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Please accept this sandwich as a gesture of solidarity. Cleveland. Any pronouns. Autistic
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One of my favorite things in history is when you find a person who was clearly just on the spectrum, like buddy, nobody's that into major infrastructure projects and Etruscan literature without a hyperfixation
February 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM
One of my favorite things in history is when you find a person who was clearly just on the spectrum, like buddy, nobody's that into major infrastructure projects and Etruscan literature without a hyperfixation
I was that 15yo obsessively reading golden age sci-fi and John is 100% correct. It worked for me because I'm a real dork with a high tolerance for dry prose, but trust me you do not want to be the high schooler reading "Ralph 124C41+". Deep knowledge of Grey Lensmen lore will not get you dates.
Yup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.
When people ask how to get into GA SF I always say that the right way is via some of those fat "Best Of" short fiction collections
February 6, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I was that 15yo obsessively reading golden age sci-fi and John is 100% correct. It worked for me because I'm a real dork with a high tolerance for dry prose, but trust me you do not want to be the high schooler reading "Ralph 124C41+". Deep knowledge of Grey Lensmen lore will not get you dates.
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Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts
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We don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽
a woman is standing in front of a display of ships and says " you broke your little ships "
Alt: a woman is standing in front of a display of ships and says " you broke your little ships "
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM
We don’t talk enough about Alfre Woodard’s performance in Star Trek: First Contact. Stunning. And among other things, brought out some of Patrick Stewart’s moments. He rarely had a partner who could meet his energy, but she did. 🖖🏽
Kamala Harris is ALSO bringing back MST3K!
February 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Kamala Harris is ALSO bringing back MST3K!
The solution to this is to be autistic. Worrying about mix and match ingredients? No. Eating the same thing for a week even it has "niche" ingredients like cilantro (lolllll)? Yes. And then making it again the next week when it runs out? Yes.
Also what is a "piece" of broccoli?
Also what is a "piece" of broccoli?
February 5, 2026 at 1:57 AM
The solution to this is to be autistic. Worrying about mix and match ingredients? No. Eating the same thing for a week even it has "niche" ingredients like cilantro (lolllll)? Yes. And then making it again the next week when it runs out? Yes.
Also what is a "piece" of broccoli?
Also what is a "piece" of broccoli?
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it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"
February 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"
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One of my favorite datasets depicts waterways of San Francisco before colonialism drained and paved over many of them. Turns out one of the "lakes" was a copy of a copy of a copy etc etc of an ink spill on a Spanish chart from the 1700s that propagated all the way into a modern .geojson file.
February 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
One of my favorite datasets depicts waterways of San Francisco before colonialism drained and paved over many of them. Turns out one of the "lakes" was a copy of a copy of a copy etc etc of an ink spill on a Spanish chart from the 1700s that propagated all the way into a modern .geojson file.
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TESVI should let you adopt a cat you find as a pet, only for you to eventually be able to discover they are an Alfiq, and potentially recruit them as a follower instead.
February 4, 2026 at 7:49 PM
TESVI should let you adopt a cat you find as a pet, only for you to eventually be able to discover they are an Alfiq, and potentially recruit them as a follower instead.
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
Not knowing what you're doing with regard to a low-risk home repair but figuring it out as you go and making some of it up and having it turn out pretty good actually would you look at that >>>>>> paying an expert guy to do expert work
February 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Not knowing what you're doing with regard to a low-risk home repair but figuring it out as you go and making some of it up and having it turn out pretty good actually would you look at that >>>>>> paying an expert guy to do expert work
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WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today
February 4, 2026 at 6:25 PM
WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today
Real question, what's their plan for the uggos none of these sentient "No Fat Chicks" t-shirts want to fuck? Are they going to banish the unmarried childless hags somewhere? Lacking a husband, is my dad stuck owning my house? This stuff is morally repulsive but also just very poorly thought out
they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Real question, what's their plan for the uggos none of these sentient "No Fat Chicks" t-shirts want to fuck? Are they going to banish the unmarried childless hags somewhere? Lacking a husband, is my dad stuck owning my house? This stuff is morally repulsive but also just very poorly thought out
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Ive watched this about 100 times.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
February 4, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Ive watched this about 100 times.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
This is why the internet was invented.
Right here.
Peak content.
If you went into a lab to try and engineer the most annoying song in the universe you'd just get "Benny and the Jets" verbatim. It's almost impressive how annoying it is.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM
If you went into a lab to try and engineer the most annoying song in the universe you'd just get "Benny and the Jets" verbatim. It's almost impressive how annoying it is.
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It was a frosty, overcast morning when I was out driving back roads and found this beautiful Snowy Owl on a frost-covered power pole. It's not the background and setting one hopes for when photographing owls, but I'm always happy to find one regardless. #wildlife #owls #birds
February 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
I grew up in the top dairy producing county in the entire country and YEP. Diary cows stand around in their own shit all day every day. That brown mushy stuff isn't mud, it's cow shit. Incomprehensible amounts of cow shit. The air just ambiently smells like cow shit all the time, even in town.
I live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.
February 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I grew up in the top dairy producing county in the entire country and YEP. Diary cows stand around in their own shit all day every day. That brown mushy stuff isn't mud, it's cow shit. Incomprehensible amounts of cow shit. The air just ambiently smells like cow shit all the time, even in town.
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permabanned from the karaoke bar for doing Koyanisqaatsi 3 nights in a row
February 2, 2026 at 6:21 PM
permabanned from the karaoke bar for doing Koyanisqaatsi 3 nights in a row
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the earliest depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is among the ruins of a Roman palace turned messenger boy’s school - a student mocking one of his Christian classmates with a doodle of a boy praying to a donkey-headed figure on a cross captioned “Alexamenos worshipping his God”
February 3, 2026 at 10:41 PM
the earliest depiction of Christ’s crucifixion is among the ruins of a Roman palace turned messenger boy’s school - a student mocking one of his Christian classmates with a doodle of a boy praying to a donkey-headed figure on a cross captioned “Alexamenos worshipping his God”
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This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
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Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
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newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
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offutt motor court sign, offutt, nebraska, 1993
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 AM
offutt motor court sign, offutt, nebraska, 1993