Cookie_Monster
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History's greatest monster
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Them: How would you describe yourself?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Them: How would you describe yourself?
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
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Truly the only thing in my life changed by AI is having to add "-ai" to the end of all of my searches
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Truly the only thing in my life changed by AI is having to add "-ai" to the end of all of my searches
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BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
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The average 30 year old millennial has $63,000 of wealth. The average boomer in their 30s had $58,000… in 1989 dollars. That’s $130,000 today.
Boomers have captured so much of the wealth that people today have less than half of what the average baby boomer had at the same age.
Boomers have captured so much of the wealth that people today have less than half of what the average baby boomer had at the same age.
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The average 30 year old millennial has $63,000 of wealth. The average boomer in their 30s had $58,000… in 1989 dollars. That’s $130,000 today.
Boomers have captured so much of the wealth that people today have less than half of what the average baby boomer had at the same age.
Boomers have captured so much of the wealth that people today have less than half of what the average baby boomer had at the same age.
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I will take any IBM ad if they just brought back You Make The Call
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I will take any IBM ad if they just brought back You Make The Call
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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Portland City Council will consider an amendment next week to redirect $4.3 million from the city program that sweeps homeless encampments. If passed, the budget adjustment will instead invest $2 million in rent and food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees.
City Council Mulling $4.3 Million Cut From Homeless Sweeps Budget
“We’re in a position right now, where people are going to end up being unhoused for the long-term, and we have to take action,” City Councilor Angelita Morillo said, explaining a proposal to divert fu...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Portland City Council will consider an amendment next week to redirect $4.3 million from the city program that sweeps homeless encampments. If passed, the budget adjustment will instead invest $2 million in rent and food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees.
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I am morbidly fascinated by Trump's occasional meanderings into existential questions about hell (even though I don't believe in it) because I think somewhere in the rotted hollow innards of his psyche where nothing grows, there's a dawning spark of realization about how little he really has
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I am morbidly fascinated by Trump's occasional meanderings into existential questions about hell (even though I don't believe in it) because I think somewhere in the rotted hollow innards of his psyche where nothing grows, there's a dawning spark of realization about how little he really has
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money could buy my friends with shitty, soul-crushing jobs they're only keeping for the health insurance a year of rest to work on creative projects and take care of their bodies and minds (and cats, and gardens, and families), but it can't buy Elon Musk kids who actually like him
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
money could buy my friends with shitty, soul-crushing jobs they're only keeping for the health insurance a year of rest to work on creative projects and take care of their bodies and minds (and cats, and gardens, and families), but it can't buy Elon Musk kids who actually like him
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Normalize calling it the Epstein Shutdown
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Normalize calling it the Epstein Shutdown
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Many Harris supporters knew what Trump's agenda was, and were gobsmacked and traumatized so many voted for it.
Many (most?) Trump voters did not really know what his agenda was, now are finding out, and are unhappy.
Many (most?) Trump voters did not really know what his agenda was, now are finding out, and are unhappy.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Many Harris supporters knew what Trump's agenda was, and were gobsmacked and traumatized so many voted for it.
Many (most?) Trump voters did not really know what his agenda was, now are finding out, and are unhappy.
Many (most?) Trump voters did not really know what his agenda was, now are finding out, and are unhappy.
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The New Zealand-born filmmaker died at the age of 75.
R.I.P. Lee Tamahori, director of Die Another Day and Once Were Warriors
R.I.P. Lee Tamahori, director of Die Another Day and Once Were Warriors
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November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The New Zealand-born filmmaker died at the age of 75.
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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On Netflix today, the movie Guillermo del Toro was born to make: Frankenstein
With Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro writes his career's thesis in blood and snow
Guillermo Del Toro's love for the grotesque is sincere and passionate. Frankenstein plays like a thesis statement for his career.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
On Netflix today, the movie Guillermo del Toro was born to make: Frankenstein
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**** for Predator: Badlands, "an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...
Predator: Badlands movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
An exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year's best.
www.rogerebert.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
**** for Predator: Badlands, "an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script, and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pred...
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By serving as the first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi made history. But in doing so, she ruined the House of Representatives as a workplace.
by Ross Douthat
by Ross Douthat
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
By serving as the first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi made history. But in doing so, she ruined the House of Representatives as a workplace.
by Ross Douthat
by Ross Douthat
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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I'm told the first two episodes of PLURIBUS have been posted to Apple TV+ already, and I encourage you strongly to watch them, because they're superb. And then, if you'd like, you can read my recaps this season for @vulture. My thoughts on the premiere: www.vulture.com/article/plur...
Pluribus Series-Premiere Recap: They Live
Vince Gilligan’s new series hits us with a grand-scale alien apocalypse while telling us tantalizingly little about what it all means.
www.vulture.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I'm told the first two episodes of PLURIBUS have been posted to Apple TV+ already, and I encourage you strongly to watch them, because they're superb. And then, if you'd like, you can read my recaps this season for @vulture. My thoughts on the premiere: www.vulture.com/article/plur...
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As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.