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James Hupp
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Feel like dancin' on my own, to a record that I do not own, in a place I've never seen before
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November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Domino effect meme: a man kneeling next to a small white tablet standing on end. There is a series of additional tablets, each larger than the next as it moves away from him. Superimposed by the smallest domino are the words “Obama makes a joke about Donald Trump at the 2011 WHCA dinner.” Superimposed by the largest domino are the words “The Catholic Church suffers a Second Western Schism”.
May 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I'm gonna make this my go-to bit until people who know nothing about soccer are using it.
Antonio Conte, here wearing a plain blue suit and tie with white shirt, standing in front of a wall with various sports logos on it. Superimposed on the picture is a sentence of text in blue letters, with meme text further superimposed on top of the original. The sentence, including the meme text in all caps, reads: "One regular day of NEW YORK STATE POLITICS That's all I ask for. Will never happen." In that text, the word STATE has been crossed out. Above it is the word CITY.
April 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Look, I know this is a pretty niche meme for this situation but it works so well.
Antonio Conte, here wearing a plain blue suit and tie with white shirt, standing in front of a wall with various sports logos on it. Superimposed on the picture is a sentence of text in blue letters, with meme text further superimposed on top of the original. The sentence, including the meme text in all caps, reads: One regular day of NEW YORK STATE POLITICS That's all I ask for. Will never happen.
February 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Forget fines and tolls, this person shouldn't be allowed to drive *at all*. This is a deeply antisocial view of what constitutes "laws"—essentially, what I personally do and don't think is convenient—and nobody who thinks like this has any business commanding a ton-weight deadly weapon.
One Queens man told CBS News New York investigative reporter Tim McNicholas he paid $56 for two strips of film from Alite back in September, hoping to avoid speeding tickets. "We're trying to get away from the city's unfair practices," he said. "You really can't drive 25 anywhere in the city and expect to get anything done." The customer added, "The way I see it is I don't see myself doing something illegal, either. If you look at my plates, you can see all the numbers are visible any time of the day."
February 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Come on what are we doing here.
31% of Americans reported having no interest in supporting the economy this year – a sentiment especially felt by younger (gen Z: 37%), Black (41% v white: 28%) and Democratic consumers (35% v 29% of independents and 28% of Republicans).
February 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I remember eye rolls about Washington’s farewell address from time to time, in part because it’s taught in terms of compromise being superior to partisanship for public welfare. But it was a lot more pointed than that on the danger of faction.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
February 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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We need this. We need this so badly that we have to boil the ocean. Progress requires it.
Google search results AI Overview. The text reads "1492 was 331 years ago. It was in the 15th century, during the second millenium." "331 years ago" is highlighted.
January 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Okay now. Would that be this Roger Corrado, who definitely does not need to drive in Manhattan for his job? www.ingalls.net/team/roger-c...
Portion of a New York Times liveblog of the implementation of congestion pricing. The body text reads: New York and New Jersey are inextricably tied, both economically and culturally, and New Jersey drivers are expected to shoulder a heavy portion of the toll burden. Congestion pricing felt like a “slap in the face” to Roger Corrado, 62, who lives in North Bergen. “I really feel slighted,” he said at a gas station near the Lincoln Tunnel, adding: “Think about a guy like myself, for 40 years commuting into Manhattan, paying the tolls, contributing to all the businesses in Manhattan. Now we feel like, where’s the loyalty? Like, this is how you treat us?”
January 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Bought after seeing a recommendation a couple months ago on this app (can’t remember who or when exactly now). BlueSky yet again driving pageviews for traditional media.
Book cover. City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York, by Jack Newfield & Wayne Barrett. The cover has a large black and white photo of Ed Koch scowling. It also has a smaller photo of Bess Myerson looking happy and four more photos of several people I cannot yet identify. Two of those other four photos are mugshots.
December 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Just remembered that time that Charlotte Gainsbourg held what I can only assume is Tim Robinson's child in her arms in a music video.
Charlotte Gainsbourg has long brown hair and a white top on. She is standing in front of a hedgerow and holding a baby in a hot dog costume.
December 11, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Cute.
Estimated delivery time 9:06pm – 9:21pm In the works • 6:28pm Page title: Sorry, we can't cancel your order Body copy: Because the merchant has already started preparing yoru order, we are not able to give you a refund. Purple button: Got it.
November 23, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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whoa if true
A Google search result for the song Thanks for the Pepperoni by George Harrison. At the top is the title and name of the musician. In the middle is a still of a Youtube video for the song. Visually, the video appears to be a still image of the album cover for the George Harrison album All Things Must Pass. At the bottom of the page is a section titled Lyrics. The lyrics provided are the lyrics of a Beatles song titled Something, also written by George Harrison. In point of fact, Thanks for the Pepperoni has no lyrics.
October 29, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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Either my early vote envelope did not come with a sticker, or I mislaid the sticker while I wasn't paying attention. Sad! So consider this my sticker. It doesn't have the same jaunty affect, but it's something.
