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My wife asked me, "What does the Arts Tax even pay for?" and I had the profound pleasure of pulling up one of my many spreadsheets and telling her EXACTLY what Portland's Arts Tax pays for, because I'm the type of person who puts that data into a spreadsheet. For fun.

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No, sir, it is YOU who should gargle MY balls. Send.

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Real fucking fun to see how many institutions are lining up to embrace fascism. No one has been "mistakenly" deported. Part of the whole point is to scare the shit out of immigrants. Exiling political agitators will be a fun little bonus, but the main goal is ethnic cleansing.

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How is this stupid fucking racist-ass country of temporarily embarrassed millionaires supposed to survive? Even if we don't plunge headlong into a mass casualty fascist nightmare, are we just going to pretend that dems and GOP can be united in any common cause besides insider trading?

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LOOK AT YOUR CHILD - Gator Days

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"Kenya has spoken, and the message is clear: aid without accountability is no aid at all. This is not anti-science or anti-progress. It is pro-justice. Pro-democracy. Pro-African agency."

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Mother of God

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Mecha anime when the narrator is about to say some shit revealing the futility of individual action in the face of global calamity

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My favorite part of any stand up special is the joke where most of the audience is laughing but that one person really gets it.

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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

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UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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The head is a lonely place, and worse, the meanest person you know is always there.

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"The numbers have been calculated by the Council of Economic Advisers," I'm told

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As a scotch drinker, I am entirely baffled by the temerity of American distillers. "Aged THREE entire years" their whiskies gloat. "Hand-crafted [bottled] by local artisans [resellers]."

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I had a nightmare that I was back in the dating pool. Not doing that again.

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This is turning into a Republican bloodbath

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I keep saying there's a massive opportunity for any institution that loudly and proudly tells Trump to eat shit and I think that will only become more obvious with time

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The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

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I experience an odd little thrill whenever I learn about some unusual little hobby with its own community and economy and social mores. It's like looking at a fractal for the first time.

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Every manufactured thing in this world requires specialized knowledge, which means there are not one but many passionate artisans out there making things like giant novelty checks or fog machines or the liquid for fog machines, and that gives me hope for some reason.

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It is actually easy to tell if a book will be good from a 3 paragraph email query, b/c the number of people who can write one well is not enormous

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I'm sorry, but if your reaction to the Severance finale was any variation of "awwww!" you are either literally a child or have the romantic sensibilities of a child.

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Part of my ethos as an IT person is that if I remote into your computer, and you're doing something you're not supposed to be doing, I do not care. Porn, shopping, social media, none of it, not my business. Just don't save your passwords in a plaintext file, goddammit.

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Always nice to see Gwendoline Christie beating the shit out of someone.

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It was a dark omen last episode when Adam Scott was like, "No, fuck this scene. I refuse to advance the plot by conversing with a character who knows everything." And then Patricia Arquette was like, "Yes, exactly. We must wait until nightfall." Hoping this finale has fewer such interactions.

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After years of never giving any thought to my hardware, a coworker had me try out his Unicomp Model M buckling spring keyboard and I had to have one. The tactile and aural feedback, along with the heaviness, are so satisfying. I wish I had cared about such things sooner. It types like a dream.

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Seriously, I hope everyone is gearing up for a recession. I'm not trying to be cute. Tourism into and within the US is going to crater. Higher material and labor costs are going to shock everything. Even if major tariffs never come to pass (which they will) the damage to business confidence is done.

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