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disaster lesbian on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. pitch me: molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.76. mollytaft.com
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lmao bowdoin’s “congratulatory” post to zohran proving my point here
an Instagram post of a stock photo of an nyc street with the bowdoin logo photoshopped onto the side of a bus stop. caption reads “Zohran Mamdani ‘14 has been elected the 111th mayor of New York City. Bowdoin has a long tradition of graduates who have pursued careers in public service, including mayors, governors, legislators, ambassadors, and judges.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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so this is what old age feels like
a guardian article that says "‘Six-seven’: what does the latest slang mean (and should parents be worried)?" with a stock photo of a kid
October 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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cnn dug up graham platner's old reddit posts and unfortunately a lot of them seem to confirm that....he's pretty cool www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/p...
In another post in 2010, Platner took aim at musician Ted Nugent, a conservative activist. “As a combat veteran, that m*therf**ker makes me want to puke when he spews his warmongering macho bullshit. Suck a d*ck, Ted.” “To be fair,” Platner told CNN. “I’m not really regretful of that one.”
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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may i humbly suggest reading @wired.com's new photo essay profiling cybertruck owners www.wired.com/story/owning...
How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod? "People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is." [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ekko FUCKING astral @ekkoastral.bsky.social
a picture of ekko killing it onstage
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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just passed a fleet of…..potentially……..Klarna Ubers?
September 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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god finds a way to show His love for us every day
an announcement from the Oh Mary! twitter account sharing that jane krakowski will play mary starting in October
September 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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omg the eric adams bot on twt LOVES Nighttime of the Day
August 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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screenshot of Tom from Succession in front of the ATN NEWS rebrand pointing to the subtitle WE HEAR FOR YOU and holding his hand up to his ear
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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met with a famous philosopher today
a sign for a mister bagel that says WE CAN HEAL THE SPIRIT OF WAR FOCUS & CREATE PEACE AND LOVE
August 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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August 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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tech folks are getting a front row seat to this presentation
screenshot of Roman Roy from the Succession Vaulter episode
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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if you actually go to the column they dug up the illo is literally a portrait of randy lmfao. i am sure nypost would be SHOCKED to know how much zohran liked one particular cop
a pencil drawing of bowdoin security chief randy nichols with a banner that says "table snatchers beware..." in front of an american flag
August 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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gf is showing me Buffy for the first time and i FINALLY get this joke now
a crude drawing of a woman with a bow and arrow and the text BUFFY WILL PATROL TONIGHT
August 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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another scientist whose work on ocean pH levels billions of years ago says his work has "no relevance" to ocean acidification caused by climate change — but was used in the report to bolster those claims
Krissansen-Totton told WIRED in an email that his work on ocean acidity billions of years ago has “no relevance” to the impacts of human-driven ocean acidification today, and that today calcium carbonate saturation is quickly diminishing in the ocean alongside rising acidity. Dissolved calcium carbonate is essential for many marine species, particularly those that rely on it to build their shells. “The much more gradual changes in ocean pH we observe on geologic timescales were typically not accompanied by the rapid changes in carbonate saturation that human CO2 emissions are causing, and so the former are not useful analogs for assessing the impact of ocean acidification on the modern marine biosphere,” he says.
July 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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one of the people cited multiple times in the report was @hausfath.bsky.social — who says that the DOE authors pulled a graph from the supplementary materials of one of his studies to make a completely different claim than what his work found:
“They appear to have discarded the whole paper as not fitting their narrative, and instead picked a single figure that was in the supplementary materials to cast doubt on models, when the whole paper actually confirmed how well they have performed in the years after they were published,” he tells WIRED. (Hausfather’s research was also cited in the EPA’s justification for rolling back the endangerment finding—which, he said in a post on X, draws a “completely backwards” conclusion from his work.)
July 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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it would be great if, on the day the EPA decides to rescind a massive decision allowing it to regulate greenhouse gasses, it could make sure the website is updated so i dont get a 404 PAGE NOT FOUND when attempting to access info about said rollback
July 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ever wonder why data centers keep cropping up in dry states like arizona? well —
"The proposed changes from the White House are no surprise to lawyers like Connor: “The 404 permitting program has had a developer target on its back for a pretty long time,” she says. Sackett v. EPA, the 2023 Supreme Court case that dealt a major blow to the reach of the Clean Water Act, was based on a 404 permitting issue. This ruling, Connor suspects, is partly why we may be seeing so many companies choosing to build data centers in dry states like Arizona. “They have a lot of waters that have lost their jurisdictional reach within the Clean Water Act,” she says. “It's just easier to pave over the desert, which is the saddest thing to say out loud.”
July 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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euphoria screenshot that says 'wait is this fucking play about us'
July 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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dude the macron / owens defamation lawsuit is WILDDDD
July 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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two things can be true
1. cheating on your wife is bad
2. there’s an element of the public shaming of extramarital affairs that plays right into christofascist theology about how private lives should be publicized
tweet from Matt Walsh about the Coldplay ceo thing that says “One of my least popular (but still correct) opinions is that adultery should be a criminal offense punishable by serious prison time for both parties involved”
July 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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zero percent surprised at how this rhetorical shift played out. climate denialism is dead, it's all about energy dominance now
headline from the economist: "Climate change is a by-product of progress, not an existential crisis, says Trump’s energy czar"
July 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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ok lmao which one of you did this mamdanitimes.com
a fake NYT headline that says "Zohran Mamdani Tripped on the Sidewalk and Thought Nobody Saw It. But We Did"
July 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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admitting in the pages of the Paper of Record that you got a story tip from fucking cremieux is hall of fame low
While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action
July 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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wow it's almost as if i called this a year ago
I can easily see how the crumbling journalism ecosystem could give Big Oil the media environment of its dreams: one that is increasingly favorable to executives who pay for subscriptions, staffed with journalists under pressure from owners to stick to corporate-friendly coverage rather than investigative work that could undercut their funding.
July 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM