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Autobiographically

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Women cannot resist the raspy crackle of his damaged voice

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My God, what an exemplary person

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The maintenance is the resilience! The technician is as much the system as the wires or the motors. Technology is activity, not artifact.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Liefeld-ass comic book character, someone check if his feet have been drawn

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"Tears in the Rain" monologue, but for my dick

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them” — concise commentary from Stuart Hall re: Thatcherism, but might as well be about Trumpism

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

submitted 6 days ago • 249 comments

Gonna put them right back in that bathroom

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Again, I gotta RFP any fucking contract over $10k in my tiny ass regional agency, but this asshole can just "I do a little contracting, lemme take care of this" his way out of due diligence

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

Whoever described generative AI as the aesthetic of fascism made a sharp point.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

You know this post started me on a "But what mate does Diego Valeri drink" #RCTID, but now I'm ugly crying and wanting to send love into the world after reading this gem: www.mlssoccer.com/news/diego-v...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Re: bird flu vs price fixing. Retail egg prices have ~doubled in the last 6 months, and there's no possible way that's just from bird flu messing with supply. Let's walk through the math!

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Pretty sure if this showed up on a practice assignment when I took first year Mandarin at UO I would have walked in the Millrace

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I would love the jacket Redford is wearing in Condor, but I'm not sure I could pull it off

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Three Days of the Condor: having sex with your captor is the ultimate Stockholm syndrome, but what if he's peak Robert Redford and is also a charming nerd?

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Would watch TBH

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@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social Imma be that guy: the Dinosaurs finale did not have a meteor, instead it ended with the onset of the Ice Age caused by wrecking the environment

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Ukraine shouldn't dress like that

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump DoJ lawyers pushing this stuff can’t be humiliated enough for my taste. So many people should spit at their feet that they need galoshes.

submitted 18 days ago • 73 comments

My piddly govt agency has to do a RFP for any contract over $10k, but sure, just roll SpaceX in and start fucking with production systems unbid...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 20 days ago • 136 comments

One thing I've learned to do when I have questions about social security number holders who are age 100 or older is to look up the SSA Inspector General audit report, "Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on the Numident." t.co/AdWTV8eIPV

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

I can understand SNL being formative to someone or having a run be in your faves, but I cannot imagine anyone considering all 50 years as a singular "best"