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Matter-Eater Lad
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He/Him/Lad
I come from a long line of suspicious people.
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Donald Trump has become convinced that Republicans cannot win the midterms, and that a blue wave would effectively end his presidency and confront him with two years of investigations and impeachment proceedings. He needs martial law as an excuse to cancel the midterms. So America is on a clock now.
June 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Game this out, and then figure out how to protect you and your family this summer: Trump just misused a federal provision not used in 60 years—and then only used to *protect demonstrators*—that requires imminent risk of Rebellion.

If he'd do this for some minor, peaceful LA protests, what's coming?
Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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This is replacement theory. It is a debunked white nationalist conspiracy theory that was normalized by Tucker Carlson. It’s a blatant lie meant to turn Americans against immigrants.
Musk: "The waste and fraud in entitlement spending -- that's the big one to eliminate. That's the half trillion, maybe 600 or 700 billion a year. That's also the mechanism by which Democrats attract & retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here & then turning them into voters."
March 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Rhode Island folks: please light up the lines to tell Whitehouse this is not what you voted for, and that Kennedy would be a terrible choice.
I will donate to anyone who primaries a Democrat voting to confirm RFK Jr. It’s so catastrophically dangerous that I’m sort of dumbfounded. As a scientist, this is as close as I’ve been to being a single issue voter.

If you agree, let @whitehouse.senate.gov know.
Democratic Senator Ready to Do Dumbest Thing (Vote to Confirm RFK Jr.)
What is Sheldon Whitehouse thinking?
newrepublic.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
November 23, 2024 at 2:12 AM
In other news, I came across this giant toadstool at least 10 inches across this morning. Seems to have survived the hurricane or maybe thrived the hurricane.
November 21, 2024 at 4:02 AM
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There's something I need people to understand.

The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad.

The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.
Coca-Cola’s newest Christmas commercial was made using AI.
November 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Dog update (1 yr later).
November 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
November 12, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Wow, Twitter is going through some things.
#twitterdown #twitter
December 21, 2023 at 6:00 AM
It’s that time of year again! Here’s my Xmas music Spotify playlist. I’ve added new songs this year, so it’s clocking in at almost 32 hours long! Always play on shuffle (“smart” shuffle NOT recommended )!

Link in the comments.

#christmasmusic
#xmasmusic
November 24, 2023 at 6:25 PM
The @criterion.bsky.social is where it’s at.
October 20, 2023 at 2:11 AM
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I can't tell if Reddit is the problem here or if it's Ai generated art, but someone should go to jail for this existing.
October 9, 2023 at 3:38 AM
This fuckhead.
October 8, 2023 at 3:42 AM
Herman’s first Autumn.
October 8, 2023 at 12:25 AM
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*extremely* telling that the NYT frames a family leaving a state because their trans son literally could not get the medical care he needed as a "politically motivated move" and an abstract "issue" rather than one connected to their child's intrinsic humanity www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/u...
October 7, 2023 at 1:24 PM
Showed Kyle Maclachlan my collection of continuity Polaroids from the making of Blue Velvet. They belonged to the make-up and hair stylist for the film, the late Barbara Page.#kylemaclachlan #bluevelvet #davidlynch #isabellarossellini #lauradern #twinpeaks #pursuedbybearwine #pursuedbybear
September 25, 2023 at 4:42 AM
September 12, 2023 at 8:47 PM
Introducing… Mr. Herman.
August 23, 2023 at 2:17 AM
He is a very dangerous man.
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
www.newyorker.com
August 22, 2023 at 5:31 PM
August 21, 2023 at 5:53 AM
August 20, 2023 at 4:26 AM
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Lauri Carelton is survived by her husband of 28 years and their 9 children.

She was 66.
NEWS

Lauri Carelton, a woman who owns two clothing stores in Southern California, was shot and killed by a man who made derogatory comments.

Law enforcement says the suspect shot her because he didn't like the rainbow flag outside her clothing store.
California Shop Owner Shot, Killed Over Pride Flag Outside Her Clothing Store
A clothing store owner in California was shot and killed over a pride flag hanging outside her store.
www.tmz.com
August 20, 2023 at 3:09 AM
Went outside.
August 13, 2023 at 5:18 AM