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Steven B
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A Floridian learning to live in Pennsylvania (outside Philly). Proud UCF alumni
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Peak mid-century automobile delusion.
A black and white photo of a Dulles mobile lounge. There is a mix of forward, rear, inboard and outboard seating with large windows. There are people in most of the seats wearing traveling quality suits. It's from the 1960s
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Low on green dollars but not silver dollars
A nonstick griddle sits on top of a gas range. There are six uncooked silver dollar pancakes on the near end with three cooked ones on the far end.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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It wasn't even 19 months ago the news about the gov't and airlines was all about regulation and consumer protections. Instead of fascist incompetence and the destruction of an industry.
Screen shot of a Department of Transportation press release reading: • U.s. Department of Transportation Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Ancillary Service Fees Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Rule makes it easy to get money back for cancelled or significantly changed flights, significantly delayed checked bags, and additional services not provided WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris Administration today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a final rule that requires airlines to promptly provide passengers with automatic cash refunds when owed. The new rule makes it easy for passengers to obtain refunds when airlines cancel or significantly change their flights, significantly delay their checked bags, or fail to provide the extra services they purchased. "Passengers deserve to get their money back when an airline owes them - without headaches or haggling," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. "Our new rule sets a new standard to require airlines to promptly provide cash refunds to their passengers."
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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If we're gonna have a politics of sitcoms discussion we've gotta talk about the most accurate depiction of America in the 2nd & 3rd decades of the 21st century.

Superstore
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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We don't pay nearly enough attention to media illiteracy on the left and how to causes a deeply cynical view of humanity that's inherently at odds with progressive ideals.

Wildly insane take here that also doesn't understand comedy.
Screen shot of a skeet • 23h (2/2) Seinfeld. Curb. Always Sunny. Schitt's Creek. It's not that they make me feel superior, it's that they humanize my worst without sanitizing it. We're all one shitty justification away from stealing an old lady's marble rye. Anyone who says otherwise is a Parks & Rec fan (inflammatory).
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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It's a shame "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" isn't taught more often. Maybe then folks would understand the injustices Twain was railing against came back ’round.

Both folks keeping their loyalty to imagery rather than ideals and corporations exploiting workers & lesser shareholders
A photo of a paragraph from Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court " You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it. I was from Connecticut, whose Constitution declares "that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit; and that they have at all times an undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient." A photo of a paragraph from Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court " So to speak, I was become a stockholder in a corporation where nine hundred and ninety-four of the members furnished all the money and did all the work, and the other six elected themselves a permanent board of direction and took all the dividends. It seemed to me that what the nine hundred and ninety-four dupes needed was a new deal.
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I figured the Newport Cliff Walk would be cool thanks to reading @alyssamaxwell.bsky.social. But I did not expect it to involve crossing bolders and feel so connected to the natural qualities of the island. Unbelievable that it survived the Robber Barons.
A photo of a rocky coast. On the left is a steep hill, about two-people high, covered in browning vegetation. There is a short white and gray rock wall at the base with an 8 foot stone path at the bottom. To the right of the path begins broken rock and a quick descent to tidal pool rocks. To the right is the ocean with two low and long rocks jutting out. The clouds are whispy and pure white casting shadows below.
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Non-destructive alternative.
Image of three kinds of lentils. Which you never want to get stuck in a tire stem under the cap as it will depress the valve and deflate the tire.
October 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
An anime style image of two figures playing Foosball at the top of rocky peaks above lava and demons. There are barren rocky surfaces surrounding them. It's from the TV show Community and the figures are Jeffrey Winger and Shirley Bennett.
October 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Amidst all the protest signs here is a great one on the corner of 16th & Chestnut in Philly. Fuck Wonder, fuck venture capital, fuck the hollowing out of our communities.
A typed page criticizing Wonder tapes to a stone wall. The key description is "Wonder. *** An uninspired, personality-free, garbage use – backed by a mountain of bored venture capital."
October 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Reboot, you say?
October 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Further evidence Americans do not know what "Gilded Age" means. It was decidedly not the "Golden Era," that's like the whole point of Duncan & Twain naming it the Gilded Age.
Cover of "The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook" the title is in red text using type reminiscent of 19th century ads. The cover is green. The subtitle "Cookies and treats from America's golden era 1868-1900" is in white inside a gold outlined banner. The author's name, Becky Libourel Diamond, is in white at the bottom. There are gold outlined star bursts, ribbons and leaves.
September 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Where there is a #UCF Knight, there is a way. #gkco
An iPhone is propped up on shot glasses showing an ESPN broadcast with UCF players celebrating a touchdown. There is a rubber ducky with gold beads on it.
September 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I'm glad Founding Fathers appreciates repeat business. Even though the Philly Knights are small they save TVs for us! #gkco #ucf
Two televisions arranged vertically on a bar wall, the top one shows a baseball replay the bottom shows a weather delay graphic. Underneath is a "Maine spurs" scarf for the Maine Tottenham Hotspurs supporters club.
September 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The French may not be as known for their fried foods in America, but a French Country Style frying pan is way better than the American version. Almost like a saucer. This one is from DeBuyer and it's awesome.
Sliced zucchini float in oil as they're fried. The dark colored carbon steel frying pan is in the French style with two loop handles and a curved bottom and low sides.
July 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Instagram fed me this ad today. Not only am I the completely wrong person for it, but I'm pretty sure Biden's presidency ended six months ago. And the government waste is on ethnic cleansing and billionaire handouts.

