Midnight Platypus
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Getting my M.Div in Food Science, thesis on the "Transubstantiation of Mountain Dew and Higher Orders of Caffeine Chain of Being." Will cop to knowing cop stuff. Better to be remembered as a sharp lover of sandwiches than a slick merchant of hate.
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I'll admit to not travelling much but a mobile lounge? What is that? I'm thinking fancy bus? Or the sort of cruise ship sized service vehicle Omega Supreme would transform into?
A mobile lounge carrying passengers crashed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday, injuring more than a dozen people and causing some damage to the terminal.
Mobile Lounge Crashes at Dulles Airport, Causing Injuries and Damage
More than a dozen people were hurt and will be evaluated at a hospital. Air travel has been hampered in recent days by the government shutdown.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I'll admit to not travelling much but a mobile lounge? What is that? I'm thinking fancy bus? Or the sort of cruise ship sized service vehicle Omega Supreme would transform into?
Thinking about Rob Schneider at Berkeley, apparently today, and perplexed at how the tier of podcasters who rank higher than the former Deuce Bigelow can have such a hold on the young people these days, till I realized these folks are in many cases the literal children of Dittoheads. Making copies.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Thinking about Rob Schneider at Berkeley, apparently today, and perplexed at how the tier of podcasters who rank higher than the former Deuce Bigelow can have such a hold on the young people these days, till I realized these folks are in many cases the literal children of Dittoheads. Making copies.
If you're a small "breakaway" insurgency from the Democratic Party Senate caucus. And your "insurgency" is in open conversation with Chuck Schumer to the degree where one could say Chuck's your main patron, and John Fetterman is counted among your number, you've saddle up with the Bad Idea Posse 1/
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you're a small "breakaway" insurgency from the Democratic Party Senate caucus. And your "insurgency" is in open conversation with Chuck Schumer to the degree where one could say Chuck's your main patron, and John Fetterman is counted among your number, you've saddle up with the Bad Idea Posse 1/
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An actual image of Republicans promising to vote on extending the ACA tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
An actual image of Republicans promising to vote on extending the ACA tax credits.
Funniest thing I read/saw all weekend. I picked up MOONFLOW around its publication date and it's next in my reading stack. Looking forward to it.
Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king
King: oh criminy
King: this again
King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire
Joyce Carol Oates:
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king
King: oh criminy
King: this again
King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire
Joyce Carol Oates:
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Funniest thing I read/saw all weekend. I picked up MOONFLOW around its publication date and it's next in my reading stack. Looking forward to it.
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Of the this fucking guys in the administration, this fucking guy is the this fucking guyest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Of the this fucking guys in the administration, this fucking guy is the this fucking guyest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Of the this fucking guys in the administration, this fucking guy is the this fucking guyest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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Schumer's about to try a book tour again, isn't he? This is what it's about.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Schumer's about to try a book tour again, isn't he? This is what it's about.
Blowing up boats and apparently threatening Nigeria are just the latest fronts
Trade disputes, declaring street gang cliques as units of an invading army, some sort of greater northern north America anschluss, including Greenland somehow, design, putting a pharmaceutical on the DEA's WMD schedule, Trump on a war footing, but keeps shifting his weight from shoe to show because
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Blowing up boats and apparently threatening Nigeria are just the latest fronts
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We need an Answer Key to the Textbook of Boba Fett.
It's not a spoiler if you've done the work of the book.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We need an Answer Key to the Textbook of Boba Fett.
It's not a spoiler if you've done the work of the book.
It's not a spoiler if you've done the work of the book.
I don't know what Jackbox is.
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I don't know what Jackbox is.
Sofa King coverage!
Guys, some people are putting a fringe around the bottom of their couches and charging a lot of money, and the Times is ON IT!!! (850+ words!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/r...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/r...
The Reign of the Maximalist Couch
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Sofa King coverage!
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