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Kyle Peter Rayner
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Vintage Gen Y. Trapped with all of you lovely folks in the wrong timeline since at least 12/12/20
00. "Berenstein" realm native. This one was tolerable for a bit but it's been rekt for decades I'd like to slide back to my own squeaky gate now plz thx
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Even after a decade putting in so much work it was more swole than a workout gear/protein powder/"stamina" pill-hawking gymfluencer, & had more arms than Nataraja, @nytimes.com's variant of "unusual" does so much lifting here all six of its cosmic arms ripped off. That boot leather tasty yet, boys?
New York Times push notification screenshot NYTimes 10:51 Military Leaders Gather President Trump said the military should use U.S. cities as “training grounds” at an unusual meeting focused on culture wars.
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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A Kimmel too far
NYTimes push notification screenshot 2:27 PM Eastern "Breaking News The local TV giant Sinclair said it would end its boycott of Jimmy Kimmel after blacking out his show for millions of people." [Ed: And getting him "indefinitely suspended" in the first place.]
September 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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A "tank pulling too early" refers to a player—the tank—engaging a group of enemies before the rest of their team is ready. This can cause a disastrous situation for the group, as tanks are responsible for soaking up damage & controlling enemy aggression…while damage dealers…& healers do their jobs.
The team can encounter several issues: The group is unready: Party members might be out of range, low on mana, or have crucial cooldowns active from a previous fight. A premature pull catches them off guard and unable to perform their roles effectively. Split aggro: When a DPS player, healer, or someone else accidentally pulls an enemy before the tank can establish control, the enemy may attack and quickly kill the less-durable party member. Missing cooldowns: A tank has specific abilities for generating aggro and mitigating damage. A good tank often paces pulls to ensure their defensive cooldowns are available for the next fight. A premature pull can force the tank to engage without these abilities, making them vulnerable. Disrupted strategy: The tank is the de facto leader who sets the pace and strategy for tackling groups of enemies. Pulling too early can interfere with planned tactics like using crowd control abilities to lock down tougher targets. Unnecessary healer stress: If the tank has not established strong aggro on all targets before the DPS begins their attacks, the healer may have to frantically heal multiple different party members instead of just focusing on the tank. This can quickly drain their resources and is a common cause of a team wipe. Who is supposed to pull? The "pull" is the act of engaging enemies to begin a fight. While there can be exceptions based on strategy, the tank is typically responsible for initiating the fight for the following reasons: Threat generation: Tanks have abilities to quickly generate high levels of "threat" or "aggro," which forces enemies to attack them rather than more vulnerable party members. Survivability: With their high health and defensive abilities, tanks are best equipped to survive the initial wave of damage from multiple enemies. Setting the pace: The tank dictates the speed of a dungeon or raid. By deciding when to engage, they ensure the group is fully prepared for each encounter.
September 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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NYT wastes no time explaining only congressional representatives (federa have legal right to observe/oversee immigration detention centers. DHS even asked arrested Dems to move! No choice but to move in themselves after noncompliance. NYT mute till grafs 18–20/20 abt DHS blocking Fed Dem access too!
Paragraphs 17, 18, 19, and 20 of the 20-graf New York Times article on the arrest and detention of Democratic officials in Manhattan who were seeking access to the ICE ""processing center"" in Manhattan: "As complaints piled up, and a video showing the cramped quarters became public, Democratic members of Congress began demanding access to inspect conditions, to no avail. They cited federal law that permits federal lawmakers to enter and conduct oversight of “any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens.” But the federal government has repeatedly denied them access, arguing that the law does not apply to the holding cells because they are a “processing center,” not a detention facility. In August, a coalition of civil rights groups and immigration activists sued the federal government on behalf of a Peruvian immigrant held at 26 Federal Plaza, arguing that the cells were overcrowded and unsanitary. A federal judge ordered ICE to improve the conditions in the cells by limiting the number of people held there to 22 detainees and providing them with bedding, regular meals and access to lawyers. On Wednesday, the judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, provisionally certified the lawsuit as a class action and issued a longer-lasting order to ensure that detainees at 26 Federal Plaza are protected from potentially “unconstitutional and inhumane treatment.” In his 84-page decision, the judge repeatedly cast doubt on the agency’s assertions and said the lawsuit was “very likely to succeed on the merits of the claims” that the conditions in the holding cells violated the First and Fifth Amendments." Luis Ferré-Sadurní is a Times reporter covering immigration in the New York region. Samantha Latson is a Times reporter covering New York City and a member of the 2025-26 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers. Paragraphs 1–4 of the New York Times article on the arrest and detention by DHS of New York lawmakers, all elected Democrats at both the city and state level, for seeking access to the ICE ""processing center"" at 26 Federal Plaza to which federal congressional representatives have been constantly denied access in violation of God-knows-how-many judicial orders, also from federal judges: "Sept. 18, 2025 Updated 5:49 p.m. ET Federal officers arrested 11 Democratic elected officials inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan on Thursday after the officials demanded access to cells used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to detain migrants. The officials, including Brad Lander, the city comptroller, and city and state lawmakers, were arrested after they showed up at 26 Federal Plaza and sought to inspect the 10th-floor holding cells, which are operated by ICE and closed to the public. The cells have drawn scrutiny following complaints of unsanitary and overcrowded conditions, leading a federal judge to order ICE to improve the conditions last month. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, denied the elected officials access and arrested them shortly after 3:45 p.m., after they sat down on the floor, refused to leave and began to chant after unfurling a banner that read: “NYers against ICE.” At about the same time, another group of Democratic elected officials was arrested after the officials joined about 40 protesters outside 26 Federal Plaza attempting to block the garage doors typically used by ICE as it moves vans carrying detained immigrants. The arrested officials, including Jumaane D. Williams, the public advocate, sat down on the ground, chanting for the release of everyone in ICE custody and holding signs that said, “ICE out of NY.”" Paragraphs 5–8 of the New York Times article on the arrest and detention by DHS of 11 New York Democrats, elected official at the city and state level, after attempting to gain oversight access to the notorious ICE ""processing center"" in Manhattan. "Police officers urged the officials to move before moving in to arrest them, along with numerous protesters. The coordinated displays of protest on Thursday, planned largely by members of the Democratic Party’s left flank, were the latest sign of opposition to President Trump’s pledge to carry out mass deportations, including in liberal, immigrant-heavy cities such as New York. The arrests were the latest involving Democratic officials opposed to the president’s immigration agenda. Mr. Lander was briefly detained at 26 Federal Plaza while escorting a migrant man whom ICE wanted to arrest in June. In May, the mayor of Newark, Ras J. Baraka, was arrested outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey, following a clash with federal officers. Federal facilities where immigrants are detained are primarily subject to the oversight of the federal government. Members of Congress have the right to visit and inspect such facilities as part of their role in conducting oversight of the executive branch. State and local lawmakers do not have the same statutory power."
September 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The Paper of Record, the liberal New York Times. A Lady so Gray her portrait is next to Dorian's in the attic and she proudly voted for only the first Johnson, probably. Also cruelly targeted for a partisan witch-hunt impeachment, no?
"Police officers urged the officials to move before moving in to arrest them, along with numerous protesters. The coordinated displays of protest on Thursday, planned largely by members of the Democratic Party’s left flank, were the latest sign of opposition to President Trump’s pledge to carry out mass deportations, including in liberal, immigrant-heavy cities such as New York. The arrests were the latest involving Democratic officials opposed to the president’s immigration agenda. Mr. Lander was briefly detained at 26….” Screenshot of part of a New York Times article on the arrest and detainment of 11 elected officials from New York who are Democrats after they sought access to the ICE detention center at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan which DHS has been farcically denying even congressional representatives have legal access to because it's a not a detention center but a "processing center," ignoring the second part of the sentence that says of immigration enforcement-detained migrants "or otherwise housed." They'd just claim these aren't houses but processing cells so the alleged migrants subject to extraordinary rendition are therefore not housed. 11 N.Y. Officials Arrested Trying to Access ICE Detention Cells Brad Lander, the city comptroller, was arrested again. Jumaane D. Williams, the public advocate, was among protesters detained outside. Jumaane D. Williams, the New York City public advocate, was among the elected officials arrested on Thursday while protesting outside a federal building where migrants are detained. Credit: Victor J. Blue for The New York Times [NYT alt text!?!? I know right? Omg. Anyway here's their official alt text: "Jumaane D. Williams, the New York City public advocate, is shown being arrested by two members of the Police Department. He wears a blue vest and white shirt and dark pants."]
