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Waiting for the gift of sound and vision. He/him
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Gonna be a fun class on Monday
A powerpoint slide. Titled "Lowercase republican..." Text reads: Rich Uncle example: What he wants + desires controls what you can do. Republican freedom: Not being dominated by others. Being free in a republican sense: Others do not control you Republican ideal: Being self-governed Your decisions, choices, etc. are what control your life Rejection of nobility, aristocracy, To the right of the text is a meme: An edited screenshot from the movie 500 Days of Summer. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character in the panel is captioned “I am a Republican” while Zooey Deschanel’s character is captioned “Me too”. In the second panel, Gordon-Levitt’s character is emblazoned with the elephant logo to the Republican political party in the United States. Deschanel’s character is surrounded by portraits and busts of many political philosophers, including Cicero, Rousseau and Machiavelli. A powerpoint slide. Titled: "What I'm worried about. Text reads: Emergent technologies threaten republican ideal Concentrates power to shape beliefs, discourse, policy in hands of very few. Example: Grok this summer. Musk pushed for changes. Programs edited Grok’s core prompts. Results? Grok became a groyper. Pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories, discussed “white genocide” at length, praised Hitler. Case is emblematic of larger problem: Ability to shape our beliefs, judgments, placed into hands of few. The powerpoint slide is accompanied by two images - an animated GIF of Elon Musk performing two Nazi salutes at Donald Trump's second inauguration, and an article title from Tech Policy.Press reading "With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge is New Again"
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I guess I can't get a writing job anywhere because I refuse to say shit this mindbogglingly stupid.
Screen cap of a Wall Street Journal post. The post links an essay called "Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?" The post reads: Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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A meme image. A televangelist in prayer says "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people and I want that for me."
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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A bust of Socrates. Nike's Jump Man logo is in the corner and on Socrates' forehead is text stating "Fuck them kids."
September 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Been living in my head rent free for the past week
A woman adding a bay leaf to a pot of soup. The caption reads "adding the bay leaf to do whatever it is that bay leaves are supposed to do"
September 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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A meme. A happy child labeled Early Internet Users says "It's fun to learn and talk with my new friends!" A furious adult, labeled "Business Interests", with gritted teeth and bulging veins, glares at him and screams screams "I FUCKING HATE YOU AND HOPE YOU DIE"
July 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Democrats have no problems with the substance, only the style. Rot runs deep.
A screenshot from Tom Homan's Wikipedia page which reads: "He was appointed by President Barack Obama as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations in 2013. By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective means of discouraging illegal border crossings. The journalist Caitlin Dickerson describes him as the 'intellectual father' of the policy, which he outlined years before it was adopted by the Trump administration. 'Most parents don't want to be separated', Homan told Dickerson. He argued that this fact made separation an effective tool for immigration enforcement. 'I'd be lying to you if I didn't think that this would have an effect.' In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated 'Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it.' "
July 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Trying to replace the sprayer head on my kitchen sink. Anyone have a clue what this connector is? I can't figure it out
A group of plumbing hoses
June 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Reminder that Marco Rubio is the most feckless, least principled slime monster in this entire administration
Text: Marco Antonio Rubio was born in 1971 in Miami, Florida. He is the second son and third child of Mario Rubio Reina and Oriales (née García) Rubio. His parents were Cubans who began living in the United States in 1956 during the regime of Fulgencio Batista, two and a half years before Fidel Castro ascended to power after the Cuban Revolution. His mother made at least four return trips to Cuba after Castro's takeover, including a month-long trip in 1961, and a return to Cuba had been planned before the changes in their native country. Rubio's parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of Rubio's birth. They were naturalized in 1975. Some relatives of Rubio's were admitted to the U.S. as refugees. Rubio's maternal grandfather, Pedro Victor Garcia, immigrated to the U.S. legally in 1956, but returned to Cuba to find work in 1959. When in 1962 he fled communist Cuba and returned to the U.S. without a visa, he was detained as an undocumented immigrant and an immigration judge ordered him to be deported. But immigration officials reversed their decision later that day, and the deportation order was not enforced. Instead, Garcia was reclassified to the legal status of "parolee" that allowed him to stay in the U.S. He reapplied for permanent resident status in 1966 after the Cuban Adjustment Act passed, and his residency was approved. Rubio had a close relationship with his grandfather during his childhood. Rubio said that the "essence of my family story is why they came to America in the first lace and why they had to stay"
May 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Every now and again, I remember what's on my diploma and get angry at whoever first coined this degree title
A diploma stating "the degree of doctor of philosophy philosophy"
May 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Homer Simpson shouting "Oh, not Souter!"
May 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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In January, my wife, a friend and I went to the Met. I was reading a biography of Grant at the time. Off to the side of Washington Crossing the Delaware, I spent a long time staring at these paintings, getting very emotional. Probably could have stayed there all day.
The painting "John Brown" by John Steuart Curry. A large portrait of John Brown, standing, arms spread wide shouting with a desperate look in his eyes. A tornado rips through the background. The painting "The Last Moments of John Brown" by Thomas Hovenden. John Brown marches out of the court house, following his death sentence, escorted by armed marshals. He kisses a baby as he reaches the bottom of the stairs. A set of three paintings. "A Bit of War History" by Thomas Waterman Wood. The first painting depicts a young, black man entering a Union recruitment office. The second depicts the same man in a Union Civil War uniform. The third depicts him after the war, in civilian clothes with an amputated leg.
April 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Ain't Go Grave is undeniably a spiritual but some version sound like the narrator is gearing up for an anime fight with Jesus
A screen capture of song lyrics. "Ain't no grave gonna hold my body down / When I hear that trumpet sound, I'm gonna get up out of the ground / Ain't no grave gonna hold my body down / Go down yonder, Gabriel, put your foot on the land and sea / Oh Gabriel, don't you blow your trumpet until you hear from me / I looked way over yonder, and what do you think I see? / I see a band of angels, and they're coming after me" A screen capture of song lyrics. "So meet me King Jesus, meet me / Won't you meet me in the middle of the air / If these winds should carry me, I won't need another pair / Ain't no grave gonna hold my body down"
April 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Can't even be mad. This is kind of beautiful
Box scores from the 2025 CONCACAF Nations League showing that Panama defeated the United States 1-0 on Thursday, March 20th and that Canada defeated the United States 2-1 on Sunday, March 23rd
March 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Sometimes it helps to remind ourselves that we are not living through a uniquely stupid and corrupt age.
Ronald Regan sitting at the resolute desk. The caption reads "March 4, 1987: A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. As the Tower board reported, what began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated, in its implementation, into trading arms for hostages."
March 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Chuck Schumer interview in the NY Times is a banger
Interviewer's Question: You just mentioned this idea of inauthenticity, and you wrote in the book, "Voters can smell inauthentcity the way bloodhounds rack a scent." And it did bring to mind the situation Democrats find themselves in at the moment. Do Democrats have an authenticity problem? The beginning of Schumer's response: I don't think we have an authenticity problem. We have a real direction now. I feel about it.
March 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Took so much restraint for me to not just let out an inarticulate, primal scream in the coffee shop when I read this
March 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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this means I won duolingo right????
March 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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This deck is busted man
March 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Finally got one of these absolutely cracked builds going. Diamonds boss debuff is the sword of Damocles hanging over me though
March 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Alright, fuck it, I guess words don't mean anything anymore
February 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Just preparing to talk about John Locke's epistemology with my introduction to philosophy students
A powerpoint slide with the title "What Happened?". Quotes Donald Trump's recent statements calling for the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, his statements that the U.S. will take over the area and develop it. Provides a description from the U.N. of ethnic cleansing, then concludes that POTUS is calling for a crime against humanity.
February 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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I can't wait to find out how I'm gonna mess up this run
January 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Quick Google search and... oh.
December 13, 2024 at 3:26 PM