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This is BS
@thisisbs.bsky.social
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Philanthropy at work, fiction writer at home. Once accidentally stole a car.
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my son asked that I share his
Jack o lantern carved like a spider in a web
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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tbf this is the most cracker ass house I ever saw
house that looks like a second grader made it by stacking two shoeboxes on top of each other. there are no windows in the back half, piles of dirt, and general grim vibe
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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TJ Klune called it on Michael Bay in 2019
Martin Handle, an old guy who lived off in the middle of the woods, came in at ten that morn-ing, and Gus was so surprised to see him that he almost told Martin to get the fuck out. Thankfully, Gus remembered the customer was number one!!! and was able to give a twitch of a smile that, if Mr. Handle's wide-eyed reaction had anything to say about, came across as more of a I'm-thinking-about-bathing-in-your-blood sort of grimace. Mr. Handle rented All About Eve and Gone in Sixty Seconds, and Gus wasn't even in enough of a right mind to mock him silently for that last, given that Michael Bay's films were the tumor on the skin of filmmaking. Martin Handle, an old guy who lived off in the middle of the woods, came in at ten that morn-ing, and Gus was so surprised to see him that he almost told Martin to get the fuck out. Thankfully, Gus remembered the customer was number one!!! and was able to give a twitch of a smile that, if Mr. Handle's wide-eyed reaction had anything to say about, came across as more of a I'm-thinking-about-bathing-in-your-blood sort of grimace. Mr. Handle rented All About Eve and Gone in Sixty Seconds, and Gus wasn't even in enough of a right mind to mock him silently for that last, given that Michael Bay's films were the tumor on the skin of filmmaking. "Don't call me dude," Gus reprimanded. "You are twenty-three years old. Speak like it, oh my god." "Gus loves alliteration," Casey told his friends. "He's alliterative all the time." "I am not!" Gus said. "You just literally lied a lot. Dammit." "Ask him what he thinks about Michael Bay," Casey said to Josiah. "What do you think about Michael Bay?" Josiah asked. "That rat bastard ruins dreams and is an abomination—" "His ferret is named Harry S. Truman." "His what is named what?" Serge said. "He reads encyclopedias, wears retro Hawaiian shirts, is sarcastic as shit, wants to have an ironic bongo band called Bleeding Jesus, and used to smoke weed with his dad." "Dude," Josiah said. "You're a hipster."
February 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Best part
AP: Are you thinking of retirement at all? Roberts: Absolutely not.
January 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Freud was a real one
December 30, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Gift article: 77 mind-blowing facts this year

Freud was a real one
11. California grizzly bears are mostly vegan, but over time, humans have made them more carnivorous. 12.A tick bite can make you allergic to mammalian meat-so much so that some ranchers are becoming allergic to their own cattle. 13. When some people took a drug originally approved to treat asthma, their food allergies also started disappearing. 14. Brains have a consistency not unlike tapioca pudding. 15. The weight of giant pumpkins increased 20-fold in half a century. 19.In the Middle Ages, people took their pet squirrels for walks and decked them out in flashy accessories. 20. You can buy a fitness tracker for your pet. 21. Humankind has basically reached the limit of airplane-overhead-bin space. 22. Study-abroad accents might be real. 23. Each clan of sperm whales uses its own set of clicking sounds to communicate. Some of these sounds may be older than Sanskrit. 50.Air conditioners' MONEY-SAVER mode is a lie. 51.By 2040, as few as 10 countries will have enough snow to host the Winter Olympics. 52. Dogs may be entering a new wave of domestication. 53. And the domestication they've already undergone may have led them to bark more. 54.Elephants and parrots use namelike calls that identify them as individuals. Whales and bats might too. 55. Sigmund Freud said he put his patients on the couch because he could not deal "with being stared at by other people for eight hours a day." 66. Some scientists believe that multicellular life may have arisen thanks to enormous mountain ranges. 67.BRCA mutations, famously linked to breast cancer, can also lead to cancer in the pancreas and prostate. 68.A dentist found a hominin jawbone in a floor tile of his parents' newly renovated house. 69. Chewing gum became a baseball standby in part because Philip Wrigley, the heir to the Wrigley Company, gave it to players in the Chicago Cubs clubhouse after he took over ownership of the team in 1932.
December 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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Timeline cleanse

Here is Pickles, who in 1967 found the stolen World Cup by the wheel of a parked car in South London
Wikipedia entry for a black and white collie names Pickles, with a picture of the goodest boy Pickles
December 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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This I think is one of the more remarkable parts of this story
How We Reported This Story J. David McSwane obtained and reviewed thousands of pages of court documents and medical records. He also obtained text messages and work emails. He visited Helena, Montana, numerous times and interviewed dozens of former patients; current and former St. Peter's Hospital staff members; Dr. Thomas Weiner and his supporters. He tracked Weiner's years as director of the hospital's Cancer Treatment Center and his practice by cross-referencing those records with witness accounts. He identified more than 100 cases in which St. Peter's staff had expressed some level of concern. He met with the families of patients who died under Weiner's care and, in several instances, obtained HIPAA waivers so that Weiner and the hospital could speak about those cases. To get some sense of the scope of Weiner's practice, he and data reporter Haru Coryne analyzed data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; they looked at billing data in the Medicare Part B program and prescribing data in the Medicare Part D program from 2013 to 2020. They shared their analysis with a data expert and CMS, which did not respond to questions. Research reporter Mollie Simon helped McSwane identify Nadine Long and provided archival material.
December 15, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Friday night pizza #baking
Two pizzas on a granite countertop--one cooked half pepperoni and one uncooked BBQ olive & jalapeño--lookin damn delicious
December 6, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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which steve did it best
Professor Stephen Vladeck thinking wtf, now Professor Stephen Vladeck thinking wtf, then
November 15, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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Vladeck meme 2.0
November 15, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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gotta do this for a while.

shoulda made Melania permanent. there is not a single thing that I need to learn about regarding her ever again
November 9, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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NPR took this profound speech from Obama and characterized it through the tired trope of "angry Black lady"
October 28, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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A golden retriever in a gray wool short brimmed fedora. Probably on his way to solve crimes.
October 22, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Longshoremen strike is over after 3 days, which can be summed up by two things:
The strike - which involved 45,000 workers across 36 ports, from Texas to Maine - was the first to hit the east and Gulf coast ports of the US since 1977. The tentative agreement is for a wage hike of around 62%, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. uncovered social media posts by David Adam, chair and CEO of USMX, that were staunchly critical of Democrats
October 4, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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From about 1 in 2 children dead before age 15, to 4% worldwide
September 29, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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September 27, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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The NYT article from last week says Asian-Americans are more likely to not report their race. Among the impacts of the SCOTUS decision are multiple incentives away from clean data.
Highlighted text: Many of the schools are reporting stagnation or decline in Asian American enrollment. He attributes that to the increase in students not reporting their race or ethnicity, which he suspects is happening mostly among Asian Americans. "Asian Americans know they're the target," he said.
September 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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On mobile, WaPo and CNN have moved the Routh story far down their pages, same for top stories on Yahoo homepage and Apple News.

NYTimes still has it in 2nd and has this in the 4th set of stories. @mtsw.bsky.social is on to something
September 17, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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When he says "I was intimate with her"
September 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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I appreciate that all institutions have their quirky status indicators, but it's hilarious to me that this dude has in his official bio his 50-years-past dorm room number.
Line from this white dude's bio: He lived on the Lawn his 4TH year in room 13 West Lawn.
August 29, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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WaPo:

"Trump will be great for women and their reproductive rights"

Factcheck: NO PINOCCIOS
Trump has said he will be great, so this is true.
Trump post: My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.
August 23, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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This is absolutely the funniest post I have seen this year.
August 23, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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A golden retriever with a Jasper Johns print in the background. The dog is standing there staring at you, despite the presence of a very comfortable dog bed behind him.
August 21, 2024 at 7:43 PM