September 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Sorry, furious. Here's alt text.
Two news push notifications from Bing, both timestamped 8:16 PM Eastern. Upper: "Breaking news: Jimmy Kimmel's late night show pulled off air 'indefinitely' after Charlie Kirk comments: Live updates." There's a small inset photo of Nick Fuentes-following "groyper," hard-right cis straight white man Tyler whoever, accused of murdering the face of TP USA. Lower: "Trending story for you: Disney to Pull Jimmy Kimmel's Shown After Kirk Remarks"
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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6 minutes ago
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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we'll help
A housecat blows into a small bugle or foxhunt-style horn being held by a human hand over which is text reading "toot"
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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FYI in case you haven't already been informed unknowingly by a kind stranger subskeeting you because they thought you'd turned off comments on your account when you hadn't: all your posts are comment-blocked, @lukeplunkett.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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just how deep does the rabbit hole go
Time magazine cover with cover date Sept 28, 2025, released within hours of Charlie Kirk's death on September 10. All red with low opacity red overlay on a photo of Kirk inside his tent surrounded by throngs of people. Text reads: "Enough." in large extra bold font, with period. Subhead: "The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Epidemic of American Political Violence by Eric Cortellessa"
September 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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He's so broken up about the whole thing he even sent his best wife to the Kirks, along with his Sympathies
Screenshot of a screenshot of a… ”especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!" 889 ReTruths 2.81k Likes 9/10/25, 1:40 PM ---- September 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Worth noting, too, that the "personal attack rule" was repealed by the DC Circuit Court itself after years of inaction by the FCC and a failure to respond to questions about the rule by the Court. In October 2000.
Screenshot from Wikipedia Page on the FCC's personal attack rule. No images. Text (footnotes removed for clarity & ease of reading) follows: Mechanics The personal attack rule was invoked whenever "an attack is made upon the honesty, character, integrity, or like personal qualities of an identified person or group" during broadcast or original cable TV programming while discussing "controversial issues of public importance." After such an attack, within a week the broadcast station or cable provider responsible for the programming was required to give the person or group attacked the following: 1. notification and identification of the cablecast; 2. a script, tape or accurate summary of the attack; and 3; an offer of a reasonable opportunity to respond over the cable facilities. Failure to abide by the personal attack rule could have resulted in FCC sanctions or a refusal to renew a broadcaster's license; however, these sanctions did not include a civil action by the party attacked and not given a satisfactory opportunity to respond. Attacks by political candidates and their supporters during mandated airtime; attacks made during newscasts, interviews, and on-the-spot news coverage; and attacks on foreign groups or foreign public figures were excluded from the rule.
September 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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If this doesn't hit all of it I don't even know
The 10,000 emoji image created automatically by Google's Gboard smartphone keyboard app as a combo when entering the double underlined 100 💯 emoji twice.
September 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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everything's still just even more peachy keen
Photo of the "This is fine" meme comic strip dog with brown bowler hat in stuffed animal form leaning on a railing somewhere in the Bay Area on September 9, 2020. We know this because you can't even remotely tell what time of day or night it is, the sky is a dark gray-orange and there's what looks at first like a wall of flames running the length of the horizon in the background. It might just be the sunset (after there was no sunrise) lighting up the fog in a particular way? All the lights are on in the parking lot and on the sides of the buildings but that's what happened that day — The First Day the Sun Never Rose.
