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these spin doctors aren’t doing shit for my nausea
December 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
these spin doctors aren’t doing shit for my nausea
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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So far, every time I rewatch Voyager I decide I love a different character. How did I not appreciate Tuvok the first time? How?!
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
So far, every time I rewatch Voyager I decide I love a different character. How did I not appreciate Tuvok the first time? How?!
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postmodern finance theory
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
postmodern finance theory
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Just started our annual Halt & Catch Fire rewatch and needed to hear this first.
Finally got the go-ahead to post my rejected theme song for Halt And Catch Fire. IT’S THEIR LOSS
September 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Just started our annual Halt & Catch Fire rewatch and needed to hear this first.
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The police insist they need astronomical sums of money and complete immunity from any harm they cause in order to be ready to protect us and then half the time they just decide they’d prefer not to?
They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking
And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response
The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.
www.startribune.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The police insist they need astronomical sums of money and complete immunity from any harm they cause in order to be ready to protect us and then half the time they just decide they’d prefer not to?
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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thinking about gorgon ramsey who shouts "look at me you fucking donkey!" but no one wants to, lest they be turned to stone..
July 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
thinking about gorgon ramsey who shouts "look at me you fucking donkey!" but no one wants to, lest they be turned to stone..
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
My perennial lilies and a volunteer sunflower.
July 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My perennial lilies and a volunteer sunflower.
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The sexual tension between me and bedtime from the moment I put my dinner fork down.
June 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The sexual tension between me and bedtime from the moment I put my dinner fork down.
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Blobfish sun won't ya come
June 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Blobfish sun won't ya come
Forget trauma bonding. I’m drama bonding, give me all the gossip.
June 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Forget trauma bonding. I’m drama bonding, give me all the gossip.
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ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
December 13, 2024 at 9:11 PM
ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive
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There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.
"Is that it?" -- Trump did that thing again today where he signs a bunch of executive orders but doesn't seem to know what he's signing and needs to have it explained to him
May 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.
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Our tech overlords are not interested in relieving humanity from the "burden" of everyday life tasks.
What they want is to make it *impossible* for any of us to navigate everyday life without passing through a toll booth that they control.
What they want is to make it *impossible* for any of us to navigate everyday life without passing through a toll booth that they control.
May 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Our tech overlords are not interested in relieving humanity from the "burden" of everyday life tasks.
What they want is to make it *impossible* for any of us to navigate everyday life without passing through a toll booth that they control.
What they want is to make it *impossible* for any of us to navigate everyday life without passing through a toll booth that they control.
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It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…
I know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.
May 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…
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Personally I've been sleepy for a while now (33 years)
May 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Personally I've been sleepy for a while now (33 years)
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going to @thelouvreof.bsky.social and finding art within the art
May 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
going to @thelouvreof.bsky.social and finding art within the art
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books
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