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Screenshot showing text at the top of the screen and tons of space below, with a tiny scrollbar suggesting there is a lot more vertical space Screenshot of the same page with text at the bottom and lots of space above, with the tiny scrollbar now at the bottom
July 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Screenshot from the Last of Us with Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen saying "Well, kids die, Henry. They die all the time."
July 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Screenshot from The Rise of Skywalker of Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron speaking with the caption "Somehow, Palpatine returned..." except I crossed out "Palpatine" and added "US-led war in the Middle East with WMDs as a flimsy pretext"
June 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Screenshot from Andor season 2 episode 6. Krennic is gesturing, subtitle reads "Words do still have meaning."
May 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Earthshadow visible in DC! I don't think I can stay up for totality 😴
Grainy cell phone 8x zoom photo of the lunar eclipse in progress. The shadow of the Earth is covering about a quarter of the disc of the Moon.
March 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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An animated GIF of a clip from The Matrix. Neo pummels Agent Smith in a grungy subway station.
March 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A screenshot of enddei.ed.gov with the full text of the United States Constitution, sans spaces, in a form textbox.
February 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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From today's @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social newsletter — this sucks!!!

open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Screenshot from an email newsletter: Among the things that Cowen rescinded just a few days ago: • The finding that college athletes are employees, and are therefore legally allowed to organize, and have labor rights. No more! • An Abbruzzo memo protecting employees from abusive electronic monitoring and surveillance on the job. No more! • A ban on severance agreements with overly broad non-disparagement and confidentiality sections, that infringe on your rights. These are back now! • A ban on the widespread use of non-compete agreements, which companies forced workers to sign in order to get jobs. These are back now! • A ban on captive audience meetings, where the boss forces you to sit in a room while they tell you how horrible a union would be for you. These are back now!
February 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A clip from the film Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997) in which Dr. Carl Jenkins (played by Neil Patrick Harris), concentrates intently on his psychic link with the massive alien brain bug against which he presses his palm. Behind him gathered troopers jostle and squint to catch a glimpse of him and the bug. He says "It's afraid", quietly at first as he realizes what he is sensing, and then shouts it, with the beginning of a victorious grin, to the crowd of troopers.
February 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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More protest art! #teslatakeover
CFPB Union NTEU 335 members holding protest signs in front of Georgetown DC Tesla Chalk art in front of Georgetown DC Tesla: "YOU WANT A SWASTICAR?" Chalk art in front of Georgetown DC Tesla: "Public service is GOOD" Chalk art in front of Georgetown DC Tesla: "FASCISTS IN THE MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR"
February 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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DC is showing up at Tesla in Georgetown! #teslatakeover
Protest sign reading: FFFFFFFFF these FUCKING ! GUYS ALREADY STAND UP ➡️ FIGHT BACK A black woman in colorful makeup holds up a large cloth sign mounted on two poles in front of a city street with storefronts and traffic. She's wearing a green hat with an "L" a la Nintendo's Luigi, and her black sweater has a pink heart that says "Luigi" in script. Her sign says "EAT ELON MUCK WITH HIS OWN FORK" in various colors of spray paint Protest sign reading: CFPB People love us Scammers hate us Protest sign with a hand-drawn caricature of Elon Musk and the text: UNELECTED UNCONFIRMED Has access to your social security #
February 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hey #DC, pissed at Elon Musk? Let's go tell him. #teslatakeover
A poster with futuristic black text on a white background reading: Picket Tesla Hit 'em where it hurts [Black Tesla logo with red circle and diagonal bar ("no" symbol) superimposed] 2/15 11AM Tesla DC 3307 M St NW or your local Tesla showroom #teslatakeover
February 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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An image of cartoon J Jonah Jameson chewing a cigar and shaking his fist with the text "GET ME PICTURES OF VANDALIZED CYBERTRUCKS" superimposed
February 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Drop that lock screen
A screenshot of a smartphone lock screen dominated by a large 24-hr digital clock and a background of countless galaxies as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxies are bright white or orange-gold, and many appear stretched and warped due to gravitational lensing.
December 6, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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So You Want To Be A Wizard
The cover of So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane. Two teens traverse an ethereal bridge towards a luminous tear in the sky (presumably a portal of some kind), high above a skyscraper-dense cityscape.
November 27, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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Slowdive at The Anthem last night was *awesome*. Crushingly dense and luminous at the same time, like a star about to go nova. #slowdive #theanthem #dcmusic
Slowdive performing at The Anthem in Washington D.C. on November 17 2024. The stage, framed by arrays of hanging speakers, is visible above the sea of people in the crowd. The band is bathed in magenta cones of light. Singer and keyboardist Rachel Goswell raises a hand like Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick. Slowdive performing at The Anthem in Washington D.C. on November 17 2024. From this angle and distance the stage fills the frame just above the heads of the crowd and the band members are neatly lined up. From left to right: Christian Savill on guitar (left-handed!), Rachel Goswell on keys and vocals, Nick Chaplin on a very low-slung bass, Simon Scott behind the drum kit, and Neil Halsted on guitar. They are lit by a dozen yellow spotlights at odd angles, and there is a mess of thin overlapping rectangles projected on the screen behind them. Slowdive performing at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. on November 17 2024. This wide shot shows nearly the whole floor of the venue. In the center the stage is lit from above with orange and cyan cones of light, and some lights shine out into the crowd, washing out the details of the musicians on stage. The floor is packed with audience members many with fine silver outlines from the stage lights. The first couple box seats are visible on either side, and the high ceiling is hung with cables, lights, and ventilation.
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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A photo taken in Cape Henlopen, Delaware under a clear blue sky. Reeds and grasses in the foreground in front of a marshy lake. On the horizon is a sand bank with a stand of trees on the left, and in the far center distance, a tan concrete cylindrical WWII cannon sight tower.
November 10, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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A GIF from Game of Thrones in which Jon Snow tells Varys "I don't want it"
November 10, 2024 at 4:40 AM