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Five years ago today. 9/9/20.
Just a whole damn mood, okay? On September 9, 2020, a little before 10 AM in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, a little north of Oakland, an AC Transit public transportation county bus turns at an intersection under a profoundly distressing dark, spoiled-salmon, charred orange, burnt umber sky. The light-up information sign on the front of the bus reads "MASK REQUIRED TO RIDE." This is the First Day Without a Sunrise — the tomorrow that was never promised arrived and stayed for the whole day. View from near the top of hilly Dolores Park overlooking most of San Francisco and its skyline on September 9, 2020, the Day the Sun Never Rose for the First Time. The sky is the color of a very very dehydrated person's urine and about as appealing in all senses, and everything on land is dark orange hue. There is no sun in the sky and it's probably mid-late morning to not much past noon, judging by the precise shade of Apocalypse Orange in the City. A still frame from the 2017 film "Blade Runner 2049" shows Ryan Gosling's character walking away from camera and his parked flying car, towards the futuristic Dubai-like skyline of an abandoned Las Vegas. There is a relatively moderate amount of orangish haze clouding the city, but the general shape and contours of just about every skyscraper are discernable, especially towards the upper floors. It looks like a ruddy orange layer of smog, and the crumbling infrastructure around him was built and is now decaying on very reddish-orange dirt, kind of like thousands of tons of crushed Spanish or Mediterranean tiles were blanketed across a fore- and middle ground. It is brighter and less orange than September 9 was in the San Francisco Bay Area, in real life, 29 years before the post-collapse movie takes place, on actual non-fictional Earth. The same thing as the other "Blade Runner 2049" image but this one has "California 2020" layered over it in the font from the original "Blade Runner." I pretty heavily edited the movie still to 1) darken everything, 2) make the skyline much hazier, and 3) crank up the saturation on the orange tone of everything. I did it on my circa 2018 Android phone so I did not have access to actual Photoshop in that moment, so it's not even as orange or as Burnt as the actual San Francisco Bay Area's sky and air looked on 9/9/20 — 29 years before the setting of the post-apocalyptic science fiction film.
September 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Five years ago today
The San Francisco skyline on the morning of September 9, 2020. Salesforce Tower is the tallest building in the city, the sun will never rise that day, and it looks like a 35% opacity Photoshop Screen layer of just solid orange was placed on top. View from the Embarcadero Plaza looking up at the towers of Embarcadero Center through the palm trees, all under what should have been an impossibly occluded dark orange sky, on September 9, 2020 — the First Day Without a Sunrise. A person suffering through homelessness traverses a crosswalk in the Bay Area on 9/9/20, The First Day the Sun Never Rose, during some of the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, under a dismal and grim dark orange sky.
September 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Five years ago today, the tomorrow that was not promised finally didn't deliver, and the sun did not rise in San Francisco. The entire Bay Area, in fact. 9/9/20.

I think it was a Wednesday.
View from San Francisco a few blocks uphill from the Embarcadero looking east at the Bay Bridge as everything is cast in an apocalyptic orange hue & the sky itself is a darkish tangerine color. Midday, September 9, 2020. A person looks out across the water, from the water's edge on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, at the unfathomably orangish umber color of the sky and everything. The First Day the Sun Didn't Rise, 9/9/20. The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco is shown on September 9, 2020, almost certainly a few hours after noon because the sky is more of a peach color already and not burnt sienna. Sather Gate at UC Berkeley, centered, looking south through an almost entirely empty Sproul Plaza, at about 10 AM iirc on September 9, 2020 — the sky is a muddy salmon-orange, there is no sun visible facing south in the late morning in late summer at something like 45 degrees latitude North, everything is cast in a terrifyingly surreal dark umber hue, and it's so dark that every light is still on. The plaza's two rows of trees create a striking perspective line. This was the First Day Without a Sunrise.
September 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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If you see this, post a DC Comics cover you love
Front cover of DC Comics' Nightwing #92 shows Dick Grayson from the side wearing only black squat shorts with a bright blue stripe on the outer leg, like his costume has, bending over at the waist in a yoga pose with his hands flat on the floor, his torso tilted down and forward, his legs vertical, and his pert round ass sticking up and out. He's breaking the fourth wall and looking in camera, smirking a bit. Beneath him, his three-legged dog holds onto one of his escrima sticks in her mouth with her tongue lolling out.
July 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Wed. Jan. 8, 2025, 3:13 PM PT. Trump's first comment on the LA fires, ~30 hours after they first started, blamed Biden and Newsom and nothing more.

This weekend, when those blonde girls who were just his type drowned in Texas floodwaters, he was posting about what a tragedy it was within minutes.
Phone screenshot shows four push notifications on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025. From top to bottom, times Eastern Standard: (1) The Guardian 5:06 PM Los Angeles figuring largest blaze in its history amid water and firefighting shortages - follow latest updates (2) The Guardian 1:56 PM Why are the California wildfires so bad? - a visual explainer (3) Samsung News 6:11 PM Spotlight on LA wildfires: Blazes continue to spread as firefighters struggle against high winds [features expanded photo of firefighter in cargo pants, leather belt, button-down shirt, helmet, and gloves — but not full protective gear — hosing down a smoldering SUV surrounded by the burned out and still-flaming hulks of at least a half dozen melted vehicles]. (4) NBC News 6:01 PM Trump blames Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for deadly wildfires
July 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Thank you for sharing this moment with us 🎨🖼️

💙💛✌️
Google emoji kitchen image combines face with welling tears of joy and eyes made of the 100 (💯) emoji.
July 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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It's likely impossible to find reliable data on percent of Americans who hit all three sides of the Dark Triad, but Trump ❌❌❌.

Estimates for other pathologies & PDs in the current DSM, like Antisocial (≠ psychopathy!), Narcissistic, etc. vary widely.

e.g.,
ASPD: 0.2~3.6%
NPD: 0.5~2ish~6.2%
Screenshot from a National Institutes of Health dot Gov National Center for Biotechnology Information page. Authors: Kristy A. Fisher; Tyler J. Torrico; Manassa Hany. Last Update: February 29, 2024. Epidemiology The estimated prevalence of ASPD in the general population is 2% to 3%. These estimates lack data on individuals who are incarcerated or institutionalized. Studies of incarcerated individuals in the late 1990s reveal rates of ASPD in male inmates of 80% and up to 60% among female inmates.[45] The prevalence of ASPD in prisons may be declining in the US due to increasingly harsh sentencing laws. A recent study reveals an incidence of ASPD of 35% in incarcerated males. [46] The National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions found the risk of ASPD was 3 times greater in males than females.[47] Some estimates place the risk at 5 times greater.[48] The prevalence of ASPD in patients with alcohol use disorder ranges between 16% and 49%.[45] Homelessness is also associated with the presence of ASPD. Possibly as a consequence of the inability to pay rent, maintain a job, and substance use disorders. ASPD results in a lower socioeconomic status. Higher education has a negative correlation with ASPD, with a higher prevalence of ASPD amongst those with lower IQs and reading levels.[48][49][50] Additional psychiatric disorders like substance use disorder, mood and anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disorders, gambling disorders, and other personality disorders like BPD are commonly associated with ASPD.
July 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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It's not much, but besides my undying affection, respect, and admiration for Canada and Canadians, I made you guys a lil somethin'

You're not alone. Regardless of religious affiliation or belief, may your land be kept glorious and forever free.

We stand on guard for you, too ♥️🤍

🔥🗽
Photograph of a stylized, hand-lettered sign in red marker reading "the TRUE NORTH STRONG & FREE" next to a dried maple leaf from the previous year's fall, saved inside a Ziploc bag with a red zipper seal.
July 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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22/
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