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Cold vermin winter of our discontent
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Vermin SUPREME. Bad at skitter (except when going from trash receptacle to trash receptacle). Wanna see pictures of my ferrets?
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I shall let Dillon from Tulsa speak everything for me in this excellent LTE from The Oklahoman:
Her rights were not violated First, Ms. Fulnecky is not having her rights violated. She has no constitutional right to receive a certain grade. Professors, teachers, and graduate assistants are endowed with the prerogative to assess coursework and grade it fairly. One can make the argument that Ms. Fulnecky did not deserve a 0 out of 25 on the assignment based on the grading criteria listed, but that has nothing to do with whether or not she had her first amendment right violated. This is why OU has its own internal process for challenging grades. Second, from my limited understanding, it seems that the instructor of the class has firm ground to offer a 0 out of 25 for the essay Ms. Fulnecky submitted because she did not defend her controversial opinion well or even at all. It's perfectly fine to possess a controversial opinion, but academia requires students to defend it. This is the point of writing essays. Psychology is a social science. The field is based on empirical research. This is not a First Amendment issue. This is an issue of a student not meeting academic standards. My opinion about genderfluid children being bullied does not matter. But, if I was going to defend bullying genderfluid children in an academic setting, I would have to make that argument beyond "Well the Bible says gender norms are important and people who violate them are demonic." That kind of rudimentary argument would not pass the grade for a religious studies class, much less a psychology course. ― Dillon O'Carroll, Tulsa
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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May I offer a compromise:
a person dressed as a storm trooper holding a sign that reads, "I stand with the empire". He is standing next to a woman in a MAGA hat.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Oh man, I was just watching something on honey badgers, and they hypothesize that the baby cheetah coat pattern is mimicry of the honey badger, to deter predation while the cubs are tiny. Nobody fucks with the honey badger and/or cheetah cubs!
Honey badger up top, cheetah cub on the bottom
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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A move that takes place where you are from
Smoke Signals, 1998
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I don't care that she climbs in the monstera, but I do care that she climbs it and gets onto the counter and then into the delicate plants.

I spent all morning coming up with a contraption to prevent this and she outwitted me on the first try.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Wasn't that dude he's punching the guy who was so proud of being a Nazi ?
Jubilee Nazi debating Mehdi Hasan
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The first paragraph really reads like ketamine usage. Second excerpt is hilarious because...how detached is Keith Olbermann? I understand now how he convinced himself he could score with Rachel Maddow.

"Neither of us really liked people" - oh to be a fly on the wall!
In an interview on Thursday, Ms. Nuzzi said the negative reaction to her book excerpt didn’t bother her. “I am pretty detached from the outcome,” she said. “Any time the notion of the external world intruded on the process of writing the book, I’d bat it away, thinking that a very, very good outcome would be if the book was received with open minds in 20 or 30 years. Hilariously, I’m an optimist.” They met for dinner. She was 18. He was 52. Instead of working together, they began dating, he said. They got two Maltese puppies and James Thurber-inspired tattoos. “It was marriage-y,” Mr. Olbermann said. “It was very much an at-home-with-the-dogs sort of thing.” “One of the things that drew us together is that neither of us really liked people,” he continued. The dogs missed her when she moved out. He said he had determined this because they looked sad when they saw her on CNN. The day after our conversation, Mr. Olbermann called to clarify something that had not come up; he wanted it known that they did not begin a physical relationship until Ms. Nuzzi was 19.
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I dunno....
The band Poison, with huge 80s butt rock hair, reflecting a bright yellow (pineapple flavored?) light
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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In case you're curious

the little Aurora Borealis projector dealy is pretty cool and does work exactly as indicated. Great for setting the mood in your small apartment!
Aurora Borealis projector cube, $20 at Lowe's
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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just remember this next time people tell you GMOs are bad for you
a picture showing all the varietals of brassica
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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These are the eyes she's talking about
a closeup of Quasimodo - excuse me, RFK Jr's - eyes
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This shit is definitely the bomb, we called it worms in dirt.
chocolate pudding layered with oreo crumbs and gummy worms on top, making it look like soil with nightcrawlers
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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a bumblebee napping inside a coneflower
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Outdoor cat enjoying the last of the sun (we call him The Professor but that's mainly because we started naming stray cats after Futurama characters). We have a Nibbler, Dwight, and Fry who make appearances but The Prof sticks around.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Outdoor cat
A siamese cat looking at the camera with big blue eyes
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Time to soak up some rads
A cat sitting directly in front of a radiant heat dish space heater
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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At least when they put headlines like the one below, they had to get some hacks to vaguely support their bullshit conclusions. Now they fully misrepresent shit.The continuity of woman-hating is sure something.

The second text block below is from an Eric Wemple piece summarizing this episode.
NYT Headline: Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia This is from an Eric Wemple piece dissecting this TRAVESTY of a fucking article, " In their book on Russia-Trump — "Russian Roulette” — Michael Isikoff and David Corn write that it was the editors at the Times who had “cast the absence of a conclusion as the article’s central theme rather than the fact of the investigation itself.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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hahaahah this review rules
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! 😭 IM ON THE FLOOR IM CRYING AND THROWING UP IM DEAD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH😭😭😭😭💀IVE BEEN SCOOPED OUT AND LEFT IN THE FOREST TO BE EATEN BY WILD ANIMALS
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I'm reminded of a delightful story I read earlier today, about how Mamdani's dad first encountered Marx:
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I brought this hammock in to dry before I put it away for the season, and the ferrets decided it was an airship that they were going to take on an adventure.
a striped human-sized hammock is suspended between two plant hangers in a living room, with a ferret hanging out in the middle a close up of the ferret hanging out in the hammock.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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This is a Burmese ferret-badger, taxidermied obviously. It was in the Burke Museum at UW. Why did they pose him like he's challenging the viewer to a rap battle?? The expression is perfection.
A Burmese ferret-badger, which looks like a ferret/mink with badger facial patterns and long badger claws/paws. For some reason, the taxidermist has posed this animal on its hand legs, with its front legs held out in front of it in a bit of a T-Rex pose, or if the ferret-badger is going to start spitting bars
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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First of all, pet peeve of mine, thank you for agreeing with me on this topic.

Second, let me present my absolutely favorite Mitt Romney anecdote. This fucking loser. This fucking LOSER! Can you imagine being as rich as this fuck and not realizing you can hire a fucking personal chef? He sucks.
During a meeting for his upcoming biography of Romney, Atlantic journalist McKay Coppins wrote how the senator “showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska”. Mr Coppins continued: “He didn’t especially like salmon, but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal.” Journalists and other political figures joined Ms Murkowski in ribbing the senator over his “haunting” eating habits.
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I absolutely don't think that, but I know people were wary of them because "initials" and "German" and "industrial".

Rammstein's music isn't my taste, but they have good politics. East German gay BDSM socialist influenced politics.
The video of "Deutschland", released in 2019, sparked further controversy, as it portrays black German actress Ruby Commey appearing as Germania, which has been described as "a calculated affront to German nationalists".[98] The video also portrays the band members both as Nazi concentration camp executioners and as Jewish prisoners, sparking the complaints of Holocaust survivor groups; however, others defended the video and the song lyrics, which have been interpreted as "express[ing] a love/hate relationship with Germany".[99]
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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CANADA: FUCK YEAH
Canada's New Army NEEDS Men Like You! reads this propaganda poster from WWII, depicting a dude popping a wheelie on a motorbike with a crusader echoing his poster in the clouds
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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I love the contrast to Canada's approach
A Canadian propaganda poster from WWII, showing a beaver eating a tree that Hitler has climbed. The text reads, "Get your teeth into the job"
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM