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I'll never understand how Skype completely fumbled being the default video chat for everyone everywhere.

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I'm becoming a luddite

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Jeff Bezos: "Today, the internet does that job" The Internet:

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"Today, the internet does that job." is both the dumbest and funniest sentence. Ah yes, the thoughtfully curated and sentient "internet" that does the exact same work of an opinions editor - bringing nothing but diverse, intelligent and fact-based content to the feeds of readers everywhere.

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This AM I have re-posted stories from WaPo, the NYT and NPR. The NYT story has multiple bylines and is a thorough factual debunking of an official government communication. You can argue about headlines and stay mad about past errors or you can realize institutional journalists are doing the work.

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“Martindale says he went through a transformation watching the 2005 documentary “Loose Change,” which falsely claimed that Washington was responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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Our kids brought home this book from the library and I am grateful that there's such a well done and funny resource for kids (of any age) to wisely consider their information consumption - thank you, @elisegravel.bsky.social ! elisegravel.com/en/blog/kill...

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Last night at church we watched "A Time for Burning" - a 1966 documentary commissioned by the Lutheran church that depicts the story of a congregation seeking to share ministry across racial lines in Omaha. In this clip, the Pastor visits a local barbershop. Full movie: youtu.be/X4A3HDcbP-U?...

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"the so-called “efficiency“ “department” is best understood as a sprawling form of procurement capture, in which a group of impossibly rich individuals are trampling over the regulations — and the federal workers — that stand between them and a deep, deep revenue stream: your tax dollars."

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Every time I come on this app it feels like the Donald Glover community pizza meme.

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Sandler did it as only he could. #SNL50

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SNL50 has been exactly right so far

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Do people truly equate suggesting we no longer have a statue or building named after someone with suggesting the study of a topic be banned in schools forever? Re-naming a school or removing a 20th cent. confederate statue ≠ whatever is happening here clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

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reading this thread and genuinely unsure if it's worth celebrating that USA goal just now because goddamn we are doing the worst things to people right now, and especially disabled veterans https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ippdo2/megathread_2025_valentines_probationary_purge/

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Do people (very wrongly) think of them as a one hit wonder? open.spotify.com/track/68fU62...

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This obituary of the Pizzagate gunman paints a more complicated picture than I knew. www.wsj.com/us-news/edga...

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On this date five years ago the valentine's party at the kids elementary school had the perfect meal:

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“What keeps gnawing at me is the question, what is Christianity, or who is Christ actually for us today?” Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison

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@globalrefuge.bsky.social has made it easy for you to contact your elected officials to urge them to lift the suspension of refugee resettlement funding to enable continued support for refugees fleeing violence, conflict or persecution. globalrefuge.quorum.us/campaign/107...

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Bing, Google and Apple Maps

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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝘣𝘺 𝘒𝘦𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳 It helps, now and then, to step back & take the long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision. . . . l This is what we are about: We plant seeds that one day will grow. (1/4)

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