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I would prefer not to.
Increasingly depressed by friends becoming reactionaries and disinformation victims. Would prefer a different zeitgeist.
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Is it good when the electrician says “wow you weren’t kidding! This isn’t what I expected!”
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Santana Abraxas
9 months ago
add a skeleton here at some point
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Sardonicus
7 days ago
Goodnight.
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On Dilbert Death Day, I remember the first Kaleb Horton genius work I saw:
kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...
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The D*lbert Project
It was 2013, I was starting to develop a Twitter following, and I was mad that media people seemed to be having a good time. So I thought I’d use Twitter as a way to freak them out. That was my entire...
https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-project/
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marty subprime
20 days ago
yeah
add a skeleton here at some point
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I got a fundraising call today asking for my father, who died in 1993. Good work, all.
20 days ago
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Been tasting blood lately. Wonder if it’s mine?
25 days ago
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wu tang clan of xymox
26 days ago
be sure to start Temple of Love (1992) by 11:51 if you want to hear the whole thing by midnight
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The recorded announcer on this plane sounds exactly like the Suburbs’ “Music for Boys”
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Philly airport bar: bartender shows you pictures of her grandkids
28 days ago
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Michael Tisserand
about 1 month ago
And so does 2025 begins its own pilgrimage to the shadows of the dark, dank ossuary of yesteryears
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Rich Lafferty
about 1 month ago
It's the holiday perineum! Happy Baunchmas to all!
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beautiful pixie demon
about 2 months ago
it’s “jingle rock bell” season motherfuckers
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Jingle Rock Bell
A terrible desecration of a beloved Christmas song. Sic it on your relatives today!
https://music.metafilter.com/2881/Jingle-Rock-Bell
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Fraid of straws
about 1 month ago
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Brian Enigma
about 1 month ago
This latest Epstein image drop of 8,000+ files is super-awkward. Each image is wrapped in its own pdf for some reason. That makes browsing difficult. So I fixed that.
epstein.junkdrawer.cc/
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Epstein File Releases
https://epstein.junkdrawer.cc/
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The feature journalists, science popularizers, creative nonfiction writers I loved in my youth have mostly turned out to be terrible fakes. I’m angry to have been fed all that bullshit and I now mistrust good storytellers.
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@codzilla.bsky.social
were you aware of this?
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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Xiaoyi
about 1 year ago
The French national library is such a treasure cave of incredible pics, like what the hell is this:
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
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Money has been trying to turn the internet into television for 30 years now, and it looks successful now.
about 1 month ago
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Woke up to a mysteriously trashed right knee. Can barely make it around the house with a cane. How? Why?
about 1 month ago
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We need more 3/4 and 6/8 in popular music.
about 1 month ago
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Spending the 80s bus commuting with a Walkman has after effects. “Soul Survivor” came up on the mix and I was immediately on the 170 headed north from Hollywood at 8 am
about 2 months ago
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Leah Tigers
3 months ago
my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"
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Life gave me inner demons, so I made inner demonade.
about 2 months ago
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Ard Collider
about 2 months ago
RIP, man. Thanks for building a conference room sheathed in metal scales at my old gig; I got stuck between it and a support column once and wrecked a take of the BTS for Flags of Our Fathers getting free.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
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Neglected Books
about 2 months ago
The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
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Ken Plume
3 months ago
The Joker vs The Skipper Thanksgiving Dinner Showdown! Their fight over Anton is probably the most tragic aspect of what undoubtedly was a bitter feud, as I’m sure Anton used to play concertina at the Lobster Barrel before Cesar worked his charms to lure him away… “For you, my dear Anton - A PIANO!”
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John Wiseman
2 months ago
I didn't realize atomic bomb tests in Nevada were visible from Los Angeles.
www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-...
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How The Atomic Tests Looked Like From Los Angeles
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/09/how-atomic-tests-looked-like-from-los.html
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Catherine Eaton
2 months ago
Happy Birthday, George Eliot. Thank you for writing out your beautiful heart despite everything.
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Nice rainbow today!
2 months ago
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The coffeehouse has an automated pour over machine. The machine has WiFi. The WiFi is not secured. 🤡
2 months ago
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THE DISCOVER TAB: 1. Already saw that! 2. Blue wave mom, follows sixty-five thousand people, posts AI memes 3. BIG GAY TORSO!! 4. Jesus H. Christ did you actually just post that? 5. Impenetrable entertainment fandom drama
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i defy adolf hitler
2 months ago
DAD: Babe, I think the kid has Ovid MOM: What? Covid? CHILD: Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin DAD: To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.
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Rob Sheridan
2 months ago
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:
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Happy Armistice Day to all who like peace!
3 months ago
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One of this last week’s many horrors is the thing that finally made me snap. Not sure yet which one.
3 months ago
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- drive out to the desert to see the Dream Syndicate play - stay over a day and do desert stuff - find out they’re playing today at a house walking distance from my place - drive back home to see the Dream Syndicate play
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John Scalzi
3 months ago
The book spam I'm getting has taken a strange turn
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Yow
3 months ago
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He says let’s go for a ride, and he says it all the time 💀
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Halloween
YouTube video by The Dream Syndicate - Topic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1yD5_dWqn0
3 months ago
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Someone tweaked my side mirror in a parking lot. Worse things happen at sea etc but I tire of these moderate misfortunes.
3 months ago
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Foone
3 months ago
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.
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Bluesky, the new public sphere
3 months ago
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Evan Dorkin
3 months ago
Halloween rerun.
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A lot of my neighbors are evangelicals. A lot of them have over the top Halloween decorations. I wonder about the intersection of those things.
3 months ago
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Welp there goes us-east-1 again
3 months ago
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Wow, the premium increase for my covered California plan is very exciting!
3 months ago
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I’m doing the 40th anniversary Orange County AIDS walk, and although you don’t know it yet, you’re supporting me! Just click below!
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40th Anniversary AIDS Walk Orange County - Sunset on AIDS Walk - Conrad Heiney
Your support makes a real and lasting difference in the lives of people impacted by HIV/AIDS. Every donation helps provide essential services like medical care, housing assistance, and prevention educ...
https://p2p.onecause.com/awoc25/conrad-j-heiney
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