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January 25, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Nuremberg is the compromise.
January 25, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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Mosquito and I talk about ending malaria
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Did this youth pastor… break confidentiality?
September 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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are you still here
September 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Apple AI suggests text replies to me but then also does this
September 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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On instagram:
August 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Without commenting on anything else about this let me just say that "jail-turned-library" is the future I want.
August 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The orthodox view is that "for you" and "for His glory" are the same thing, actually.
August 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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These background and type colors, especially with blue links, are the rare design L from Team Zohran.
The specific text of the email doesn’t matter, but it’s an email from the Mamdani campaign with a very hard to read combination of colors: lavender background and white tape, with links in a blue that is far too close to the background color.
August 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Friends will shiv you
Text exchange with my friend: Me: you know how I get Friend: I do Me: lol
August 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Schumer and other Democrats are to the right of MTG.
July 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Here we go again. Meet Muddy.
A black brown and white hamster being held in a white person’s hand.
July 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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This is great.
A screenshot from the article linked in the quoted post: And yet the aspiration to build a society where each gets their due has never gone away and persists in perhaps the most audaciously utopian vision ever conceived by human beings: meritocracy. Where earlier societies stressed faith that only the visible hand of God could possibly give to each person their due in the next life, many defenders of meritocracy imagine it is possible for the invisible hand of the market to do the same in the profane world. It is hard to imagine a more fantastic idea. Even the communists only envisioned a society where everyone's needs would be met, without imagining it was possible to conceive a society where each gives according to his character and receives according to his true worth.
July 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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A new party from the center you say?
a post from (twitter) announcing Elon musk’s new “America” party “from the center” Arrested development meme: maybe it’ll work for us
July 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Meme image of Obama giving himself a medal
July 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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She could support a Muslim or pro-Palestinian mayor, but is troubled by the candidate’s past statements. “I certainly don’t think that somebody who has a hard time condemning terrorism against Jews,” the registered Democrat said, “should be mayor of any city in our country.”
July 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Hey Brutus what if we call Caesar “Poopypants McGee”
Chuck Schumer bragging that he got the name of the big GOP bill changed. Because the name was the problem.
July 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A cairn with a Lego labeled with Sharpie: “RIP Jill the hamster”
June 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Jill (2024-2025).
The late hamster Jill, a gray, brown and white Russian dwarf hamster, pictured here eating food.
June 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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It’s tinfoil on the windows hot
A picture of an open window, with a fan in the bottom open part and tinfoil taped onto the top to reflect the sunlight away from the inside
June 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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what omg
June 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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They’re endorsing Andrew Cuomo
A headline reading “giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York”
June 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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A yellow sign with red and black letters saying “no kings, no Trump, no Cuomo”
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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My kiddo, no longer messing around #nokings
A photo of a ten year old with his face obscured, holding over his head a sign that says “ICE will melt in hell.”
June 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM