Chris McLaren
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I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Wait, so according to this, my family thinks I will embarrass everyone, will go over to the dark side, don't have any allegiance to facts if they're in my way, I only pretend to listen to them, and can't be depended on to do what I say I will.
Yet, they all agree I can convince anyone of anything.
Yet, they all agree I can convince anyone of anything.
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Wait, so according to this, my family thinks I will embarrass everyone, will go over to the dark side, don't have any allegiance to facts if they're in my way, I only pretend to listen to them, and can't be depended on to do what I say I will.
Yet, they all agree I can convince anyone of anything.
Yet, they all agree I can convince anyone of anything.
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Hell Is My Hangout
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Covers, Magazine, Mystery, Norman Saunders, Ten Detective Aces
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Covers, Magazine, Mystery, Norman Saunders, Ten Detective Aces
December 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hell Is My Hangout
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Covers, Magazine, Mystery, Norman Saunders, Ten Detective Aces
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Covers, Magazine, Mystery, Norman Saunders, Ten Detective Aces
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Don't let your past define you.
Let your future deeds define you, and make sure they include a lighthouse on a craggy shore, sea witches, unquiet ghosts, and ancient creatures answering your call from the lightless abyss.
Let your future deeds define you, and make sure they include a lighthouse on a craggy shore, sea witches, unquiet ghosts, and ancient creatures answering your call from the lightless abyss.
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Don't let your past define you.
Let your future deeds define you, and make sure they include a lighthouse on a craggy shore, sea witches, unquiet ghosts, and ancient creatures answering your call from the lightless abyss.
Let your future deeds define you, and make sure they include a lighthouse on a craggy shore, sea witches, unquiet ghosts, and ancient creatures answering your call from the lightless abyss.
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In the academic world, when you say 'anecdotal evidence' what you're really saying is, "Dude, I made this shit up. I have no proof whatsoever, but Imma say it anyway."
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In the academic world, when you say 'anecdotal evidence' what you're really saying is, "Dude, I made this shit up. I have no proof whatsoever, but Imma say it anyway."
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the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats
December 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats
Can not be reformed. Abolish. Prosecute.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Can not be reformed. Abolish. Prosecute.
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You may find that women have a powerful bite and a devastating tail whip attack. Move slowly and calmly , and retreat if they begin to hiss
my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas
December 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You may find that women have a powerful bite and a devastating tail whip attack. Move slowly and calmly , and retreat if they begin to hiss
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i know if we put a sad muscular woman in a silk shirt and had her fight people with a sword 22 episodes a year we could heal this world
some should reboot highlander with lesbians. dykelander. billion dollar show guaranteed
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
i know if we put a sad muscular woman in a silk shirt and had her fight people with a sword 22 episodes a year we could heal this world
Just woke from dreaming a Speed-like movie where the bomb was attached to retired spy Tom Cruise and he had to keep up at least an 8 minute mile or it'd blow. Gwendolyn Christie is the police detective. Roselyn Sánchez the leader of the running group, who had previously pegged Tom as a recent widow
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Just woke from dreaming a Speed-like movie where the bomb was attached to retired spy Tom Cruise and he had to keep up at least an 8 minute mile or it'd blow. Gwendolyn Christie is the police detective. Roselyn Sánchez the leader of the running group, who had previously pegged Tom as a recent widow
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“Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period.”
Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period.”
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This explains like 90% of American politics right now
December 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This explains like 90% of American politics right now
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President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
A delightful Christmas thread about how the conservative project is, and always has been, the destruction of the concept of public value, in order to enrich select private interest.
You are being softened up to accept the province taking over hospitals, just like the province has taken over municipalities, school boards, universities, conservation agencies, etc. etc. etc.
The strategy is to always suggest incompetence and malfeasance.
www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
The strategy is to always suggest incompetence and malfeasance.
www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
St Joe’s solves the mystery of the missing hospital beds. Here’s how they did it
Hospitals buy too much because they can’t find their equipment.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A delightful Christmas thread about how the conservative project is, and always has been, the destruction of the concept of public value, in order to enrich select private interest.
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The immediate threat has always been not that it would take jobs, but that some dipshit exec would spend a billion dollars integrating it into the business, drive everything off the cliff, and 5-8 years later the rest of us are left picking up the pieces.
The exec that said "we thought it was farther along then it was" is absolutely the greatest issue right now. Not only is it not capable of doing any of these things on a broad scale, it will do them significantly worse than any employee. Going all in on something to boost stock value that fails.
Honestly im shocked
Well
Not that shocked
Well
Not that shocked
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The immediate threat has always been not that it would take jobs, but that some dipshit exec would spend a billion dollars integrating it into the business, drive everything off the cliff, and 5-8 years later the rest of us are left picking up the pieces.
