surly thaumaturge
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Shaking to undo. Would like to quit the wizard. “None of your friends are online.” ~ PS4
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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gavin newsom, who always stands in class solidarity with the veneer class and car dealership owners, will never be president
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
gavin newsom, who always stands in class solidarity with the veneer class and car dealership owners, will never be president
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"We killed these people because they were on a list we made of people we want to kill" Oh ok no further questions then
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"We killed these people because they were on a list we made of people we want to kill" Oh ok no further questions then
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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This isn’t fake, the polling is from the Manhattan Institute. Anyway, it’s been said a million times but somehow never enough: Republicans are stupid
December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This isn’t fake, the polling is from the Manhattan Institute. Anyway, it’s been said a million times but somehow never enough: Republicans are stupid
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At a recent show in NYC, Weird Al Yankovic joined the band on stage for a cover of Killing In The Name, Rage Against the Machine’s anthem against police brutality. Weird Al, welcome to the resistance. (Full video!) [kottke.org]
Weird Al Yankovic Covers Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine
At a recent Portugal. The Man concert in NYC, Weird Al joined the band on stage for a pair of songs, including a cover of Killing In The Name, Rage Against the Machine’s anthem against police brutality and the military
kottke.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
At a recent show in NYC, Weird Al Yankovic joined the band on stage for a cover of Killing In The Name, Rage Against the Machine’s anthem against police brutality. Weird Al, welcome to the resistance. (Full video!) [kottke.org]
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A great development in the story of Sheng Thao, the former Oakland mayor that got recalled for corruption entirely by coincidence: the FBI's main informant is a born scammer who has been sued by everyone and never pays the damages
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
The FBI’s Oakland corruption case relies heavily on the word of one man with a ‘checkered past’
For decades, Juarez has been at the center of bitter legal disputes — and the subject of criminal investigations — all while maintaining high-level political connections.
oaklandside.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A great development in the story of Sheng Thao, the former Oakland mayor that got recalled for corruption entirely by coincidence: the FBI's main informant is a born scammer who has been sued by everyone and never pays the damages
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
oaklandside.org/2025/12/01/m...
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It still matters if things are real
In the comments, people note that it’s AI and the poster responds that he just doesn’t care.
That’s an easy block.
That’s an easy block.
this is AI, as should be obvious by the PICE vest, please stop sharing it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It still matters if things are real
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YES!! this is the biggest kazillion-alarm fire of our lives.
The real is an oasis, join forces to protect it.
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The real is an oasis, join forces to protect it.
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It still matters if things are real
In the comments, people note that it’s AI and the poster responds that he just doesn’t care.
That’s an easy block.
That’s an easy block.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
YES!! this is the biggest kazillion-alarm fire of our lives.
The real is an oasis, join forces to protect it.
Learn the names of the journalists and editors you trust. Subscribe to everybody on @marisakabas.bsky.social 's independent journalism Gift Guide:
www.thehandbasket.co/p/independen...
The real is an oasis, join forces to protect it.
Learn the names of the journalists and editors you trust. Subscribe to everybody on @marisakabas.bsky.social 's independent journalism Gift Guide:
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I could be wrong (I frequently am) but most people who call out racism, transphobia, ableism, and other prejudices, at least in my experience, aren't trying to cancel anyone.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I could be wrong (I frequently am) but most people who call out racism, transphobia, ableism, and other prejudices, at least in my experience, aren't trying to cancel anyone.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.
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CNN: "An investigation exposed evidence of mass graves filled with Palestinians killed by Israel and bulldozed into the sands of Gaza."
The surviving Gazans rely on donations to survive.
Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And others. ❤️🙏
chuffed.org/project/1587...
The surviving Gazans rely on donations to survive.
Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And others. ❤️🙏
chuffed.org/project/1587...
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
CNN: "An investigation exposed evidence of mass graves filled with Palestinians killed by Israel and bulldozed into the sands of Gaza."
The surviving Gazans rely on donations to survive.
Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And others. ❤️🙏
chuffed.org/project/1587...
The surviving Gazans rely on donations to survive.
Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And others. ❤️🙏
chuffed.org/project/1587...
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Jesus Christ. London does not belong to you. Nowhere belongs to you. Whatever you look like. Wherever you come from. This obvs doesn't apply to the Duke of Westminster lol
No surprise that Ed West thinks you have to be white for London to be "your city", but still shocking that the *London* Standard prints this stuff.
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Jesus Christ. London does not belong to you. Nowhere belongs to you. Whatever you look like. Wherever you come from. This obvs doesn't apply to the Duke of Westminster lol
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Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon
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How ICE deportations are actually costing US citizens their jobs. The many layers of ripple effects in the supply and demand chain, a missing supportive network and billions lost from the economy are all just the beginning of the fallout of Trump’s brutal immigration sweeps and policies.
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
How ICE deportations are actually costing US citizens their jobs. The many layers of ripple effects in the supply and demand chain, a missing supportive network and billions lost from the economy are all just the beginning of the fallout of Trump’s brutal immigration sweeps and policies.
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Conflict is inevitable. If you do any sort of organizing, you’re going to work with people you don’t like.
Learn to manage conflict. Both between you and someone else, and between other people.
The beautiful part is that working through conflict together can actually build stronger bonds.
Learn to manage conflict. Both between you and someone else, and between other people.
The beautiful part is that working through conflict together can actually build stronger bonds.
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Conflict is inevitable. If you do any sort of organizing, you’re going to work with people you don’t like.
Learn to manage conflict. Both between you and someone else, and between other people.
The beautiful part is that working through conflict together can actually build stronger bonds.
Learn to manage conflict. Both between you and someone else, and between other people.
The beautiful part is that working through conflict together can actually build stronger bonds.
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from a state party director
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
from a state party director
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Trump makes these baloney investment claims all the time (with help from collaborator corporations and authoritarian countries) but they don't work, even with media outlets readily repeating them. Polling on Trump and the economy continues to crater, net approval currently -25ish.
“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.”
@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...
@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...
December 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Trump makes these baloney investment claims all the time (with help from collaborator corporations and authoritarian countries) but they don't work, even with media outlets readily repeating them. Polling on Trump and the economy continues to crater, net approval currently -25ish.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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they don't show it in the movie but on Dagobah next to his crappy little house Yoda keeps an entire shack full of stolen bikes
December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
they don't show it in the movie but on Dagobah next to his crappy little house Yoda keeps an entire shack full of stolen bikes
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Folks you may have been baffled by the “Kevin Costner presents the first Christmas” ad you just saw on ABC
And I am here to make it worse by sharing with you the official poster for this blessed event
And I am here to make it worse by sharing with you the official poster for this blessed event
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Folks you may have been baffled by the “Kevin Costner presents the first Christmas” ad you just saw on ABC
And I am here to make it worse by sharing with you the official poster for this blessed event
And I am here to make it worse by sharing with you the official poster for this blessed event
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Everyone’s favorite company that absolutely would never use AI in any way because that would be bad is doing a big old collab with Duolingo this coming week and you’ll likely hear no protesting about that from the usual anti-AI crew who love this game
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Everyone’s favorite company that absolutely would never use AI in any way because that would be bad is doing a big old collab with Duolingo this coming week and you’ll likely hear no protesting about that from the usual anti-AI crew who love this game
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"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare."
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare."
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
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Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
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also, is "Friends" considered a franchise now? Are they referring to "Joey" or are we just sloppily referring to a television series as a "franchise" now
also everything sucks
also everything sucks
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
also, is "Friends" considered a franchise now? Are they referring to "Joey" or are we just sloppily referring to a television series as a "franchise" now
also everything sucks
also everything sucks