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· Jun 15
“Ruby Bridges and ruby ridges” is the prescription for 21st century liberalism
i am not talking about arresting them. we need a ruby ridge every week for four years.
New QT’ing to pin
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Brazen disregard of the law like this just can't be managed with the kind of methods we use.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again
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November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Brazen disregard of the law like this just can't be managed with the kind of methods we use.
Need an “I LOVE RIFT VALLEYS” soyjak
Part of the reason why Lake Superior is so massive and deep (its deepest point is 733 feet below sea level and is the lowest point in the continental US) is because it occupies an ancient rift valley. What is now North American almost split in half a billion years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Need an “I LOVE RIFT VALLEYS” soyjak
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Part of the reason why Lake Superior is so massive and deep (its deepest point is 733 feet below sea level and is the lowest point in the continental US) is because it occupies an ancient rift valley. What is now North American almost split in half a billion years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Part of the reason why Lake Superior is so massive and deep (its deepest point is 733 feet below sea level and is the lowest point in the continental US) is because it occupies an ancient rift valley. What is now North American almost split in half a billion years ago.
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As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.
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male yakulessness epidemic
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
male yakulessness epidemic
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as the husband of a mahjong addict, dudes need to identify an activity that can be done relatively easily in groups with minimal financial commitment so they can get out of the house for 2-3 hours on a school night, have two beers, and shoot the shit with their buddies.
It won't be mahjong tho.
It won't be mahjong tho.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
as the husband of a mahjong addict, dudes need to identify an activity that can be done relatively easily in groups with minimal financial commitment so they can get out of the house for 2-3 hours on a school night, have two beers, and shoot the shit with their buddies.
It won't be mahjong tho.
It won't be mahjong tho.
buddy I'm 23 and let me tell you, with my guys? It's mahjong.
as the husband of a mahjong addict, dudes need to identify an activity that can be done relatively easily in groups with minimal financial commitment so they can get out of the house for 2-3 hours on a school night, have two beers, and shoot the shit with their buddies.
It won't be mahjong tho.
It won't be mahjong tho.
This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
buddy I'm 23 and let me tell you, with my guys? It's mahjong.
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Literally doing exactly what the most famous Protestant poet in English, maybe the most famous Protestant poet period, said not to do, in the name of Christianity. I don’t know.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Literally doing exactly what the most famous Protestant poet in English, maybe the most famous Protestant poet period, said not to do, in the name of Christianity. I don’t know.
someone on X pointed out that Tooze basically forgets India exists except as foil to China
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
someone on X pointed out that Tooze basically forgets India exists except as foil to China
You ever think about how The Decembrists just made a straight up Belle and Sebastian song in the same way that Dare to Be Stupid is a straight up DEVO song?
Ofc in this case the pastiche does not beat the original.
Ofc in this case the pastiche does not beat the original.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You ever think about how The Decembrists just made a straight up Belle and Sebastian song in the same way that Dare to Be Stupid is a straight up DEVO song?
Ofc in this case the pastiche does not beat the original.
Ofc in this case the pastiche does not beat the original.
Did I miss the Pluribus discourse or is nobody watching it?
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Did I miss the Pluribus discourse or is nobody watching it?
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Listen I know some of y’all think I just like shitting on Democrats but listen - even many, perhaps most Senate Democrats disagree with Schumer’s strategy, and Senate Democrats are the most risk averse part of the party!
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Listen I know some of y’all think I just like shitting on Democrats but listen - even many, perhaps most Senate Democrats disagree with Schumer’s strategy, and Senate Democrats are the most risk averse part of the party!
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question for the ages
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
question for the ages
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The bumper stickers should have to specify when they thought Elon went crazy. We need an exact date-slash-inciting incident
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The bumper stickers should have to specify when they thought Elon went crazy. We need an exact date-slash-inciting incident
Man I kinda miss playing actual video games
Drive back a hostile alien fungus with a spray cleaner as you traverse your childhood home with grappling tethers & gravity tools.. but is your first love among the dead?
"System shock meets Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com
"beautiful, intimate, deeply affecting" - @ign.com
Available now!
"System shock meets Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com
"beautiful, intimate, deeply affecting" - @ign.com
Available now!
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Man I kinda miss playing actual video games
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true. Also there are a lot of people on here who could be plausible house candidates and should consider it. Will Stancil had the right idea.
“primary every democrat” only becomes a serious threat if bsky doesn’t go goo goo babies over platner-esque candidates
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
true. Also there are a lot of people on here who could be plausible house candidates and should consider it. Will Stancil had the right idea.
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"Young people took seriously what we taught them".
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Young people took seriously what we taught them".
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X really does fry your brain
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
X really does fry your brain
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Hey guys isn’t it weird how every modern far right government seems to be simultaneously converging into a real life embodiment of Sterling Hayden’s millenarian fascist character General Ripper from the cautionary and totally non-parodic tale known as Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove
South Korea’s ousted leader sent drones over Pyongyang to justify martial law | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...
South Korea’s ousted leader sent drones over Pyongyang to justify martial law
Prosecutors say Yoon Suk Yeol and aides flew drones over rival neighbour in deliberate attempt to stoke tensions
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November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Hey guys isn’t it weird how every modern far right government seems to be simultaneously converging into a real life embodiment of Sterling Hayden’s millenarian fascist character General Ripper from the cautionary and totally non-parodic tale known as Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove
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I saw Phantom Menace in theaters the weekend it came out and that was the first time I considered a movie could truly suck
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I saw Phantom Menace in theaters the weekend it came out and that was the first time I considered a movie could truly suck
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It’s wild, people pretending they loved Jar Jar Binks
One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.
God its so insane anakin admits to slaughtering a bunch of kids and it’s just a non factor for padme
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It’s wild, people pretending they loved Jar Jar Binks
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When we do this again in about 90 days
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
When we do this again in about 90 days
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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Honestly, I do think it’ll have to be a governor on the ticket in 2028 because earned or not, everyone in Congress will have loser energy vibes as an unavoidable side effect of being in the minority under Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Honestly, I do think it’ll have to be a governor on the ticket in 2028 because earned or not, everyone in Congress will have loser energy vibes as an unavoidable side effect of being in the minority under Trump.