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this trash can has the same screen saver as the sphere ⁉️

today is a funny day to be in the LaGuardia United airport lounge

Me: everything is shitty again. Please restart. Windows: Are you sure? You had the File Explorer open. Me: I don’t know what that has to do with this. Windows: Well if you restart you won’t be able to… Me: what Windows: y’know….Explore the Files for a minute. Me: please lose consciousness now.

i think about this all the time. even if he doesn’t die, he’s a lame duck. like what are yall doing

How come online pundits never bring up Dean Phillips for 2028? He was the only elected official to say out loud that Biden was too old. That's gotta count for something

jesus christ.

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i look forward to hearing about all the walmarts firebombed tomorrow

why do birds / suddenly appear / every time / I show fear

this started in the hipster millennial era where you were supposed to make money from doing what you loved and got complicated with shifting/collapsing markets tons of “music people” who aren’t musicians now have email jobs

more people should care that two branches of government said no more tiktok and yet we still have tiktok because Trump said it’s ok.

threads is more fun than bluesky, but there’s so much engagement farming around that fun that I can’t do it… can people recommend fun bluesky accounts?

why is my following tab now a bunch of people i’m not following? they aren’t reposts.

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

"If you do not like the way your morning toast was prepared, please press 9, and then 1, and then 1, and then hide the phone in a laundry basket."

I wrote a long-ish post about The Cranberries' classic "Linger" www.fluxblog.org/2025/02/cran...

this that grey poupon that evian that ted talk

are the ads different on tubi? we keep seeing the same “fight antisemitism” ad over and over and it looks jank af and there’s no brady commentary

Must be said again and again, the police are defunding us. Our schools our parks our trains, literally everything.

most men really aren’t ok. i don’t mean this in regards to misogyny (although there’s that). i mean that they’re like, fucking addled. ZIRP + crypto + elon + rogan has like, melted them.

“intriguing” is not a word I would use to describe ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

DC has a lot of cool jobs for what I do, but I can’t live there because the entire vibe of a city changing every 4 years would make me mentally ill

This was really eye-opening. Hopefully there isn’t a paywall. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

The pause on federal health agency guidance was supposed to end Saturday. Anyone know if it has resumed? www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...

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...

“a rehydration technique backed by studies conducted at the university of wisconsin” — “this is a hangover trick I learned in college”

For a good time, tell your boyfriend that’s really into Dark Knight that you want to watch “one of Christian Bale’s early films,” explain it’s a historical piece about collective bargaining rights, and then put on Newsies

CINDY: I used to be with a guy who was full of valuable insights—but his insights weren’t actionable, let alone fundable. GARY: Sounds like low-hanging fruit. CINDY: He was. And I know you’re different. The synergy is unbelievable.