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D definitely D.
Because what is this week even.
Because what is this week even.
How are you coping with the ills of the modern age? Stages of pterosaur decomposition. Tag yourself.
August 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
D definitely D.
Because what is this week even.
Because what is this week even.
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Since I don’t know where my head is at half the time, strong C.
How are you coping with the ills of the modern age? Stages of pterosaur decomposition. Tag yourself.
August 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Since I don’t know where my head is at half the time, strong C.
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Ppl really have no idea how ridiculously hard it is to blow a conch, I once tried till i was red in the face and almost had a stroke and nothing happened
August 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ppl really have no idea how ridiculously hard it is to blow a conch, I once tried till i was red in the face and almost had a stroke and nothing happened
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I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity.
It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
August 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity.
It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.
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I spent an unreasonable amount of time here on the differences between modern fascism and what people are referring to when they say fascism 1.0 2.0 and 3.0:
August 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I spent an unreasonable amount of time here on the differences between modern fascism and what people are referring to when they say fascism 1.0 2.0 and 3.0:
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The recommendations mark the first time Hochul’s administration has addressed problems with the state’s guardianship system since ProPublica investigated it extensively in a series of stories last year. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/new-...
Governor’s Task Force Calls on New York to Bolster Funding, Oversight of Guardianships
A panel of experts tasked by Gov. Kathy Hochul to evaluate the needs of New York’s aging population has recommended that the state permanently fund and oversee guardianship services. The governor won’...
www.propublica.org
August 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The recommendations mark the first time Hochul’s administration has addressed problems with the state’s guardianship system since ProPublica investigated it extensively in a series of stories last year. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/new-...
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Yes. I never typed that.
August 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Yes. I never typed that.
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Smaug, painted after an illustration by Tolkien himself. The border is borrowed from an early book jacket for The Hobbit.
August 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Smaug, painted after an illustration by Tolkien himself. The border is borrowed from an early book jacket for The Hobbit.
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A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
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Mum to her son as they head into a playground in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk: Remember the most important rule in life - no bikes on the slide.
August 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mum to her son as they head into a playground in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk: Remember the most important rule in life - no bikes on the slide.
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"Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation...many in the crypto business, wrote big checks while seeking favor from the president."
Trump is the most corrupt president in living memory and it's not even close.
Trump is the most corrupt president in living memory and it's not even close.
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation...many in the crypto business, wrote big checks while seeking favor from the president."
Trump is the most corrupt president in living memory and it's not even close.
Trump is the most corrupt president in living memory and it's not even close.
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Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.
August 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.
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I read this entire thread hoping that was a typo but it isn’t.
(Also Chuck Tingle would like y’all to know the asteroid sex in his books is entirely consensual and to stop tagging him.)
(Also Chuck Tingle would like y’all to know the asteroid sex in his books is entirely consensual and to stop tagging him.)
Just in: Texas' former solicitor general has left the AG's office amid sex misconduct allegations and a lawsuit outlining his apparent, months of detailed disclosures to colleagues about his sexual obsession with watching an asteroid anally rape the agency's No. 2 attorney in front of his kids.
May 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I read this entire thread hoping that was a typo but it isn’t.
(Also Chuck Tingle would like y’all to know the asteroid sex in his books is entirely consensual and to stop tagging him.)
(Also Chuck Tingle would like y’all to know the asteroid sex in his books is entirely consensual and to stop tagging him.)
Alexander Skarsgård in #Murderbot on Apple TV (cough cough) is absolutely divine. Like it's not a comedy, but it is a comedy. Forced to watch it before YT shorts spoilers meant that I may end up watching most of it in 3min increments
May 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Alexander Skarsgård in #Murderbot on Apple TV (cough cough) is absolutely divine. Like it's not a comedy, but it is a comedy. Forced to watch it before YT shorts spoilers meant that I may end up watching most of it in 3min increments
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Took a class on the New South several years ago, and we spent a month reading about all the failures of unions to take hold because of racism. Just failure after failure after failure.
Also spent a class giggling about the STFU like the child I am, but the point remains.
Also spent a class giggling about the STFU like the child I am, but the point remains.
This is LITERALLY how the American labor movement fell apart.
The south used to be a union STRONGHOLD until segregationists pointed at Black people and said “you really want Negros making the same as you?”
Racism is a CORE BELIEF that other races DESERVE their lot in life
The south used to be a union STRONGHOLD until segregationists pointed at Black people and said “you really want Negros making the same as you?”
Racism is a CORE BELIEF that other races DESERVE their lot in life
May 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Took a class on the New South several years ago, and we spent a month reading about all the failures of unions to take hold because of racism. Just failure after failure after failure.
Also spent a class giggling about the STFU like the child I am, but the point remains.
Also spent a class giggling about the STFU like the child I am, but the point remains.
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OH MY GOD I remember Woody doing some kind of interview saying their parents fucked or something like WTF
May 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
OH MY GOD I remember Woody doing some kind of interview saying their parents fucked or something like WTF
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In its official trending news section, X (formerly, Twitter) promoted a story with the headline “Iran Strikes Tel-Aviv with Heavy Missiles,” but it was fake — and it was created by X’s own AI chatbot, Grok.
That was a year ago. And we thought that was bad.
That was a year ago. And we thought that was bad.
Is AI Destroying Democracy?
Artificial intelligence isn’t new, but the hysteria is. Here’s how we protect against the dangers, and proliferate diversity, equity and inclusion
crooksandliars.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
In its official trending news section, X (formerly, Twitter) promoted a story with the headline “Iran Strikes Tel-Aviv with Heavy Missiles,” but it was fake — and it was created by X’s own AI chatbot, Grok.
That was a year ago. And we thought that was bad.
That was a year ago. And we thought that was bad.