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Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
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The evolution rate of practical FPV countermeasures has been astonishing. Current “hedgehog” configurations can apparently sometimes absorb dozens of drone strikes.
Tank with extensive anti-drone protection that looks like dense quills of a porcupine.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Genuine Photographs
Black Hills, South Dak. 1 by 1.5 inch, 12 for 15 cents.
An old souvenir packet of 12 small photographs. Script typography label “Genuine Photographs” on one side of an opening showing a black and white image of a mountain. “Black Hills, South Dak.” on the other side of the opening. Price 15 cents
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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@MayorEmanuel fake twitter account was better.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Bring back @MayorEmanuel, the only Rahm version that matters.
Rahm Emanuel @MayorEmanuel • Nov 13, 2010 The only thing that's going to get me through this is knowing that when I shake your hand, mine is covered in cock sweat. Tweet from famed fictional Rahm Emanuel account that ran concurrently with his mayoral campaign.
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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So this tells me Mamdani’s victory is more significant than I thought.
Article by noted rightist tool Ross Douthat: “Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think”
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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MS is actually bigger. Unfortunately we’re all cursed with Steinberg’s famous summary of the Manhattan-centered worldview
View of the world from 9th street
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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MS is a bigger deal. By far. We all need to be sick of a media environment where NYC is the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy. Or this:
View of the world from 9th avenue. A couple of blocks of manhattan dominate the lower half of the picture.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Yeah Matt Furie can sympathize. Gotta be weird to have Anglin declare your work "Whitest music ever" and push vaporware -> fashwave as the new thing.

From The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century
By Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall
books.google.com/books?id=43f...
Fashwave aesthetics were co-opted from "vaporwave," a scene that developed online in the early 2010s and which combines retro 1980s and 1990s visuals and sounds, sci-fi tropes, grainy digital effects, and glitches to create audio and visual works that have been interpreted by some as satirical of consumer-capitalism. * The alt-right widely adopted the style in August 2016, after Anglin recommended abandoning established but "pretty dated" far-right musical traditions in various rock subgenres to embrace synthwave, the "Whitest music ever," as the "Official Soundtrack of the Alt-Right."' Anglin shortly thereafter began the "Fashwave Fridays" series, posting retro sci-fi images and sounds onto his website. It should be noted that whilst Anglin's endorsement marks the alt-right's official adoption of the style, the aesthetic was already used by some online nazis. Daily Stormer contributors Andrew Auernheimer (AKA "weev") and Gabriel Sohier Chaput (AKA "Zeiger") accredit the now-defunct neo-nazi forum Iron March, and specifically forum user Benjamin Raymond, founder of the now-banned UK nazi terror group National Action (NA), as originating fashwave through his graphic designs.20
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The eminent biologist Sue Lindquist (MIT; 1949-2016) keynoting the last Cold Spring Harbor yeast cell biology meeting from the storied maple podium. She died not long after. Sorely missed.
Sue Lindquist presenting at Cold Spring Harbor, shortly before her death in 2016. She stands with her hands at her hips smiling. She wears a green jacket and a purple/red patterned scarf.
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Best use yet:
Bronze face of Robert E. Lee statue glowing orange as it and other disartulated parts are melted down.
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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“can haz candy?”
Halloween pumpkin with extremely large slit pupil eyes and plaintive expression. Purple lights in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Trump's hilarious/hideous "Lincoln Bathroom" should remind you of a cheesy fake Civil War monument commemorating "The River Of Blood" (fictional) he placed on one of his shitty golf courses.
Plaque erected by Donald Trump on his Virginia golf property commemorating a non-existent Civil War battle. Plaque reads: "The River of Blood" Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot, "The Rapids", on the Potomac River. The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as "The River of Blood". It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River! -Donald John Trump
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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1944
1944 illustration of Bugs Bunny enthusiastically straddling the nacelles of a p38 Lightning, holding reins that are gripped in the jaws of the anthropomorphized airplane's toothy grin. Bugs wears a scarf, which streams backwards as do his long ears.
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I love this sentence so much
From a statement by the British Crown regarding punitive measures taken against soon-to-be-former Prince Andrew. “These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.”
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Rahm Emanuel entering the discourse has value: it points us all to a slab of true, pure Chicago awesome that should never be forgotten: @MayorEmanuel on Twitter Classic.

Experience the epic journey in chronological order WITHOUT visiting Musk's pale Nazi pantomime: Quaxelrod.com
2010 tweet from @MayorEmanuel: Axelrod tells me "Who replaced Chicago with this shitfest?" isn't a good slogan.
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Personally I'm glad you wrote this because it's allowing me and some friends to relive the Twitter glory of @MayorEmanuel. Which, everyone can and should too, in chronological order at Quaxelrod.com
@MayorEmanuel tweet from 2010: So Axelrod is blathering on about a "new Burnham plan" and I just look him square in the eye and say, "fuck you, you fucking mustache-face"
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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He pales in cultural significance to @MayorEmanuel
Tweet from @MayorEmanuel (legendary Twitter Classic account that ran concurrently with the actual Emanuel's first mayoral campaign): "The only thing that's going to get me through this is knowing that when I shake your hand, mine is covered in cock sweat"
October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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@MayorEmanuel would like a word
First post of the epic Twitter journey of @MayorEmanuel. Post reads: "fuck you right in your fucking face-hole" A fake account that somehow ended up having more gravitas than the actual Rahm Emanuel.
October 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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the off chance of returning @MayorEmanuel to this dimension maybe?
First tweet of the epic Twitter journey of @MayorEmanuel. Post reads: "fuck you right in your fucking face-hole"
October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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the only Rahm worth supporting (IYKYK)
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The only Rahm Emanuel I could ever support is @MayorEmanuel from Twitter Classic, and that version got sucked into some shitty fuckin extradimensional vortex
2010 twitter post by legendary @MayorEmanuel (fake) account. "The only thing that's going to get me through this is knowing that when I shake your hand, mine is covered in cock sweat."
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Loading up for a big trip south
A monarch butterfly feeds on a large yellow, orange, and red dahlia flower
October 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The person on the right side of this photo is displaying actual manliness:
Obama sternly facing down a cowering Vladimir Putin
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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There’s a future here for those who dare
Imperial cubicle workspace from Andor
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM