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November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I got mistaken for someone who graduated college recently enough that it's relevant (~late 20s) on a consulting call today. Which is weird if only because I know they have seen my 15-yr resume 😆

#indoorkid life, i guess, it's good for preventing skin damage lol
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I've turned into a RT bot.
Mostly because life got weird and small for a bit. Finding words of my own that I actually wanted to say, ehhh

Think we're back up for air. Happy friyay, erryone. May your weekend be warm and full of good gamin' :3
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's actually no need to tolerate swastikas in our military ever. We don't need policy papers on this. We don't need long discussions and to "better understand" those who wear them. We can just ban all Nazi imagery and call it a day.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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This is the the thread you had no idea you needed tonight but YOU ABSOLUTELY DO
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I feel like Google thinks it's too entrenched in peoples' lives now (even if you max opt out) that they can't be harmed by public opinion.

I don't know if they're wrong. But gd, I've tried my best to get rid of as much Google in my life as I can. Fwiw, protonmail has been a good alternative.
Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
...lol, wow that's a tidbit I didn't know
You know who has Universal Healthcare provided by the government? Folks in Argentina do and the US taxpayers sent them $40 Billion Dollars so they can keep it. How are your premiums doing?
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is an incredible photo.
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms.

‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Epstein assaulted Maria Farmer and her sister Annie. Kidnapped her. Threatened her life (via Ghislaine Maxwell). Maria reported this to the FBI, which did nothing, to Vanity Fair magazine, which didn’t print the information as a favor to Epstein.

Now she has contacted writer Ellie Leonard:
A Suddenly Truer Story of Maria Farmer
Two weeks ago a soft voice reached out to me, interested in my writing, but with a bigger story to tell than I ever could.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This gross plastic bag has been pushed over my floors for 6 mos now. I really, really wanna throw it away... but he plays with it every single day, still lol

The Dude had undiscardable cardboard boxes... Ned Ryerson eats cardboard boxes into confetti. But this bag... xD
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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This tendency to frame the weakness of our party as some tedious debate over leftists vs. center-left vs. moderates is ridiculous to me. This is his caucus, and he failed to lead them in this moment. ACA coverage is now lost for millions of Americans. That's all that matters. We need new leadership.
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It cracks me up that it seems like 95% of gacha players play like 5 gacha games at a time.

Me too, I'm just sayin'. lol

I wonder why.
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Christian Nationalists:

QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?

ANSWER: Zero times.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Ngl.. all the letters like this make me wonder if any shitty, predatory insurance companies will go under, with NO one paying for health ins. anymore. Silver lining of a shit-sandwich, i guess. Or if our govt will bail them out instead of us.....
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?

2256.42%????

TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Wth? This alone would make me stop shopping there (if i hadnt already). I *hate* when salesppl talk to me. It makes me leave stores lol
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM