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now that Goran Gligovic's bluesky suspension (no reason given) is over, i can once again repost my favorite LOtR illustration of all time

nature is healing

You don't have to use AI & pretend to make music. Lots of other people have already made music. You can listen to theirs, there's probably something out there that you'll like.

what's far funnier is how VA Dem Senate Pro Tem L. Louise Lucas keeps retweeting this with variations on 'FOUR'

I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)

Me for most of this: aww so sweet Me at the end: fucking lmao

The Friday after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year in your average hospital. People see grandma for the first time in 11 months and realize that she's REALLY not doing well, and that they should do something about it... tomorrow.

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

i have had an intense headache all day and I took painkillers and vitamins and drank water and tried to take a nap and none of them did anything but just now i ate a frozen pot pie and i started sweating a lot and then the headache went away

Just saw Brick for the first time and god damn does Rian Johnson know how to cook.

Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

Billboard got access to Suno’s investment pitch deck. It revealed that Suno has spent $32 million on compute, and $2,000 on training data. Let that sink in. www.billboard.com/pro/suno-cre...

Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."

Dang, I suddenly find myself in the market for a new ebike.

there is something extremely funny to me about the democrats retaking control of the house by forfeit

What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss, Charlie Brown?

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

red duke

I think this probably tells you at least one guy on the list.

It is extremely funny to me that Erika Ishii said this in a year she was the protagonist in a major video game

holy shit this farmer's market macaroon is maybe the best thing I've ever eaten

I have just made the archeological discover of the century. I have finally managed to decode the hidden meaning behind a street sign that has eluded drivers for decades.

When Amazon 1st announced they would open a 2nd HQ outside of Seattle, the usual WA conservatives gloated that progressives making wealthy corporations pay what they owe in taxes had backfired. Flash forward 8 years and Amazon's HQ2 is a bust & Seattle's Jumpstart tax is keeping our services afloat

Sit with this: As a culture, we decided to allow this specific, single human to redefine the meaning of "intelligence". ( screencap context: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam... )

we are returning to the state in which the framers intended for the legislature, in which the lower chamber and the upper chamber absolutely despise one another

if trump is as susceptible as people say (he is) then for one brief shining moment immediately after this meeting concludes and before he talks to anyone else donald trump will be a communist too

Great fucking news everyone at last, raccoons are on track to become even more plush-like, they too yearn for domestication www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...

I believe in the Resonance of Sins in places. It compounds and grows with time. All the compiled sins of design, graft, malfeasance, greed, and sloth accumulate. Some structures are born cursed. Others become damned because of us over time.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

idk if it helps to think of it this way, but capital is not just in opposition to labor but fully radicalized against labor. they'll suffer if they think labor will suffer more. it's not about money. it's about winning.

I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time

One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.

Remember: you have ten fingers, but only two eyes. Post five times as much as you read

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

I personally know 4 restaurant managers (2 are kitchen, 2 are general) here in Ashevile, and all of them have confirmed they will not be serving ICE at their restaurants and will trespass them if they refuse to elave We aren't a very big city, but we are quite protective of our neighbors

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Alexa, show me the lonliest zoomer.

there's always a dril tweet but it's wild when the dril tweet is about the actual guy

Hold up

The state should produce enough cheap housing to completely eradicate homelessness. There should just be empty homes waiting for folks to need them.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com: