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I am going to make it through this year if it kills me.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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"On Tuesday, in the wake of perhaps the most catastrophic vote in American history, Schumer immediately ran off to post this on Elon Musk’s crooked social media platform. It might be the most 2025 Democratic thing I have ever seen"
Well, that’s the electrifying Schumer himself burying his face in the lectern, surrounded by Senator Patty Murray who is burying her face in her hands, Senator Jack Reed who is burying himself in sleep, and some dude on the lower-right with the thought-bubble over his head that reads: “Please, God, just bury me now …” THIS is who is leading the Left while Trump and his Orcs drag us into hell.
July 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
I am publishing soon something we were scooped on

@theonion.com beat us to it

I am not joking
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
dgrand.bsky.social David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · Jan 7
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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AAAAAA IT'S ONE OF THOSE MYSTERY EVIL DRONES IT'S HOVERING RIGHT OVER ME AND IT ISN'T GOING AWAY WHAT DO I DO WHAT DO I…

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woops ok its just the ceiling fan never mind
December 16, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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My friend Carlyle did a whole ass animated short to Dracula's Lament as his final animation project in school
youtu.be/RP_LhiOp_Po?...
Dracula's Lament
YouTube video by Carlyle W
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December 1, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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My favorite John Candy story, from character actor Troy Evans.
Evans: It was the night of the Oscars. And the phone rings, I’m sitting in my underwear in my room, eating room service and watching the TV. And the phone rings. “Is this Troy?” I said, “Yeah.” “Troy, this is John Candy. I’m having a few folks up to watch the Oscars, and wondered if you’d like to join us.” I was so excited. You know, John Hughes will be there. The producers will be there. And maybe I’ll meet Steve Martin. I didn’t have any dress clothes, but I cleaned up as best as I could, and went up to John Candy’s room. He was in the same hotel, He was in the same hotel, you know. And John Hughes wasn’t there. The producers weren’t there. And Steve Martin wasn’t there. Who was there was everybody who was like me on the movie. He went through all the down-the-ladder actors and invited them all up to his suite. Isn’t that wonderful? And then he got like, a thousand dollars’ worth of room service. He got like 20 pizzas, and just the food just kept coming all evening. And so as I was leaving, I tried to slip him $200 to help with the food. And I’ll remember this on my deathbed. John Candy said, “Troy, that’s been taken care of.”
November 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM