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Nicola Taylor
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Either a reasonable person, or a peppermint nightmare. You decide. 🥖🌹
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I'm running for #DSA Convention Delegate on the #BreadandRoses slate in #NYC. We plan to unite Labor and the Left to run a Socialist for President in '28 (in collab w/ @groundworkdsa.com!), start a National Design Committee, and more! But we need your help! Please rank us top of ballot. 🍞🌹
NYC Bread & Roses Candidates for National Convention North Brooklyn Carly A Fiona S Neil B Tony R Queens Andrew P B/UM Eric B South Brooklyn/Staten Island Alex P David V David-Desyrée S Central Brooklyn Cailtyn C Jake C Neal M Nicola T Oren S Zev R Vote by June 1st!
May 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I won't lie. I'm lowkey sipping on these tears.
Snapshot from Laura Loomer's X account saying "WOKE MARXIST POPE." The tweet has 185 comments, 293 retweets.
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Hey everyone! Want to feel good pulling the lever for a POTUS candidate for a change? Well, @groundworkdsa.com and Bread and Roses collaborated on a resolution for this year's #DSA convention to run a socialist for President. Sign on: discussion.dsausa.org/t/r-unite-la...
Unite Labor & The Left to Run A Socialist for President & Build The Party!
May 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Freud: The average American has three friends. #psychoanalysis #evangelion
(L to R): Mari Illustrious Makinami, Rei Ayanami, and Asuka Langley Shikinami from the Rebuild of Evangelion series of movies. They're wearing school uniforms.
May 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Define Cinema with an image 🎥 🖤
Two stills from The Neverending Story. Both depict a scene in the Swamps of Sadness. In the top still, the hero, Atreyu, a young boy with brown hair, futilely attempts to pull his white horse, Artex who is sinking into the swamp's muck. The lower still is a closeup of a sobbing Atreyu.
April 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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My computer is Char Custom. It can out-compute 10 Zakus.
A CHAR CUSTOM Macbook Pro (a Macbook Pro with a red hard shell cover on it). It is sitting on a marble counter top.
April 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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FFS. It's -been- "The Land of Wolves" for years, dude. You just feel like you're onto something because all their BS is affecting your cushy perch "now" too. The most vulnerable have been trying to tell us this for a long time.
Snapshot of Google News showing a headline from The Bulwark saying "This is the Land of Wolves Now - by Jonathan V. Last" It has a byline saying "23 hours ago * By Jonathan V. Last" and a small image depicting (L to R) US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, a man in a suit with maroon-colored tie, and El Salvador's Minister of Justice and Public Security Gustavo Villatoro.
March 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A CHALLENGER APPEARS.
Screencap of a BlueSky post from "U.S. Senator John Fetterman." It has 18.6K comments, 2K reposts (1.9K quotes; 98 regular reposts), and only 362 likes. It was written on March 14, 0225 at 8:07 PM and everyone can reply. It reads: "My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos. I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down."
March 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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See, this is what happens when you go around touching sinister looking orbs.
(Left to Right) A man in a business suit, another man in a thawb, Melania Trump, and Donald Trump at a conference hall. All but Melania are touching a bright, glowing orb in the center of the picture.
February 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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With our sign now on display, my plan quickly began to work.
The Deepseek logo, but with "Dumb" in front of it.
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I turned out fine!!!! Damn kids don't know how fun it was to ride in the back of the creek and record songs from the Antenna using The Hose.
If you were raised on bologna, drank Pepsi, played in the bologna, got your butt drank, & had 3 pickup trucks, & had an outside hose, & school started with "The Spank," had a pickup truck, rode in back of the creek, & recorded songs from the antenna, using The Hose, & drank Pepsi from a hose in the creek, said sir and radio...and you still turned out OK, say damn right!
January 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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I am on a quest to make a viable, effective Commander deck with either of these two leading the charge. To call this a challenge would be an understatement, but one I'm weirdly drawn to.
Two Magic: The Gathering cards on a mousepad on a wooden desk. The one on the left is Shauku, Endbringer. Black card, mana cost 5BB, Summon Legend, Mirage expansion. Rules text: "Flying. Shauku, Endbringer cannot attack if there is another creature in play. During your upkeep, lose 3 life. Tap: Remove target creature from the game and put a +1/+1 counter on Shauku." Illus. Pete Ventures. Power/Toughness: 5/5. Copyright 1996. The illustration is of a ghoulish, skeletally thin woman with long brown hair, sharp teeth, a purple crop top with matching purple skirt. In the background, she is in an infernal room with a roaring furnace in the shape of a demon's open-mawed face. On the right is Joven. Red card, mana cost 3RR, Summon Legend, Homelands expansion. Rules text: "3R, tap: Destroy target non-creature artifact" with flavor text reading "Joven, you're almost as good a thief as I. But Eron hates you even more. -Chandler" Illus. Douglas Shuler. Power/Toughness: 3/3. Copyright 1995. Illustration is of a burly man with long hair, intricate eyeshadow, and a fine beard. He is wearing a gray vest and black wrist sleeves with belt buckles. His arms are crossed. Behind him, a wooden sign reads "Snarg's Houe of Sin"
January 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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My ADHD brain when switching tasks.
A 2-page black-and-white spread from infamous Initial D doujinshi Densha De D in which a racer with control of a train has managed to put the front 2 wheels of the first car on a different track than all the other wheels, allowing the train to "drift" around a curve like a car. Below is a close-up reaction panel (also spanning 2 pages) of a man with a thought bubble exclaiming "MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING!!"
January 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Which makes it so every time I try a new distro, getting the right drivers - or even booting at all - can be a challenge. There's a reason this image is emblematic of the Linux world's relationship with Nvidia.
Linus Torvalds giving a middle finger to the viewer during an interview at a hacker meetup in Finland in 2012 while saying "Fuck you, Nvidia." To give context, this was immediately after he went into an angry rant about how Nvidia is "the single worst company" that the Linux community has ever dealt with.
January 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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To all non-Steam-Deck Linux Steam users playing #MarvelRivals

If you game crashes on startup, open your settings, go to "General" and enter this under Launch Options:

SteamDeck=1 %command%

You're welcome.
Marvel Rivals option dialog in Steam. "General" tab is highlighted. "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game" Under Launch Options, the command reads "SteamDeck=1 %command%"
January 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Me, watching people hit a breaking point after a techbro does something awful, wipe their social media accounts, and come here:
A still of a grinning James Franco portraying an unnamed cowboy in the 2018 film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. He has a hangman's noose tied around his neck. In white all caps, Impact font, text reads "FIRST TIME?"
January 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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An animated gif of Billy Butcher (played by Karl Urban) from the TV show The Boys talking to an unseen person. To the left of him, the words "FUCKING DIABOLICAL" are superimposed in white lettering.
January 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Wow. Someone did their research and gave Nakatomi a real OS. BSD was an offshoot of Unix from the 70s through the 90s. It has 2 really notable descendants to this day - FreeBSD and MacOS (via Darwin). Now I'm wondering if someone somewhere made a real life distro named after "Nakatomi Socrates"
Readout of a computer workstation in Die Hard (1988). Screen is monochrome (green characters on black background) with a logo and the text "CEO Workstation" More text follows: "Nakatomi Socrates BSD 9.2 Z-Level Central Core Preliminary Clearance Approved. Subroute: FInance/Alpha Access" Note: In real life, BSD's final release was version 4.4-Lite2 (June 1995)
December 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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In my best Snape voice, I'm all like "Alan Rickman enters the scene," as Hans' entourage rolls up to Nakatomi's lobby and nonchalantly kills the front desk dude.
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) walks off the back of a truck with his band of terrorists in the Nakatomi Plaza parking garage during Die Hard (1988).
December 25, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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This man's voice has the most gravitas I've ever heard in my life. He's barely in the movie and his voice alone upstages Bruce Willis. It's just this perfect booming baritone. I am in awe.
Joe Takagi (James Shigeta) introducing himself to Det. John McClane (Bruce Willis) in the classic 1988 Christmas movie Die Hard. Closed Captioning appears at the bottom of the screen reading: "Joe Takagi" followed with McClane's response of "Hi."
December 25, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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To this day, I still can't hear or see the title "Super Mario Sunshine" without thinking about this moment.
A still from a cutscene in 2004's Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, a GameCube remake of Metal Gear Solid. In the screenshot, Psycho Mantis is breaking the fourth wall and addressing the player directly, asking "You've been playing Super Mario Sunshine, haven't you?" Behind him are three portraits of actual, existing people are hung on the wall. From left to right, they are Ryuhei Kitamura (film director who worked on mocap for the game's cutscenes), Hideo Kojima (creator of the Metal Gear series), and Denis Dyack (president of the game's developer, Silicon Knights, at the time)
December 21, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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John Cusack in 1985's seminal dark comedy Better Off Dead being pursued by a gang of 3 paperboys. The one on the right says "file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/01/01/46D576C5-0EB2-4BFA-9449-00F67C336933/47B01553-5215-4628-9ADB-7ADE05570CFE.mov" while the one in the center ominously intones "Two dollars..."
December 13, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Do not think about the event.
Snapshot of the post-apocalyptic "The Quiz Broadcast" sketch on the UK TV show That Mitchell and Webb Look. Three contestants and a host are behind their respective podiums in a sparsely decorated, dimly-lit studio. The words "DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE EVENT" are superimposed front and center of the screen.
December 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Nice.
Screenshot from the linked article: "[...]CNN. On X, Navarro-Cardenas cited a pardon granted by [...] Woodrow Wilson of his brother-in-law Hunter deButts."
December 10, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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This is the eclipse now. Feel old yet?
April 20, 2024 at 12:22 PM