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Just imagining an Oceans 11 style caper where fired federal works with various highly specialized skills band together to take down a mad billionaire trying to destroy the country.

submitted 20 hours ago • 76 comments

Hey Columbus, please keep an eye out for my bike/bag. It was stolen out of my garage and I can’t afford to replace it (nor can I actually replace them - neither this bike or bag are made anymore). The bag was a gift so I’d especially like to recover that one ):

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Like, I get we're a soft worldwide colonial empire, but watching the burn down and destruction of all the actually decent parts is so damn depressing. Another beer, some #StarTrek, and wondering what the hell to do next. Vaccines, aid, parks, Ukraine, climate, LGBT.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

One of the brilliant things our current iteration of oligarchs did is get people to conceive of free speech as being able to call your coworkers slurs rather than using it to say stuff like why are my tax dollars subsidizing your billionaire ass

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

Inspired by a reddit post.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

OK, the new season of Reacher is already a winner with Smithereens' "Blood and Roses" as the opening track.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

On immigration as American IT people

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

It’s good to love mathematics and also makeup. It’s good to read the classics and watch Muppet movies. It’s good to see Shakespeare plays and collect graphic novels. It’s good to be curious about the world and open to new things without self-imposed limitations.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 17 days ago • 2088 comments

okay but do we get good guitar rock bands again? i am willing to make tradeoffs here

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 19 days ago • 272 comments

So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings!

submitted 21 days ago • 87 comments

Hell yeah

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

We could have had taco trucks on every corner, you guys! Failures.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

You’re going to have to make hard choices. Better to have contemplated them beforehand, understood your own values, and know where your lines are drawn than to try to figure it out in the heat of the moment.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I just can't help but feel that if some 21 year old groyper told me to delete Meals on Wheels I would simply get out of my chair and beat the living shit out of him!

submitted 30 days ago • 73 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

I can't social media anymore.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Every death caused by interruptions to funding, every health advancement that fails for anyone who isn’t a straight white male, every scientific setback, and every report of declining minority presence in STEM, in education, in life. Every death of a trans person.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

90s movies gave me unrealistic expectations of how hackers would change the world

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

In a shocking turn of events, a full hour of frustration could have been saved if I had read the actual error message.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

First saddest part of the day- the last drops from the coffee carafe dripping into the last mug of the morning.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n

submitted 101 days ago • 36 comments

Kind of sucks that we didn't at least get a Roaring Twenties before what's about to come

submitted 37 days ago • 491 comments

New tats!!! Alt text for context

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments

Waking up in a world where that man is POTUS again hits hard. Describing it is difficult. But you can just feel it thru your bones. It’s very awful.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. There isn't a discussion, there aren't interpretations, this isn't a controversy, there are people lying about it and people telling the truth.

submitted 43 days ago • 12 comments

Reveal Codes. Worked on my Amiga. So, yeah...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books

submitted 43 days ago • 1302 comments

also maintain the best strategy for dems is to get mcconnellpilled. "no" to everything and run on how much he sucks in the midterms

submitted 45 days ago • 39 comments

The first visual of the Trump presidency at the border; a sobbing woman in Ciudad Juárez stands outside the Paso Del Norte port of entry, clutching a pole as she weeps having learned that her 1:00PM appointment for a chance to seek asylum in the US has been cancelled. x.com/arelisrhdz/s...

submitted 45 days ago • 120 comments

we could have had a not-nazi president, I am just saying

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

One. Never used Blockbuster, that I recall, but did use a local movie rental place.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

So archaic that this boy from the hills knew it and used it. In glad she didn't cede three point. Too bad Amazon's swype keyboard didn't recognize it.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

getting the sense that a lot of this AI summary crap is being pushed by people who only read or write for work & thus see it as a chore they wish they could skip. i don't, though, i like it. "hey, we invented something to ruin some of your favourite activities" great. take my money

submitted 48 days ago • 22 comments

In a world of Kid Rocks and Carrie Underwoods, be a Woody Guthrie.

submitted 48 days ago • 362 comments

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

submitted 48 days ago • 777 comments

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

submitted 49 days ago • 21 comments