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I keep buying bugs and buying bugs, and they just keep eating the carapaces.

What part of "I block AI" is unclear to the AI users who try to follow me, do you think?

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With that beer selection, I’d drink the Raid.

It amuses me that, after all these years, the rest of the world is surprised when the French turn out to be so incredibly French. (Also found in French engineering: perfectly sensible solutions, which would not have occurred to anyone else, anywhere, ever.)

I think I'd listen to John Huston reading the phone book.

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Oh wow

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exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

"This book is a reaction to frictionlessness AI, which operates in a space of pure wish fulfillment, outside of history and context.... Letterforms are all around us as we move through the world, providing a comforting and reliable index. And it’s easier to understand their history through play."

to add to this, having no real demands doesn't change that these are mass demonstrations of people from all walks of life who are coming together and asking *one another* "what can we do?" it's a demonstration of potential consensus that can be harnessed and focused into real, lasting change

I just took my first dose of a costly migraine medicine. I have refused it for years: if it works and I got used to managing my headaches without OTC pain meds and endurance, I'd be screwed if I lost insurance coverage. The Doc gave me a free sample and today's headache got bad of a sudden.

What’s weird is if 5% of white people had voted differently, or 5% of non voters got off their asses & voted, none of this would be happening. We cannot deny that the children born now are going to pay the price for the folly of this experiment with full blown fascism. And didn’t we owe the kids

I am pleased to learn that salamanders have their very own mermaids -- and they can, apparently, sing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenidae

Residents of Indiana will know there is very little love lost between the two schools -- this is a big move.

Rebooting "Bonanza," only Pa Cartwright is a serial killer, a different Mom for every son and a neat row of graves out back. They are figuring it out. Hoss doesn't want to believe, and then Pa returns with a brand new bride. Can they warn her off without Pa learning they know his awful secret?

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

No. Use only water

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The Buckets by Greg Cravens The Buckets - 2025-10-18 https://www.gocomics.com/thebuckets/2025/10/18 #comicstrips #thebuckets

I can't be the only person who has noticed how much our Vice President resembles Popeye's nemesis, Bluto, in appearance, attitude and action?

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

If you can help, please do. If not for the work of Robert E. Howard you'd certainly never have seen any stories from me. (And reposting is a huge help, whether or not you can donate.) rehfoundation.org/save-the-reh...

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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

I started re-reading "Neuromancer" and my used paperback is falling apart. Ordered a new one. Living poor in a county seat was like a low-rent rent version of Gibson's dreamscapes, battered junk stuck back together with space-age goo, adequate and strange. I'll probably reglue the old book, too.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Dudes, don't let this weirdo count your spunk. No telling where it will end up.

On the verge of going home to flip a coin: heads, do the trash. Tails, paint the backyard with my brains. But it's way too trite. Dull. Been done. Better to just keep trudging from sheer spite. Fuck 'em. Fuck everybody. I'm still here.

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that while you can't nuke Copilot completely you can sure snip its dirty balls off.

2 millimeter threaded hardware is the work of the Devil. And you can chuck 0-80 nuts and bolts into the Hellbound handcart.

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Fuck the what? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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NBC News has laid off 150 employees, eliminating teams dedicated to Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ issues - The Wrap

A class action lawsuit filed Sept. 30 in federal court provides a glimpse into what the Trump administration is doing with the voter data Indiana and other states have entered into the SAVE system and turned over to the U.S. Department of Justice. indianacitizen.org/privacy-conc... #dataprivacy

Honest to f***ing god when they send us all to gulag they had better have a better legal justification than “they all had the same sign, though” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-tal...

True horror story: I was SECONDS away from publishing this with a different headline before this one arrived in my brain from hell

Kurt Vonnegut made very clear why this is a catastrophically bad idea. gizmodo.com/how-scientis...

An Indiana newspaper should offer to print the IDS themselves.

Today's medical stuff has been a total rip off: I got x-rays of both my knees and my neck and I still have not developed any superpowers. Disappointing.