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Dan McDonough
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DC/Providence, depending. Music, art, bikes, good food, tasty booze.
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December 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
At ORD trying to get to Providence. We can’t board because the door is stuck shut on the inbound flight and they can’t get the passengers off.
December 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Bucknell to require all incoming freshmen to demonstrate basic competency with magic 8-ball.
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I once worked with this absolute dipshit who told me about the time he fell asleep at the wheel and drove across a field and crashed into a tree. They had to cut him out with the jaws of life and he lost three days of memories. I asked if he was wearing a seatbelt and he said no…
kids today do not remember what happened when congress said "you should not be able to start your car unless your seat belt is buckled," and frankly until seat belt interlock mandates are back within the Overton Window the whole speed limiter conversation is a bit of a wank innit
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🎵
car is over
if you want it
🎶
December 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Here he is taking the photo.
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Everyone: you’re going to Chicago in December? Are you nuts?
Me: Psssh. It’ll be fine. Global warming, remember?
Chicago:
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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billable hours about to win the national championship
Michigan had been alerted prior to Wednesday that Sherrone Moore was dealing with mental health issues yet Warde Manuel fired him alone with no HR rep and no security present, source told NBC Sports.
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Your regular reminder that a lot of your favorite actors are kinda dummies.
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.

In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Algonquin kids table" wins the internet today, folks. 👏
Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza are both such awful writers that I cannot even enjoy this modern literary scandal, a fucking shame! Halfwits throwing shots at each other across the Algonquin kids table, I’m sick of it!
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Movie intros in 2026
December 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
And the Elsa/Mando porn is gonna be HAWT!
Sam Altman is clearly an incredible deal maker.

That the outcome of Disney wanting to sue over its IP being used in Sora is that Disney will pay OpenAI $1 billion (an investment) and let them use 200 Disney, Marvel & Star Wars characters in AI slop videos is wild.
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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much better
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'm a firm believer that microwaves should only have one button (+30 sec) and that's it.
Poll: you set the microwave for big even numbers (30,60, 120 etc) or you go for the lucky ones (37 seconds, 73 seconds etc)?
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Used to be against moon landing conspiracy theorists, but now I think ah, that was such a gentle, almost charming, kind of stupid. How lovely it all was.
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Okay can we stop relentlessly extending copyright now? Jayzus.
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🚨 STATION ALERT 🚨

The station at 3000 Connecticut Ave NW / National Zoo has been upgraded! This popular spot, with over 209,000 trips since 2011, now features 16 Pillar docks. It's the perfect place to grab or return a bike or ebike for your next trip! 🚲♥
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
See these fuckers have been going after alcohol and we're all like, "oh, yeah, maybe, I guess..." and now this.
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Check out these guys obeying clearly lawful orders.
WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse. newrepublic.com/article/2040... via @newrepublic.com
Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.
Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary.
newrepublic.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It's that time of year again where if you start Don McLean's "American Pie" right now, right now, by the time you hit the last "this will be the day that I die, it'll be 2026.
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Not only is this going to cost the city money to put the signs up but also to keep a cop there 24/7 to be on the lookout for the inevitable vandalism. I vote "fuck off, ass clown."
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace just introduced a bill to redesignate Black Lives Matter Plaza in front of the White House as “Charlie Kirk Freedom of Speech Plaza”

The bill requires at least two Metro-style signs be erected with the name.
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The scariest part of this man is the fact that he's like 12 years younger than I am and looks like death warmed over.
Emil Bove, a newly-confirmed federal judge, was just spotted at Donald Trump’s rally.
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM