Trenton, NJ 08647
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Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
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There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.
July 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.
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This is the thread Americans needed to see this weekend to feel better about our country.
Here’s a thread of cheese fries you can get at soccer stadiums in the U.K.
July 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is the thread Americans needed to see this weekend to feel better about our country.
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THE SUN IS GETTING LOW IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO USE FIREWORKS SAFELY
July 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
THE SUN IS GETTING LOW IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO USE FIREWORKS SAFELY
Reminder: blue people live in red states.
E.g., Wyoming. Trump got 71.60% of the popular vote in Wyoming... and 1 in 4 people voted for Kamala!
“Blue” and “red” states are a fiction. States aren’t teams, and acting like they are makes life harder for people who already are marginalized.
E.g., Wyoming. Trump got 71.60% of the popular vote in Wyoming... and 1 in 4 people voted for Kamala!
“Blue” and “red” states are a fiction. States aren’t teams, and acting like they are makes life harder for people who already are marginalized.
For those that think the red states are getting what they deserve, we will all feel the consequences of these cancelled NIH grants. These researchers and institutions deserve better, regardless of red or blue state.
Red states miss out on the impact of the ruling overturning the cancelation of research grants. Only researchers in states whose attorneys general took part in the suit challenging the cutting of funding — ie mostly in blue states — see their grants restored. www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n...
July 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Reminder: blue people live in red states.
E.g., Wyoming. Trump got 71.60% of the popular vote in Wyoming... and 1 in 4 people voted for Kamala!
“Blue” and “red” states are a fiction. States aren’t teams, and acting like they are makes life harder for people who already are marginalized.
E.g., Wyoming. Trump got 71.60% of the popular vote in Wyoming... and 1 in 4 people voted for Kamala!
“Blue” and “red” states are a fiction. States aren’t teams, and acting like they are makes life harder for people who already are marginalized.
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Expressing dismay on social media seems completely insufficient to this moment, but boy will we miss it when they take it away.
July 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Expressing dismay on social media seems completely insufficient to this moment, but boy will we miss it when they take it away.
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ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.
July 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.
Listening to it now, can confirm a very healthy helping of riffs. Two scoops, *minimum.*
This new album of mine is so fuckin chock full of riffs. Once you think you're done with a riff, BAM! new riff. You will enjoy this album if you like listening to 200 intricate little melodies, overlapping and in rapid succession. You'll also like it if you're a morbid bitch.
June 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Listening to it now, can confirm a very healthy helping of riffs. Two scoops, *minimum.*
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in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun
June 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
in late 2026, nearly 50 years after its launch, voyager 1 will be the first manmade object to reach a distance of one light day from the sun
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
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18 months ago, i wrote about how people were making AI generated Indigenous art. it's not a coincidence that people keep choosing to use these tools, trained on content without their maker's permission, to do this stuff
www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/19/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/19/a...
AI is producing ‘fake’ Indigenous art trained on real artists’ work without permission
One Indigenous artist said the process of using their art to train AI models that competes with them for work is a ‘very colonial mindset’.
www.crikey.com.au
June 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
18 months ago, i wrote about how people were making AI generated Indigenous art. it's not a coincidence that people keep choosing to use these tools, trained on content without their maker's permission, to do this stuff
www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/19/a...
www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/19/a...
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Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
June 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
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From a friend in Torrence, California
June 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
From a friend in Torrence, California
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Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month
May 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month
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nobody has ever left the house intending to go to Subway. it's only somewhere you go if you are inconveniently hungry
June 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
nobody has ever left the house intending to go to Subway. it's only somewhere you go if you are inconveniently hungry
Sometimes technology reshapes industries. Sometimes technology *replaces* industries—reshaping them so dramatically that people can no longer make a living.
People fear that AI will do the latter. AI proponents need to offer better than vague promises that artists will be fine if they “change”.
People fear that AI will do the latter. AI proponents need to offer better than vague promises that artists will be fine if they “change”.
The industry completely changed business models to essentially tolerate piracy, by allowing downloading and eventually streaming, paying fractions of a penny per stream to artists
AI is the same, better for the consumer, but artists need to change business models
AI is the same, better for the consumer, but artists need to change business models
June 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sometimes technology reshapes industries. Sometimes technology *replaces* industries—reshaping them so dramatically that people can no longer make a living.
People fear that AI will do the latter. AI proponents need to offer better than vague promises that artists will be fine if they “change”.
People fear that AI will do the latter. AI proponents need to offer better than vague promises that artists will be fine if they “change”.
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Insane. If the purpose of a government was to make a profit, there’d be no need to provide any services at all.
May 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Insane. If the purpose of a government was to make a profit, there’d be no need to provide any services at all.
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This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.
May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.
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A man walks into a library and asks the librarian for books about paranoia.
The librarian whispers, "They're right behind you!"
The librarian whispers, "They're right behind you!"
May 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A man walks into a library and asks the librarian for books about paranoia.
The librarian whispers, "They're right behind you!"
The librarian whispers, "They're right behind you!"
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“Can’t 86 him? 25th him.” — Founding Fathers, probably.
May 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Can’t 86 him? 25th him.” — Founding Fathers, probably.
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I bought beans and cornmeal and batteries to prepare for tariff apocalypse.
But I also got sidewalk chalk and flower seeds and remaindered jelly beans and a $5 bubble machine and an iridescent pinwheel and sparkle stickers and temporary tattoos in tie dye patterns.
I refuse misery.
But I also got sidewalk chalk and flower seeds and remaindered jelly beans and a $5 bubble machine and an iridescent pinwheel and sparkle stickers and temporary tattoos in tie dye patterns.
I refuse misery.
May 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I bought beans and cornmeal and batteries to prepare for tariff apocalypse.
But I also got sidewalk chalk and flower seeds and remaindered jelly beans and a $5 bubble machine and an iridescent pinwheel and sparkle stickers and temporary tattoos in tie dye patterns.
I refuse misery.
But I also got sidewalk chalk and flower seeds and remaindered jelly beans and a $5 bubble machine and an iridescent pinwheel and sparkle stickers and temporary tattoos in tie dye patterns.
I refuse misery.
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None of these so-called "geniuses" even knows how to properly feed themselves.
May 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
None of these so-called "geniuses" even knows how to properly feed themselves.
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“The New Civil War is being fought so that you will forget that the Old Cold War ended as a corporate merger.”
--THEY KNEW (2022)
--THEY KNEW (2022)
May 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
“The New Civil War is being fought so that you will forget that the Old Cold War ended as a corporate merger.”
--THEY KNEW (2022)
--THEY KNEW (2022)
We’re at the “NPR go bag” stage of America’s collapse.
Putting together a go bag doesn't have to be daunting or expensive. Here's how to create a functional kit that doesn't require much money, time or effort.
Cheap and easy ways to stock your emergency go bag
Putting together a go bag doesn't have to be daunting or expensive. Here's how to create a functional kit that doesn't require much money, time or effort.
www.npr.org
May 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We’re at the “NPR go bag” stage of America’s collapse.