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Corvus2014
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Nerd, reader and lover of games (mainly unplugged)
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Hey folks, i got a few Lego advent calendars and thought i'd share the contents! For day 1:
a mini x-wing fighter and a young lad with a snowboard!
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What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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NEW UPDATE!!!
We’ve got ONE full week left before pre-orders close and we are SO close to reaching all the goals for the collectors edition cards.

If we can hit 250 on both levels, that’ll still be an awesome amount to give to the charities.
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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These types of dudes are not lonely enough.

Throwing a tantrum like a toddler and blaming everyone else.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by @tkingfisher.com
- enby MC
- we've had scary fungus and scary ghosts
- now it's time to investigate an abandoned coal mine that's probably haunted
- do you like claustrophobia, b/c we've got claustrophobia
- 3rd in SWORN SOLDIER series
What Stalks the Deep
Check out What Stalks the Deep - <p><b>An instant <i>New York Times</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, and Indie bestseller!</b><br><b><br>The next </b><b>installment</b><b> in the <i>New York Times</i> bestselli...
bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Oof, just out there telling the world most of the women he tries to talk to are dry as the Sahara.
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I'd like you who know me to imagine how reading this made me feel.

And if you support this...person...I'm blocking you faster than you can say "Rumpelstiltskin".
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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This is exactly what the oligarchs want you to think.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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If this is all they're offering in return for their demands of a majority,

people need to reconsider whether this current political arrangement is even worth saving.

This is nothing.

Dems want ICE back on the leash and that's all.

Fuck you, that's not enough.
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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If you think it's not racist to "want a majority white country," let me ask you a simple question: HOW DO YOU ENVISION ACHIEVING THAT GOAL?

Describe to me a SINGLE path there that does not involve massive repression and suffering for everyone other than whites that are already present in country.
If you think "it's not racist to want a majority white country," (a) lol, (b) yes it is, (c) you want to deliberately make your country worse, congratulations, you are owning yourself, and (d) you are a terrible, horrible person.
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.

Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.

www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
Today (24 November) marks the passing of Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. He remains regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music.

📷 Getty
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Ah yes, "Hello fellow females".
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Vaccines save lives.

And no, they do not cause autism.
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This, and also: If you want Gen Z to show up at your anti-Trump rallies, incorporate Gaza and trans rights and campus issues into your messaging.

And yes, it'll turn off a bunch of boomers if you do. But that's the thing—either way you're choosing one generation over another.
this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts

young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)

The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Sorry y'all who think you're somehow living your anti-capitalist dream life by pirating media - you're actually just a piece of shit. Even worse, you're a capitalist piece of shit exploiting the labor of others.
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Right? Like, solve for capitalism first, and then things will be free, instead of screwing over the folks who are also just trying to get by.
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Good point about why AI isn't being designed to replace domestic chores or tedious manual labor. The tech billionaires pushing this stuff into art and relationships have servants; they don't need robots.
These guys have never had to do any of that kind of difficult or gross stuff so of course AI is mostly a way to address their own lack of an inner life.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Well if anyone knows how to fail our children it’s the woman who helped cover up pedophilia and sex trafficking at her family’s wrestling company.
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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lot of people on this website are debating back and forth how "realistic" a general strike is. meanwhile the brave heroes of the GOP house caucus are showing us what praxis looks like
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:

@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM