Kelli Carlson
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"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.
Louis CK is not in a limbo of cancellation. He's straight up not cancelled & his "cancellation" became a profitable bit for him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"I'm canceled," he says in the sleek profile they gave to him in the New Yorker while his latest special & his new novel is coming out. A lot of people wish they were that canceled.
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This also extends to window shopping. No one knows the stores in their town anymore (quick, name a place you can get a belt or an electric mixer from that isn’t a big box store)
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This also extends to window shopping. No one knows the stores in their town anymore (quick, name a place you can get a belt or an electric mixer from that isn’t a big box store)
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
(No seriously I need a new belt)
We need 15 min cities so people are in touch with where they live again.
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Here's how silly US racism is.
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Here's how silly US racism is.
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
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The last time a baby died from whooping cough in Kentucky was 2018. Now THREE have died in 2025. All 3 babies & their mothers were unvaccinated.
Please remember to get your Tdap booster every 10 years. Vaccines save lives. What a terrifying way to die.
Please remember to get your Tdap booster every 10 years. Vaccines save lives. What a terrifying way to die.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The last time a baby died from whooping cough in Kentucky was 2018. Now THREE have died in 2025. All 3 babies & their mothers were unvaccinated.
Please remember to get your Tdap booster every 10 years. Vaccines save lives. What a terrifying way to die.
Please remember to get your Tdap booster every 10 years. Vaccines save lives. What a terrifying way to die.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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I bought the back mat purely on rahaeli's rec and it came yesterday. I was on it for 30 minutes and it made a ton of the knots in my back better and decompressed my spine. I haven't been this pain-free in years. We have two friends in town. They both tried it and where like yo wtf is this sorcery.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I bought the back mat purely on rahaeli's rec and it came yesterday. I was on it for 30 minutes and it made a ton of the knots in my back better and decompressed my spine. I haven't been this pain-free in years. We have two friends in town. They both tried it and where like yo wtf is this sorcery.
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Obviously this is ridiculous as a policy for employees but also as a customer my blanket preference from any people working in any store anywhere ever is “leave me the absolute fuck alone”
Smiling?? Eye contact?? TALKING TO ME???? Absolutely not!!!!
Smiling?? Eye contact?? TALKING TO ME???? Absolutely not!!!!
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Obviously this is ridiculous as a policy for employees but also as a customer my blanket preference from any people working in any store anywhere ever is “leave me the absolute fuck alone”
Smiling?? Eye contact?? TALKING TO ME???? Absolutely not!!!!
Smiling?? Eye contact?? TALKING TO ME???? Absolutely not!!!!
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This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
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I'm so glad we don't have this, because… uh...Why don't we have this?
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I'm so glad we don't have this, because… uh...Why don't we have this?
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You know what I’m not in the mood for right now or in 2027? A military light super hero movie. Let’s put those down and get back to the rom coms and something horny with magic. Give the kids story heavy live actions with kids in them.
‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’ was originally meant to be released today.
The film will now release in December 2027.
The film will now release in December 2027.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
You know what I’m not in the mood for right now or in 2027? A military light super hero movie. Let’s put those down and get back to the rom coms and something horny with magic. Give the kids story heavy live actions with kids in them.
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Yes, Mr. Nazi, exactly.
Nick Fuentes says people better be careful about calling him a Nazi "because if I'm a Nazi, then there's millions of young people that are following a fucking Nazi." Um, yeah, that's exactly what we've been warning about!
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Yes, Mr. Nazi, exactly.
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ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”
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Yeah man same. I did appreciate how Frankenstein (2025) was very clearly engaging in a sharp critique of that very tech bro mentality, but anything that makes it look cool, especially in that Tony Stark way they obviously idolize -- I'm really not interested in.
im not gonna lie, techbros have ruined the scifi concept of AIs for me
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Yeah man same. I did appreciate how Frankenstein (2025) was very clearly engaging in a sharp critique of that very tech bro mentality, but anything that makes it look cool, especially in that Tony Stark way they obviously idolize -- I'm really not interested in.
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either watching PBS or watching stuff that originally aired on PBS
the genre is "people who know what a tea-cosy is"
the genre is "people who know what a tea-cosy is"
its that time of year where i go back to watching PBS more than usual. it's a Frankie Drake kind of night.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
either watching PBS or watching stuff that originally aired on PBS
the genre is "people who know what a tea-cosy is"
the genre is "people who know what a tea-cosy is"
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“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore
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We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
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People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.
Okay, who told every exec to start using "white space" as their new buzzword?
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.
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We’re up to 124 wins - including 35!!!! red to blue flips — and 9 more going to run offs. We still have 37 races left outstanding, but far and away the best election night @runforsomething.net has ever had.
167 races called, 110 wins confirmed and 8 moving to run offs. 😈
More to come!
More to come!
With 158 races called, we've got 103 @runforsomething.net wins, nearly a quarter of which are red-to-blue flips.
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
We’re up to 124 wins - including 35!!!! red to blue flips — and 9 more going to run offs. We still have 37 races left outstanding, but far and away the best election night @runforsomething.net has ever had.
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Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
![Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigev37etpfwfdxjlnt3pz5qyueldxo3k6rfxw5ip477gp7inlrctq@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
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i know its been a busy day but omg look at this pelican footage i got today!!! 🪶
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
i know its been a busy day but omg look at this pelican footage i got today!!! 🪶
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I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*.
on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.
on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.
Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/fkMmsR4
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I don't think it's even right to say the voting public doesn't care. I think the truth is a lot of voters may generally find trans identity moderately confusing but also *none of their business*.
on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.
on the other hand, they find an obsession with harming trans people - say it with me - deeply weird.
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What's the normal amount
Disney World Guests Are Dying At An Alarming Rate
Disney World Guests Are Dying At An Alarming Rate
Four Disney World guests and a Disneyland parkgoer have died in a short span of time
kotaku.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What's the normal amount
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Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.