Buck
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Some people seem to genuinely believe they have the right to ask everyone in the country to fund their extremely expensive career interests, without evidence of benefit, during a time of job losses, tariffs and inflation. I don't need a chat bot.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Some people seem to genuinely believe they have the right to ask everyone in the country to fund their extremely expensive career interests, without evidence of benefit, during a time of job losses, tariffs and inflation. I don't need a chat bot.
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"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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DOGE was a data mining operation disguised as a legit operation...and the GOP fell for it.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
DOGE was a data mining operation disguised as a legit operation...and the GOP fell for it.
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In the gym yesterday, doing leg day: "wow this is great, I feel so good!"
In my house today, crawling up the stairs while whimpering like a kicked puppy: "oh god, why"
In my house today, crawling up the stairs while whimpering like a kicked puppy: "oh god, why"
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In the gym yesterday, doing leg day: "wow this is great, I feel so good!"
In my house today, crawling up the stairs while whimpering like a kicked puppy: "oh god, why"
In my house today, crawling up the stairs while whimpering like a kicked puppy: "oh god, why"
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Important to notice: killing random people at sea has a purpose: desensitize the electorate to the dictator killing people. Which can then turn into normalizing threats to kill political opponents, which then leads to actual political executions.
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Important to notice: killing random people at sea has a purpose: desensitize the electorate to the dictator killing people. Which can then turn into normalizing threats to kill political opponents, which then leads to actual political executions.
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The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
~ Oscar Wilde
~ Oscar Wilde
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
~ Oscar Wilde
~ Oscar Wilde
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One of the best parts of the internet is how people were afforded access to information beyond their educational level or experience.
The problem is that people take a scientific concept they don't understand or recognize and instead of researching it, discard it as unnecessary.
The problem is that people take a scientific concept they don't understand or recognize and instead of researching it, discard it as unnecessary.
As a biochemist, that's not true. WE know exactly how Tylenol works. We know the mechanisms, the pharmacokinetics, the receptors targeted, the enzymes released...
Explaining that in a way that doesn't take a minimum of a 4 year niche degree plus a lot of math and physics ?
That's the hard part.
Explaining that in a way that doesn't take a minimum of a 4 year niche degree plus a lot of math and physics ?
That's the hard part.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One of the best parts of the internet is how people were afforded access to information beyond their educational level or experience.
The problem is that people take a scientific concept they don't understand or recognize and instead of researching it, discard it as unnecessary.
The problem is that people take a scientific concept they don't understand or recognize and instead of researching it, discard it as unnecessary.
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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One thing I learned many years ago on the fringes of Film Twitter is that people who get granular about the age of consent are bad news. (Ditto irl men who can quote from memory Humbert Humbert lines from Lolita.)
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
One thing I learned many years ago on the fringes of Film Twitter is that people who get granular about the age of consent are bad news. (Ditto irl men who can quote from memory Humbert Humbert lines from Lolita.)
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We bought into the "post scarcity" narrative because digital tech feels so magic and ethereal but we need to get back to an understanding of the material costs and effects of those systems. They are not very post-scarce in reality.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We bought into the "post scarcity" narrative because digital tech feels so magic and ethereal but we need to get back to an understanding of the material costs and effects of those systems. They are not very post-scarce in reality.
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Glenn’s wife Lynn here. If you’re following along with his health saga, he sailed through yesterday’s cardiac surgery! He’ll move slowly for a while but he’s already telling jokes & offering medical trivia to, well, the medical team. Did you know that the medicine colchicine comes from crocuses?!
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Glenn’s wife Lynn here. If you’re following along with his health saga, he sailed through yesterday’s cardiac surgery! He’ll move slowly for a while but he’s already telling jokes & offering medical trivia to, well, the medical team. Did you know that the medicine colchicine comes from crocuses?!
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"Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do?" Sure seems that way!
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do?" Sure seems that way!
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Don't be afraid to spend money on traveling & concert tickets. Be afraid of growing old and realizing the only place you ever traveled to was work.
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Don't be afraid to spend money on traveling & concert tickets. Be afraid of growing old and realizing the only place you ever traveled to was work.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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I still believe Christine Blasey Ford and I still believe Anita Hill.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I still believe Christine Blasey Ford and I still believe Anita Hill.
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The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks. www.wired.com/story/propos...
A Proposed Federal THC Ban Would ‘Wipe Out’ Hemp Products That Get People High
The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The provision, tucked into the spending bill that could end the US government shutdown, would ban intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including gummies and drinks. www.wired.com/story/propos...
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So about the missing minute in the Epstein prison footage.
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So about the missing minute in the Epstein prison footage.
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The effort to keep this information out of public view has reached a level of intensity where the American people are clearly entitled to "adverse inference", i.e. you're allowed to assume the worst.
PANIC SETS IN
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and others, plan on holding an EMERGENCY MEETING today on the Epstein Files as the discharge vote nears.
Rep. Boebert will reportedly be there.
It appears there is an all hands on deck effort to try to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files. (CNN)
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and others, plan on holding an EMERGENCY MEETING today on the Epstein Files as the discharge vote nears.
Rep. Boebert will reportedly be there.
It appears there is an all hands on deck effort to try to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files. (CNN)
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The effort to keep this information out of public view has reached a level of intensity where the American people are clearly entitled to "adverse inference", i.e. you're allowed to assume the worst.
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in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
in Paris, I had to see a same-day doctor & I found one. was gravely warned that, as a foreigner, I’d have to pay 32 euros & I laughed & laughed
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
a friend there said “make sure you get X kind of doctor, not Y, because the Y kind charges 74 WHOLE EUROS” & once again I bitterly, bitterly laughed 😭
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They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
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In San Francisco and experiencing that feeling when you realize you've been exposed to way too much propaganda. I mean ut has always had bad areas but remains a beautiful and vibrant city to stroll around in.
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In San Francisco and experiencing that feeling when you realize you've been exposed to way too much propaganda. I mean ut has always had bad areas but remains a beautiful and vibrant city to stroll around in.
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Our political system is fundamentally broken. It was not designed to represent the will of the people and it is incapable of doing so today.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Our political system is fundamentally broken. It was not designed to represent the will of the people and it is incapable of doing so today.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.