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Una dies tarde et una mensura carens. He/him.
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Indivisible âđ
about 2 hours ago
TOMORROW: The House will vote to obtain the full Epstein Files. While this bill is likely to pass, the threat of a Trump veto is real. To secure a veto-proof majority, we need your GOP representative to hear from you. Call:
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email:
act.indivisible.org/sign/rep-hou...
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Sam (ABeardedPanda)
3 days ago
It's that time of year, bad first person shooters are coming out. And friends don't let friends violate sanctions on the Russian Federation.
www.offensive-bias.com/p/escape-fro...
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Escape From Sanctions
Do not put money in the Russian Federation's coffers
https://www.offensive-bias.com/p/escape-from-sanctions
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ZoĂŤ âBaddie Proctorâ Quinn
about 6 hours ago
Since I evidently still have the critical acclaim juice, if you know of anyone who needs a narrative/content/game designer with technical and management skills, 15 years of experience, acclaim in related fields, and has some other fancy awards like being a Forbes 30 under 30, Iâm your guy!
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Amanda Marcotte
about 12 hours ago
People have a good reason to resist acknowledging the male loneliness crisis. They correctly perceive that women are being blamed and told to fix it. But the real cause is predatory capitalists who profit on keeping men isolated and online.
www.salon.com/2025/11/17/d...
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Donât blame women for menâs loneliness. Blame capitalism
Thereâs a lot of money to be made off angry, isolated men
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/17/dont-blame-women-for-mens-loneliness-blame-capitalism/
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African American Policy Forum
about 8 hours ago
Our new report, Anti-Blackness Is the Point, out today reveals how Trumpâs second administration has worked to roll back 60+ years of civil rights and equal opportunity. From racist narratives to book bans, the attack is coordinated and historic in its scope. Read the full report here âŹď¸ âŹď¸ âŹď¸
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ANTI-BLACKNESS IS THE POINT RACISM, MISOGYNY, AND DONALD TRUMPâS ASSAULT ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITY REPORT.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PGDX4A3_zxhrxzRgvQcarZ3nJlq9Zggl/view
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Thomas Zimmer
about 10 hours ago
No matter where we look: Religious identity, racial and cultural resentment, attitudes towards the religious/racial/cultural pluralization of American society are dividing the country - and shaping the political conflict- much more strongly than education polarization.
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The Onion
about 11 hours ago
Father Teaches Son How To Fly Into Rage Over Completely Inconsequential Bullshit
https://theonion.com/father-teaches-son-how-to-fly-into-rage-over-completely-1819575391/
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Going to activate "hide post for me" on any post about Olivia Nuzzi from now on. Thank you for your attention on this matter.
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Dr. Jeremy Swist
about 13 hours ago
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Tade Thompson
3 days ago
One thing about Pluribus, which I don't know if is intentional or not, but having a whole bunch of people who essentially run the world and basically gaslight you if you lose your shit is...very much like this world's malignant politeness 'please don't yell' when you're not even yelling thing.
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Stuart Houghton
1 day ago
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are: - Roaring rampage of revenge - Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence - On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough - Girl survives - Crime but make it quirky
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The Beaverton
2 days ago
NestlĂŠ worried AI will destroy worldâs water supply before they do
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NestlĂŠ worried AI will destroy worldâs water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - NestlĂŠ executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligenceâs water consumption will have on their own abili...
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/nestle-worried-ai-will-destroy-worlds-water-supply-before-they-do/
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Adam Weinstein
2 days ago
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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Louis
2 days ago
Thereâs this terrible tragedy of moral misfortune here. If I had been born into a better society I would be a better person. Itâs an idea almost too big and too sad to get your head around. But itâs true.
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derek guy
4 days ago
crazy IG em_clarkson
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jess m.
3 days ago
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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androgynous vampire enthusiast
4 days ago
when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.
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Let's hope, for their sake, I never meet the fool or fools who placed the backspace key next to the enter key on my cell phone's keyboard.
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Sarah Taber
3 days ago
So. As someone who's worked in ag for 28 years: If Clarkson's Farm is "just pretending to be stupid for TV," they really did their research! Every single foulup in CF, I've watched multiple people do IRL. Often right after I told them not to đ
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Ask a Game Dev
3 days ago
How do you deal with a rude co-worker? (Spoiler: Best not to show any reaction)
askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/8002099...
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Ask a Game Dev
How to deal with a rude producer? A person who only seeks problems on everything you do, and call you out in front of everybody just because of a small mistake? Seriously, the way he talks is to make....
https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/800209951363579904/how-to-deal-with-a-rude-producer-a-person-who
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king ned ludd đ¨đŚ
3 days ago
it's darkly funny to me that the biggest visible legacy of the pandemic is empty hand sanitizer dispensers literally everywhere
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Eoin Higgins
3 days ago
âyou can be disappearedâ this is actually happening to people irl in this country, getting a temporary suspension from Bluesky is not the same thing. grow up
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Brandy Jensen
3 days ago
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
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Andy Craig
5 days ago
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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king ned ludd đ¨đŚ
4 days ago
folks Tony McQuail is still $7500 shy of being able to continue in the NDP leadership race. Please consider donating to his campaign. He is the best candidate by a mile, and I think he has the best chance of connecting with canadian voters if he leads the party through the next election.
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e.w. niedermeyer
4 days ago
People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.
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404 Media
4 days ago
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. âGoogle wanted to ânot be evilâ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/
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Starbucks Workers United
5 days ago
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say
#NoContractNoCoffee
with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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James
5 days ago
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD. Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
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Ethan Clark
6 days ago
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
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The Onion
5 days ago
Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But âRound Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/
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Holidays Jennifer/Aster đłď¸ââ§ď¸đ§
6 days ago
If GenAI was truly âinevitableâ and âthe future,â you wouldnât have rich executives putting out statements like this again and again. They know how unpopular it is (even as theyâre ignorant of it crumbling around them), and keep trying to browbeat us into accepting it. They wonât succeed.
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sarah jeong
6 days ago
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
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George Conway âď¸đşđ¸
6 days ago
www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave
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Andrea GonzĂĄlez-RamĂrez
7 days ago
Friends, I'm looking to speak with people who are upset about the Democrats' shutdown deal and who can speak about how increasing healthcare costs will impact them. If that's you, I can be reached via DM or at
[email protected]
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The Onion
7 days ago
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Donât Care About
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Donât Care About
WASHINGTONâHaving thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/
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Adam Serwer
8 months ago
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Jason Koebler
12 days ago
We try to give as much insight into how we report our stories and our dealings with tech companies as we can, and the narratives that they push. Meta has become obsessed with telling reporters that its smart glasses are no different than an iPhone. So we wrote this:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
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Whatâs the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
https://www.404media.co/whats-the-difference-between-ai-glasses-and-an-iphone-a-helpful-guide-for-meta-pr/
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Nicholas Grossman
8 days ago
Itâs not left v. center or progressive v. liberal or anything like that. Itâs fight v. donât fight.
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Bill Amend
8 days ago
Tonightâs dumb napkin cartoonâŚ
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Ian Boudreau
8 days ago
They like fundraising dinners and lifetime sinecures and useful stock tips
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Lee Morgenbesser
8 months ago
To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them. I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the
@democrats.org
. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
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Ian Boudreau
8 days ago
They lined up all their defectors in safe positions or who had nothing to lose and everyone else had time to workshop their little posts about how they don't agree with this
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The Onion
8 days ago
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Ed Burmila but Thankful
8 days ago
apropos of nothing I wrote a book a long time ago about how the DLC and Bill Clinton redefined winning for an entire generation of Democrats as "getting something done" through bipartisanship and compromise rather than achieving (or even having!) a specific outcome in mind, and, what do I know.
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Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center
Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center [Burmila, Ed] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Chaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center
https://www.amazon.com/Chaotic-Neutral-Democrats-Their-Center/dp/1645030024
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Prisonculture
8 days ago
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
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Santiago Mayer
8 days ago
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
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Kat Abughazaleh
9 days ago
Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
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Susie Dent
11 days ago
Word of the Day is âcatchfartâ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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