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One of the most underrated cultural divides in America is between people who know and care what motion smoothing is and people who still don't. The anti-smoothers went for Kamala by 20 points, minimum.

Bowdoin has suspended the students inside the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment. As an alum I am disappointed but not at all surprised, the College's work for the "common good" has never gone much further than churning out future bankers and lawyers

STUDENT PROTESTORS AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE IN MAINE TOOK A BUILDING LAST NIGHT 👀👀👀 Take a building challenge back on???

BELINDA CARLISLE: Heaven is a place on Earth DAVID BYRNE: Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens FRANK BLACK: This monkey’s gone to heaven JOHN LENNON: …Imagine there’s no heaven BYRNE: What the fuck is your problem, dude CARLISLE: How dare you BLACK: Yeah man we were having a good time

All the blocklists on this account are automated, if you want get off one of them then make sure your account doesn't meet the criteria anymore. In other words, un-follow to get un-listed

MY PUTRID FAMILIAR: (emerging from his hidey-hole in the ceiling, flicking his tongue around insanely) thou art washed, milord. thou hast fallen off, fr. ME: away with thee, familiar. MY PUTRID FAMILIAR: (retreating backwards into his hidey-hole in the ceiling with theatrical obeisance) yes milord

Biggest political generational cap is whether you look at Buttigieg and Ramaswamy as smart, articulate young men or total douchebag strivers. People over age 50 are enamored by those two; Millennials recognize them as the type who knew what Bain Consulting was in high school

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Internet people! What are the glowing white things moving in a straight line SE towards Denver in this video I just took? At first glance I thought it was a laser pointer (there was a visible green filament between each dot), is it something getting towed by a plane?