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Dashiell Bennett
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New Yorker raised in Michigan. Recovered Blogspot Reply Guy.
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Been staring at this for a good twenty minutes trying to figure out if it's like a molded Batman costume situation or just very aggressive wishcasting directed at potential customers ("Unisex")
An AI slop ad for Carhartt sweatshirts. The shirt has no model in it but appears to be molded into the form of a professional bodybuilder with a highly defined six pack
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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So I admit I wasn't paying much attention to the election on Tuesday. How did these guys do?
Elon Musk's tweet from June 30, 2025, threatening to form the America Party, a third-party alternative to the Democrats and Republicans, "the next day" after the GOP spending bill passes
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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All gave some, sub gave all
A footlong sandwich from Subway, piled high with many meats
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Update:
A still from the video feed of the Cuomo election night party. Most of the guest are now gathered around a balding white man standing the middle of the room, yelling at the crowd, and holding a handwritten sign that says "Curtis Sliwa is the Spoiler!
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now, enjoying the smell of napalm
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I did not realize that MARIO Cuomo once ran for mayor of New York, lost the Democratic primary, then stayed in the general election as a third-party candidate (and then lost that too)
From Wikipedia: Though [Ed] Koch won the runoff convincingly, Cuomo remained in the race as the Liberal Party nominee. Though Governor Carey had persuaded Cuomo to run for mayor in the first place, he threw his support to Koch and urged Cuomo to stand down for the sake of party unity. Cuomo refused.
October 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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wow what a big day for (awful news about) monkeys
China Pushes Boundaries With Animal Testing to Win Global Biotech Race The research, including creating monkeys with schizophrenia and autism, would face layers of ethical reviews in the US and Europe.
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Going to Minneapolis this weekend and doing some important research
The Wikipedia page for the "Jucy Lucy" hamburger features a photo of the hamburger "being enjoyed by a lake." The photo is a close up of a hand holding the burger with one pinky raised in the air. The shore of the lake is visible at the top of the photo.
October 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Doing some ballot research for Nov. 4 and this is the official head shot of one my city council candidates.

Not saying it has swayed me to vote for him, but I am firmly in the Undecided camp for right now
A white man is standing in front of an American flag. He's wearing an ill-fitting suit with a mismatched shirt and tie. He is pointing directly at the camera and scowling as if you have done something to piss him off.
October 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Would we have won if they hadn't overturned that fumble with a phantom penalty?

I don't know. But I would have liked that second half.....
October 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Was (briefly) watching the game on Peacock and it kept trying to auto-start Megan 2.0 <in the middle of the game>
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The backstory of the guy behind the NBA poker scam is unreal. He stole $800,000 from a disabled homeless woman and served no jail time!

(Also she won a $4 million court settlement but no one helped her set up a bank account???)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
At the center of many of the charges in the indictment is a New Yorker, a Brooklyn man named Ammar Awawdeh, 34, known to others, without explanation, as Flapper Poker and Flappy. This is not Mr. Awawdeh’s first arrest. In 2018, he was charged with stealing over $1 million from a homeless woman. The woman, Michelle Carter, had been gravely injured when she was run over by an F train, losing both her legs. She sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and settled the lawsuit for $4 million, which was to be delivered in installments. At the time, Mr. Awawdeh worked at a bodega on Roosevelt Island alongside his father. Ms. Carter had no bank account, so she gave Mr. Awawdeh, a friend, a $799,036.95 check from the authority to use as credit so she could buy cartons of cigarettes from the bodega and resell them. Mr. Awawdeh stole the money to pay for a bachelor party in Las Vegas, his wedding and a honeymoon in the Turks and Caicos Islands, prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty to a money-laundering charge and was sentenced to probation.
October 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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So after AI gets you arrested on a false charge, then lies about it in court, three of its friends will get to send you up the river!

The future sucks, man!
Back to back posts on my BlueSky feed: a high school student is warmed by police after AI mistakes Doritos bag for gun, followed by a picture of 3 AI bots serving as jurors in a mock trial of a juvenile
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The Louvre:
A furious Bart Simpson saying: NOW GERMAN MECHANICAL LADDER COMPANIES ARE SCORING OFF ME?
October 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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how your email finds me:
A man is wearing the Aldi "Jacket Potato Jacket," an insanely oversized puffy coat, covered by an even larger foil rain jacket wrapping over his entire upper body and head, so that he resembles a giant baked potato coming out of the oven.
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Considering that the article is trying to argue that the Upper East Side is Cool Now Actually, this photo caption is absolutely devastating.

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
A fashionable young woman is standing on a corner holding a cup of frozen yogurt. The caption read: "One of the most in-demand offerings at Butterfield Market is its frozen yogurt; six flavors are available at a time, the most popular of which is plain."
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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also her best album, Actually
The cover of whitechocolatespaceegg by Liz Phair
October 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"You and me"
Diane Keaton in The Family Stone telling Rachel McAdams, "That's you and me, kid."
October 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The Nobel Peace Prize is chosen by just five people?? The College Football Playoff Committee has more voices than that!
Taking into account the timeframe and the composition of the independent five-person committee, most Nobel experts and Norwegian observers believe it is highly unlikely that Trump will be awarded the prize, leading to fears in the country over how he will react to being overlooked so publicly.
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Disney Executives:
The Driving Crooner saying "I gotta figure out how to make money on this!"
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Gretchen Weiners saying "I don't think my boyfriend, the founder of antifa, would be too pleased to hear about this"
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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So there's no evidence even offered to support the central claim of a case that made it to the Supreme Court? (That the plaintiff is being discriminated against)

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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lol
A screen shot of the last three weeks of the Detroit Tigers schedule when they finished the regular season 3-13, but then won 2 of 3 against the Guardians to win their first playoff series.
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM