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Nick McClintock
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Celts fan in Philly, new here, mostly lurking.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by posting, starving hysterical narrative.
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Nothing but respect to Mary and Mark Stevens for saving the Oasis, a beloved queer arts space. This kind of gift should be a model for Bay Area philanthropy.
Exclusive: S.F. drag club Oasis saved with multimillion-dollar gift
The LGBTQ cabaret and club was slated to shutter after New Year’s Eve, but will now continue, Oasis owner D’Arcy Drollinger confirmed, calling it “a Christmas miracle.”
www.sfchronicle.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
If Adobe products being garbage somehow leads to the preservation of the republic I promise to finally implement Bridge
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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these movies are fascinating to me, none of the people i hang around with in real life have ever seen them, i've never heard any of those people talk about them, and my friend group includes a lot of people who see and talk about movies often, but i *know* that tons of people go see and enjoy them
December 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“"I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller"
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Bet this guy thinks he’s a great grandpa
ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.

"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.

"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.

"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."

Philadelphia, PA
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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IT FINALLY HAPPENED I AM ON A PLANE WITH A BABY WHO SAYS “HI” TO EVERYONE AS HE GOES DOWN THE AISLE
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Shout out to all the West Philly Marxists who are fully aligned with this guy on housing policy.
Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I can’t stop thinking about the Tom Brady drama through the lens of a heist movie. Master thief has everything in life except the thrill of the action. Comes out of retirement for One Last Job, despite the love of his life saying she’ll leave him if he does. Pulls off the heist but loses everything.
December 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by

1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information

2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials

3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Anyway every housing policy fight is a proxy battle over who gets to live in your neighborhood and what lifestyles are acceptable.
December 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This feels like the Patton Oswalt bit. Can we convince the billionaires it’s the apocalypse so they use one of the AI med beds and it decides to skin them and use their hide to make a purse.
Here is a glimpse into that secular version of The Rapture:

"The underground abode will be decked out with a number of lavish amenities such as wellness areas, gourmet dining, and a medical suite with robots for doctors."

www.realtor.com/news/unique-... h/t @thelever.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Almost every piece I read in architecture achool
this piece has strikingly little of interest to say about, you know, architecture.
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I am extremely fucking tired of this attitude, online, irl, everywhere, that earnest diligent work in a little corner of the world trying to make everyone’s lives objectively better is cringe or annoying or insufferable. It is widespread, cynical, and degrading.
boy the housing development nerds are insufferable, unpleasant shits about housing development that doesn’t meet their ideal platonic standards (without bothering to understand why something was built the way it was), sorry, YIMBYs, some of you are extremely fucking obnoxious
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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This is likely going to get me yelled at or at least grumbled about again but lots of young people were not told the truth about PhD programs over the past 2 decades. There wasn't an honest accounting that most of them were not going to get tenure track jobs even if they really wanted them.
December 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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"what unspeakable crime did you commit that reshaped the trajectory of your life" would be a good password reset question
December 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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need to coin a slur for VC backed "restaurants" like Wonder that pack a dozen brands of fake restaurant into a ghost kitchen and pump out AI generated reviews and bad discount codes to juice their awful business. mealslop is too literal
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“Hello, Diane. Take a look at these swatches”

youtube.com/watch?v=ohCy...
What is Tiramisu? | Tom Hanks | Sleepless in Seattle
YouTube video by NOW PLAYING
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December 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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It's that time of year, where we look at the undisturbed snow on the street, and see all the space we could reclaim from cars.

Imagine how nice some planters and additional seating here would be? Maybe a bench or even shelter for the 47 bus?
December 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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This spotter is in the vicinity of Bear Creek Resort. 🎿🎿❄️❄️
At 7:55 AM EST, Huffs Church [Berks Co, PA] Trained Spotter reports Snow of 5.80 Inch #pawx Link
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I saw this in person with my dad as a kid - probably around the time this was recorded - and I felt like I was watching sorcery. I can vividly remember him throwing the card into the watermelon and could not understand that such a thing was possible.
I don’t think we as a society have thanked @papapishu.bsky.social for obtaining, ripping, and uploading a master copy of the essential Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Jay’s 1997 HBO special and the best distillation of his one of a kind talent archive.org/details/rick...
Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants [1996] - RF Rip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE COMPRESSED MP4 THAT ARCHIVE.ORG AUTO-GENERATES. This is an RF rip of Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, to date the greatest card...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Nothing against OKC and the Blue Jays - two great teams who deserve success - but this plus the Dodgers win would be the absolute all time fuck you from the sports gods.
Look all I'm saying is that it's gonna make the WH so fucking mad if the Spurs win the championship because the star of the team is French and a significant portion of their fanbase is Latino. If you're looking for a team to root for strictly on the basis of schadenfreude you can do worse than SA
December 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM