Doctor Memory
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Just another bozo on this bus: please deflate your shoes before entering. The artist formerly known as dr_memory@twit (and same on livejournal, remember them?) and currently also known as @[email protected] on mastodon.
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Doctor Memory
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Death to the newsletter-industrial complex.
Stop paying people to feed your own opinions back to you with more adjectives.
Stop paying people to feed your own opinions back to you with more adjectives.
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10 Better Choices for the National Anthem Than the Actual National Anthem:
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Fight the Power
3. Piano Man
4. We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder Version)
5. Back on the Chain Gang
6. The Chain
7. Runnin' Down a Dream
8. Let's Go Crazy
9. I Love Rock 'n Roll
10. Believe
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Fight the Power
3. Piano Man
4. We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder Version)
5. Back on the Chain Gang
6. The Chain
7. Runnin' Down a Dream
8. Let's Go Crazy
9. I Love Rock 'n Roll
10. Believe
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
10 Better Choices for the National Anthem Than the Actual National Anthem:
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Fight the Power
3. Piano Man
4. We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder Version)
5. Back on the Chain Gang
6. The Chain
7. Runnin' Down a Dream
8. Let's Go Crazy
9. I Love Rock 'n Roll
10. Believe
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Fight the Power
3. Piano Man
4. We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder Version)
5. Back on the Chain Gang
6. The Chain
7. Runnin' Down a Dream
8. Let's Go Crazy
9. I Love Rock 'n Roll
10. Believe
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
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also, my dude, I really do not think you want to be setting a precedent of “end of term pardons are null and void”
just sayin’
just sayin’
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
also, my dude, I really do not think you want to be setting a precedent of “end of term pardons are null and void”
just sayin’
just sayin’
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
The BQE collapsing (probably the cantilever segment but don’t sleep on the crumbling elevated section through Sunset Park) remains the single most predictable infrastructure disaster on deck for NYC and has been so for over 25 years now. Hopefully no one gets hurt when it happens.
“A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.”
— www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
— www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New York’s BQE Is Falling Apart. The City Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The BQE collapsing (probably the cantilever segment but don’t sleep on the crumbling elevated section through Sunset Park) remains the single most predictable infrastructure disaster on deck for NYC and has been so for over 25 years now. Hopefully no one gets hurt when it happens.
Intro, five concerts, etc.
• Cannibal Ox
• Nirvana/Breeders (Breeders blew them off the stage, alas)
• NIN/MBM (Drexel U Student Center!)
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Extreme 🤣
• Cannibal Ox
• Nirvana/Breeders (Breeders blew them off the stage, alas)
• NIN/MBM (Drexel U Student Center!)
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Extreme 🤣
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
1. (The first) Grateful Dead, Easter Sunday, 1982,
2. Men at Work/The Fixx/The Stand/Big Country
3. New Model Army first show back in the US after Reagan’s ban, ManRay, Cambridge, MA.
4. Chris Trapper
5. Melissa Etheridge/Little Feat
1. (The first) Grateful Dead, Easter Sunday, 1982,
2. Men at Work/The Fixx/The Stand/Big Country
3. New Model Army first show back in the US after Reagan’s ban, ManRay, Cambridge, MA.
4. Chris Trapper
5. Melissa Etheridge/Little Feat
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
The Pixies (original)
The Afghan Wigs
Skinny Puppy
Ween
TV on the Radio
The Pixies (original)
The Afghan Wigs
Skinny Puppy
Ween
TV on the Radio
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Intro, five concerts, etc.
• Cannibal Ox
• Nirvana/Breeders (Breeders blew them off the stage, alas)
• NIN/MBM (Drexel U Student Center!)
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Extreme 🤣
• Cannibal Ox
• Nirvana/Breeders (Breeders blew them off the stage, alas)
• NIN/MBM (Drexel U Student Center!)
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Extreme 🤣
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This is the thing that always inspiried me about the US public higher-ed system. That a country could be so wealthy that it can have schools where people build rocket ships under sports stadiums and somehow these are considered "unprestigious" to elitist snobs
I always think of Tony Judt on this (though I'd hold the condescension and double down on the public university systems in the heartland)
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is the thing that always inspiried me about the US public higher-ed system. That a country could be so wealthy that it can have schools where people build rocket ships under sports stadiums and somehow these are considered "unprestigious" to elitist snobs
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says the man whose career was not prematurely ended by a massive lawsuit from ringo lam, director of “city on fire” and went on to brag about his theft at the cannes film festival.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Quentin Tarantino Slams ‘Hunger Games’ for Ripping Off ‘Battle Royale’
The Japanese film was released more than a decade before the first 'Hunger Games' installment.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
says the man whose career was not prematurely ended by a massive lawsuit from ringo lam, director of “city on fire” and went on to brag about his theft at the cannes film festival.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Immigration hot take, but I think if you marry an American, and aren't on the run from the law in your own country, you should get legal status that can only be revoked for a serious felony by the Judge at sentencing, and if you stay married for idk 5 years automatic citizenship
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Immigration hot take, but I think if you marry an American, and aren't on the run from the law in your own country, you should get legal status that can only be revoked for a serious felony by the Judge at sentencing, and if you stay married for idk 5 years automatic citizenship
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Pictured: a man who hasn’t been invited to his birth family’s thanksgiving dinner in fifteen years.
Hey, we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Pictured: a man who hasn’t been invited to his birth family’s thanksgiving dinner in fifteen years.
Suggestion for @skywatch.blue: a list of people who have the string “no DMs” in their profile. As far as I can tell this is a 100% tell for someone who could not find their own ass with a map and a fully functional ass detector.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Suggestion for @skywatch.blue: a list of people who have the string “no DMs” in their profile. As far as I can tell this is a 100% tell for someone who could not find their own ass with a map and a fully functional ass detector.
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I would watch the fuck out of this movie
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I would watch the fuck out of this movie
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Infamous NJ NIMBY coalition 'Local Leaders for Responsible Planning' have asked a federal judge to pause the state's affordable housing process. These guys have lost basically all their court challenges so far, but it makes me nervous when they go to federal court. newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/n-...
N.J. municipal coalition goes to federal judge to halt affordable housing mandates - New Jersey Globe
Citing a statewide clash over zoning, density, and municipal autonomy, a coalition of mayors and local officials has asked a federal judge for a
newjerseyglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Infamous NJ NIMBY coalition 'Local Leaders for Responsible Planning' have asked a federal judge to pause the state's affordable housing process. These guys have lost basically all their court challenges so far, but it makes me nervous when they go to federal court. newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/n-...
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Tomorrow when you're watching the Macy's Parade, remember that whenever you see one of these "all-star" marching band or cheerleading groups, what you're seeing is a for-profit company that's charging kids thousands of dollars + travel costs to participate in the parade and do some tourist stuff.
Performer Package – Spirit of America Productions
spiritofamericaproductions.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Tomorrow when you're watching the Macy's Parade, remember that whenever you see one of these "all-star" marching band or cheerleading groups, what you're seeing is a for-profit company that's charging kids thousands of dollars + travel costs to participate in the parade and do some tourist stuff.
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every year it’s always “imagine how you would feel if you were the turkey!”
as if i haven’t been laid out on a table completely naked oiled up and spreading open my delicious hole for 12 people
as if i haven’t been laid out on a table completely naked oiled up and spreading open my delicious hole for 12 people
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
every year it’s always “imagine how you would feel if you were the turkey!”
as if i haven’t been laid out on a table completely naked oiled up and spreading open my delicious hole for 12 people
as if i haven’t been laid out on a table completely naked oiled up and spreading open my delicious hole for 12 people
If nothing else, this accursed year has provided us with multiple moments of the frontiers of haterdom being pushed out.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If nothing else, this accursed year has provided us with multiple moments of the frontiers of haterdom being pushed out.
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
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The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him
Feeling personally attacked by this one.
Nano Banana Pro also seems to be good at moving the camera when recreating images, which can add a false sense of authenticity to sets of images, for example:
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Feeling personally attacked by this one.
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To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.
President Trump brought grievances to the Thanksgiving pardoning ceremony on Tuesday. He joked about sending the turkeys to a prison in El Salvador, and claimed that last year's turkey pardons were invalid. n.pr/48nUsYx
Trump spares turkeys — but not his political opponents — at annual pardoning ceremony
President Trump brought grievances to the Thanksgiving pardoning ceremony on Tuesday. He joked about sending the turkeys to a prison in El Salvador, and claimed that last year's turkey pardons were invalid.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.
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Every question headline should end like this
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Known for bold raids on urban bins, raccoons are becoming more domesticated – so how they look will gradually change, says science writer Helen Pilcher
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Every question headline should end like this
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc