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Tonight I was a real weenie and scrolled TikTok until it went dark. It has been a rough week but the nostalgia did make me cry (a catharsis I needed). I will miss that dumb place. I’m taking the opportunity to reduce my social media footprint overall, so hopefully that will be a nice reprieve.

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More like Cynthia Erivoderci (because she fly away)

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The fact that Rahm Emanuel still has a prominent voice in the Democratic Party in 2024 is indicative of Democrats' problems. I don't know how to explain to you that a person who actively covered up a police shooting and tried to tank an attempt at universal healthcare [only 2 examples] is terrible.

submitted 83 days ago • 82 comments

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

submitted 95 days ago • 656 comments

i always thought Quentin Tarantino and John Philip Sousa were the same person. shows you what i know about golf

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I wrote about how stupid and bad everything is and how exhausting it is to live in a cycle that feels the same defector.com/the-american...

submitted 98 days ago • 12 comments

There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

submitted 99 days ago • 675 comments

A point that a lot of non-trans politicos miss is that the point of bathroom bills isn't really enforcement. It's to chill public expression and make you second-guess being out in public in the first place. The whole "what if a trans woman ACTUALLY used the men's room" thing is missing the point.

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

The Presidential immunity stuff is ludicrous but it's really important to understand that, by its very nature, you cannot actually prevent a coup by making it illegal, nor do you need explicit legal authority to act to prevent or punish a coup.

submitted 308 days ago • 15 comments

if you're blue and you don't know how to make food when all you've got is random shit pudding on a ritz

submitted 315 days ago • 6 comments

Health tip of the day

submitted 315 days ago • 12 comments

Tina Turner, Teen Attorney

submitted 368 days ago • 6 comments

In 1963, the photos of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức self-immolating in Saigon were published in newspapers all over the world. I suspect today's self-immolation in D.C., protesting the genocide of Palestinians, will be mass-removed by moderators worldwide and hidden behind filters within hours.

submitted 368 days ago • 21 comments

the best part of madame web was when she said “IT'S WEBBIN TIME” and webbed all over those guys

submitted 378 days ago • 2 comments

I give you today's winner of the internet.

submitted 383 days ago • 12 comments

How am I supposed to explain health insurance to my children. How do I look them in the eye and tell them about depravity and perversion such as "deductibles"

submitted 384 days ago • 68 comments

doctor: ma'am i'm afraid we can't save your husband. the groove spread from his blood stream. groove is in the heart. wife: [sobbing] dig

submitted 587 days ago • 7 comments

If you’re just coming back to Bluesky for the first time in months I’ve got terrible news. They’ve started killing people who don’t call them skeets. It’s not safe to be in here I shouldn’t even really try to warn you they’re going to be mad.

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This is another of these weird stories that can only be understood through reverse engineering: the White House wants to coordinate a media strategy for the anniversary of Roe; they offer CNN an exclusive interview with the VP to run today; this is the closest thing to news that comes out of it.

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[werner herzog hosting new years eve] "the dropping of the ball represents all of the things we have failed to achieve and the falling of our spirits. it is a descent into despair, inebriation, and the self-delusion that the new year will be better than the last. but it will not."

submitted 432 days ago • 3 comments

I am almost done my biography of Chester Arthur. I feel the need to show you that he was once gifted a portrait of himself dressed as a samurai.

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Last Christmas I gave you my heart Not really my heart Just somebody's heart This year If the cops should appear Please say that you never saw me

submitted 441 days ago • 29 comments

It’s official! columbusunderground.com/ohio-chosen-...

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Nonzero chance Santos tries to reinvent himself as a twitter liberal

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No one seems to recognize that, to me, George Santos was simply mirroring Trump’s signature grift: steal, exploit, and lie at such a rate that they aren’t even noticing anymore, and attempt to cultivate strict loyalty from underlings. (1/?)

submitted 458 days ago • 1 comment

The entire media world freaks out for five days about OpenAI’s organizational structure and THIS is what the company produces.

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i think it should be a bigger story that NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people

submitted 464 days ago • 64 comments

My $70 of groceries costs $120 now hope this helps

submitted 464 days ago • 11 comments

i really like posting. I enjoy reading other peoples’ posts as well

submitted 468 days ago • 32 comments

You want to know WHY? Because a lot of people are just now coming to terms with the fact that the economy doesn’t allow for DEFLATION after these events. No one steps in to get these prices back to where they were, and clearly employers are explicitly told not to increase wages to keep up.

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A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD REMEMBER US (Source: Doctors Without Borders)

submitted 474 days ago • 18 comments

I keep misreading "biotech" as "biotch"

submitted 475 days ago • 2 comments

Oooh we’ll know soon here in Ohio if we are drinking in celebration or in mourning! Also if we’re lighting anything up in celebration 30 days from now.

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Ahem. AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH