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One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

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Everyone wants to be a Realist (insist that foreign policy is an amoral object of study) until it’s time to do Realist things (actually counter a potential regional hegemon)

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Elon Musk is as depressingly predictable as Donald Trump. * He turned on the "woke" movement when people called him out and his fee-fees got hurt * He turned on Trump when nobody in the government could stand his whiny ass and they kicked him out. It's all about who sucks his ego the best.

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In this first week of #PrideMonth, a friendly reminder that, much like its author’s views of gender and society, the publication of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was closer to the Apollo 11 Moon landing than it was to today.

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Never has having Peter Griffin explain a joke to me been more heartrending yet personally satisfying: www.reddit.com/r/PeterExpla...

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Fun fact: I didn't QUITE grow up in a cult, but I was pretty cult-adjacent as a kid. Mainly because my parents were really into the Erhard Seminar Training System (later The Landmark Forum), and spent hundreds of dollars on weekend courses there. They didn't go broke, but we were under their spell.

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Some days I feel America was doomed because half the people understood a joke was supposed to be clever and funny And the other, smarter half understood that "it's a joke" could be a Get Out Of Jail Free card when you said something offensive or stupid

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Respectfully, and speaking as someone who for years did one good whack before blocking, no you don't. That's mindspace they've taken from you, and attention you've given to them, and both of those are seen from others, none of whom benefit. Consign the trolls to the cornfield the second they appear.

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The reason Ukraine didn’t inform the White House about the drone sneak attack is the same reason they didn’t inform the Kremlin about the drone sneak attack.

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happy pride month!

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Fantasy fiction taught me that wizards would mine the world hollow in a relentless quest for power. It did not teach me how many so-called "wizards" would mindlessly destroy themselves believing their magic would just FIX EVERYTHING while selling other wizards on a thaumaturgical house of cards.

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The Democrats' 2025 platform is here!

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I feel guilty that I, once a huge Doctor Who fan, never have watched either the black Doctor Who nor the female Doctor Who after years of demanding both... But Doctor Who moved away from being a science-fiction show to more of an encoded fairy tale with electronics, which doesn't interest me. Boo.

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WIFE: What's wrong? ME: (turns over) WIFE: Talk to me. You're upset. Tell me why. ME: (big inhale) Bluesky is getting less "unique daily likers". WIFE: Oh honey. Put it out of your mind and try to get some rest. Big day for you tomorrow with the government scheduled to destroy you like a feral dog.

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I see a lot of people blaming the comics industry for the 6-figure debt that Peter David’s medical struggle put him into. But please, please don’t forget to blame the United States, where not having affordable health care is a personal failing not a community issue.

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Didn't we do this with NFTs?

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When I am elected God, I will write these words in five-mile-wide fiery text to blaze their truth over every city, town, and hamlet in the world: "THAT ARTIST DIDN'T MAKE THAT ART TO PLEASE YOU, AND THAT IS AS IT SHOULD BE"

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If I was your President/dictator, I would have a law that forced every news columnist and commentator to submit their work to a third-party service that would keep track of what they've said and give them an "accurate predictions" score. This would be displayed next to their name at all times.

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It's weird watching the end of American dominance brought to us by people who are absolutely promising this will make America great again... If only because we watched Britain tank in the exact same way, for the same reasons, by the same idiot class of people

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"House Republicans narrowly pass Trump's agenda megabill" Well, there goes America. The good news is: this should completely shatter the U.S. economy and cause every other nation to look elsewhere for stability, business and growth. Oh...sorry. I meant good news for the rest of the world.

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"The only thing that magic dependably works on is the party performing it. It does not work directly on the world, but rather can transform the individual into someone who can work directly on the world." - Alan Moore

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hey, person with chronic conditions that qualify me for covid vaccines here, please feel free to lie through your teeth about having any of these to get vaccinated, it is literally prosocial behavior to do so

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We missed SUCH an opportunity to make this woman President.

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If they do some sort of Kickstarter thing for this plan to "Buy up the URL for defunct local newspapers and flood them with anti-GOP articles..."

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Buddy I think "This content that ended up printed in our newspaper was not approved by anyone in our newspaper" raises more questions than the one you're trying to avoid answering!!!1!

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My local poly-family is idly considering a trip to Vegas to watch the next Battlebots fight. Which would be a lot easier if these things had firm schedules. (Runner-up possibility: The Norwalk Robot Combat League, which is weird that my hometown has become a major bot-fighting center)

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And as a side note: Even if you DO enjoy writing, maybe the other aspects of being a PROFESSIONAL writer are not for you. Rejection. Obscurity. Bad reviews. There's a lot of psychological beatings in trying to sell your stories to the public... and if you'd rather not bother, good for you.

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Also reminder to romance authors that we only shoot ourselves in the foot if we try to play the "but we're not porn" game. Those of us who write hot/queer already get clipped on a regular basis, but nothing is "respectable" enough. Your turn WILL come.

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Really glad that when Trump was asked once or twice pre-election about Project 2025 and its dystopian goals, the press took him at his word that he had nothing to do with it and didn’t focus reporting on what a 2nd term would actually look like & what the consequences would be.

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The fact that the new Superman is infuriating Zac Snyder fans is enough to get me to buy a ticket

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I keep making this point to people who don't work with AI and understand the code; one of the fundamental problems with genAI models is you can't fix bugs. That's an absolute dealbreaker for almost all use cases. All you can do is throw training at it or add filters at the end.

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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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I like volunteering at the Greater Cleveland Food Bank because it shows just how immense even a single-town operation can be. I spent my entire shift picking individual grapes off of stems so kids could have five grapes with their lunch. And we did not finish all the grapes.

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"He says he doesn't believe people should get medical advice from him." My brother in Christ, YOU ARE THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH If you don't believe you should be giving medical advice, you shouldn't have taken the job

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I have three types of TTRPG characters. * Dude who tries to talk himself out of every situation * Dude who is terrible at everything except the world-class skill he's a master of * Dude who is intended to be a fun goofy character but actually snaps the game in half

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