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Some thinky thinks.

When I was 18, a family friend said I was "obviously not a genius" to my face, so take what I say with a grain of salt 😝
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Just closed my LinkedIn account. For those curious, here is why.

Couldn't even fit all the reasons on one page.

Links in alt text. Some of the alt text was so long, I continued it in a reply (due to character limits for alt text).
LinkedIn Account deletion linkedin.com/mypreferences/g/close-confirmed Account Closed We've closed your account Your LinkedIn account is now closed. Although you no longer have access to it, it'll take a few weeks for your public profile to disappear from search engines. Your data will be deleted as described in section 4.3 of our Privacy Policy Why I Just Deleted My LinkedIn Account Ethics regarding ownership LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn). There are many criticisms of Microsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft): • Microsoft has avoided billions in taxes • Microsoft has – and has had – contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the US Army, and the Israeli military during the recent invasion of Gaza • Microsoft participated in the PRISM surveillance program, helping the NSA to have unencrypted access to Outlook, Hotmail, OneDrive, and Skype Supporting Microsoft also supports a billionaire (Bill Gates) and a CEO who was paid 480 times what the median worker was paid in 2025 (https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/leadership/microsoft-ceos-pay-hits-964-million-in-fy25/553808#:~:text=%22Based%20on%20this%20information%2C%20for%20fiscal%20year%202025%20the%20ratio%20of%20the%20annual%20total%20compensation%20of%20our%20CEO%20to%20the%20annual%20total%20compensation%20of%20the%20median%20employee%20was%20480%20to%201%2C%22%20Microsoft%20said.). I will no longer, in this tiny way over which I have power, support these entities and this behaviour. Politics Microsoft donated $1 million USD to a ceremony swearing in a man who was convicted in civil court of rape, has dozens of sexual assault allegations against him, was convicted of 34 felonies, has lied over 30,000 times (https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116231/documents/HHRG-118-JU13-20230718-SD002.pdf), and many more issues. Clearly, Microsoft’s profits matter more to them than human dignity, safety, and the truth. Feed • Too many ads • Excessively repetitive ads • Lack of control over the feed • Too little originality in posts • Posts clearly copied from elsewhere without attribution • Feeling confident AI was being used in both posts and comments • The startlingly toxic comments on many posts Happiness They say compariso…
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_McKinnon#Personal_life Personal life While attending Columbia University, she dated future journalist Bari Weiss.
December 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Things that improved my lower back pain hugely:

- raising my desk, so my back is straight + vertical while I'm writing / on my laptop

- getting a portable lap desk (example pictured) to put on top of regular desks so that I could keep my back straight + upright

- crouching instead of bending over
example of a portable table Things that improved my lower back pain hugely: Raising my desk by getting an adjustable-height desk, so my back was / is straight and vertical while typing and writing Raising my writing surface in general by getting a lap desk (like a desk you might put on your lap when writing in bed) to put on top of regular desks (e.g. at university) so that I could, again, sit up straight while writing Crouching instead of bending over daily, keeping my back (you guessed it) straight and upright
December 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to "grab snatch," whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system.

Life is unfair.

Yours
J. Epstein"

