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Behold a lovely stamp sheet by Chris Ware ... ... where each stamp shows a moment in the day of a postwoman apparently it's the first time anyone has tried to tell a story with a stamp sheet item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Had a dream I was watching some guy’s one man show crash out, tech issues, hecklers, getting really nasty and personal with named names - all I could think was “we’ll it’s good this is just a dream and no one else can see this”

Polish poster for HOW TO STEAL A MILLION (1966)

You can add roast pumpkin seeds and cucumbers to this, maybe diced chilies, this is still legal

Have seen Joan Jett a number of times over many years, including opening for The Who, and she rocks. No other way to put it.

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At the end of the day there is no meaning or center in Kirk’s death. It is as hollow as America. You cannot built a movement on that.

Have seen people try to say that Kirk’s death is the right trying to engineer their own George Floyd but the problem is that half of the people on the right don’t give a shit about him but won’t admit it and Kirk is not downwind of a systemic problem that impacts 48 million people.

These people are really running low on normal behavior to pathologize

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I'm glad they've ID'd the menace these stores represent and aren't letting bullshit libertarian arguments dissuade them. I hope Mamdani gets a chance to try out his city-sponsored grocery store idea in NYC and Baltimore picks it up. www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/09/20/c...

they're gonna double funding for amtrak?

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This movie understood America so fucking well it’s insane

Happy 5 Years of being an "Anarchist Jurisdiction" according to the DOJ, fellow New Yorkers.

It's entirely possible a guy with Carlson's background just thinks "Tyler Robinson" is a Jewish name

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

"Ladies and gentlemen, for tonight's entertainment, I'm proud to present 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦. I will be playing all the parts. Thank you." youtu.be/FexfjCHW8C0?... It's important to note that the medley goes on for like 20 minutes and Cher is at any given moment four to six hot guys.

You know what Tumblr account I always enjoyed was Best URL on Here. What's that fellow up to I wonder

you look away for two seconds and JVKE is in yr face hawking red velvet froyo

i try to stay up on things but i’ve had it, i’m throwing in the towel…..WHO IS JVKE????

I wish there was some way to make up for the sheer volume of resources and misery spent on coddling a pathetic, hateful, unfathomably stupid old man.

My bribe would be a Birkin bag so that when the feds opened it and saw it was empty they would be all "wha?!?" and then I'd walk away real casual-like and then like 5 minutes later David Straitharn would realize "The bribe wasn't *in* the bag—the bribe *was* the bag!" Real Ocean's 14–type shit.

Yeah they can do whatever they want to TikTok

I was doing yard work and I noticed one of the branches on this tree seemed to be tracking my movement.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

What movie do you consider “perfect?”

Three social events over the last two weeks, FIVE in the text two weeks we need to make reproductive sex illegal between Christmas and new years

i also want to note that "i don't want children to have to undergo genital inspections" is an extremely easy argument to make and the fact that elected liberals cannot manage it is because they are either incompetent or complicit and i do not give a shit which

One of the ways things Are Like This is that no one wanted to be the one to bring the chickens home so a bad but reasonable amount of possible chickens are turned into the Golden Horde of Fowl

It *IS* a winning law and order message, because in American politics, "law and order" has been a euphemism for "white supremacist violence" since Nixon said it if not earlier

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

I don't know if it's mental or recession indicator but I managed to time when I got my $10 coupon for spending 200$ at the grocery within three weeks to exactly when all the staples ran out so blammo - milk eggs bread and butter for 2 american dollars bay-bee

No one could’ve seen this coming

I’m honouring him by turning 18 and immediately having my dad and his friends give me $10 million to play with.

Today I will be honoring Charlie Kirk’s legacy by soliciting money from billionaires who want to set the agenda of my platform and organization.

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

and "Old macdonald" often isn't a farmer in the way people imagine. he's a big landowner

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“He was the first of three people I would see struck in the head by pepper balls Friday night. Only one attack that night seemed prompted by the protesters' attempt to stop an ICE vehicle. Every other attack seemed recreational in nature—as though the agents simply wanted to let loose on the crowd.”

It’s real nice of them to recognise Palestine as Israel uses RAF assets at the Akrotiri airbase to carry out their genocide.

Tag yourself, I'm "heavy-footed."

The rule for old jazz standard songs is: If the song overtly seems to be about love/sex it's actually about drugs/addiction If the song doesn't make ANY GOD DAMN SENSE AT ALL it's about sex