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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Going to a show and talking instead of listening to the music is a sin and it will lie heavy on your heart when Anubis weighs it
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The Original Internet Cat Sensation. Jumping into the Big Box in the Sky. RIP.
It is my sad duty to inform you that Maru the cat has passed away, age 18, after developing lung adenocarcinoma. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maru_(c...

Here is his 18th birthday commemoration video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgeZ...
まるです18。-I am Maru 18.-
YouTube video by I am Maru.
www.youtube.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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When I worked on The Office, Greg Daniels had a list of questions he asked of every story. Some were show-specific (eg “Are we saying something truthful if exaggerated about office life?”), but many are applicable to any script. Here’s a little thread on them…

🧵1/X
#Scriptsky #Screenwriting
March 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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If an American posts “oh shit oh fuck” with no other context it’s because something happened in a baseball game, if a British person posts that it’s because something happened to Doctor Who
June 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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The absolute worst result of modern depictions of stoic masculinity might be the terrible mental health cost, but definitely second worst is how bad it makes action movies.

All these blank faced roid-bods deadpanning their way through CGI splosions. Give me the impact? Cry a bit you lumpy fucks.
May 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Can’t get over the fact that this is almost certainly true
May 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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There’s a tornado warning for the Texas town with the world’s largest knife, and baby, I wanna see some results
April 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Love this old Norm Macdonald sketch, not on YouTube: www.reddit.com/r/NormMacdon...
I couldn’t rest till I found this clip.Finally found it! Norm, the bad police sketch artist.
www.reddit.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Well all these other guys might be stabbing me but at least I can still rely on my good friend Brutus
March 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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new saddest six word story just dropped
March 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital
February 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location www.404media.co/candy-crush-...
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
www.404media.co
January 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Denethor: No tomb for Denethor and Faramir. No long, slow sleep of death embalmed. We shall burn, like the heathen kings of old. Bring wood and oil.

NYT: Denethor, Master Orator, Fires Up Crowd at Latest Rally
January 16, 2024 at 4:40 AM