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You know those newish bike lane curb separators on Friars by IKEA/Snapdragon? Saw a truck in my rearview mirror today hit one of those so hard they almost popped over it.

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Advertising used to be effective.

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I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

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“when life gives you lemons” when has that ever happened? what the fuck are you talking about

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we're not sure anyone ever actually noticed… the prompt 3 marketing copy — at panic.com/prompt/ — was all written specifically to be fully-justified paragraphs of fixed-width monospaced characters. no cheating. no double spaces. but why did we do this

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Sociopaths

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My latest What’s Brewing column is out now. I was going to write about the Bass reboot, keep it simple, but decided there was a more important topic that I wanted to write about instead 🏳️‍⚧️ wb.camra.org.uk/2025/05/08/s...

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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

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There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).

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#MayThe4th

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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welp here we go again www.cbs8.com/article/news...

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I need to watch some Taskmaster after that episode of The Last of Us.

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Here we go. US born citizen in ICE custody.

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ICE wants to deport a BYU PhD student for the crime of organizing a church fishing trip 6 years ago, where he himself did not fish but the other attendees caught too many. How is this reality???

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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The Roberts Court, for once, did what it was supposed to do in a unanimous ruling telling Trump to try to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the administration said they accidentally sent to an overseas gulag for life. We are in a very dangerous moment. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

submitted 55 days ago • 152 comments

this might be the funniest message you could have leaked due to poor OPSEC

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this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

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DO NOT TURN OFF THE BUS

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In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

submitted 97 days ago • 61 comments

what the actual fuck

submitted 98 days ago • 621 comments

For San Diego, it may take a little longer, but we are on a similar track. The City and County are already dealing with budget deficits. Cutting NIH and NSF funding will take out an enormous section of our middle/upper-middle class tax base.

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1001 vintage red trolley running today

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#dannering, Eurostar style (can I just stay in Europe please?) cc @jeremydanner.bsky.social

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@alexwenzel.bsky.social I’m visiting Paris for the first time and my goodness the Arts et Métiers station

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My life’s mission is to convince people to watch Patriot 🫡

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New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

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Normally when I travel during September/October I make preparations in case my roommate needs to evacuate the house for a brushfire. Never thought I’d need to do that for a January/February trip.

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man the foreign dopamine app sending 170 million people "don't worry, maybe daddy trump will save you" as its exit message hoooooooboy

submitted 137 days ago • 88 comments

Is anyone asking Pete Hegseth about never washing his hands because he doesn’t believe in germs? That one feels like it’s worth a couple of minutes

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Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire

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