From:
justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00035768.pdf
Dear L. N. As you Know by now, I have taken the "short route" home. Good luck! We shared one thing... our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they'd reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to "grab snatch," whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours J. Epstein SDNY_00018009 EFTA00035768 From: justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00035768.pdf In the video, Trump tells Bush about a failed attempt to seduce Nancy O'Dell, who was Bush's co-host at the time (circa 2005) of the recording:[18] I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, "I'll show you where they have some nice furniture." I took her out furniture—I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look.[13] Later, referring to Arianne Zucker (whom they were waiting to meet), Trump says: I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.[13] From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Access_Hollywood_tape#:~:text=Contents%5Bedit%5D,anything.%5B13%5D Dear L. N. As you Know by now, I have taken the "short route" home. Good luck! We shared one thing... our love & caring for young ladies and the hope they'd reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to "grab snatch," whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours J. Epstein SDNY_00018009 EFTA00035768 From: justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00035768.pdf This image is a transcript of the letter. I transcribed it from the other image in this post. Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: ‘I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend’ thedailybeast.com/listen-to-the-jeffrey-epstein-tapes-i-was-donald-trumps-closest-friend Elections THE PREDATOR AND THE PRESIDENT Explosive tapes recorded by author Michael Wolff show Epstein claiming Trump liked to “f---” his friends’ wives and first slept with Melania on the “Lolita Express.” Exclusive Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump’s “closest friend” and claimed intimate knowledge of his proclivity for sex, including cuckolding his best friends, according to recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast. The convicted pedophile even boasted of his closeness to Trump and his now-wife Melania by claiming, “the first time he slept with her was on my plane,” which was dubbed the Lolita Express. Epstein spoke at length about Trump with the author Michael Wolff in August 2017, two years before being found dead in his jail cell. Wolff was researching his bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury at the time. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🧐 Not sure how these redactions related to money transfers in the Epstein files were justified:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I did not unredact these files myself. I found the link on Reddit (www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...), which funnily enough apparently came from Bluesky originally
GVI v. Estate of Jeffrey Epstein GVI's Second Amended Complaint Page 40 of 76 203. 204. 205. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company's non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed. 207. The discovery of the nature, scope, and magnitude of Defendants' unlawful conduct and could not have been acquired earlier through the exercise of reasonable dil di Page 41 / 77 GVI v. Estate of Jeffrey Epstein GVI's Second Amended Complaint Page 40 of 76 200. Defendants used Epstein's businesses and ostensibly charitable foundations in the Virgin Islands to make payments to the victims who were trafficked and sexually abused while concealing these payments from detection by law enforcement authorities. 201. Defendants also prevented Epstein Enterprise entity employees from cooperating with law enforcement by requiring them to sign confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators 202. access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. (character limit reached) GVI v. Estate of Jeffrey Epstein GVI's Second Amended Complaint Page 37 of 76 185. Similarly, in 2017, Cypress reported as its only asset cash in the amount of $29,736 and expenses of $150, despite it paying 186. Similarly, for the tax years 2011 through 2016, Cypress did not include the value of the New Mexico property in the total assets it reported and did not include any expenses related to the New Mexico property in the total expenses it reported to the Government. 187. Likewise, Maple's balance sheet as of December 31, 2018 did not reflect any assets other than cash of $21,265. Further, Maple reported only $300 in expenses for the year ended December 31, 2018, despite it paying | GVI v. Estate of Jeffrey Epstein GVI's Second Amended Complaint Page 37 of 76 182. Epstein appears to have maintained divided ownership of these properties, transferred ownership of them to the Virgin Islands, and then concealed this fact even from Virgin Islands authorities in an attempt to shield the properties from any judgment in the states where they are located. 183. The financial statements submitted by each of these three Defendant corporations to the Office of Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands were false and misleading due to their failure to include the above properties owned by each company or the related expenses incurred by each company, such as property taxes. 184. For instance, Cypress's Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2018 did not reflect any assets other than cash of $18,824. Further, Cypress reported only $301 in expenses for the year ended December 31, 2018, despite it paying $106,394.60 in Santa Fe property taxes on November 6, 2018. 185. Similarly, in 2017, Cypress reported as its only asset cash in the amount of $29,736 and expenses of $150, despite it paying $55,770.41 and $113,679.56 in Santa Fe property taxes during 2017. (Character limit in effect here, unfortunately)
December 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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I took 3 days off from my smartwatch, smartphone, and computer.

😱 I was surprised by how much energy I had
🧹 🪛 I got SO much done around the house
🧠 I had a bunch of creative thoughts / solutions

It seems technology had been stealing more of my time and energy than I had noticed.
I took 3 days off from my smartwatch, smartphone, and computer. 😱 I was surprised by how much energy I had
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Image from https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/United%20States%20v.%20Maxwell,%20No.%20120-cr-00330%20(S.D.N.Y.%202020)%20-%20Trial%20Transcripts/Trial%20Day%203%20-%20745.pdf Q. Mr. Epstein introduced you to Donald Trump; correct? A. Correct. Q. He took you to Mar-a-Lago, right? A. Right. Q. When you were 14, you claim? A. Yes. Q. He took you in a dark green car? A. Yes. Q. And you met Donald Trump there; correct? A. Correct.
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Got 625 results with "Trump" without any spaces
Screenshot from https://www.justice.gov/epstein where "Trump" is in the search bar, then "Showing 1 to 10 of 625 Results." then there are results below
December 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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As far as I'm concerned, anyone who says they *want* others to be in trauma (see image) is an awful human being who shouldn't be in charge of a secondary school group project, much less in a powerful position in government
Article from The Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget Russell Vought: Trump appointee who wants federal workers to be ‘in trauma’ This article is more than 10 months old The Christian nationalist head of the office of management and budget was central to the Project 2025 blueprint
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Some people and politicians say they worry about violence against women in public bathrooms.

Some thoughts:
Some people and politicians say they worry about violence against women in public bathrooms. If they geniunely wanted to prevent and solve that problem, they could propose, endorse, and fundraise for: • More individual bathrooms (which already exist – for example, at the Snakes & Lattes board game cafe in Toronto) • Loud alarm buttons in bathrooms • Laws that require 4k video surveillance outside of bathrooms, and the area must be well-lit enough to see anyone’s face in the video • Ubiquitous education on consent and healthy relationships • Politicians who have not been accused of sexual assualt, were never friends with convicted sex traffickers, and haven’t been convicted of any sex-related offenses (in civil or criminal court) • More enforcement and harsher penalties for bars serving alcohol beyond anyone’s limit • Courts sharing information with bars (e.g. photos and names) and then requiring bars and malls to prevent convicted sex offenders from entering • Ensuring all rape kits are tested within 60 days But I don’t see those people advocating for those solutions. Indeed, their solution seems to be violence against trans women in bathrooms. Which suggests at least one of the following to me: • they're very bad at problem-solving • they don't really care about violence against women • they might be paid, rage-baiting provocateurs pouring kerosene on divisive culture wars on purpose
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Larry Summers should be remembered with this photo
close-up of larry summers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8dyr661911t?page=2 image of larry summers with woody allen on a plane, from jeffrey epstein's emails https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8dyr661911t?page=2
December 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Oof. I think we should remember Larry Summers with this picture. Seems more appropriate, given the things he's said, and the people's he has associated with
photo of larry summers from the epstein emails, sitting in a jet with his wife and woody allen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8dyr661911t?page=2 close-up of larry summers from the other photo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8dyr661911t?page=2
December 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Woody Allen not doing Woody Allen's reputation any favours
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon pic 2 out of 23 photo of woody allen and jeffrey epstein together, apparently on set https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon Image from Epstein's email showing former harvard president larry summers and woody allen inside what looks like a private jet https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon pic 8 of 23 image showing woody allen dining with epstein https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon pic 14 out of 23 image from epstein's emails showing woody allen talking to steve bannon
December 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Oof not the best apple endorsement I've seen

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
pic 1 / 23
image of epstein in front of an apple monitor https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/epstein-photos-trump-clinton-bannon
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Is that Noam Chomsky with Steve Bannon?

pic #22
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...
showing steve bannon in a photo with an older man who looks like (and may be) noam chomsky from the cnn article about new pictures released from Epstein's emails
December 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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In a rational world, someone who'd made 30k false statements would never be quoted by any media outlet ever again

But alas
screenshot of an internet search The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2021 › 01 › 24 › trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years › Trump's false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years 24 Jan 2021 ... When The Washington Post Fact Checker team first started cataloguing President Donald Trump's false or misleading claims, we recorded 492 ...
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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One way I reduce my electrical use during the times electricity is at its most expensive:

I have many outlet timers that turn off on a schedule. This way I'm not using power I don't need at the moment – I can wait to charge a device later, for instance

(I can override the timer if I need to)
shows a wall outlet, with an outlet timer
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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How evil do you have to be to even think of this?

As far as I'm concerned, this is even more evidence that Trump is a rapist

These actions (among other effects) only make me more committed to boycotting any person or company remotely supporting the Trump regime.
Trump DoJ ‘immediately’ stops enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, according to leaked memo The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse Io Dodds in San Francisco Saturday 06 December 2025 07:13 GMT from The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/prison-rape-trans-doj-b2879253.html Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings. Some of the suspended clauses apply to all LGBT+ people, not just trans and intersex ones, and many apply to juvenile facilities as well as halfway houses, rehab centers, and mental health facilities. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/prison-rape-trans-doj-b2879253.html#:~:text=Those%20rules%20include,mental%20health%20facilities. "These changes are a green light for predators to sexually assault incarcerated adults and children who are already disproportionately at risk," said Linda McFarlane, executive director of the non-profit campaign group Just Detention, which trains prison staff on PREA compliance and has several certified auditors on staff. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/prison-rape-trans-doj-b2879253.html#:~:text=%22These%20changes%20are,auditors%20on%20staff. Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU likewise said: "The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape. "PREA audits are difficult enough to secure in any impactful or transparent way. Telling auditors just to ignore the risks queer people face is as explicit an endorsement of their abuse as you can get." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/prison-rape-trans-doj-b2879253.html#:~:text=Gillian%20Branstetter%20of,you%20can%20get.%22
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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robert reich making the same post, earlier
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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the exact same post from robert reich
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I did the same thing for when electricity is medium-priced.
Nudges my power usage.

For 30 days of use this cost only about 0,14€ (about $0.16 USD) in electricity.

(0.675 kWh * 0,200678 €/kWh = 0,14 € based on October 2025 electricity price with our provider)

(Dec 3rd 2025 EUR-USD exchange rate)
Shows an outlet, an outlet timer, a link to a motion detector holding an E27 bulb
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Y'all this is so affordable and easy!

The plastic snap fasteners fell off
pliers for attaching snap fasteners, with snap fastener pieces
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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For sale on AliExpress this morning:
Shows a car air freshener made from a picture of jeffrey epstein with the words "This air freshener didn't hang itself" being sold on AliExpress. 4.8 stars and 3,000+ sold
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Me too, buddy, me too
screenshot of a video shot of a boy on a CTV news story, labelled CARTER TROZZOLO, with the subtitle (often a space reserved for a profession) of EXHAUSTED
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Tom Barrack is the same man who said on video that "there’s no Arabic word for submit" (even though the very well-known word "Islam" can translate to submission)

www.youtube.com/shorts/BAGVq...

www.middleeasteye.net/news/ten-thi...

Was in email contact with a convicted sex offender, too. Yikes.
“The end result is somebody wants dominance, which means somebody has to submit. In that part of the world, submit, there’s no Arabic word for submit. They can’t wrap their head around submit. So eventually, prosperity is the only answer.” That particular quote was heavily criticised on social media, with many pointing out that the word “Islam”, among other words, can translate to submission.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM