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Steve Fartlow
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JCO FROM THE TOP ROPE!
timothy faust E @taste of tbone • 17h i don't say things like this often, as i find them hyperbolic to the point of extreme dilution, so please believe me when I say that this is the most severe, graceful dissection of Elon Musk I've seen. Swift and effortlessly deep, like piano wire throug... Joyce Carol Oates & @JoyceCarolOates Truly it was out of curiosity: why a person with unlimited resources exhibits so little appreciation or even awareness of the things that most people value as giving meaning to life. Just minimally well to do people donate to charities, local museums & libraries & the like; they support the commonweal. & unlike the very wealthy these people pay high income taxes.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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HAHAHHA GET FUCKED ACKMAN
Bill Ackman @BillAckman Supposedly an unprecedented 2.2 million turnout with 60% above 45 years old. I am going to be an optimist and say @andrewcuomo is going to get the win. If he fails to win, it's because @CurtisSliwa cares more about himself than NYC. Let's never forget that. If Andrew wins, he is going to be a great mayor. Why? Because he will owe nothing to the Democratic Party and he will be working only for his legacy. He can therefore do whatever is right for NYC for the long term without worrying about the political consequences. @realDonaldTrump is going to want to work with Cuomo to Make NY Great Again, MNYGA. Say: ManyGA I think the President and Cuomo respect each other which increases the chances they will work well together. We will know supposedly by 9:30pm. Say a prayer. 5:08 PM • Nov 4, 2025 • 3.4M Views
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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YES... HA HA HA... YES!
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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It also takes away credit from the people who did the work of collectively organizing over the span of decades. Years before the New Deal, Eugene Debs got 3% of the vote running for President as candidate for the Socialist Party—running from a prison cell!
Although sometimes called "King Debs", Debs himself was not wholly comfortable with his standing as a leader. As he told an audience in Detroit in 1906: I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, someone else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition.
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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This is fucking golden lmao
Exactly who composes the Stavros Halkias audience is a question that has recurred throughout his career. It flared up again last November, when a clip from his appearance on "This Past Weekend With Theo Von" - in which he explains to the host, a political autodidact, that large corporations and the wealthy do tend to favor right-wing politicians - went viral, prompting commenters to opine that he understood political communication in ways many professional Democrats did not. The same people may have reached different conclusions during the run of "Cum Town," whose recurring characters included a Greek teenager named Molestrios whose gimmick is addressing his mother with misogynistic slurs. For example: Riffing on alternative villains for "Batman: The Animated Series," they imagined a character whose name is similar to that of the Riddler but is derived from the verb "to niggle," who taunts the citizens of Gotham by insisting "it's not the same word." This joke was an agile improvisation about the atmosphere of panic around not just racism but also anything that could be mistaken for racism; it might also accurately be described as white men giggling about almost saying the N-word. Whether listeners experienced it as one or the other probably depended on how funny they thought it was.
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Here’s what his campaign’s former political director—“former” because she quit last week after the Reddit posts came out—had to say about it yesterday.
I've run out of self-restraint, worse than when the guys on the train to Boston were fan boying over Reds Eats. The DC consultant class has fucked up our US Senate race again and you all need to stop snipping at each other. This is seriously the dumbest timeline. Graham has an anti-Semitic tattoo on his chest. He's not an idiot, he's a military history buff. Maybe he didn't know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means. His campaign released it themselves to some podcast bros, along with a video of him shirtless and drunk at a wedding to try to get ahead of it. The vault is open for the GOP to fucking crush any dreams we had in the general and literally everyone I know is fighting with each other on social media. We cannot be this painfully stupid.
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Does he know?
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Didn’t even make it a year before becoming adversarial.
Post from Bluesky developer Paul Frazier: FWIW the Bluesky team agrees. Hopefully not in 5 years (I'd like at least 10 good years) but everybody knows the cycle. The company is a future adversary. That's why we did this whole thing, so other apps could replace us if/when it happens: Paul Frazee0@pfrazee.com • 11mo If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website
October 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The survivorship bias plane.
September 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Makes me think of this classic tweet.
nothing will make you sound crazier in your day to day life than knowing about like 4 things the CIA has done and fully admitted to
August 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Here’s that attention you ordered
August 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving. -Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality
July 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Tumblr post by user nitewrighter Mar 26 Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
July 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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That’s just tech being tech.
A reply to a tweet requesting: “Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.” The reply reads: “Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day.”
July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Every single time it’s so damn funny.
Anonymous post from 4chan dated 01/07/21 (Thu)21:04:44 imagine spending the better part of the last 5 years having your brain and ego melted by uninterrupted /pol/ exposure, flying to washington in the middle of a pandemic to hear trump whine about oprah and mike pence at a rally, marching up to congress on his orders to smash shit and then mill around aimlessly you go home and hear that biden won anyway and all of your favorite twitter news sources named like Patriot Newsman Of the West with avatars of roman statues have posted your photo online and are labeling you a "gay communist antifa actor." then the next day the god emperor you pasted into warhammer memes puts out a video cucking himself and bending the knee. "i'm sorry, those were heinous acts! p-please let me tweet again jack!!" you can't leave de because the airlines have dubbed you a flight risk. you can't stay because the cops are actively looking for you after one of their own died. your roommate at the only hotel that would accept you is a guy named based_kekistani1488 who wants to show you his goblin slayer torrents. the sun is going down and you're getting cold.
June 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I need everyone to stop what they’re doing, go to the Washington Monument livestream, and see how NO ONE SHOWED UP TO HIS FUCKASS PARTY LMFAOOO #NoKings
YouTube livestream titled EarthCam Live: Army 250th Anniversary Parade - Saturday, 6/14 (Washington, D.C.) as of 7pm Eastern. The same image zoomed in showing a crowd the size one might find at a Costco on a moderately busy weekday.
June 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I went and looked them up out of morbid curiosity and something’s not right here…
A picture of the couple, ostensibly. Their profile stating their ages which are comically older than they appear in their picture.
June 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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To be fair, we’re talking the global top 10%, which includes most of the US middle class and above
Excerpt from the article. “In 2020, the global mean temperature was 0.6IC higher than 1990. The researchers found that about 65 percent of that incre se could be attributed to emissions from the global richest io percent, a group they defined as including all those earning more than $48,600 a year. That includes all those on the UK median salary for full-time employees, which is $49,760.”
May 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Really? Right in front of my nola jar of tangy mayonnaise
April 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Little did they know penguins stay ready.
A penguin wielding a machete with the caption “become untariffable”
April 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Now would be a good time for Americans to familiarize themselves with the grassroots Share Our Wealth movement that shifted the Overton Window enough to make the New Deal possible.

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In February 1934, Long introduced his "Share Our Wealth" plan over a nationwide radio broadcast. 71[81 His plan was to minimize wealth inequality, via Federal tax and spend policy. An individual's right to wealth would be restricted to: • a maximum INHERITANCE of $5 million ($118.6 million in 2024); • a maximum annual INCOME of $1 million ($23.72 million in 2024); • and an individual's private WEALTH/FORTUNE to $50 million ($1.186 billion in 2024). The taxes raised would guarantee every family what Long called a "Household Estate" of $5,000 (a Basic Household Grant worth $118,600 in 2024) and a minimum annual income of $2,000-$3,000 (a Universal Basic Income to each household of $47,450-$71,175 per year, 2024), or one-third of the average family home value and income. • free Higher education (including degree-level study at a college, (9 and vocational internships/training required to enter professional organisations); • a mandatory 30 hour (four day) working week and a minimum of four weeks paid vacation per year (9) (10) • a Pension of $30/month, $360 a year ($711.73 and $8,540.76 in 2024) paid to every person from the age of 65; • for direct Federal assistance to farmers; • public works projects, including a $10 billion ($237.2 billion in 2024) land reclamation
April 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Global American-lead Capitalism woke
April 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Two posts from Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets. The first reads “I'm not going to panic' - Jim Cramer on Sunday's stock futures sell-off.” The second reads “CNBC host Jim Cramer warns of ‘Black Monday' market crash over Trump tariffs rivaling record 1987 collapse.” I'm playing both sides, so that I always come out on top.
April 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Youtuber doing video titled: They targeted gamers. GAMERS.
April 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM