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Empty out the locker room, let me find my space

location: more like GREATEST Boston

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Made some bread
A homemade rustic boule topped with oats
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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OK!
Part of my upper right arm. Visible tattoos include a Moray eel based on a Neko Case drawing, colored with splotchy aquatic watercolors; above it the "This Machine Kills Fascists" lettering from Woody Guthrie's guitar; above that a skeletal cat paw; beside them both a hopscotch board with year numbers starting at "'12" in the boxes until the bottom, which is crossed out and another box added below with "'21"; then up on my shoulder the Doomtree "No Kings" logo of a spraypainted crown inside a crossed-circle "no" symbol, but the crossbar is a skeleton key; and in an arc over that, a small banner reading "never die never die".
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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ah, I see the Jeffington Bezost is busy manufacturing consent for the destruction of federally funded veterans' services
Post Reports podcast latest episode: "How some veterans exploit the VA disability system An investigation by The Post found that some veterans are taking advantage of the Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation program. Today, how the system is being gamed and the attention The Post’s reporting has already received from Congress."
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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classic tweet by @crookedroads770 replying to @vol_long and @Liz_Wheeler: "I could easily win a debate against 600,000 babies" but "600,000 babies" has been crossed out in red and replaced with "a toaster".
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I don't think a person should have a trillion dollars
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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top comment:
youtube comment by @JacktheFreaklol: "why is this middle aged catholic who looks like a middle aged catholic so good at making me sob uncontrollably with the same 4 chords"
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The sharp-toothed damaged mutant killer clone cop from classic webcomic The Parking Lot Is Full, asking a motorist he's just pulled over, "Are you stealing my thoughts, ma'am?"
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Wow this is a bad headline!
BBC headline: "Trump does not rule out seeking third term - but says he will not use VP loophole".
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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HELLO HUMAN TEENS I HEARD THE COOLEST PLACE FOR US TEENS TO HANG OUT IS T h e U n c a n n y V a l l e y O f M e a t LETS GO DO NOT BRING WEAPONS
Marketplace podcast "How We Survive" Season 8 Episode 2 "The Uncanny Valley of Meat" "Can meat alternatives satisfy our hunger for the real thing?" with thumbnail of sketched diagram indicating that people like meat substitutes more as they get closer to the real experience of meat, up until a certain point when they're _very_ close but not _exactly_ right, and they produce a strong negative reaction.
October 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Nick Lutsko singing "They got ghouls!" in his classic theme song for Spirit Halloween.
October 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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😭😭😭
David Ortiz with adorable tiny baby Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in 2010 at the Home Run Derby
October 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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please clap
the below quoted photo of the mock trial at UNC School of Law with three monitors displaying output from "AI" chatbots as "jurors", but the monitors have been replaced with three of the SEELE monoliths from Neon Genesis Evangelion, solid black with glowing red text on each reading: "SEELE 01/02/03 SOUND ONLY". I spent way too much time editing this photo for this dumb niche joke.
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Nice weather for going to the Fells today
A view of the Boston skyline under a blue sky and fluffy clouds, from Wright's Tower in the Middlesex Fells to the north
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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hey by the way
clipped from a website that tells how many days it is until a specific date: June 9th 2026, the date of the Maine federal primary election, is 229 days away.
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I dunno man I think the "I'm not going to educate you" thing has maybe gone too far. It's not unreasonable, if you say "Dems are doing X", to ask you for an example! NB: Bernie Sanders is, famously, not a Democrat.
Bluesky thread with account information blacked out. OP: "Dems saying 'Not all Nazis' in 2025. I'm supposed to show up to the polls and be fired up to balance the scales for that? Man…" Reply: "Where can I find this statement made by which Dems? Thank you." OP response: "Defenses of Graham Platner." Reply: "From which Democrats. Thank you." OP response: "The search button is right there, though. You're welcome?"
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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if it weren't for just one little thing—see if you can spot it!—I'd have clicked through to read this and also reposted it, because it's about a good and funny thing that happened yesterday.
post by Erin Reed reading "1. Yesterday, millions shows up at the No Kings Rally. Perhaps no one Rally was as full of subtext as Boston's, however. Senator Markey showed up wearing a trans pride flag. His challenger, anti-trans Dem Rep. Seth Moulton showed up to boos and jeers. Subscribe to support our journalism." The link embed has side-by-side photos of Markey and Moulton from the No Kings Boston rally, and reads "Anti-Trans Democrat Seth Moulton Booed At Boston No Kings Rally After Sen. Markey Wears Trans Flag. Representative Moulton is challenging Senator Markey for his senate seat in 2026." Between the username and the text of the post is the "substack" label, applied by labeler.antisubstack.fyi on all posts that link to substack.
October 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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well that doesn't seem good
Washington Post breaking news email: "Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure Washington’s access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele."
October 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I yet again failed to get around to making a sign for the protest today (it's OK, I'm sure there'll be more) but do you think this idea is too niche
the text "No Kings But King Kendall" in a circle around a black-and-white publicity photo of Jason "King" Kendall, vocalist for New England punkabilly legends The Amazing Crowns (f/k/a The Amazing Royal Crowns, f/k/a The Royal Crowns). He's a clean-shaven young white man with slicked-back dark hair and sideburns, slightly smirking, and wearing a Western-style shirt with embroidery on the front, standing in front of a chainlink fence.
October 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I apologize for my brain
the cover art for Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 2000 double LP _Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven_, but the disembodied hands on the background of concentric radio-wave-like emanations have been replaced with crudely drawn cartoon breasts, their nipples pointing up, as though seen by a buxom person looking down at their own chest.
October 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Anakin-and-Padme meme: in the first panel, Anakin's face is replaced with Sam Altman looking doofy and mid-utterance. His caption reads, "Automation will just get rid of the fake, busywork jobs." in the second panel, Padme, smiling, asks, "And replace them with robust social supports like UBI, right?" in the third panel, Altman just smirks doofily. in the final panel, Padme, now looking worried, repeats, "…and replace them with robust social supports like UBI, right??"
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Also Brassica rapa:
A plastic bottle of canola oil.
October 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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one does not generally "gotta hand it to" the New York Times headline writers, but "a self-described 'Deal Guy'" is actually a pretty sick burn
from the New York Times, in Politics: How Jared Kushner, a Self-Described ‘Deal Guy,’ Helped Broker a Gaza Breakthrough Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a single goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport,” he said. By Katie Rogers and Tyler Pager
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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what a place for a line break, bsky.
text of Bryant's post to which I'm replying. the line breaks before "lunch", so on first glance it looks like it just reads "swoop in and eat their whole ass".
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Four panel stick figure cartoon. Panel 1: one figure says "I voted for Trump but I didn't think he'd do things like ban Muslims or defund Planned Parenthood." the other replies "Yeah but he said he was gonna." Panel 2: first figure says "Yeah, I just thought—" and the other interrupts "He said he was gonna." Panel 3: first figure says "Like he's so unpredictable," and the other replies "He said he was gonna." Panel 4: first figure says "I'm just so surprised," the other, head expanded to twice its normal size, mouth wide, eyes black squiggles, yells in extra-large all-caps text, "HE SAID HE WAS GONNA."
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM