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Imagine being obliterated in a rocket explosion 11,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico because you picked McNeese State over Gonzaga in the Sweet 16.

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I’d like to self deport

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When the blazers were good

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smart piece well worth your time from @tribecalledlex.bsky.social theringer.com/2025/03/12/p...

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stop what you’re doing & look at the estonian MP’s haircut

submitted 8 days ago • 118 comments

music.apple.com/us/album/cot... another great album by The Tubs

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I like playing really good music in really stupid bars

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Just found the wildest pizza menu of all time, from Francine's Pizza Jungle in Portland, 1957

submitted 14 days ago • 102 comments

chat.. did we just witness the greatest dunk in the history of the universe

submitted 19 days ago • 135 comments

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

submitted 22 days ago • 452 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 32 days ago • 81 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 29 days ago • 264 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 30 days ago • 5645 comments

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

submitted 38 days ago • 774 comments

The Portland Trail Blazers will bring peace to this broken land. We are America's Team.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

The motherfucking Portland motherfucking Trail Blazers.

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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REPORTER: You would agree it's never acceptable to assault police officers? TRUMP: Sure REPORTER: Among those you pardoned is a guy who used a stun gun on a police officer. Why does he deserve a pardon? TRUMP: Well, I don't know

submitted 55 days ago • 1164 comments

So here's what's cool about my job: Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

submitted 59 days ago • 276 comments

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

submitted 59 days ago • 313 comments

one of my favorite quotes from David Lynch, about the magic of Los Angeles

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

RIP, David Lynch. Truly one of the great weirdoes in film and television history.

submitted 60 days ago • 469 comments

"In every modern health-care system, some institution is charged with rationing care."

submitted 76 days ago • 30 comments

My annual best songs of the year playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3A9... lots of great music again this year.

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It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.

submitted 92 days ago • 244 comments

Bro

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Lots of young women on Franklin St

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

submitted 112 days ago • 739 comments

when you catch your dog eating out of the trash:

submitted 120 days ago • 57 comments

I also created a general Ringer starter pack, including everyone I could find across the NBA, NFL and pop culture. (Again, if I've missed anyone, please let me know!) go.bsky.app/FxqmjUy

submitted 120 days ago • 9 comments

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

submitted 120 days ago • 662 comments

I can’t stop thinking about this quote from an undocumented immigrant in PA. How do you even campaign against this.

submitted 121 days ago • 77 comments

In the year of our lord 2024 adults walk up to hosts at busy restaurants on a Saturday and are shocked at the very concept of reservations

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Vaccines are just extraordinary. And as someone who grew up before many of these vaccines: even if you don't die or have long-term health issues as a result of these illnesses, they are no fun anyways. I had rubella and mumps at the same time. It sucked.