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"You are a hard boiled man. Did you hear me? I would hear it, the Circuit Court would hear it, and the Supreme Court might hear it. If that ain't the pay-off. Please crack down on the Chinaman's friends and Hitler's commander." --Arthur Flegenheimer
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Peter David wrote X-Factor #87, and the world is better for it.

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“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

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The whole 'some of these accounts from Gaza might be scammers!' bullshit is also the bedrock of a particularly insdious bit of conservative thought common to many libs I've known: social welfare is bad, because some undeserving people might benefit, so it's better if nobody benefits.

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Elon Musk murders nine in Kentucky

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I was going to buy this cedar chest off Craigslist, so I emailed the guy, offered them the asking price, got an address, asked for a time, and then they said, "We'll arrive at the address at 12 noon. Everything will be first come first serve." I know this isn't contract law, but what the fuck?

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Stickers are back!

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From my warm, dead hand gizmodo.com/gop-senator-...

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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_Radicalized_, by Cory Doctorow

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NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

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I mentioned to a coworker once that I'm relieved anytime we got through a police crisis without an entire city block being burned to the ground by the cops. He stared at me in disbelief and confusion, and I realized he is from Colorado and has no idea that MOVE happened.

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40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

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Merrick Garland is proof that accountability can die of natural causes.

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From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

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Happy Mother’s Day nerds!

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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

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I feel like this conversation is happening all over corporate America. "It's great for me, because my job title / level / area is safe from obsolescence. Just the people below me / in the other department / without good unions will lose their jobs." Think that one out a little further, geniuses.

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Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

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This is such a heartbreaking thread. Starvation does not have to be and should not be the option facing the people of Gaza.

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When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

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Yesterday at 7 am, the forecast was for rain at 12 noon, lasting six hours. At 9 am, the start time for the rain was 1 pm, lasting for five hours At 12 noon it was 3:45. At 2:30 it was 6 pm, and at 5:00 it was 9 pm.

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Capitalism didn't give us the internet. Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.

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Ah, fuck.

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Queen of the Angels Queen of the May Happy May Day, fellow travelers Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia

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catandgirl.com

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This is the story I think about whenever people talk about being sad about Philip Seymour Hoffman. @ironspike.bsky.social slate.com/culture/2014...

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5 ALARM FIRE 🔥 A message from senator Chris murphy Senator Chris Murphy asks us to post this statement to our public walls. ****** Report from the Senate Floor: “Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. /1

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Jupiter Core xkcd.com/3083

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once again pointing to my sign that says "cults are so successful because they provide oversimplified answers to impossibly complex problems"

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“You don’t like AI therapists because they’re a threat to your income” No, I don’t like AI therapists because they are harmful!

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"Some actions, some feelings, one might venture, simply *do not have* ways to be effectively compressed, discretized, quantified, operationalized, proceduralized, and gamified; and that lack, that absence, makes them *unalgortihmic*.

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hits a little different this morning

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