Oh well, waste your money assholes.
An Instagram add from Judicial Watch calling on people to follow them and "Stop Biden's Corruption". This is a screen shot taken six months after Biden's presidency ended.
July 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Every time I learn something about the Abundance flimflammers the more it all makes sense. Thanks to @edzitron.com for making me realize the birthday party guy was one of them. The Business Idiot article is a great angry read
"These people are powerful, and have big platforms. They’re people like Derek Thompson, famed co-author of the “abundance” agenda, who celebrates the idea of a fictitious version of ChatGPT that can entirely plan and execute a 5-year-old’s birthday party, or his co-author Ezra Klein, who, while recording a podcast where his researchers likely listened, talked proudly about replacing their work with OpenAI’s broken Deep Research product, because anything that can be outsourced must be, and all research is “looking at stuff that is relevant.”"
July 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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This is how I feel wearing my Jaguars/Orlando City/UCF gear around Philly. #vamosorlando
A screenshot from Futurama of a robot in a vaguely matador looking outfit holding up a green passport
June 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Remember when INS (ICE's precursor) was the poster agency for violent gov't operations after they used hundreds of agents to take Elian González. The far right used Diaz's Pulitzer winning image for years. The remarkable thing now is the CBP/INS agent was willing to show his face
A government agent in green body armor points a submachine gun at a man holding a fearful boy in front of a closet.
June 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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It took two years, but I finally found a decent Cubano in PA. Rosa Blanca in Allentown had all the components and flavors. A unique twist with the thicker pork.
Delicious Cuban sandwich cut in half on a plate with red decorations and a Cuban flag in the sandwich halves.
June 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Two Costco rotisserie chicken carcasses (thank you chickens) means it's time to make some stock/broth. Hopefully I remember the bowl at the end.
June 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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SHRM put out an article on raise expectations. And it looks like Millennials and Zoomers expect raises to match profits (very fair) while Boomers and Gen X expect it to match inflation. I wonder how much this is impacted by Gen X and Boomers already being at senior salaries.
Screenshot of a paragraph comparing what each generation says a fair annual raise is. Gen Z says 10.5%, Millennials say 11.2%, Gen X says 7%, Boomers say 6.6%
May 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Outside of its context that paragraph loses its meaning. The preceding graf is all about fetishizing the closet. The graf you posted the second half to is just discussing why depictions of the closet are prevelant now.
Still, the closet is obviously not a part of gay history to long for, to feel nostalgic about or to sentimentalize. So why the current obsession with one of the bleakest aspects — and a not-very-distant one — of the gay cultural landscape? It’s probably not an accident that it’s happening when it’s happening. Today gay men live in a world in which our struggles, our issues and our challenges are no longer seen as central to the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. A look at the headlines on almost any given day is a reminder that the fight right now, and very likely for some time to come, is for trans rights and acceptance. And gayness itself is no longer the identity that is most central to the movement, as it was through the liberation years and the first decade-plus of AIDS. A February Gallup poll showed that “bisexual” is now the most frequently claimed label among L.G.B.T.Q. Americans, with 5.2 percent of people opting for it; only 3.4 percent of people call themselves either gay or lesbian.
May 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I'll never regret moving to PA so long as Ambler Theater shows such gems as "Faster Pussycat Kill, Kill!" And "My Favorite Wife"
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Still gotta welcome spring with Rita's, no matter how awful it is
March 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM