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Ben Natan
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The smartest guy at my day job is probably politically pretty moderate and his job is data science and automation.

And *he* thinks AI is a fucking stupid, evil technology so I feel comfortable trying to find a way to adapt my beliefs to accepting it.
February 18, 2026 at 1:35 PM
I am not prepared to share horror stories from being a varsity fencer.
let's hear some more of these Olympic Moments, what's your greatest personal sports-related tantrum
Yinz guys are special writers and always make me laugh.......

This is beyond relatable

I rolled a bowling bowl across a parking lot and into the woods. I drove home in my bowling shoes. I haven't picked a ball up since. Almost 24 years.
February 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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RIP Jesse Jackson
February 17, 2026 at 9:42 PM
:’)
February 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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these preview images kill me
February 17, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Give me 30k and a month and I’ll put together a play with real human beings that will melt your face.
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.

You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
400 pound squat for 5 reps…

500 will fall.
February 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM
hey this guy is onto something
A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell, it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it
February 17, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I went clubbing with a girl from Illinois once and I almost died.
From reddit:
February 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Jesse Jackson 'I Am Somebody' on Sesame Street
YouTube video by Headline USA
youtu.be
February 17, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Nobody has eaten more Mapo tofu than I have tonight.
February 17, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Got the NA Tsingtao flowing like water at the Red Hook Chinese New Year Dinner
February 16, 2026 at 9:49 PM
It’s a Nazi paper
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:59 PM
one of the stewards of modern acting
Robert Duvall, the legendary character actor who specialized in playing rugged, complicated men, has died. He was 95. 🕊️

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Robert Duvall just effortlessly The Guy for like 60 years of American movies. Honor is due. RIP.
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Robert Duvall, the legendary character actor who specialized in playing rugged, complicated men, has died. He was 95. 🕊️

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
February 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
well I just got offered this role in a full fledged production so maybe being likable is good
One of my favorite bits as an actor is I get cast as these huge scumbags and the playwright goes “you made him a lot more likable than I thought he could be.”
February 16, 2026 at 4:54 PM
A lot of people getting mad at communists for not supporting Gavin Newsome seem to 1. Overestimate how many communists there are in America and 2. not understand what being a communist is.
February 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM
the other cats are still adjusting to Cass
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM
February 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM
One of my favorite bits as an actor is I get cast as these huge scumbags and the playwright goes “you made him a lot more likable than I thought he could be.”
February 16, 2026 at 12:50 AM
leave me alone
Some things are WAY more important than sports.
Get your priorities straight.
February 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
And now HE’S tired
February 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
“Nobody dies to defend a multicultural economic zone”

Buddy lemme tell you something about prewar Paris, Moscow, London, Berlin, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Athens, Casablanca, and Manila.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.

There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.

Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM