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Dan Nguyen
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chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st
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XENOGEARS MENTIONED
Critically, the Blaze didn't release an actual video comparison or significant details of the gait analysis. Instead, it draws on the work of a man the Blaze called a "video sleuth," a little-known X user named Armitas whose online profile image is a picture from the 1998 role-playing video game Xenogears.
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Concerning
politico: 'Sold POTUS a bill of goods': WH furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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bought a few totes to support the local bookstore (Pilsen Community Books) and literacy
photo of 3 totes bags. Two of them (in pink and black) have the motto “Always Carry A Book”. The other bag says “Don’t feed the algorithms”. the bags say “Pilsen Community Books, Chicago”
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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PURIM
hamantaschen cookies
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Cool country
a photo of a federal agent wearing camo driving a car. the window is rolls halfway down and the agent is pointing a gun at the camera
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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she HATES gambling’s corrupting sprawl into collegiate sports
photo of a cat in front of a large tv pawing at a draft kings logo during a football sports cast
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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the only souvenir i bought in london
a bag of Walkers Succulent Beef Wellington flavour potato crisps
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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met this girl named Curly-Wurly and she might be the most kitten ever to exist #caturday
black and white munchkin kitten looking up munchkin kitten face pressed on glass closeup of munchkin kitten being held munchkin kitten trying to eat
November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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FWIW, this is the cited statute (highlights added) for the subpoena, and the listed agent appears to have worked on CSAM cases in the past
screencap of a page of the subpoena, which states in part: Authorization.(1)(A) In any investigation of— ((i)(I) a Federal health care offense; or (II) a Federal offense involving the sexual exploitation or abuse of children,
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Oops
stock price of Novo Norodisk down 4.18% today, with a sharp dive shortly after the fainting incident
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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sad, he seems to have lost his last veneer of civility
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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New command-line CSV tool discovered: qsv 🤓🤌
github.com/dathere/qsv
screencap of the qsv github readme table of contents: qsv is a command line program for querying, slicing, indexing, analyzing, filtering, enriching, transforming, sorting, validating, joining, formatting & converting tabular data (CSV, spreadsheets, DBs, parquet, etc). Commands are simple, composable & "blazing fast". * Commands * Installation Options * Whirlwind Tour / Notebooks / Lessons & Exercises * Cookbook * FAQ * Performance Tuning * 👉 Benchmarks 🚀 * Environment Variables * Feature Flags * Goals/Non-goals * Testing * NYC SOD 2022/csv,conf,v8/PyConUS 2025/csv,conf,v9 * Sponsor screencap of qsv command list output: qsv is a suite of CSV command line utilities. Please choose one of the following 53 commands: apply Apply series of transformations to a column behead Drop header from CSV file cat Concatenate by row or column count Count records datefmt Format date/datetime strings dedup Remove redundant rows describegpt Infer extended metadata using a LLM diff Find the difference between two CSVs edit Replace a cell's value specified by row and column enum Add a new column enumerating CSV lines excel Exports an Excel sheet to a CSV exclude Excludes the records in one CSV from another explode Explode rows based on some column separator extdedup Remove duplicates rows from an arbitrarily large text file extsort Sort arbitrarily large text file fill Fill empty values fixlengths Makes all records have same length flatten Show one field per line fmt Format CSV output (change field delimiter) frequency Show frequency tables headers Show header names help Show this usage message index Create CSV index for faster access input Read CSVs w/ special quoting, skipping, trimming & transcoding rules join Join CSV files json Convert JSON to CSV jsonl Convert newline-delimited JSON files to CSV lens View a CSV file interactively luau Execute Luau script on CSV data partition Partition CSV data based on a column value pro Interact with the qsv pro API
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Unlimited oil money doesn’t seem great for the brain
Qaddumi listened - and the work continued. Yet with an upside-down building, even simple things became complex. "When you flush the toilet, the stuff goes downhill, right?" the architect asked. "We've worked that out," Qaddumi replied, according to the architect. "We're going to have hundreds of shuttle cars running back and forth, picking up the sewage on retractable bridges."
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The mayor-elect has opened a portal
scene from THE AVENGERS, superheroes look at the sky where an ominous portal has opened
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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NYT: “Why won’t he apologize for being Muslim??? 🧐”
After a campaign marked by attacks over his Muslim faith, his youth and his lett-leaning politics, Mr. Mamdani was defiant: "I refuse to apologize for any of this." Mr. Mamdani said on Wednesday that he had not yet asked for a meeting with Mr. Trump, but that he was considering doing so before he takes office. "I'm looking forward to speaking with the president about how to serve New Yorkers and tackle the cost-of-living crisis that he ran on addressing," he said.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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JAG lawyer Tom Cruise, in A Few Good Men
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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…her?
mayor lori lightfoot dressed up for st patrick’s day
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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ordered ethiopian takeout with extra injera and once again i have incapacitated myself
photo of a very rotund cat
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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too young to know Princess Bride, yet old enough to know to say no to Piers Morgan 🫡
This is a screenshot of a tweet by ella devi (@HOUSEOFDEVI). The tweet text reads: piers morgan you are shockingly desperate Attached is a screenshot of an email titled: “Piers Morgan’s Program request – Ella Devi” The body of the email reads: Hi Ella, Hope you are well. I’m with Piers Morgan’s program in London. Piers’ show airs on YouTube/Spotify/Apple Podcast/Channel 5 and is widely watch across the globe. We are taping a segment on the NY mayoral race on Monday, 10th November in the 11a ET hour and I was eager to see if you would consider joining our panel discussion? Happy to chat over the phone if you have any questions. Please reach out to me on [REDACTED] (whatsapp, signal avail). Many thanks, The email is timestamped 5:19 AM
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This is a screenshot of a Twitter post by ella devi (@HOUSEOFDEVI). The main tweet reads: “btw everyone who trolled me for this tweet can suck a fuck because i got to be part of a winning mayoral campaign at 18 yrs old and you all were just lying in your beds tweeting at me. i was getting up at 4AM to canvass at 6AM in freezing cold weather. y’all r old AND lazy” Embedded is an earlier tweet from 2 days prior, also by @HOUSEOFDEVI: “canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!!” The embedded tweet includes a photo showing three people outdoors in a park. The man on the left is older and wearing a black coat. The person in the middle is smiling and wearing glasses and a green jacket. On the right is a young woman (presumably the poster) wearing a maroon coat with a “Zohran” campaign button.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Congratulations to Andrew Cuomo, the new mayor of Staten Island
New York City Mayoral Election Results Zohran Mamdani 51.5% Andrew M. Cuomo 39.7 Curtis Sliwa 8% results by borough Brooklyn Mamdani +26 257,323 35% Manhattan Mamdani +8 245,231 43% Queens Mamdani +10 187,985 33% Bronx Mamdani +14 68,064 28% Staten Island Cuomo +23 60,562 38%
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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a guy wearing a rakuten golden eagles baseball cap, his glasses are split in the middle as if he were surprised
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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I made queso
a pan of burnt scalloped potatoes
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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[cuomo voice] you know what else happened in 2001
New York Mayor's Race Draws Highest Turnout Since 2001
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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MEDIC!
The U.S. Border Patrol agent who was struck with a Subway sandwich in Washington, D.C., in August testified on the incident in federal court on Tuesday. Gregory A. Lairmore, a 23-year veteran of the agency, said he was not injured by the sandwich toss, but said he could feel its impact through the ballistic vest he was wearing. It came apart and "kind of exploded" when it struck his chest, according to Lairmore.
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM