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god forbid we let a team do some Heated Rivalry cross promotion
So if anyone is confused by the statement that the Flyers just put out, this is apparently what happened last night. Lmao
December 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
god forbid we let a team do some Heated Rivalry cross promotion
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It is wild how confident these people have been for decades that they could incite chaotic violence but it would never be directed at them. Just absolute confidence that they held the fire hose and could point it exclusively at others.
A thing I wrote after that guy tried to shoot Trump, about our elites slowly realizing that their wealth and power don’t insulate them from the stochastic violence they’ve been gleefully encouraging or glibly eliding for 25 years. Feels relevant today.
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September 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It is wild how confident these people have been for decades that they could incite chaotic violence but it would never be directed at them. Just absolute confidence that they held the fire hose and could point it exclusively at others.
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so anyways charlie kirk just got shot
September 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
so anyways charlie kirk just got shot
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“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” -Charlie Kirk
newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-s…
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September 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” -Charlie Kirk
newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-s…
newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-s…
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I owe an apology to Etsy witches, I was unfamiliar with your game
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
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We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
www.jezebel.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I owe an apology to Etsy witches, I was unfamiliar with your game
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The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Kansas City: COVID-19 outbreak forces metro school to close until next week fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
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all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
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This clip...I have no words.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
July 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This clip...I have no words.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
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You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.
July 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.
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"AI for good" always smelled fishy to me. Specifically it suggests people who want to do good but don't have the guts to confront the bad.
Abeba describes a case in point:
Abeba describes a case in point:
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
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July 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"AI for good" always smelled fishy to me. Specifically it suggests people who want to do good but don't have the guts to confront the bad.
Abeba describes a case in point:
Abeba describes a case in point:
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It bothers me that theyre using colors. Amber alerts are named after a little girl named Amber. Who the fuck is blue? Is this about a clue-leaving animated dog?
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
July 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It bothers me that theyre using colors. Amber alerts are named after a little girl named Amber. Who the fuck is blue? Is this about a clue-leaving animated dog?
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landlord: rent is due
me: our nation is dying
me: our nation is dying
June 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
landlord: rent is due
me: our nation is dying
me: our nation is dying
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JD Vance made his first big speech all about the need for European free speech, and now a Norwegian is banned from America because of this pic.
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
JD Vance made his first big speech all about the need for European free speech, and now a Norwegian is banned from America because of this pic.
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we need to get more violent, now more than ever
why should we respond to violence with non-violence. they will attack and kill us no matter how we fight so we may as well go all out.
June 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
we need to get more violent, now more than ever
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I am a disabled, anti-Zionist Jew, and I believe we will see a free Palestine. But I also believe this: anyone claiming to do the work of disability rights or justice while remaining silent on Gaza is actually doing no such thing.
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#Palestine #Israel
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#Palestine #Israel
There is no disability justice without a Free Palestine
I am a disabled, anti-Zionist Jew, and I believe we will see a free Palestine. But I also believe this: anyone claiming to do the work of disability rights or justice while remaining silent on Gaza is...
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June 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I am a disabled, anti-Zionist Jew, and I believe we will see a free Palestine. But I also believe this: anyone claiming to do the work of disability rights or justice while remaining silent on Gaza is actually doing no such thing.
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/ther...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/ther...
#Palestine #Israel
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Abolish ICE
Video shows two unknown men, without uniforms or identifying insignias, attacking and kidnapping a man from a Nashua, NH courthouse back in February.
During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.
During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.
June 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Abolish ICE
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Since it's May (almost missed it!), it's once again time for my annual thread on chronic medical conditions from my perspective as an informed patient & also professional navigator of complexity as a scientist-communicator, albeit one outside the biomedical space. [Thread!] #hEDS
May 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Since it's May (almost missed it!), it's once again time for my annual thread on chronic medical conditions from my perspective as an informed patient & also professional navigator of complexity as a scientist-communicator, albeit one outside the biomedical space. [Thread!] #hEDS
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Me, a Black Harvard alum: Harvard is full of shit
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Fights in Court but Retreats on Campus | News | The Harvard Crimson
Even as Harvard takes the White House to court and insists that it won’t be coerced by federal pressure, the University is rolling out changes that seem to concede to some of the very demands that it ...
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April 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Me, a Black Harvard alum: Harvard is full of shit
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Bluesky posters: no chanda you don’t understand Harvard is big time resisting
Harvard student journalists: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
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We were so goddamn close.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
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We were so goddamn close.
Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.
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May 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
...
We were so goddamn close.
Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment.
...
We were so goddamn close.
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Mask up NOW
“A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.”
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“A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.”
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A New COVID Variant Is Here, And It's More Transmissible — Here Are The Signs And Symptoms
A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.
www.huffpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Mask up NOW
“A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...
“A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...
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1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
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we must destroy ChatGPT
May 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
we must destroy ChatGPT