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John Wenz
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Stephen Miller absolutely wrote this www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
Text says In June, ABC News’s senior national correspondent Terry Moran smeared White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as a “world-class hater” whose “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment” — just one entry in a long series of Moran’s obvious liberal bias during his tenure. In June, ABC News aired what it called a “violent Border Patrol detention” — but failed to mention the detained illegal immigrant had been chasing federal agents with a weed whacker
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I can now officially say I’ve had a painting in a show
A man in a hat and hoodie gesturing at a colorful painting on a wall with Ozzy Osbourne themed art
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I made this dumb thing with an audience of three based on, for whatever reason, following the comic strip Mary Worth while on medical leave.
An altered Marvel Comics panel with Wilbur and Olive from Mary Worth. The first panel, with Wilbur in a cloud over Olive’s head, says “you are not alone. There are many of us… Many mutants as Madden kind cause us! Mutants who have powers that human beings never dreamed of such as the power to make you fly, though we are far away.” The second panel says “ we are the next great stage” from a disembodied thought balloon.Olive then says “but why are you hidden? Why do you not reveal yourselves?”
August 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I'm not gonna click the article because I am satisfied with the answer I made up, which is a large milkshake because he's severely lactose intolerant.
Today.com article that says "man loses 132 pounds by eating this 1 Chick-fil-A menu item every day"
April 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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What happened to Mr. Pibb that led to him not attending or not finishing medical school, unlike his brothers?
An array of cans of soda, most of them with similar names to Doctor Pepper
March 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Primary every last one of them that isn't retiring.
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Screenshot listing senators who voted to avoid the government shutdown: Democratic Sens. Richard Durbin (Ill.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) (Nev.) all voted "yes" in addition to Schumer, — as did Maine's Angus King, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats
March 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Chuck Schumer with Garfield floating in front of him at eye level
March 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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APRO Bulletin, December 1978
March 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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We never topped this car design and if automakers had any sense, they'd just retrofit a bunch of these into EVs
A red Pontiac Trans Sport minivan
March 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Google workers, and tech workers in general: unions are great. Have a little get together with your friends.
Google has been releasing A.I. updates at a rapid clip, expanding the availability of Gemini 2.0 models to people who use the chatbot app with the same name just this month. Mr. Brin warned employees against working more than 60 hours a week, saying it could lead to burnout. He also criticized employees who haven’t been contributing enough to the efforts. “A number of folks work less than 60 hours and a small number put in the bare minimum to get by,” he wrote. “This last group is not only unproductive but also can be highly demoralizing to everyone else.”
February 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Bring back the stockades
NYT article that says: Since the 2022 launch of ChatGPT set off an artificial intelligence frenzy in Silicon Valley, Google has tried to reassert its role as an A.I. pioneer. On Wednesday, Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, said the company could lead the industry in artificial general intelligence — when machines match or become smarter than humans — if employees worked harder. “I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” he wrote in a memo posted internally on Wednesday evening that was viewed by The New York Times. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” in the message to employees who work on Gemini, Google’s lineup of A.I. models and apps. Mr. Brin’s memo does not represent a change to Google’s official return-to-office policy, which requires employees to work in the office at least three days a week. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment A woodcut image of two men in the stockades, a device where your feet and hands are entrapped between two pieces of wood
February 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Oh ok got it www.npr.org/2024/12/29/n...
NPR screenshot that says "In Skamania County, harming Bigfoot is punishable by a $1,000 fine and can include jail time, according to the county's chamber of commerce — a law meant to protect the mysterious creature and to prevent hunters with large beards from accidentally getting shot."
December 30, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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I took a linocut class earlier this week and made my cat wearing an elephant hat he hated. I am trying to finish two oil paintings I have going before I even date take up yet another medium.
A linocut of a cat with its fangs sticking out. There are several wavy lines and on the left side of the cat it says "Slime!" And on the other side it says "!Time".
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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A skeet from Michael Avolio that says "As far as I know, no one has posted on BlueSky the photo of Agnes Varda with Frankenberry, so here it is" with a picture of the French director by a very tall Frankenstein lookalike dressed in pink
November 27, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Finished the largest painting I've ever made tonight. Or at least before I start finding personal nits on it again.
A large corridor with a star at the front reaching toward a doorway. Windows to the left show a black hole with a large jet. Windows to the right show several black triangles among clouds. There are star patterns on the ceiling. The carpet is red, and the ceiling is black. There is brown and blue trim.
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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Well hello there, friend
Aurora borealis, with a green shimmer over a red glow
October 11, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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My friend @adambecker.bsky.social wrote a book that you can preorder now. It's about the dangerous and frankly unsound ideas undergirding tech and is going to be a must-read in coming years.
Cover of a book called More Everything Forever by Adam Becker, subtitle AI Overlords, Space Empires and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity. To the right there is a 25% off code good from Sept 4+6 for Barnes and Noble. The code is preorder25.
September 4, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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An altered photo of Kamala Harris holding a vinyl record sleeve of "Philosophy of the World" by The Shaggs
July 28, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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The sun eclipsed by the moon with a plane contrail and Venus in shot
April 8, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Hell yeah, worm 4ever
Press release that says: Worm Designer Receives NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana presented an award to Richard Danne Monday for his outstanding achievement in creating the NASA worm logotype and inspiring the world through the medium of design for the benefit of humanity
November 6, 2023 at 8:52 PM
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Highlander cat waiting for the right moment to take another soul.

(I love when he gives a mean face because he is actually the sweetest boy who wants everyone to be his friend.)
Black cat on a blue rocking chair staring directly into the camera
September 22, 2023 at 2:32 PM
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A photo of you that could be an album cover

Idk one of these would work. (Yes the first is a costume based on the Mountain Goats song)
Two men in corpse paint standing side by side wearing homemade shirts with pentagrams, one saying "the hospital bombers" and the other saying "Satan's fingers" based on a mountain goats song "the best ever death metal band in Denton" A man in a white shirt and sunglasses holding a beverage can in his hand
September 3, 2023 at 1:01 PM
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the poster to the film "the reflecting skin" which shows a young boy sitting in a wooden rocking chair with a harpoon gun with three fish jaws mounted on the wall behind him
August 28, 2023 at 6:46 PM
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You know, I don't think I did that bad at all
a really bad rendition of the mona lisa that's mostly squiggles
August 22, 2023 at 2:58 PM
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Look no further than ...

Also v dumb quote / unquote there.
a tweet from elon musk saying "Block is going to be deleted as "feature", except for DMs"
August 18, 2023 at 4:07 PM