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Fig. 106, Гладкий ромбь [from the Russian or Ukrainian: "smooth rhombus/diamond"]
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I’d deploy an update for you too if I could pal but I don’t have permissions like that
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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There’s your problem, you may not wreck a train. Says so right there at subsection (a)(1) www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
“Moreno has been charged with one count of train wrecking, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.”
September 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Putting a pin in this for reasonably far down the priority list of any truth and reconciliation process
An example “main logo” image from the freshly rebranded Department of War’s brand guide. Familiar image of the Pentagon plus name of the thing. Header of the Department of War website with a white text on black variant of the logo and name. Zoomed in on the main logo image on text “ent of War” Zoomed in on the site header “ent of War” but there is conspicuously more space between “of” and “war,” also the “of” appears to be slightly larger in this variant relative to the other characters
September 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The Dulles people movers: humble and vaguely amusing design held over from another time, roaming over the tarmac like pack animals, pretty fast and convenient. How can you not be romantic about the people movers.
View out a window at two people mover vehicles in their bays at the terminal. They’re like big train compartments set on four wheels. One is sitting empty, the second is rolling down the ramp on its way. From out on the tarmac among other vehicles and planes, two other people movers lined up at another terminal, these are examples of an older design that have these things like two fins sticking out the top.
August 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The Nixonian reaction
Screenshot from Houthi PC small group chat showing a single response: New Messages JD Vance: What? Heading for part 4 of Gravity's Rainbow with title "The Counterforce" and an epigraph: "What?", attributed to Richard M. Nixon
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Wolf of Wall Street left out the subplot where Belfort’s outfit was one of the catalysts for Section 230 by suing over a forum poster accurately describing them as criminals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratto...
Wikipedia article text: Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 23 Media L. Rep. 1794 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1995),l"' is a decision of the New York Supreme Court Inb 11 holding that online service providers can be liable for the speech of their users. The ruling caused controversy among early supporters of the Internet, including some lawmakers, leading to the passage of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in 1996. Facts Prodigy, an early online content hosting site, hosted a bulletin board called Money Talk on which anonymous persons could post messages about finance and investing. In October 1994, an unidentified user on Money Talk submitted a post claiming that Stratton Oakmont, a securities investment banking firm based in Long Island, New York, and its president Danny Porush, had committed criminal and fraudulent acts in connection with a stock IPO. Stratton Oakmont sued Prodigy as well as the unidentified poster for defamation.
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Test of the smooth brain signal is a success
Brown tabby/tortoiseshell cat perches on the back of a couch, a reflection of sunlight casting a silhouette of her head onto the wall above her. She presses one paw flat against the wall in the middle of the silhouette, as though attempting to make contact.
February 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I wonder if we ask Alex Garland nicely to try again but with some updated data points like “what about Canada though” he might mystically conjure us something that starts to look interesting
Wikipedia file page for “Civil war 2024 map.svg”, with an image of the I think purposefully confounding map of state alliances from the film Civil War
February 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Chasing the rush of sending feathers flying in mortal combat with a hawk by tearing a series of small holes in the comforter
Brown tabby cat watching me assess the damage she’s done to a blue comforter. There’s at least one feather visible on her back and some in the background, but the photo does not convey the “everywhere” extent of the feather situation.
January 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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the stance i take toward the cat as she makes less and less credible demands for subsequent rounds of breakfast
still from footage of when that guy shouted “judas” at bob dylan, with out of focus dylan as he has stepped to the microphone to retort, subtitled in spanish “no te creo.” seconds later when he comes back to the microphone, subtitles “¡eres un mentiroso!”
December 17, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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acab specifically excludes mr. bookman. it's not about the fine!
mr. bookman the library investigator from seinfeld. he is pointing accusingly to the offscreen jerry. over the image part of his message: "yeah, '71. that was my first year on the job. bad year for libraries. bad year for america. hippies burning library cards, abby hoffman telling everybody to steal books. i don't just a man by the length of his hair of the kind of music he listens to. rock was never my bag. but you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the new york public library, fella."
December 7, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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430 years later we begin to get some clues into what the Roanoke Colony meant when they carved "Regal Cinemas Nosferatu Sarcophagus Popcorn Collectible" into that fence post www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Promotional photo of the Regal Cinemas Nosferatu Sarcophagus Popcorn Collectible. It is presented in a dramatic scene with candlelight and the lid partly slid off and popcorn spilling out, as though the viewer has stumbled upon it as the undead popcorn rises from its slumber.
November 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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just another day down at the single catastrophe factory for this little guy. he should get a day off i think. he shouldn't have to go "it's a living" like a bird on the flintstones who's an intercom
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Paul Klee's monoprint "Angelus Novus." His face is turned back toward the debris of the past as he is propelled into the future. I think he's damn tired of what he sees!
November 6, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Her program is coming on
September 17, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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A note from Gena Rowlands to the company during production of Love Streams, re: her home's still in-use refrigerator/freezer ☠️

("I'm Almost Not Crazy" – John Cassavetes: The Man and His Work)
A note held at the top by three magnetic clips: "If this refrigerator-freezer is turned off for sound or whatever it must be turned back on after shooting. It was off all Thursday, Thursday night and Friday and by the time I found..." The rest of the note: "It was off all Thursday, Thursday night and Friday and by the time I found it after work Friday it was really horrible so please don't forget." Followed by a little drawing of a frowning skull and crossbones, and signed "Gena."
September 7, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Clean gut haver
A tabby/tortoiseshell cat laying on an end table, reaching one leg out to grab at the arm of a couch and looking into the camera. She wants to talk to you about the importance of gut health.
August 29, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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Wow! I love to receive updates right to my mobile device
Text message from my cat’s vet: “FECAL TEST RESULTS Portage Park AH: Good news! No parasites were seen in your pet's stool sample. Please call us with any questions.”
August 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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the medium (going to optimistically say mustard) is the message (rapidly superheating mustard)
On the shaded ground behind a bus stop bench someone has written out a tag in a yellowish paste that let’s just say is mustard, with two words and I think the first is “Randy”
June 22, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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becoming sailing pilled and lake coded, you can sort of see the sun halo, one of these things is a damn jib
Looking up at the main sail and jib of a small sailboat and the sun just beyond them, a halo around the sun is slightly visible
June 15, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Sleep paralysis demon
Tabby cat perched on my chest as I am lying on the couch, looking down at me intently, not amused at my shit
April 6, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Text of the first paragraph of chapter 1 of Moby-Dick slightly modified: “Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I feel like smashing my face in a clear glass window, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately smashing up a…”
February 21, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Going to become the stuff of TSA checkpoint legend
A pair of socks printed with my cat’s sour little face all over them plus fish skeletons and paw prints
December 28, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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Kubrick stare
Cat sitting in the open end of an s-shaped scratcher apparatus like it’s a basket, positioned in a sunbeam from the window behind and above her. Her head is tilted slightly downward and she is staring slightly up at the camera.
September 14, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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Another mom & pop CVS got pushed out by big Owen Wilson
Street view with a former CVS parking lot sign that now has “Owen Wilson” scrawled on it under a crude silhouette of what must be the artist’s rendering of Owen Wilson’s nose. Zoomed in photo of the Owen Wilson sign. The likeness strikes me as questionable.
September 2, 2023 at 3:39 PM
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In my understanding the appeal of birdwatching but I’m not ready yet era
Three little birds I don’t know how to identify, they are close together and inspecting a cafe patio Two little unknown-to-me birds inspecting a cafe patio, one of them is mid-hop
August 22, 2023 at 3:45 PM