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using the default vs code theme is extremely NPC coded tbh

Years from now I'm going to use the introductory paragraph of the wikipedia entry for "water pie" to explain life during lockdown for people too young to experience it

Sorry to say, but personally I reject the "America is the 11th province" memes. I mean who wants to inherit ~all that~?

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gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

🇨🇦 Canada needs this win so bad. LFG.

Every day I hear the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my life

🤣😂🤣 THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN

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when you moisturize and you’re too slippery to open the bathroom door? that’s your slime time. you can use it however you want.

Banker: You're sure you want a reverse mortgage & get how it works? Me (imagines bank making huge unaffordable payments to me for years): Yes

Oh cool

I miss when times were precedented

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

if you’re calling your clothes “apparel” you need to be taxed more

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway. And those who warned America about it were right.

Super telling that the president and first lady having memecoins is like 6th or 7th on the list of insane shit happening this week

Hmm actually watching POTUS more carefully recently has made me think even less of him

This person is lying to themselves

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

I dedicated years of my life to reporting on January 6 and exposing what happened. I was there that day, co-wrote a book, and published a series of major stories on my own, for Rolling Stone, and for TPM. I hope it mattered. I hope history will remember and understand what happened.

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

Thinking of trans people today, the attacks and bigotry they'll endure over these years, and the failure of mainstream media and greater society to behave with decency and offer support to the marginalized. We must be brave, take action, and listen to those who ask for help, for the good of us all.

A classic materialist reading here is that 2020 gave American tech executives their first real taste of worker militancy, and it scared them so much that they decided they needed to move into the political sphere to crush it.

this has always been my favorite picture set of david lynch

boy I hope my midlife crisis doesn't ruin my life

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

A sad farewell to decency in the White House.

I don't think I have ever seem a norm go from widely accepted to completely irrelevant as quickly as the importance of minimizing conflicts of interests

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I love this little HUD in Zoom when watching a recording. Clicking it does absolutely nothing. It's as if Zoom is asking you the question because they're genuinely curious.

Clearly I understand digital music more than analog because how tf does vinyl work? Signed, somebody who just got a record player

How it started. How it’s going

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021: Meta = $0 Tim Cook = $0 Sam Altman = $0 Google = $200,000 Amazon = $200,000 Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025: Meta = $1,000,000 Tim Cook = $1,000,000 Sam Altman = $1,000,000 Google = $1,000,000 Amazon = $1,000,000 The oligarchy is here.

Pierre Poilievre says Canadians are too obsessed with race because of “wokeism” and agrees with Jordan Peterson that Canada essentially had to invent and import racism because it didn’t exist here before recent decades. Canada is so fucked if this guy forms government.

wtf. i’ve been working on this for two and a half years and you just… posted it