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This was excellent and spot-on.
The Argument That Lebron is the GOAT Is Running Out of Time
The Argument That Lebron is the GOAT Is Running Out of Time
freddiedeboer.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This was excellent and spot-on.
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Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
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“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.”
-Noir Santa
-Noir Santa
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.”
-Noir Santa
-Noir Santa
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If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
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www.sportico.com/business/med...
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
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Great chart.
Also: the BBC isn’t dead.
www.ft.com/content/4110... The slow death of Britain’s TV channels
Also: the BBC isn’t dead.
www.ft.com/content/4110... The slow death of Britain’s TV channels
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Great chart.
Also: the BBC isn’t dead.
www.ft.com/content/4110... The slow death of Britain’s TV channels
Also: the BBC isn’t dead.
www.ft.com/content/4110... The slow death of Britain’s TV channels
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Searched back through Blue Sky for this.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Searched back through Blue Sky for this.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.
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I don't even like Christmas movies but there is no limit to how many hours I would watch Michael Caine interacting on camera with Muppets.
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I don't even like Christmas movies but there is no limit to how many hours I would watch Michael Caine interacting on camera with Muppets.
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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As a short man I need all of you to spare a thought for people like us next time you want to make insensitive jokes about Greg Bovinos height, we have years worth of material right here that'll really hurt his feelings
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
As a short man I need all of you to spare a thought for people like us next time you want to make insensitive jokes about Greg Bovinos height, we have years worth of material right here that'll really hurt his feelings
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Allspice is a single spice?! “Allspice is the dried fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant.” [en.wikipedia.org]
Allspice
Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. The name allspice was coined as early as 162
en.wikipedia.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Allspice is a single spice?! “Allspice is the dried fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant.” [en.wikipedia.org]
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“Why aren’t degree courses preparing people for industry?” Hmm idk maybe because you’re paying people £32k PA and expecting them
to have £120k PA worth of skills?
to have £120k PA worth of skills?
December 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Why aren’t degree courses preparing people for industry?” Hmm idk maybe because you’re paying people £32k PA and expecting them
to have £120k PA worth of skills?
to have £120k PA worth of skills?
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As expectations have increased, even the very cheapest new cars have gotten more expensive for the simple reason that they are vastly better. You could get a new car for $5000 in the Reagan years, but hooo boy was it shit. You regretted it. You rued the day.
December 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
As expectations have increased, even the very cheapest new cars have gotten more expensive for the simple reason that they are vastly better. You could get a new car for $5000 in the Reagan years, but hooo boy was it shit. You regretted it. You rued the day.
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on holidays so i am playing, uh, 2016's assassin's creed syndicate
and you know what this game is still REALLY good
and you know what this game is still REALLY good
December 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
on holidays so i am playing, uh, 2016's assassin's creed syndicate
and you know what this game is still REALLY good
and you know what this game is still REALLY good
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
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Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
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Another train journey home.
1 like = 1 terrible idea, future of news edition.
1 like = 1 terrible idea, future of news edition.
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Another train journey home.
1 like = 1 terrible idea, future of news edition.
1 like = 1 terrible idea, future of news edition.
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sir the rats released another tell-all about the sinking ship
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
sir the rats released another tell-all about the sinking ship
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Don't send your coins to the wealthy trolls that live in high castles this holiday season.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't send your coins to the wealthy trolls that live in high castles this holiday season.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.
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The plot of the current series we’re living through, now and its ninth season, is more convoluted and weird than The Crying of Lot 49.
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The plot of the current series we’re living through, now and its ninth season, is more convoluted and weird than The Crying of Lot 49.
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
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This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...