Raggedy Android
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Music. Lyrics. Biometric Security Software.
"Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it."
"Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it."
Wishful thinking, but what a lovely thought
To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it.
Next week is what will break you.
Next week is what will break you.
We've lead charmed weather lives so far in January.
Temperatures are +5F to +10F across MN so far this month. 🌡️
We're about to be reminded what persistent cold and occasional snow feels like. ❄️
MSP could bottom out -10 to -20 next Tue.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Temperatures are +5F to +10F across MN so far this month. 🌡️
We're about to be reminded what persistent cold and occasional snow feels like. ❄️
MSP could bottom out -10 to -20 next Tue.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Wishful thinking, but what a lovely thought
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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December 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Study of a Woman’s Head Looking Up
Antony Van Dyck, c. 1618/20 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Antony Van Dyck, c. 1618/20 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
January 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Study of a Woman’s Head Looking Up
Antony Van Dyck, c. 1618/20 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Antony Van Dyck, c. 1618/20 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
This is a feature of religions in general: anyone asking a supernatural entity for guidance gets an answer beyond dispute or reason.
Trump, uniquely among candidates in my lifetime, enjoyed the privilege of openly contradicting himself without being challenged by the press, leaving everyone free to believe in their own personal Trump.
January 11, 2026 at 12:37 PM
This is a feature of religions in general: anyone asking a supernatural entity for guidance gets an answer beyond dispute or reason.
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
Can't happen soon enough.
a woman labeled a terrorist by US law enforcement and the White House is being simultaneously memorialized at NBA games and by major cultural icons. this regime is literally own-goaling itself to death. it’s cooked.
January 11, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Can't happen soon enough.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a... (gift link)
Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 PM
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a... (gift link)
President Caligula
More from the party of federalism: "the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the federal government, as represented by the president of the United States, tells them, for the good of the country, to do."
January 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
President Caligula
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An incredible graph.
Not really--US incarceration per capita peaked in the early 2000s IIRC, and prison populations have declined since then even as the total population has risen.
January 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
An incredible graph.
Worth reading to the end.
This was one of our most-read pieces way back in 2015. Unfortunately, it is still relevant today.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
Facepalm Pilot: Where Technology Meets Stupidity: An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar
Depending on whom you ask, the use of the active voice over the passive is arguably the most fundamental writer’s maxim, thought to lend we...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Worth reading to the end.
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if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street
January 8, 2026 at 3:49 AM
if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street
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having said myself that people don't need to watch the video, here's my colleague Susan Matthews making a strong case that, yes you do (she also describes it well enough that I feel okay ignoring her instruction)
Yes, You Should Watch the Video of the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
You can just watch the video.
slate.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM
having said myself that people don't need to watch the video, here's my colleague Susan Matthews making a strong case that, yes you do (she also describes it well enough that I feel okay ignoring her instruction)
He believes:
* Imperial conquest benefitted the conquered
* They should thank us, but they don't, because they're subhuman
* They're invading us, we should expel them
* Their governments are incompetent kleptocracies
* We should re-colonize them and install our puppets
* aka "The White Man's Burden"
* Imperial conquest benefitted the conquered
* They should thank us, but they don't, because they're subhuman
* They're invading us, we should expel them
* Their governments are incompetent kleptocracies
* We should re-colonize them and install our puppets
* aka "The White Man's Burden"
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
He believes:
* Imperial conquest benefitted the conquered
* They should thank us, but they don't, because they're subhuman
* They're invading us, we should expel them
* Their governments are incompetent kleptocracies
* We should re-colonize them and install our puppets
* aka "The White Man's Burden"
* Imperial conquest benefitted the conquered
* They should thank us, but they don't, because they're subhuman
* They're invading us, we should expel them
* Their governments are incompetent kleptocracies
* We should re-colonize them and install our puppets
* aka "The White Man's Burden"
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Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them
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The Truth about Venezuela.
January 4, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The Truth about Venezuela.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
Mood:
Possessed girl https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/possessed-girl-1924
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Mood:
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Woman in Green with a Carnation, 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15806
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15806
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Woman in Green with a Carnation, 1909
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15806
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15806
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This is his writer for the victory speech. Wonder if he wrote this one, too. As you say, it’s a scorcher. And so young!!
#Mm
#Mm
Zohran Mamdani’s speechwriter says victory speech was meant to sound defiant | CNN Politics
After Zohran Mamdani’s election win, he gave a speech many have considered defiant. Mamdani’s speechwriter, Julian Gerson, gives an inside look at the speech and the months-long campaign. Julian says ...
www.cnn.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
This is his writer for the victory speech. Wonder if he wrote this one, too. As you say, it’s a scorcher. And so young!!
#Mm
#Mm
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It’s real now. www.youtube.com/live/zj4hZVx...
January 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
It’s real now. www.youtube.com/live/zj4hZVx...
Ruth Crawford Seeger - Wikipedia share.google/7m1Z71KTU1vy...
December 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ruth Crawford Seeger - Wikipedia share.google/7m1Z71KTU1vy...