i could sure go for some chocolate cake www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Rife Ridge, 5/20/2026, 7:50:20 PM

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I'm sick of companies building their products on the back of open source and not giving back. Figure out a better business model than "surveil and subscribe"

But it's largely forgotten that Ramelli's book wheel was a fanciful invention that was not realized in its age. It only became a real artifact in the minds of people when ones were actually constructed in the 19th century, inspired by that illustration. /3

Current* conditions near Michigan City, IN:

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Hi have you heard the good news about what I’ll do to you after we mate

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ayfkmwts www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

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the great news is google has already been weaning us off search by making it increasingly unusable and ad-heavy for years many of us won't be around to see this atrocity because we've already moved on

Beano #456, April 14, 1951

The richest man in the world gutted USAID and bragged about “feeding [it] into the wood chipper.” Remember who is responsible for this suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

"Her lawyer is not telling the truth about his participation that evening. And for this to be depicted as a 'bouncing baby boy' is materially false. It undermines the violence, lack of dignity, and safety of the whole situation. She was handcuffed behind her back throughout the birth."

When a regime clearly holds the rule of law in contempt, and views itself as completely above the law, it and its agents don’t have any moral argument for the protections of the rule of law.

I don’t know that it’s appreciably worse than Anything Else Going On Right Now, but learning that my tax dollars are about to fund a billion-dollar slush fund for Trump sycophants and literal January 6 insurrectionists is filling me with a new and special flavor of rage

Cool how the president is stealing my money and using it to make life worse for everyone. It makes me want to be a productive citizen and have many babies for him to steal from.

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HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

a complete waste, just like both parties involved.. no notes

The chilling thing about this "settlement" is the message it sends to future would-be insurrectionists.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Imagine using $1.7 billion to address hunger, housing, education, and medical care. Imagine using $1.7 billion to address the wage gap and the lack of resources for survivors of violence and abuse. We should never look at these ideas as too radical or impossible again.

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seems like jared polis thought this would make him look like an enlightened and humane centrist instead of a dumbass

plus Bonnie Raitt!

if we don't stake out the ground that crimes against public governance — against the concept of a republic — are especially grave, why would anyone believe it to be true?

Twin Peaks: The Log Lady.

While I am pretty strongly anti-carceral in most things, the exception is this: violations of public trust and authority. Dirty cops, crooked politicians, election interference: life in prison. If you wield the state's authority in a corrupt way, you can't be part of society anymore. Full stop.

with baleful and haunted sincerity i must advise you, do not seek to learn what it is that Biffo refers to as Honey

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Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

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One month from now, hundreds of Hampshire colleagues will be out of a job and won’t receive any severance pay. Please donate if you can. The site also has other ways to help Hampshire staff and faculty, so please share it widely.

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Mitts https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/102313

A bunch of people held a protest about a traffic calming project on 72nd Street just last week. One of the complaints was that people might get hit by bikes.

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My man looks like the villain in a Wes Anderson film about slot car racing.

My man looks like LL Cool J in whiteface.

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BREAKING: Colorado Democratic governor Jared Polis has granted clemency to Tina Peters, who was convicted of election fraud. And this is why Centrist corporate Democrats are insufferable and should be voted out permanently. Who needs MAGA fascists when Corporate Dems do the dirty work for them. smh