After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening
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He has a lot of power. That's not changing. But the economy is bad. Worsening. People blame him for that, and blame him for snatching up ice cream men, grannies, kids. Both on moral grounds and for what it will do to the economy. As long as this is true, he's not unchecked, and he's in trouble.
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
He has a lot of power. That's not changing. But the economy is bad. Worsening. People blame him for that, and blame him for snatching up ice cream men, grannies, kids. Both on moral grounds and for what it will do to the economy. As long as this is true, he's not unchecked, and he's in trouble.
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I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.
Trump’s Insane Pentagon Name-Change Likely to Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion
Changing signage and stationary alone for the Department of Defense would cost at least a billion dollars.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
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what if instead of sending automated rejection emails or ghosting me, an employer did a secret third thing (hired me for a job in my field for reasonable compensation)
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
what if instead of sending automated rejection emails or ghosting me, an employer did a secret third thing (hired me for a job in my field for reasonable compensation)
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people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
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the weird thing about Star Trek is you watch TOS and if you forget it's from 1968, it seems downright backwards. But if you took TOS and updated it for 2025 levels of progressiveness, the Republicans would be calling for the production staff and the writers to be executed on live TV
people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
the weird thing about Star Trek is you watch TOS and if you forget it's from 1968, it seems downright backwards. But if you took TOS and updated it for 2025 levels of progressiveness, the Republicans would be calling for the production staff and the writers to be executed on live TV
Okay, I'm going to be the first to admit Heathrow is not exactly the best designed airport in the world.
But for this guy to somehow conclude that his complete inability to understand signage (and to check the actual operating airline for his flight) is proof the UK is failing is simply ridiculous.
But for this guy to somehow conclude that his complete inability to understand signage (and to check the actual operating airline for his flight) is proof the UK is failing is simply ridiculous.
I had no idea what this was about, thankfully, so I did a search and I love this travel site completely dunking on Smith for his... inability to follow basic signage. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I'm going to be the first to admit Heathrow is not exactly the best designed airport in the world.
But for this guy to somehow conclude that his complete inability to understand signage (and to check the actual operating airline for his flight) is proof the UK is failing is simply ridiculous.
But for this guy to somehow conclude that his complete inability to understand signage (and to check the actual operating airline for his flight) is proof the UK is failing is simply ridiculous.
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
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I have nothing to offer but baloney, salami, and tomatoes
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I have nothing to offer but baloney, salami, and tomatoes
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call in the troops to ... shop? staff the empty stores? bring in customers at gunpoint?
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
call in the troops to ... shop? staff the empty stores? bring in customers at gunpoint?
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Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
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Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts
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White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
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If you make them break the glass and pull the alarm, you haven’t achieved what’s on paper but you’ve achieved something. Then the thing ends in their panic, not your sitting on your hands. And there is an instrument for you later.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
If you make them break the glass and pull the alarm, you haven’t achieved what’s on paper but you’ve achieved something. Then the thing ends in their panic, not your sitting on your hands. And there is an instrument for you later.
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How is the evidence piling up if you can’t even clearly define the term that the evidence applies to
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How is the evidence piling up if you can’t even clearly define the term that the evidence applies to
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To those whining about my siding with Trump on the shutdown fight, I don’t answer to you. I answer to the 2028 Republican primary voters in Iowa.
by John Fetterman
by John Fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
To those whining about my siding with Trump on the shutdown fight, I don’t answer to you. I answer to the 2028 Republican primary voters in Iowa.
by John Fetterman
by John Fetterman
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Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
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Y'all are welcome. 😊🖖🏾
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Y'all are welcome. 😊🖖🏾
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Democrats weren't going to win. They were going to force Republicans to kill the filibuster. WIthout the filibuster they would be forced in power to pass a lot of things they don't want to pass.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Democrats weren't going to win. They were going to force Republicans to kill the filibuster. WIthout the filibuster they would be forced in power to pass a lot of things they don't want to pass.