Tender and Mild Strings and Sealing Wax
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Left boundary layer separation enthusiast, chisel sharpener, clamp guy, he/him
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“The text does not address it.”
January 1, 2026 at 2:05 AM
“The text does not address it.”
I would like to support a candidate running on a platform of “I will make sure these assholes are thrown in prison and prevented from being within 1,000 feet of a daycare or school”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I would like to support a candidate running on a platform of “I will make sure these assholes are thrown in prison and prevented from being within 1,000 feet of a daycare or school”
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Sumerian engineers 2000 years ago
Arch is pretty good
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Sumerian engineers 2000 years ago
They’re changing their network’s name to “TV NOW”
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels.
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
January 1, 2026 at 1:49 AM
They’re changing their network’s name to “TV NOW”
This is Cyberpunk 2077 all over again
Oh god. Guys they didn't finish 2026 in time. There's no new year. We're fucked
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
This is Cyberpunk 2077 all over again
If it happens before midnight in your time zone you should get to take an extra deduction on your 2025 tax return
How cool would it be if it happened tonight
January 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM
If it happens before midnight in your time zone you should get to take an extra deduction on your 2025 tax return
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People keep asking me what my favorite books were in 2025 but I don’t read books I just write them
December 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
People keep asking me what my favorite books were in 2025 but I don’t read books I just write them
Every day a fresh humiliation
January 1, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Every day a fresh humiliation
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This. Cannot overstate the weariness from every product I buy, every interaction I have, every website I visit, every place I go, and every service I already pay to use turning into a vehicle for advertising about unrelated bullshit
I think one aspect of analog revival, or even piracy & peer to peer resurgence, is more than simple nostalgia. It's getting to be about anti-surveillance at this point. A company keeping track of every little thing you did in a year while also constantly interrupting it is actually not that cute
December 31, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This. Cannot overstate the weariness from every product I buy, every interaction I have, every website I visit, every place I go, and every service I already pay to use turning into a vehicle for advertising about unrelated bullshit
As a general rule I think it’s probably not a great idea to base your immunological understanding on colloquialisms
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
As a general rule I think it’s probably not a great idea to base your immunological understanding on colloquialisms
The arrogance necessary to honestly believe that people aren’t capable of looking at limited political options and accurately assessing the tradeoffs is actually unfathomable to me. It’s not meaningfully different than the right wing “npc” thing
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The arrogance necessary to honestly believe that people aren’t capable of looking at limited political options and accurately assessing the tradeoffs is actually unfathomable to me. It’s not meaningfully different than the right wing “npc” thing
Guy currently handing his wallet to the wallet inspector: “you, too, should hand your wallet to the wallet inspector”
Sorry but you do not, under absolutely any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Guy currently handing his wallet to the wallet inspector: “you, too, should hand your wallet to the wallet inspector”
Is that the racist graveyard?
Brigitte Bardot to be buried by the sea in Saint-Tropez reut.rs/497ArXP
Brigitte Bardot to be buried by the sea in Saint-Tropez
French film icon Brigitte Bardot, who died on Sunday aged 91, will be buried in a cemetery by the sea in the French Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez, a spokesperson for the local authority said on Monday, without giving a date.
reut.rs
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Is that the racist graveyard?
Cardiac Bears cardiacking real hard right now
December 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cardiac Bears cardiacking real hard right now
Holy shit a stop??
December 29, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Holy shit a stop??
As always, the people taking Trump seriously and demanding immediate accountability were correct and the whiney losers complaining about how they can’t actually do anything are wrong and are ultimately no different than Republicans, trying to convince you that nothing CAN ever be better
I’m sorry, this is just not correct. There were members that wanted to impeach Trump on Jan. 6.
Many people said if you waited, GOP outrage would fade. It did.
Pelosi spent days only cautiously committing to impeach, and fussing around with absurd stuff like 25th Amendment remedies.
Many people said if you waited, GOP outrage would fade. It did.
Pelosi spent days only cautiously committing to impeach, and fussing around with absurd stuff like 25th Amendment remedies.
McConnell adjourned the senate for two weeks the next day. There was no slow walk and this idea that republicans could have been tricked into being good but we just decided not to is giving them an out they don’t deserve.
December 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
As always, the people taking Trump seriously and demanding immediate accountability were correct and the whiney losers complaining about how they can’t actually do anything are wrong and are ultimately no different than Republicans, trying to convince you that nothing CAN ever be better
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Bro what
I have a bunch of intersecting thoughts here but basically 1) excessive alcohol consumption is an urban activity, 2) we shouldn’t legalize drunk driving and 3) we should more heavily penalize parents whose kids abuse alcohol in such a drastic fashion.
December 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Bro what
My favorite Jets fun fact: the Jets are currently 5th in AFC East championships
Yes, Drew Brees really did just say that the Jets finished 35th in rushing last season.
December 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
My favorite Jets fun fact: the Jets are currently 5th in AFC East championships
Good for them! If people don’t want their deaths celebrated they should be better people while they’re alive!
December 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Good for them! If people don’t want their deaths celebrated they should be better people while they’re alive!
Is he saying that they changed the lyrics? Or that they changed the actor in the music video? What does “it wasn’t sold that way” mean in this context?
📌Just heard an interview with John Mellencamp.
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
Jack, in "Jack and Diane" was written as a black dude. They were an interracial couple. Thing is, the music producers didn't like that back then, so it wasn’t sold that way.
Mellencamp was asked why.
"Because America is racist as hell, that’s why ..."
December 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Is he saying that they changed the lyrics? Or that they changed the actor in the music video? What does “it wasn’t sold that way” mean in this context?
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Elder Dems have fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. They’re like the leaders of a city during a bank-robbing spree, promising to pass more laws making bank robbery illegal.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
Pelosi: "Right now, Republicans in Congress have abolished the Congress. They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over as soon as we have the gavel."
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Elder Dems have fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. They’re like the leaders of a city during a bank-robbing spree, promising to pass more laws making bank robbery illegal.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
It’s already illegal. The failure is along another dimension: you need to catch the robbers and put them in jail.
It’s almost like anyone who wasn’t saying you had to expand the Supreme Court was unserious and shouldn’t be listened to
In the absence of the GOP Senators fulfilling their oaths, no one has explained how Joe Biden and Merrick Garland were going to surmount the ultimate obstacle of the 6 Wizards In Robes on SCOTUS from exonerating the traitor Donald Trump. Pure Green Lanternism.
a green lantern with a green light on his chest
ALT: a green lantern with a green light on his chest
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It’s almost like anyone who wasn’t saying you had to expand the Supreme Court was unserious and shouldn’t be listened to