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My first essay of 2025 is up with Business Insider, and it's all about how I'm fine with my teenager not wanting to learn to drive. Hope you'll give it a read: www.businessinsider.com/my-teenager-...

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I've made it to my 56th birthday. My survival to this point has often been in question, mostly due to chronic illness and multiple major surgeries, so I'm glad to have made it. Please clap, as they say.

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I am doing daily informational posts on TikTok each day in Feb highlighting a different person daily for Black History Month. It's a small way for me to be an activist and I'm proud to highlight these amazing people with a little history each day. www.tiktok.com/@rustbeltrants #BlackHistoryMonth

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Our annual LOTR trilogy binge watch is this weekend and truly it’s the only thing getting me through this week. The menu will be banging, as usual.

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This billboard says it all.

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Some of these GoFundMe's for displaced Black people in So Cal aren't really moving. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... - there's a ton of need.

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For example, this GoFundMe is very close to meeting its goal. I'm in for $200. Can we get them to $10,000 before I log off in a few minutes? I think we can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-domin...

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It’s fucked up that some of you are starting accounts on that Chinese social media place. For one, that website might steal your information. For another, it might be owned by a terrible person trying to undermine American democracy. For a third thing, the owner might keep lying about going to mars.

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Pete Hegseth has learned his lesson by Joni Ernst

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Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife? Hegseth: Please stop helping me Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?

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decided we’re posting this after every Cavs win.

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In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And say darling, could you douse my breaded tenderloin in gin in honor of our next Secretary of Defense?

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ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW! You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.

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January isn’t even half over yet, and it’s been a long year.

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After dinner tonight, my younger sister told me: "When I was younger, I used to sit at the table with the men after holiday dinners, watching the women clean up and thinking--why don't they just sit? Now I realize, if they didn't do it, no one would."

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an actually good movie about the empty venality of the american media is of course NETWORK. an actually good movie about blithe indifference to a looming threat is JAWS.

submitted 64 days ago • 340 comments

NY Times, June 21, 1936.

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I will never be dissuaded from my opinion that Michael Caine deserved an award for his FLAWLESS and EMOTIONAL portrayal of Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol. No wink/hint of "playacting with puppets," he was ALL IN, every scene, and his transformation was TOUCHING. I will die on this hill.

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Got one more personal essay published before we close out 2024 - my first for BuzzFeed. Thank you for reading. #caregiver #dementia #sandwichcaregiving www.buzzfeed.com/ninamccollum...

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I know this will be controversial but…I liked the endings for #WWDITS, and agree that it time to end. I’m happy and satisfied and thank them for 6 of the best seasons of a show I’ve ever enjoyed. Amazing cast, crew, writers and directors. Working w/Matt Berry is now on my bucket list.

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#WARNING: @cpsc.gov urges consumers to stop using FLIKRFIRE Tabletop Fireplaces due to flame jetting and fire hazards; Two deaths and serious burn injuries reported Consumers should immediately stop using and dispose of these dangerous products. More: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

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I am not the same person in the winter after the sun goes down. If I said I wanted to go to that party, go to the movies, go out to dinner, I WAS LYING TO MYSELF. Do not ask me to go out after 430pm in the winter. I ain't going.

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the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: treat him like they’ve captured the joker

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I have finished the annual cleaning off of my desk, which is no easy feat. AND I did all the shredding. Please clap.

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How many kolachy are too many to eat with afternoon coffee? Asking for me.

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How do I explain to this face that he does not want bread topped with hot ajvar and lemon pepper feta

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Why did their state pick United Health to cover their Medicaid plan? While Universal care sounds good. The reality is that our gov approve the Medicare Advantage plans offered by the BUCAs. Maybe we need to change what we expect and what we need from gov chosen plans first ?

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A friend described the current Democratic response to the political moment “bringing a strongly worded letter to a knife fight” and I can tell that’s one of those phrases that’s going to be sticking

submitted 74 days ago • 85 comments

I did two returns and mailed a package at the post office, all before 9am. Please clap.

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Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

submitted 75 days ago • 400 comments

Fuck “You’re So Vain,” I want to know who Jesse was written about. Anyone know?

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When I had a violent stalker who would graphically describe how he would have me gang raped, puncture my organs and and break all my bones, I was told the police "couldn't do anything". Consider this a reminder that they absolutely ✨can✨ do something. They just don't care about YOU.

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Beautiful morning for a hike in the Metroparks. #Cleveland

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My mom has polio, she got it as a kid, missed the vaccine in a year. You never get cured, even today in her 70s she still suffers from it. It has shaped her entire life. She became a pediatrician because of it. I’m so angry right now, these people are evil.

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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

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i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

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I have nothing against Ken Jennings and he does a fine job with the show, but I can never hear any introduction in my head other than Johnny introducing Alex. I wonder if I will ever get used to it. Anyone else?

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