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Tim Waits
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Not again with this shit / bring on your spaniards by the score / so many mistakes
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"All I know about human life is, if I love you - I love you. And if I love you and duck it, I die."

The more I read and listen to Baldwin the more convinced I get that he might have been one of the greatest minds and souls to walk the earth in living memory.
Funny because I was just watching this interview with Baldwin talking about how, as he grows older, he knows less and less about human nature and how it is a "great relief." I hear that loud and clear.

youtu.be/O6sFgaZBs-U?...
Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin
YouTube video by AfroMarxist
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every single one of these emails is someone I already hate messaging a notorious pedophile to say "Thanks for the great time! I had fun doing pedophile stuff with you. P.S. Trump was there with us the whole time"
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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June 8, 2024 at 10:42 PM
I got a lotta time for old Neil, lemme tell ya.

I always post this but it was particularly funny to hear this tune again after watching that Laurel Canyon documentary.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"I'm gonna be a Rude Boy. Like my Pope."
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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One of the polo shirts used to accuse me of conforming to nonconformity, when typically I was dressed in cobbled-together hand-me-downs spruced up with found objects and whimsy.
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Jay will forgive me but I assume he also has stories from the days of being lucky enough to fall in with the theater kids, and will not be mad at me for mine.

Anyway, the most brilliant, funny and stunning girl who ever let me kiss her in high school was someone I should never 1/?
Actually the girls I was most interested in were also part of that queer crowd…which sometimes posed other complications, as you might imagine
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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that’s a long way of saying I’m a24 gay
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I was talking with a friend my age not long ago about how she received the largest amount of male interest from older men when she was ~8 years old to around 19 or so.

At least a couple of them--from church, mind you--said she was "worth the risk with law enforcement". She wasn't safe at church.
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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New York going towards anarchy in a good way.
"Hundreds of New York City police officers are ready to leave the force in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) election victory, with some openly weeping after the cop-hating socialist seized the city’s mayoralty earlier this month"

(Note: This story has 3 sources, who wouldn't go on record)
NYPD Officers Say Mamdani’s Win Will Lead to Exodus of ‘A Few Hundred’ Officers
Hundreds of New York City police officers are ready to leave the force in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) election victory, with some openly weeping after the cop-hating socialist seized the city’s ...
freebeacon.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I heard someone say that wages can't be decreased too far because of The Iron Law Of Wages, which is a article of faith. In a system that rewards owners who find ways to reduce labor costs, the perfect model, in terms of profit, is one in which workers are not paid at all. 1/?
Talking with someone the other day who says "aren't you worried about Zohran" and I'm like aye, free buses, next stop is you and me working under gunpoint at the Collective Beet Farm Number 7 in Red Hook, calm the fuck down FFS
Some people out there demand that anyone who claims that Marx had it right present a fully working model of what society ought to look like. As opposed to the one we have now, that even Trump voters hate. Let's start with universal Healthcare and a progressive tax system for now, see how it goes.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Five Points Ultras for the fucking win every time, respect
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Talking with someone the other day who says "aren't you worried about Zohran" and I'm like aye, free buses, next stop is you and me working under gunpoint at the Collective Beet Farm Number 7 in Red Hook, calm the fuck down FFS
Some people out there demand that anyone who claims that Marx had it right present a fully working model of what society ought to look like. As opposed to the one we have now, that even Trump voters hate. Let's start with universal Healthcare and a progressive tax system for now, see how it goes.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Some people out there demand that anyone who claims that Marx had it right present a fully working model of what society ought to look like. As opposed to the one we have now, that even Trump voters hate. Let's start with universal Healthcare and a progressive tax system for now, see how it goes.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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"I don't understand...the divorce came out of nowhere..."
i’ve read better terrible smut on this site
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A little Bad Brains a little Jane's Addiction, I am going to say these kids are all right
BIRDS
YouTube video by Turnstile - Topic
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November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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i suppose the discourse could be worse
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Michael will be angry with me but I have seen dudes my age wearing Busenitz, sometimes as a part of a clearly highly coordinated ensemble in pastel and or earth tones. I am not mad at this!

But AFAIC (which is all that matters) all you Silver Foxes are trying too hard with these shoes.
Sitting here wearing adidas Busenitz wondering where I went wrong
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Acceptable* Gen X sneakers

Adidas Samba
Adidas Gazelle
Chuck Taylor (summer only)
Adidas Campus (my fucking feet hurt OK)

*YMMV
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We have fun down at the boozer, I highly recommend a visit. Even if you are pro-treaty! You'd still be welcome. I mean, not AS welcome but still ...
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Hector and I are having a wee fireside chat about how there are too many dogs (1) in my house that do not pay rent.
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Imagine you read the Iliad and your takeaway is "fighting for princesses."

I'd question your reading comprehension and translation, in that order...
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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A pish called dignity, and a reminder about the hilarity that mascots in minutes silence line ups are slightly amusing
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I've checked, @hassan.senate.gov, and CareFirst doesn't allow me to pay my health insurance premium with "shame"
Agree.

Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."

This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM