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Sage advice from the LFL

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. — Will Rogers #FAFO

Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience — Teddy Roosevelt

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

WHAT THE HELL IS IT WITH POLICE NOT BEING ABLE TO SEND IMAGES OF THIS GUY WITHOUT THEM BEING SCREEN SHOTS WITH A VISIBLE MOUSE POINTER

I thought they hated participation trophies?

The Guy Fawkes of our time. This is turning into some straight up V for Vendetta shit www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

I once had a professor ask “Why is there a Business section in the newspaper but not a Labor section?” My classmates and I probably rolled our eyes, but damned if I haven’t remembered that question every few days for 30 years now.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

How can I make this national crisis about me? — Bill Maher

I see we’ve entered the “weak excuses for failure” part of the manhunt

it's several years old but the Adele SNL Thanksgiving sketch is still perfect

"[A second civil war will inevitably be] between patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.” — Ulysses S. Grant

Post a GIF of your comfort show

Protect this man at all costs

How timely, just as the enshittification of America is about to reach it’s crescendo

Shelves will be empty before Christmas

The Andromeda galaxy captured by the Hubble Space telescope

Them: Bluesky is a liberal monoculture. Bluesky liberals:

finally a reasonable take

Period

Here is the article everyone’s been talking about, in all its resplendently purple prose. It represents nearly the sum of all public knowledge on this elusive literary figure. And there are skeletons . . .

MOOD FOR THE NEXT FOUR FUCKING YEARS. #goodtrouble

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

🚨 A year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s. I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever. Here is a snippet of them: 1/

How the Andromeda galaxy would look from Earth if it were brighter

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

NASA’s new rendering of the Christmas Tree Nebula

Honest question, (some of the most bad faith shit you've ever heard)

I mean if you wanted to see a 60 year old man and a guy so dumb that you don’t know if he can read get into a fight just wait for Thanksgiving

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Get ‘em Tay

Oh okay great

Great Horned Owl in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 🪶🦉 #birds #owls #nature #naturephotography

BREAKING: Pizza Rat to head up FDA

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