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Pronouns: male. Persona: genially pedantic. Misses: the internet circa 2005.
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Well, as long as we're doing Government By Bond Villains, I think we can all agree GOLDFINGER is better than MOONRAKER, right?

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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 10 days ago • 56 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 13 days ago • 131 comments

Blog holds up

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

It's a nice feeling when you put on something you haven't worn in a few years, and it still fits. See y'all tomorrow.

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1/ For the people who are asking: “Where are the protests?!” There have been many! Much of them organized by immigrants rights groups and leftists. Here’s a thread of some I have found, or know people who have attended. Feel free to add your own.

submitted 20 days ago • 78 comments

So we have a deranged, weird-looking billionaire trying to achieve total power in defiance of the law. Obviously, the traditional response is to send in 007. This villain, however, has 0 hot girls hanging around him, just awkward 20-year-old boys, so 007 won't take the gig.

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 21 days ago • 503 comments

This thread isn't long and is worth reading. The psychology of delusion is a hobby of mine, and this gets at how it works.

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Jack Kirby had the first 10 issues of Captain America Comics bound. He sketched on the endpapers and gifted the book to his wife, Roz, and I hereby declare this one of the coolest single items in the history of humankind.

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

Do not fucking do this, do not open your phone for the police, you will be giving them the right to look at everything on your phone.

submitted 29 days ago • 79 comments

I'm reducing my news and social media intake for mental health reasons. I can't maintain panic for four years. But in light of the "shock & awe" fascism rollout, I offer this for reposting every goddamn hell-spawned day.

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