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Adam Compton
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Dad, husband, and principal engineer @ https://wayve.ai. Anyone can break one computer, but if you want to break thousands of computers at the same time you need a professional. Also enjoys reading everything that's not nailed down and pixel art.
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Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech had these guys nailed 150 years ago
These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
June 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Doc Brown did try to warn us
Newspaper from the movie Back to the Future 2 with the headline "Emmett Brown Committed"
January 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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The more money someone has, and the more they use it, the less they're able to trust anyone or form genuine human connections. Having unlimited money has permanently broken their ability to experience other people's company. The only thing they lack is the one thing money can't buy and it kills them
"The likes of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, however, surely have that kind of money, yet they're prostrating themselves before Trump. They aren't stupid; they have to know what kind of person Trump is and understand -- whether or not they admit it to themselves -- the humiliating nature of their behavior. So why do they do it?"
January 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Post a game you got for Christmas.

I begged for this, but I only had a NES. This released only on Genesis and SNES, so my parents got me the Genesis version. I was heartbroken and told them "Thank you for trying, but I don't have a Genesis." Then they reached behind the couch and pulled one out!
The box cover for the video game "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters" for the Sega Genesis
December 25, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
A screen capture from the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once featuring Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang, the protagonist's mild-mannered husband.
December 21, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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Nature is healing
A photograph of a car hood painted with the Joker and Harley Quinn, covering the entire hood
December 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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(source: georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/release...) 2/
"When they struck, they wanted to create an atmosphere of fear. And one of the great goals of this nation's war is to restore public confidence in the airline industry. It's to tell the traveling public: Get on board. Do your business around the country. Fly and enjoy America's great destination spots. Get down to Disney World in Florida. Take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed."
December 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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This feels like it counts
A screengrab from The Nightmare Before Christmas, from the This Is Halloween song, featuring Sally and two hanged skeletons applauding Jack's grand entrance
December 9, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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The cover of the children's book "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective"
November 27, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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"most people don't want a handout"? Has this guy ever met people?
X post from CT Senator Chris Murphy reading: "The child tax credit, increased ACA subsidies, and student loan forgiveness helped people. All good policy. But it didn't move people emotionally to our side. Why? Maybe because most people don't want a handout. They want the rules unrigged so they can succeed on their own."
November 22, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Name a TV show nobody remembers but you.
Cover image for the TV show "Strange Luck", featuring a man in a long coat and his shadow towering over him menacingly.
November 22, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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A tie for all of the 21 Jump Street sequels from the credits
A promotional poster for a fake, joke movie: "42 Jump Street: Beauty School".
November 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Love is for the ones who love the work. There are no shortcuts.
A poem by Joseph Fasano, titled "For Someone Who Used AI to Write a Poem". Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.
October 27, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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I can already tell I'm going to be using this a lot to remind people that accountability doesn't stop with changing your mind.
Vince McMahon reaction meme template with four vertical boxes reading, "Have an opinion", "Realize you were wrong", "Find people who got it right", and "Listen to what else they say you're wrong about"
October 13, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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He's already planning to hide in Venezuela.
abc3340.com/news/nation-...
An extended excerpt from an interview between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Text: Toward the end of the interview, Trump appeared to speculate over the potential outcome of the November presidential election. "If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we'll meet the next time in Venezuela because it'll be a far safer place to meet than our country, okay?" the former president told Musk. So, we'll go, you and I will go and we'll have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela because that's what's happening," he added.
October 4, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Reminds me of one of my favorite XKCDs
XKCD comic https://xkcd.com/1053/, espousing the value of being open to learning new things
September 25, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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"lolth", eh?
Output from the AI model describing a selfie of the poster as: a man with a beard and a tie dye shirt, impish smile, patreon, 4 5 yo, made in 2019, face icon, loosely cropped, robb cobb, buzzed short dark hair, springtime, smiling like a jerk, adobe, short silver grey hair, the encrypted metaverse, few wrinkles, lolth
September 24, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Something like this for the first chart, for example.
A pie chart depicting one of the data sets from the grandparent chart with themed colors to demonstrate the suggested visualization.
September 19, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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I really hoped this organization would go somewhere but the world has passed it by and it's time to stop holding on. 🫗
Screenshot of an email notification, informing the poster that their charter membership in LOPSA has expired.
September 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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This is the most concise definition I've seen of this effect (setting aside the reference to furries, with whom I have no beef) js.somethingawful.com/news/interne...
In the endless expanse of communications the Internet is, probably the greatest and most terrible gift it offers to furries, pedophiles, and others, is the ability to shut themselves off from the mainstream. They huddle in cloisters that are virtually unassailablr by the outside world and whisper encouraging things to one another that would be nearly impossible to say in real life. Free from the pressures of society to conform to a boring standard they go in the exact opposite direction, externalizing things that are roughly as far from "normal" as can be expected. Then, within their protected virtual enclaves, they declare these things to be the norm. By declaring their perversions, mores, and general imbecility to be their own status quo they have simultaneously validated their own existence and demonstrated the inferiority of outsiders.
July 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a hit
Poster for the movie "The Breaks", with several characters standing around a graffiti'ed car
June 21, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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Screen capture from Idiocracy (2006), showing a character watching the popular TV show "Ow! My Balls!" surrounded by advertisements
May 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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You'll need a sidekick too!
March 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Reskeet with the first album you bought with your own money
A photo of the cover of Weird Al's Greatest Hits, Volume 2
March 28, 2024 at 5:54 AM