Screenshot from a website. The text reads as follows. Ballot Tracking Information General Election 2024 – 11/05/2024 (11/05/2024) Your Ballot Was Mailed on 10/10/2024. Your ballot was returned to and received by your County Board of Elections on 10/22/2024. Your ballot was counted.
October 28, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Oh I consider myself something of a scholar on the topic.
Plain black text on white paper that reads as follows. ACID RAIN A Science Research Paper Dedicated to St. Gabriel Science Fair By: Jamie Hupp March 1, 1993
September 11, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Update: just in case happened!
PVC pipe against a shoddily painted stone wall. The photo perspective is from an angle to the right of the PVC pipe. In the PVC is a Y-connector with the split at the top. The left side of the PVC connection goes straight up into a standard standpipe. A large flexible hose rises from below frame, arches over, and descends into the standpipe. A much smaller similar hose comes in from the bottom left of the frame and does likewise. The right side of the PVC connection comes out at a 45 degree angle toward the viewer and rises slightly into a second standpipe. A clear vinyl flexible tube emerges from the upper right of the frame and descends into this second standpipe.
August 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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I am currently in Kansas City and this is in an incognito window. so it isn't geography or browsing history. These questions show up immediately after a single TripAdvisor result for a search for `big arena madison`.
Image of text from a Googles search result. It reads: People also ask Is Madison Square Garden the biggest arena in the world? Is Capital One Arena bigger than Madison Square Garden? What is the largest arena in the United States? Is there more than one arena at Madison Square Garden? Each of these questions has a downward facing arrow that can be clicked to reveal an answer from search results. At the bottom is a text link to leave feedback.
August 7, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Oooooof, that is questionable judgment.
Kamala Harris holding up the album The Return of Bruno, by Bruce Willis. This image was generated on https://kamala-holding-vinyls.glitch.me
July 29, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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I took photos of the halftime analysis of the England-Switzerland game from the studio team in Finland because it was so amazing to see. I didn’t understand a word of course but this stuff is totally unheard of in a LalasLand halftime show. We deserve better!
A television with a portion of a soccer game on it. Ons team in, the other in red. Using production effects, two players in red are spotlit and lines connect each of them to a player in white. A television showing a soccer tactics board. A person’s hand is manipulating green magnetic pieces on the board to demonstrate something about player positions. The positions roughly correspond to a 4-4-2 formation, with the hand in the act of moving one of the central midfield pieces.
July 6, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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It’s a choice. They can enroll in this if it is more advantageous to them.
June 8, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Goose chase meme image. Two panels. In the top panel a white goose is sitting calmly in the right side of the frame, looking up and to the left. Over the goose is the sentence "And why exactly are you doing so much work to fight child exploitation, Elon?" In the bottom panel the goose is chasing a person who is running away from right to left. Transformed into all caps is the sentence "Elon why so much of this Elon?!!???!"
May 23, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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Very helpful, Weather Channel. Thanks.
In the upper left, small text in blue that reads TOP STORY. Just below that, in larger black text, OMINOUS SIGNS. Below both lines of text is an image of a hurricane with a play button in the middle, indicating it is a video. The combination is suggestive of vague featured content on a news website (which is appropriate, as that is what it is).
April 4, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Listened to the @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast episode with the author of this book twice. Second time I made @lauraolin.bsky.social listen too. So she got it for me as a gift. She’s the best.
The cover of a hardback book titled Sea People. The author is Christina Thompson. There is a teaser for the topic at the top of the book, which reads “the quest to understand who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know… The Puzzle of Polynesia”. The implication of the design is that “the Puzzle of Polynesia” is the subtitle of the book. The background image on the cover is split. It features a sepia-toned hand-written map for the top half, and an aerial view through a partly cloudy sky to a green island in deep blue water for the lower half.
February 25, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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To state the obvious: nobody is ever told this is why they didn’t get a job. What these fashy fucks are actually asking is “Did a woman or a Black or Latino person get a job you wanted?” They can’t wait to turn any personal grievance into a legal framework of revanchist bigotry.
An ad tweet. The text of the ad starts with a flashing red light emoji. Then the words are: Have you been denied a job or promotion because you are white, Asian or male? Have you been discriminate against by a corporation, university or agency in the name of “diversity, equity & inclusion”? We want to hear from you. There is also a text-heavy image in the ad. Other than the logo of the sponsoring organization and ATTENTION at the top, it contains no info different from the text. The sponsor of the ad is an organization called America First Legal. Contact information in the as has been scribbled over; although it is possible to find, I chose not to encourage it because fuck these white supremacists.
January 28, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Unlike the leading brands, this year-end list of my top musical artists of 2023 doesn't exclude an entire month of the year. Reject shrinkflation!
A ten-item ordered list arranged vertically. Each item in the list contains the number in the listing, followed by a small circular avatar-style photograph, followed by the name of a musical artist. The list is as follows: 1. Coeur de Pirate; 2. Taylor Swift; 3. The National; 4. Japanese Breakfast; 5. The War on Drugs; 6. The Beatles; 7. Alvvays; 8. Stone Poneys; 9. The Decemberists; 10. Phoebe Bridgers.
January 1, 2024 at 4:14 PM