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Music, puzzles, writing, politics I guess. Future former lawyer. Beginner chess player. Disdained as an "egghead" by Matt Taibbi. Banned from Great Clips 7/20/24. He / him. https://billingsgate.neocities.org/
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THIS is true and the Democrats never mentioned it in the 2024 campaign! Under the Biden administration the FTC sued poultry producers over a giant price-fixing scheme. They lost in court, but the evidence was glaring. There was a big NYT article about it in November 2023 that met with silence.

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It took me a while to realize that it wasn't me - a lot of therapists are bad at their jobs. If the vibes are off, get someone else. I know someone who told me about a couples therapy session that made me say "I can't believe that person has a license." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

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Where I think different fonts would stand on trans issues, a thread

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I couldn't accept this until after the election. The fact that the US president and VP routinely post takes ranging from bad to terrifying, when Kamala Harris would never have done that, is why they won. Social media ranting is the only political messaging that matters.

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My rook got pinned and I said "I'm going to win anyway but I wonder if I can win without losing the rook" and I did #chesspunks lichess.org/8VKB4Ml7/black

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This horribly prescient Carl Sagan quote from 1995 highlights something he saw that a lot of us don't quite see yet: that pseudoscience like that of RFK Jr and his ilk is religious in nature. Even on the right, Christianity is being phased out in favor of faiths that don't look like we expect.

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It's envelope-pushing. The goal is to establish what happened with the DOGE guy as the workplace norm: if a white guy offers a weak apology he can keep his job. You start with a slur that doesn't personally offend many people. Then you bring the other ones out one by one until the hard R is back.

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This is spectacular evidence-based investigative reporting that included following the subject and directly observing him posting on Twitter at the times posts appeared on the racist account.

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400 Elo in rapid baby!!! Sky's the limit #chess #chesspunks *400 Elo on chess.com so probably 150 FIDE if that even exists

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Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

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looks like spontaneous combustion to me

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I constructed today's Universal crossword, playable online at many newspaper sites including the Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-...

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The state seal of Virginia: "The standing allegorical female figure of virtue is shown having vanquished tyranny, symbolized by a fallen king at her feet. She has an exposed breast in the manner of classical depictions of Amazons. The motto Sic semper tyrannis means 'Thus always to tyrants.'"

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Ten years ago we had Bob Hope, Bob Jobs, Bob Cash, Bob Constitution, Bob Vaccines, Bob Air Traffic Controllers

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Crazy ongoing refusal to acknowledge where the whole world has been going to educate themselves, for better or for worse, for almost 20 years: YouTube, which, while also brimming with misinfo, crushes LLMs in terms of actionable information.

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"Try the Vienna Game," they said. It seems to work #chess #chesspunks lichess.org/ppwZkCyk

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the chess.com game review gave me a "Brilliant" for the first time ever #chess #chesspunks www.chess.com/analysis/lib...

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