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Rhetorician. I'm the piece of halibut that was good enough for Jehovah.
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Wirecutter, give it up. I'm not buying a salt pig.

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Friendly May Day reminder that cops aren’t workers! FTP!

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

It's interesting to see purported leftists on here essentially arguing for unchecked consumerism hmm

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I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

This is a good challenge for this moment. Also, I'm a sucker for a poem with a good rhythm. It's the Shel Silverstein in my soul. I also love to memorize stuff!

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I’m tired of deckbuilder games!! The only deck I want to build is a god damn porch to drink a Bud Light on with my homies!!!!!!!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Spotted a grumpy mommy bird in the nest this morning!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

In Trump America, Kennedys kill you

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Lost tapes of Andy Griffith show: episode 873. Barney nabs the Zodiac Killer

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HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

submitted 18 days ago • 1622 comments

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

submitted 18 days ago • 212 comments

A couple of Carolina wrens have built a nest in one of my jasmine planter pots!! No eggs yet tho

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The trailer for the new Superman movie is really really good. Loved noticing they'd used almost no dialogue at all, it gave the movie a really dramatic vibe

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Seeing the Minecraft movie now. I'm almost certainly gonna live-twoot some thoughts

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They got a Zimmer BWONNGG in the new smurfs movie. I'm in

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STEPHANOPOULOS: The president retweeted a post that said the market drop was part of a deliberate strategy. Is that the president's strategy? HASSETT: Heh ha. The bottom line is the president has been talking about tariffs for 40 years. He's allowed to have an opinion. S: So that is his strategy.

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RIP to Ragtime Tavern in Neptune Beach. I once fell asleep with my head on a toilet seat in your ladies room after a long day of day drinking at a different bar. Memories

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A Dashboard of the Disappeared public.tableau.com/app/profile...

submitted 32 days ago • 22 comments

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

submitted 32 days ago • 453 comments

“It can’t be a coincidence that they all keep looking down at their phones and chuckling at the same time,” said the former Ohio senator theonion.com/jd-vanc...

submitted 37 days ago • 61 comments

Are the survey monkey and mail chimp friends or enemies, do you think?

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This gets worse with every passing preposition

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pretty much everything is easier said than done. it's super easy to say stuff

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Just as Putin, Orban and Trump all seem to recognize that tyrants have shared interests, so too we need to recognize that those who would be rid of tyrants too have shared interests that cross national borders.

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

Who wore it better: Brienne of Tarth or RoboCop?

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once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

submitted 54 days ago • 180 comments

The perfect pet doesn't exi--

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submitted 73 days ago • 46 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 65 days ago • 1218 comments

Me: [small woman pushing cart full of building supplies in Home Depot] Random asshole man: That's not all going to fit in a little hatchback! Me: Good thing I brought TWO hatchbacks Him: [nervous laughter, confused look, walks away]

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Idea: Invasion of the Body Snatchers but it's a sequel to Groundhog Day. It takes place on the day Bill Murray goes to visit his parents and they refuse to believe that this poetry-reading jazz piano prodigy and ice sculptor is their son

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 70 days ago • 100 comments

I've mostly made my peace with Roy Dotrice's narration of the Game of Thrones books. I'm stuck with him and it's fine. But I cannot, WILL NOT ever get over the absolutely insane way he insists on pronouncing "Brienne" and "Petyr."

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Do not - I repeat - do NOT, even out of curiosity, pull the handle on the side of your toilet. I just did, and a gush of water’s erased everything. A lifetime’s turd collection, gone.

submitted 74 days ago • 28 comments