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Will Truman
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"One way or another," I say to my wife, "all bleeding stops eventually."

"I'm not sure you appreciate how much blood is actually in the human body," she replies.
If there's any doubt that something like this could have worked (he's just a niche character or whatever), Better Call Saul seems to put it to rest.
A Clay Davis spinoff would have been epic
December 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A Clay Davis spinoff would have been epic
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
As long as they represent well in the CFP I think the SEC will be fine but if they're shut out of another championship there will be a marked increase in jokes about their self-perception.
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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One thing about a shuttered steel mill (or a steel mill that's now using one small corner to do anything while the vast majority is abandoned) is that it powerfully creates a sense of squatting in your own ruins *even if* in aggregate there's now more steel coming from recycling-based mini-mills.
The story, time and again, is that gains are broad and small and losses are localized and deep.

There are towns in northern England that are generationally traumatized from the shutting of coal mines forty years ago.
i don't know, maybe you have to have lived somewhere with a manufacturing or coal economy that has gone into decline to see it. the impact on the area is *not good*. i do understand that the broader economy gets better, but it also seems to get sharper and more regional
December 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Be ungovernable (when you vote)
I voted in the stupid ass 12/30 election. You can't stop me from voting with your election in the liminal time between holidays.
December 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Evangelion Anime Creator on Letting AI Take Human Jobs: 'We Have No Choice But to Accept It'
'We Have No Choice But to Accept It': Evangelion Creator Opens Up About Letting AI Take Human Jobs
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno weighs in on the anime vs. AI debate, saying it is acceptable for the technology to take over certain human jobs.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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It’s not just “we decided to name our company after the personification of evil.” It’s also “we decided to name our home security company after the personification of evil who was so vainly proud of his vigilance that he let his home get invaded in the most catastrophic way possible.”
December 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025
December 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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This codifies what had already happened with "Regional Transportation Optimization" - a program initially launched by the post office during the Biden administration.
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later

Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System nstp.org/article/usps...
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
nstp.org
December 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Need some ideas. Our daughter's birthmom needs some help and direction. Specifically we could use some career path ideas for her. It's okay if they require some schooling or training (that's what we want to help her with, once we're in a position to).
December 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A Single AI Traffic Camera Issued Over 1,000 Fines In Just Four Days | Carscoops
A Single AI Traffic Camera Issued Over 1,000 Fines In Just Four Days | Carscoops
A quiet pilot of AI cameras just fined thousands of drivers in this EU country, with more to come as authorities ramp up surveillance
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December 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You'll take my physical SIM card from my cold, dead hands.
I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret
Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My observation is that there is a lot less ideological diversity here than on TwitterX. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as common ground can really let you drill down to the final points that's harder without shared priors. 1/
X is just as much an enclosed, tiny and echoey silo as Bluesky, it's just that the people on X still seem convinced they're plugged directly into the brain of policymakers and high-powered decision makers like the Matrix chair, and it completely acidifies and collapses their brain
December 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Studio Gainax Officially Dissolves After 42 Years - Crunchyroll News
Anime News, Top Stories & In-Depth Anime Insights - Crunchyroll News
Stay on top of anime news and updates straight out of Japan with Crunchyroll News. From breaking stories to evergreen content, get all your anime and manga news updates in one place. You heard it here...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
People want the Windows Phone back so bad, they made a Change.org petition
People want the Windows Phone back so bad, they made a Change.org petition
And you can sign it, too.
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December 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
NCAA bans Augsburg University cross country star Mohammed Bati over $6,000 donation for tuition | New York Post
Minnesota college running star Mohammed Bati says he was banned for...
The 26-year-old, who is majoring in nursing, revealed he was “struggling a lot with money” last semester at the private Minneapolis school, which is part of the NCAA’s Division II…
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December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
How HOAs & Apartments Are Saving Comcast & Spectrum
cordcuttersnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/cordcuttersnews.com/how-hoas-apartments-are-saving-comcast-spectrum/
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December 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“She sang it once. That was it. That’s the record, that’s the vocals. From a vocal standpoint, no one has that much courage. And of course it was spectacular”: How Alanis Morissette made You Oughta Know – with a little help from two Red Hot Chili Peppers | MusicRadar
“She sang it once. That was it. That’s the record, that’s the vocals. From a vocal standpoint, no one has that much courage. And of course it was spectacular”: How Alanis Morissette made You Oughta Know – with a little help from two Red Hot Chili Peppers
"I thought maybe ten people would hear this song,” she said
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December 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trump promised to bring prices down and producers are struggling.
Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco-submarines, say Spanish police
Previously vessels would be sunk once they had completed their cargo runs from South America to Europe
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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I have some issues with Cuban. But having Musk or RFK Jr running everyone’s health insurance to the last detail gets a lot of people killed.

And the retort can’t just be “Mark, why are you asking us how to fix that?” 1/
December 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Huh. China apparently restricts/bans the depiction of time travel for “being disrespectful of history”

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
China Bans Time Travel Films and Shows, Citing Disrespect of History
China’s media authorities have stopped the clock on time travel in film and television, saying the sci-fi notion “disrespects history.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Google says it is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmaildotcom address
Google says it is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your @gmail.com address
Google says on a support page that it is "gradually rolling out" a new change allowing users to change their Gmail address.
9to5google.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM