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My personality defects were made in Texas.
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NightCafe AI image generator prompt: An outdoor cafe table featuring a glass and a green bottle called "sparkling ethnic conflict" on the brand label. The resulting image contains curious biases in the background elements not specifically prompted, suggesting Balkan or North African or Levant cultural influence.
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Every. Single. Time.
Stupid is choosing to ignore history.
Gene Wilder playing Willie Wonka smiles ironically across the table like he's suppressing a laugh, pretending to be interested in the answer to a question which is obvious only to 3rd parties and himself, a setup for a joke. "Tell me again how this time things will be different."
September 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Resist. Buy these, everyone. Send a message with your wallet.
Beeman Marksman Laserhawk folding slingshot.
September 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Does anyone else feel like the discord between headlines and article content are often jarring and almost comical?
Image for an article headline depicts a "sea of red" (indicating losses or dropping prices) in a securities price display grid with a headline stating "Stocks stays close to record highs; dollar and bond yields turn higher."
September 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Futurama Fry "Not sure if .." meme
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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It's not science fiction any more.
2009 Adbusters magazine depicting a man and a woman feeling creepy about buying a soda from a vending machine that depicts in stark emotional contrast, the same couple happily enjoying the product with the tagline "always"
August 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Lepiota🍄🤢🤮
No, please do not ever eat these.
Lepiota mushroom growing in turf grass under a prairie drop seed grass tuft. The greenish tint of the identifying spores is barely visible on the gills.
August 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Update:
Reishi mushrooms on a black locust tree. One old, dried out and darkened, above a new fruiting body growing aggressively in ideal weather, also cradling an empty cicada shell.
August 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#fungifriends Reishi on a black locust tree growing from the cracks in the bark near the root flare.🍄 Old one from the prior rainstorms, and new one from recent rainstorms.
Reishi mushroom growing on a live black locust tree bark near the ground.
August 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Maybe the best thing we can do is to primary the hell out of the GOP during midterms and beat this drum.
From The Halfway Cafe Substack 2025-08-10 BREAKING: An anonymous GOP senator says everyone in Congress knows Trump is a rapey pedophile, but 1/3 of Republicans are cashing in on the grift, 1/3 are afraid of Trump wrecking their careers, and 1/3 are afraid of Trump’s cult members committing violence.
August 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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"Companies have lots of room to eat the tariffs, after making gigantic profits as they jacked up consumer prices in 2020-2024"
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Since Q1 2020, pretax profits of incorporated businesses of all sizes in nonfinancial industries had spiked by 122% to an annual rate of nearly $3 trillion, while Tariffs are currently collected at a rate of about $300 billion a year, which would roll back only a small portion of this huge spike in profits gained during the inflation era.
July 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Great idea!
A bumble bee butt barely sticking out of a bee balm blossom in the foreground, with other bees and blossoms blurred by narrow field of focus in the background.
July 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Recruit natural pest control: check.
Newly hatched praying mantis macro shot: upside down hanging from the stem of a potted citrus leaf among tiny droplets of water about the same size as the mantis' head.
June 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Donald Trump looks like he is slowly dying on his feet.
Donald Trump holds a sign up next to a lectern displaying a list of reciprocal tariffs in his trade war, with a visage lacking facial tone, orange makeup covering his pallor, like an upright corpse holding a casket lid open.
June 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Early 1980s TV soundstage with young boy smiling at, and seated next to Baphomet, with a title "Being Real with Baphomet." (Fabrication)
May 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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@shitrock.bsky.social
First spin
Mclusky "the world is still here and so are we" record, released 2005-05-09, on a 1980s Technics turntable, sky blue vinyl.
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Meme golden retriever puppy with adorable open mouth smile says "I know it hurts; it's supposed to"
April 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Unibroue La Fin Du Monde
April 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Spanish MAGA rally?
Flamin' Hot Cheetos packaging, logo, artwork.
April 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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@kenmartin.bsky.social where is the 2025 platform happening?
I can't find it. It looks like abandonment.
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I don't think the Olympic schedule is appropriate any more. Where's the bsky link?
April 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The CBOE VIX can be seen as how bad Wall Street wants benzos. Today is Xanax day.
Five years of CBOE VIX chart historical prices showing 2020 peaks around 33 and today, a spike which exceeds 52, 2025-04-09.
April 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#TheHoneymoonIsOver
#FAFO in Financial Markets 🤣
Headline: Analysis-Investors say it's time to take Trump seriously as markets recoil REUTERS - 5:27 AM ET March 03 2025 By Tom Westbrook and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Markets no longer think Donald Trump is full of bluster and are moving quickly to anticipate a slowdown in U.S. and global growth as he raises a wall of tariffs around the world's biggest economy and trading partners start to respond in kind. Six weeks into his second term, the U.S. president has hit imports from Mexico and Canada with 25% levies, put an additional 20% tariff on goods from China, threatened reciprocal tariffs globally and cut off military aid to Ukraine. But instead of the rising yields and higher dollar that investors had wagered on in November, the so-called "Trump trade" is in full retreat. Trade conflict has begun in earnest and the dollar is falling while bond yields dive.
March 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Not hot enough yet. The burner is lit though.
VIX index chart showing 5 years of price history, spiking to $66 in 2020, then settling down to 30s, and in 2023 again to the 20s, landing around 12 in 2024 before jumping back up to 20s, currently @$19.10
February 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Would you take a job that had UHC benefits if you had an alternative without the stink of death-eating? UHC may never recover.
Stock price chart showing 6 months of United Healthcare stock prices, having dropped from ~$600 to $475 since December 2024. Even a dry stock price chart can express a dour mood.
February 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM