Phlebas the Phoenician
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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
musician, cyclist
F/k/a Tsar Czar Binks/SleepyHead_band on Twitter
musician, cyclist
F/k/a Tsar Czar Binks/SleepyHead_band on Twitter
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
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Thank you. My lord. Too many rubes (or worse, people playing rube) ignoring this shit. It's no different than your "AI microwave" that for some reason needs to be attached to your wifi. Everything is selling/using your data and giving you zippo in return.
February 14, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Thank you. My lord. Too many rubes (or worse, people playing rube) ignoring this shit. It's no different than your "AI microwave" that for some reason needs to be attached to your wifi. Everything is selling/using your data and giving you zippo in return.
Tim Very died? wtf. So young. Really drove Manchester Orchestra.
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Tim Very died? wtf. So young. Really drove Manchester Orchestra.
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Lex Wexner’s involvement really fucked with me. I cannot stop thinking about the fact that powerful pedophiles were literally choosing what clothes we wore, what we smelled like, what body type we wanted.
Is anyone else having a hard time with the release of the Epstein documents?
Every woman I know, and many men, have been raped, sexually assaulted, and/or harassed.
It destroys your sense of safety & autonomy. When someone thinks they are entitled to your body, there is no line they won't cross.
Every woman I know, and many men, have been raped, sexually assaulted, and/or harassed.
It destroys your sense of safety & autonomy. When someone thinks they are entitled to your body, there is no line they won't cross.
February 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Lex Wexner’s involvement really fucked with me. I cannot stop thinking about the fact that powerful pedophiles were literally choosing what clothes we wore, what we smelled like, what body type we wanted.
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Betting markets are designed to clear profitably – partly by pricing all the outcomes to make participation tempting! – rather than to accurately predict outcomes.
The first goal is often in direct competition with the second. Calling them “prediction” markets is false advertising.
The first goal is often in direct competition with the second. Calling them “prediction” markets is false advertising.
February 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Betting markets are designed to clear profitably – partly by pricing all the outcomes to make participation tempting! – rather than to accurately predict outcomes.
The first goal is often in direct competition with the second. Calling them “prediction” markets is false advertising.
The first goal is often in direct competition with the second. Calling them “prediction” markets is false advertising.
it's a long way to the Denorios belt at sublight speeds if you wanna rock n roll
February 14, 2026 at 5:02 AM
it's a long way to the Denorios belt at sublight speeds if you wanna rock n roll
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Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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this is one of those cases where I think no, even rhetorically, you don’t go there. you draw a bright red line and when someone talks about denaturalization you laugh in their face and say “what are you taking about, we don’t do that in America” instead of dunking on their side’s immigrants
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
this is one of those cases where I think no, even rhetorically, you don’t go there. you draw a bright red line and when someone talks about denaturalization you laugh in their face and say “what are you taking about, we don’t do that in America” instead of dunking on their side’s immigrants
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SCOOP: Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...
Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
theintercept.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:46 PM
SCOOP: Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.
theintercept.com/2026/02/12/p...
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I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Usians
I am all for calling anyone from the Americas "American."
The problem is what you call people from the U.S. after that.
All jokes aside, what would you suggest?
The problem is what you call people from the U.S. after that.
All jokes aside, what would you suggest?
February 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Usians
The fuck
House Oversight hearing on ICE opens with the rules:
"It is also a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might personally be offensive to the President or the Vice President of the United States."
"It is also a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might personally be offensive to the President or the Vice President of the United States."
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The fuck
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The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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"Make the evil sci-fi movies real" is such a weird hill for these guys to die on. Like yes this is the natural and probable consequence of their racist beliefs, but it's strikingly visibly evil. The counter argument is "free people from the slave warehouses" and it's a pretty good one.
I wrote about these warehouses in the context of Friday's Fifth Circuit mandatory-detention ruling over the weekend here: www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circ...
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
"Make the evil sci-fi movies real" is such a weird hill for these guys to die on. Like yes this is the natural and probable consequence of their racist beliefs, but it's strikingly visibly evil. The counter argument is "free people from the slave warehouses" and it's a pretty good one.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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This rules youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...
Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 AM
This rules youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...
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As figure skating competition opens at the Winter Olympics, I am compelled to remind you of the level of true artistry this discipline can yield.
There's never been anyone quite like Evgeni Plushenko, who is the answer to the question "what if Hansel from ZOOLANDER were real, and he could skate?"
There's never been anyone quite like Evgeni Plushenko, who is the answer to the question "what if Hansel from ZOOLANDER were real, and he could skate?"
2002 GPF (EX) Plushenko - Sex Bomb
YouTube video by prednost
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 9:37 PM
As figure skating competition opens at the Winter Olympics, I am compelled to remind you of the level of true artistry this discipline can yield.
There's never been anyone quite like Evgeni Plushenko, who is the answer to the question "what if Hansel from ZOOLANDER were real, and he could skate?"
There's never been anyone quite like Evgeni Plushenko, who is the answer to the question "what if Hansel from ZOOLANDER were real, and he could skate?"
This is who runs this account
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
This is who runs this account
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ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons
February 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons
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I don't want to hear about any more "condemnations."
It's a one-word demand to Trump, our racist-in-chief.
RESIGN.
It's a one-word demand to Trump, our racist-in-chief.
RESIGN.
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I don't want to hear about any more "condemnations."
It's a one-word demand to Trump, our racist-in-chief.
RESIGN.
It's a one-word demand to Trump, our racist-in-chief.
RESIGN.
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I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Redirecting...
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
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🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
bit.ly
February 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
I wonder what the 5 mother sauces think about her post
I refuse to make sauces, which is why I prefer French cuisine
February 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I wonder what the 5 mother sauces think about her post