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Mario plays guitar
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Well, here we go again.
And that's it for classes until...summer? Trying to do an elective internship this winter but a professor has to OK it.
I need to get on with my life.
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Well, you can have your silly red hats. Tonight I'm paying tribute to the dark lord of the holidays - if you're in or around Westchester NY you can too:

www.bayourestaurantny.com/event/annual...
www.bayourestaurantny.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I guess this answers the question I asked in my last post:
The other night I was idly watching the sixth episode in a new-to-me TV series on Netflix and about 10 minutes before the end of the episode the playback froze. After trying to restart it for a bit I exited and re-opened Netflix and the entire series had disappeared, apparently deleted from the app.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Not on anyone's checklist of priorities, I know, but...does this mean we'll finally be able to watch the Warner Archive catalog on Netflix? I'm thinking about how Disney+ unearthed a ridiculous amount of old, obscure movies. Let's do that again! Because at this point, I need motivation to stay.
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Andrew Zimmern isn't on here so hell, just watch Zimmern List or his new outdoor cooking shows. He strikes me as a great guy who can make friends w anyone.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!

RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
True about the therapy. Look, a lot of you could benefit from therapy - you probably need that guidance in your life.
The rest of you just need to eat CBD and have some fun in life, which the economic stuff would help with. (I'll save my thoughts about wages for another discussion.)
“Therapy is being marketed like supplements, promised as the answer to everything.”

@profgalloway.com explains why he believes therapy is not a “universal fix.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
And here comes Monday....

very strong "GO ON FOLLOW ME YOU'LL BE BORED" vibes in this interview. Except even Gary Hart was intelligent enough to avoid threatening, misogynistic attacks on the reporters who, in the end, did follow him. And weren't bored at all.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results

Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.

Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?

Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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If I had a dime for every time I murdered a friend after taking just one "toke" of weed . . .
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
And now back to the end of civilization, already in progress.

A long thread:
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Black Friday shopping challenge: move my personal site to the cloud while still being able to route to my different areas of interests.
Don't bother, I'm asking reddit how to do that, they know that stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Alone w Mom for Thanksgiving. Again.
Sending this out to everyone else who's alone for the holidays. Stay strong.
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This, and every creator below the commercials/TV series caste.
After all, we wouldn't want a system where artists are paid real income while they're alive, now would we?
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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True tale: A Baltimore police colonel called a rival at 3 a.m. from a crime scene: "Leon, I got you now. You fucked up. You wrote "POLICE" backwards on the front of the EVU truck."
"Eddie, that's so it reads correctly in a rear view mirror."
Long pause.
"Aw Leon, you got an answer for everything."
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And now here's tonight's "Poverty Lifestyle Advice" article:
The fuck I will, CNN
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Lol
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They did call it...
“He's got to be very careful about where they sit him…Let me tell you, Mamdani, don't get caught on a couch with JD Vance.”

@karaswisher.bsky.social has a warning for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ahead of his meeting with President Trump.
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Iykyk
I bet Zohran just Remembered Some Guys with Trump. Crazy Eddie. Dr. Zizmor. Jacoby & Meyers.
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I've done this. Please do this for your gMail box if you have one (not everyone does!) and tell Alphabet where to stick their AI :D

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM