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Dan L
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Maths, Doctor Who, board games (especially Root), cats, leftist politics, cheese. He/him. @Leonard_Daniels on the hell site.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It's weird that in forty years of reading books I've never really thought about the page as a unit of storytelling, but reading this page it struck me as a superb first page.
October 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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For context, there are 1.64 billion cars in the world, most of which run on fuel which, when burnt, causes or exacerbates respiratory diseases.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Oct 6
The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh
October 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Believes in a diety that punishes transgressors.

Believes the ills they are suffering are spiritual in origin.

Doesn't see any possible connection between these ideas.
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I kind of assumed Ezra Klein was a well-meaning-but-naive centrist liberal. This article outlines pretty clearly that no, his actual politics are pretty reprehensible, however he self-indentifies.

newintermag.com/abundance-bi...
Abundance: Big Tech’s Bid for the Democratic Party
The Tech Right has gained major influence in Washington by funding Republicans. The Abundance faction has taken a different route: funding Democrats.
newintermag.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I'll believe an algorithm is a real person when I see it summarily executed in the street by cops.
October 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Portland never stops being Portland.
wizard frog is insane
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Like… it's kind of right there, no?
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums
October 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Bluesky, settle an argument for me. What is this?

a) a beautiful piece of interior decor that brings to mind the myth of Persephone

b) a horrifying creepy object that looks like a million spiders are about to burst out of it, and which makes me itch every time I look at it
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Who in the entire world has ever thought to themselves "I don't want to eat the flesh of an animal, but I wish my food oozed a blood-like substance when raw, smelled like wet cat food and was called Juicy Marbles"? An utterly baffling product. Zero stars.
juicymarbles.com/en-ca
Prime Plant-Based Meats
Buy raw plant meats online & cook a feast 🔥
juicymarbles.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Might have a new favourite dinosaur: the Zuul.
October 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
No, let's really not start blaming mental illness for these people's greed and warped values. When they're replaced by sane people with the same horrifying priorities, things will get worse not better.
This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.
October 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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British politics is just this, on all sides. Utter bastards screaming the worst kind of vile bullshit about people weaker than them, and then immediately claiming to be bullied by the woke mob when there's any pushback. Time and time again. It's not a serious system at all.
Yes. Yesterday is when that happened. Very good. Well done. [Daily Mail]
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Milo has discovered the existence of the Secret Closet and now he asks to be let in EVERY NIGHT just to lie on the Stuff and look lordly and content
October 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"What you fail to see Mr. Pope" is truly the most incredible assemblage of words I have seen coming out of X, the Everything App, in quite some time.
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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I'm gonna shamelessly cherry-pick this quote:

"Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to."

That's it right there.
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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My Dutch is not as good as I'd like but good enough to understand this - and while I do actually understand that this ad is not actually saying "GO ON, YOU SLAAAAG" it's still hard not to read it as "GO ON YOU SLAAAAG"
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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For context Hegseth was basically fired from every job he had, including resigning from his national guard duty because he had a Deus Vult tattoo. He got fired from all his other jobs for drinking and abusing women on the job.

Heres a letter his own mother wrote to him about his treatment of women
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM