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I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

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So many humans can't even accept differences in our own species but here we are looking for intelligent life on other planets.

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A friend recently found out I hadn’t read Lonesome Dove and gave me one of those looks that said, “Have I misjudged you all these years?” He was right. It is amazing. Like Cormac McCarthy if he wasn’t depressed.

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🗣️ 🦈 ⁉️ 😱 🖤

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The Genocidal Oligarch’s Party

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You can never set foot in a Target or Walmart again and lead a perfectly normal existence. I'm proof, 12 years clean.

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YEARS ago I gifted this drawing to my mom for Xmas and she framed it and put it in the hallway. Last year a friend of hers walked past it and went "WAIT, THAT'S NOT A BIRD". Camouflage done right. I'm proud of myself. d:

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www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Hearing immigrant workers are not showing up to pick Florida crops (berry season is here). Can't find confirmation other than random social media. Might be worth a reporter to check it out

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U.S. scientists, state policymakers, farmers, and others who depend on up-to-date climate data on Thursday confronted an information blackout from federal regional climate centers across much of the country.

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in his first ever appearance, superman beats up spousal abusers, halts an unjust execution and exposes government corruption. i love how people think they just now made superheroes woke superman, woke since 1938

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In this video game, you begin with a barren wasteland and use advanced eco-tech—such as wind turbines, soil purifiers, and irrigators—to transform it into a thriving, diverse ecosystem.

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The Trump admin ain’t paying for shit. Our tax dollars are, though.

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One thrived and taught me how to sing Swinging on a Star.

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That cultural civ win never prepared you for this 💩This is a sewer crawl of epic proportions.

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This administration builds its fog of war with human rights violations.

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In response to President Donald Trump’s campaign to shrink the federal government, the National Science Foundation has abolished its chief mechanism for getting the scientific community’s input on its programs. scim.ag/42sQ9YJ

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The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076

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It Only Tuesday

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Here is your regular reminder that if you just want to see games coming out from people who self publish, here is this feed I made. Anyone I add to the list can comment and add to it, and I update it almost every day with new games announced or releasing. bsky.app/profile/did:... #indiegamedev

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Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

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The consensus among the rich seems to be that character is irrelevant, perhaps because they have so little of it themselves.

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My dogs play this game where the larger dog steals the smaller dog’s toy. Then the smaller dog chases the larger dog around in circles trying to steal the toy back. I call it Toytotathon.

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Oh, your cookie company is family-owned? Well, I don't think that's a selling point because the United States is, too, and that is making everything objectively worse.

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Occasionally, I've been invited to teach journalism students about numeracy in storytelling. This graph from @rollingstone.com's piece on Musk's power seizure in the US conveys the scale of $1 billion (or, in this case, $316B) better than anything I've read. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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This sounds like if Joni Mitchell grew up listening to Tool, I love it soooooo much

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If you’re torpedoing the goofy and whimsical because you would rather marinate in complete misery have a shot of vinegar and never call me.

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I’m calling it The Spinal Tap Trade War and no one can stop me!

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I don’t think I’ve ever actually been too excited. No one has shown up to gauge my excitement and award me with this achievement.

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Yesterday was Thurfriyay and you know what that means.

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“Of late, I’ve been triaging my news consumption. 10,000 HHS workers fired for no reason? Social security dismantled? Millions losing their right to vote? I’ll get to all of that later. Right now, I’m trying to understand why they put tariffs on Narnia.” michaelianblack.substack.com/p/on-windows

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You wouldn't know these countries. They all live in Canada.

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Our insider trading specialists are really excited about their Easter vacay.

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Hermits don’t do push notifications.

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I was formerly an agnostic. Now I’m praying for Bennu to save us.

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Draconian? I think so. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is but a trial run for the rest of the nation. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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I’d like to thank my brain for making up purple.

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They say the safest place to hide your money from DOGE is in the constitution.

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I’ve created a new game. It’s called No DOGE! You can’t have my money! So far, it’s just me and my two dogs digging holes in the backyard, and let me tell you…the dogs LOVE it.

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