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My dog ate my TV. Then I ate my dog.
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Trump: NOT HOT
January 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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We went down this road before.
January 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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What does the Geiger counter say now, Cliff?
January 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A new study in the journal Nature confirms that personal book collections that remain unread can transmit up to 25% of the knowledge and stories contained within to the consciousness of the book owner.
Black and white photo of a scholarly man in jacket and bow tie, sitting in front of shelved books.
January 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Even before these cataclysmic fires, keeping the status quo in place in Los Angeles (and other risky areas around the US) has built up systemic financial risk that may affect our overall economy. Today's Financial Stability Board report (FT story here) points out that rising insurance premiums and insurer exits (already clear in California) are leading indicators of unstable housing markets that, when hit by extreme weather events, may weaken banks, lead to freezes on lending, cause abrupt repricing of physical assets, and create fiscal strains on national economies by driving up both borrowing costs and direct expenses.
January 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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If the root of homelessness is commodified housing, then crisis-level mental illness and drug use can be seen, likewise, as creatures of 21st century capitalism. Psychosis and addiction both feed on the alienation, isolation, and sense of meaninglessness that have followed the creeping marketization of every facet of social life. Poverty worsens both. And while the bad old days of long-stay psychiatric hospitals may be harder to romanticise than other parts of the 20th century welfare state, their dismantling, the deinstitutionalization of their patients, and the failure to replace them with the promised community-based care are all part of the same story of neoliberal defunding and privatization.
January 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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And they say bicycles on the sidewalk are the problem
A highway viaduct in downtown San Francisco
January 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Heroes ride bicycles.
REAL FREEDOM: bicycle and the American flag
January 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I'm jealous that Manhattan is car-lighter now. It's a beautiful thing to see. It makes living there more attractive.
Young man wearing a large backpack and riding a fixed gear bicycle in Manhattan, 2017
January 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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How it started / How it's going
A California Highway: vintage postcard scene of a Southern California mountain pass with snow-capped mountains in the background, hills and a new road in the foreground. TV news showing abandoned cars on Sunset Blvd in an apocalyptic scene of smoke, ash and emergency vehicles in Southern California wildfire
January 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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It’s actually OK if there are some leaves on the sidewalk.
Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom of Speech" — man standing to speak
January 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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In America, any shithead can be president. (Donald Trump and his wife Ivana)
January 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Timeline cleanse 🐸💚 Chasing that suburban sprawl dream in the Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County, December 31, 2014
January 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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December 29, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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Good news for people who love to hate First Ladies! Me la ni a is COMING. Back.
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Melania Trump to Tell Her Story in Memoir, “Melania,” Scheduled for This Fall —Associated Press. Chapter 1. Caviar Wishes, Metamucil Dreams As a little girl in Slovenia, I had the same dreams as any child: to immigrate to America on a bogus “genius visa,” to model acrylic sweaters in a catalogue, and to meet a rich man almost twice my age and enter into a financially advantageous marriage with as little physical contact as possible.
December 29, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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Timeline cleanse 🐸💚 Los Angeles 2007
A man walks past an old pickup truck parked next to a sleazy motel in a downtrodden part of Hollywood, Los Angeles in 2007.
December 27, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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Trump playing golf: Trump Clearing Rubble at 9/11
December 27, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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Your things will only lead you to madness and death.
From the movie "Embrace of the Serpent," an indigenous man addresses a white man: "Your things will only lead you to madness and death."
December 26, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Silence is also music.
In 1966, Ochs hitchhiked to New Mexico and bopped around the West on spiritual quests and peyote trips, but by 1970, he was back in the Annapolis area, still playing music, but not as interested in recording it. “Realistically, I thought I was mediocre, not excellent,” Ochs says. “And in capitalism, everything becomes a competition, whether you like it or not. I wanted music to be a community, not a competition.” Things got quieter, and it felt fine. “I like silence,” he says. “In music, silence is a rest. Music is no good without the rest. Really good music knows when to be quiet and when to have some sound.”
December 25, 2024 at 1:50 AM
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On this holy birthday of the Baby Jesus, we remember His most solemn teaching: "Don't expect much from people, and you won't be disappointed."
A man tenderly holds a newborn baby: "Don't expect much from people and you won't be disappointed." - Jesus F. Christ
December 24, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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I enjoy hearing about what an ashhole Elton Tesla is.

Keep the quality content coming. Thx luv u 🫶🏻
Elon Musk is Elton Tesla
December 22, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Creepy dystopian advertising on Reddit this morning. #sick
Advertisement on Reddit: Photograph of a young woman dripping amber liquid from an eyedropper into her upturned open mouth, with headline: $2 Morning Ritual Called "Liquid Adderal" Is Going Viral
December 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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JD Vance, Trump, RFK: THREE BLIND MICE
December 22, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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R fuckin' K 💩
Robert F. Kennedy with a third eye. "The existential issues upon which we are in concordance" — R Fuckin K 19:36
December 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Trump: COLOSSAL FRAUD
December 21, 2024 at 3:47 AM