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And the P-Funke partye, which did NOT stop
December 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
And the P-Funke partye, which did NOT stop
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I dunno, "den of iniquity" sounds kinda cozy and warm. The sort of place you'd want to be invited to, right?
If they really want to turn people off of iniquity, they should say something like, "the flourescently lit principal's office of iniquity."
If they really want to turn people off of iniquity, they should say something like, "the flourescently lit principal's office of iniquity."
December 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I dunno, "den of iniquity" sounds kinda cozy and warm. The sort of place you'd want to be invited to, right?
If they really want to turn people off of iniquity, they should say something like, "the flourescently lit principal's office of iniquity."
If they really want to turn people off of iniquity, they should say something like, "the flourescently lit principal's office of iniquity."
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See also:
-how we could we even fix our school system
-how is public transit ever viable
-how would we make college free
-what would possibly reduce poverty
There's a whole subgenre of rich-asshole concern trolling that assumes you've never heard of any country other than America.
-how we could we even fix our school system
-how is public transit ever viable
-how would we make college free
-what would possibly reduce poverty
There's a whole subgenre of rich-asshole concern trolling that assumes you've never heard of any country other than America.
December 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
See also:
-how we could we even fix our school system
-how is public transit ever viable
-how would we make college free
-what would possibly reduce poverty
There's a whole subgenre of rich-asshole concern trolling that assumes you've never heard of any country other than America.
-how we could we even fix our school system
-how is public transit ever viable
-how would we make college free
-what would possibly reduce poverty
There's a whole subgenre of rich-asshole concern trolling that assumes you've never heard of any country other than America.
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Ah, the old hometown. Just how most people talk about visiting it, too.
December 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Ah, the old hometown. Just how most people talk about visiting it, too.
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This Christmas, I have just one wish for you:
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This Christmas, I have just one wish for you:
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
Take a moment to really see the older people in your life.
Let them know they’re loved, valued, and never invisible.
Share a smile with an elder you don’t know.
Offer a warm holiday greeting.
Small gestures carry enormous power.
Love,
Lynda 🎄✨
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Here's my hope that everyone gets a chance during the holiday season to be surrounded by their loved ones, to be seen and loved as their authentic selves, and to share in the warmth of family--blood, chosen, or both.
And that anyone who can't have that right now can have it soon.
And that anyone who can't have that right now can have it soon.
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Here's my hope that everyone gets a chance during the holiday season to be surrounded by their loved ones, to be seen and loved as their authentic selves, and to share in the warmth of family--blood, chosen, or both.
And that anyone who can't have that right now can have it soon.
And that anyone who can't have that right now can have it soon.
"STATES HE HAS A FOREIGN BODY IN HIS RECTUM THAT IS VIBRATING. HE STATES HE WAS WITH A GIRL LAST NIGHT AND DOESN'T REMEMBER MUCH"
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
This is the time of year to be grateful for not having things stuck in our asses, and to think of those less fortunate than us. So spare a thought for those Americans who misjudged the capacity of the...
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December 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"STATES HE HAS A FOREIGN BODY IN HIS RECTUM THAT IS VIBRATING. HE STATES HE WAS WITH A GIRL LAST NIGHT AND DOESN'T REMEMBER MUCH"
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WINTER’S GLOW (2012)
Acrylic on Yupo Paper - 12” x 12”
I wasn’t feeling in the holiday spirit, and as usual it took a painting to get me into the mood of the season.
Don Maitz first recommended “Yupo paper” to me, and I was pleased with how the sheet he lent me handled acrylics. 1/13
Acrylic on Yupo Paper - 12” x 12”
I wasn’t feeling in the holiday spirit, and as usual it took a painting to get me into the mood of the season.
Don Maitz first recommended “Yupo paper” to me, and I was pleased with how the sheet he lent me handled acrylics. 1/13
December 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
WINTER’S GLOW (2012)
Acrylic on Yupo Paper - 12” x 12”
I wasn’t feeling in the holiday spirit, and as usual it took a painting to get me into the mood of the season.
Don Maitz first recommended “Yupo paper” to me, and I was pleased with how the sheet he lent me handled acrylics. 1/13
Acrylic on Yupo Paper - 12” x 12”
I wasn’t feeling in the holiday spirit, and as usual it took a painting to get me into the mood of the season.
Don Maitz first recommended “Yupo paper” to me, and I was pleased with how the sheet he lent me handled acrylics. 1/13
Endlessly amused ("enraged") that an organization that's part of the law enforcement apparatus SO FUNDAMENTALLY does not understand the law.
Can't be fixed. Dismantle.
Can't be fixed. Dismantle.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Endlessly amused ("enraged") that an organization that's part of the law enforcement apparatus SO FUNDAMENTALLY does not understand the law.
Can't be fixed. Dismantle.
Can't be fixed. Dismantle.
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LETS GO WOKE POPE
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:
In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
LETS GO WOKE POPE