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H/him. Tax the rich, like, a lot. I work for a Fortune 500, writing software when they let me
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With a hat tip to @mtsw.bsky.social for his posts about messaging and editing, I made this (very rough) example of what such an ad might look like.
January 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity” Nice
Incredible that the Democrats now have their own Joe the Plumber only instead of a plumber it’s an autoworker and instead of taxes on small businesses his issue is “the president seems to be covering up for a ring of pedophiles.”
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”

Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD
January 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
This is the first time I’ve noticed national battery capacity getting a headline. It’s an interesting metric to keep in mind
January 14, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I feel the same way about Mr. Beast
As an atheist it's very frustrating to have my non-belief in the antichrist tested in this way
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.
January 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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As an atheist it's very frustrating to have my non-belief in the antichrist tested in this way
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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The people of Minneapolis are hounding immigration agents wherever they pop up. Earlier today:
January 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Turning testing ourselves into idiocracy
Wilhelm screaming as I find out that actual journalists reporting on Grok quote Grok as a primary source as if it is a sentient person
January 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Why am I getting advertisements in. English for a dental clinic in Hungary?
January 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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NYC — tonight at 6pm, Foley Square
January 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.

"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”

🧵⬇️
January 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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16 hours in, my guess this was all intended basically as a coup to put VP Delcy Rodriguez in power (likely without her knowledge but 🤷).

At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.

All speculation, but let me explain:
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti.

Mattia sips on an espresso during his.

Truly the heroes we need during these times.
January 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Repeatedly typing “visibly thicker hair” into google just to see what happens to the ads I see
January 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
It’s so funny to me when people on LinkedIn post like it’s Facebook (or Bluesky). I just saw an old colleague post an AI generated image of a postbox with a dire warning about GOP delay voting.
I thought LinkedIn was just for finding a job and posting corpo-speak aphorism
January 1, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Accurate.
December 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.

we forget these things at our peril
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sorry @spavel.bsky.social for dumping this thread into your replies. I guess it’s something I didn’t know I wanted to talk about
“Deterministic Automation” In complex software, especially legacy systems, we’re always trying to get to determinism. There’s a web of dependencies, services, blobs of software no one has touched for a decade.
December 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The Trump administration is trying to cut off access to gender affirming care. I am with the transgender and nonbinary community in this moment of anger and fear. We cannot, and will not, let this stand.
December 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Wait, did they really release a page that was completely redacted except bill Clinton’s name?
December 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Listen, I know it was in a major newspaper or something, but I have no need to read a bunch of neo-nazi gen zers.
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The sandwich story is ultimate Brooks
I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally.

By David Brooks
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM