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J.D. Connor
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2025 New Macy's balloons:
Carol Sturka
The Sex Cardigan
Black market labubu box which opens to reveal a bag full of dirt labeled "PUTO"
Larry Summers
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Since it's late and no one will read this, here's a piece I wrote for The New Republic about the 1992 Earth Summit—a kind of forerunner of COP30—was in Brazil. The follow-up from my time in Belém is just too embarrassing.
Text of page 1 of "Ungreen Machine" by me. It's kinda janky and not very stylish. But the alternative was worse. p2 of Ungreen Machine. Yes, the Martha Nussbaum.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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If, for some reason, you need a Craig Finn meme but for rightwing wordsalad, igotchew
Bari Weiss gesticulating like a guitarless Craig Finn with a word bubble spanning the bottom of the image
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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You can fill your news with rizzed up octogenarians like Dersh, but if the ratings aren't there to sling GLP-1s and keep the station groups happy, the experiment will end quickly.
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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The Clay Mathematics Institute is proud to announce a solution to yet another of its Millennium Problems, in this case, the Underpants Gnomes Conjecture
Cohan in Puck.news Meanwhile, when he announced the split in June, the WBD board granted Zaz roughly 24 million options with a strike price of $10.16 per share. With the stock at $23.17, the intrinsic value of these options at the moment is $311 million; the Black-Scholes value is $326 million, assuming the sale of the company closes in a year. Obviously Zaz doesn’t need the money, but he’s not going to walk away from a fresh $311 million or more, especially since those options vest and are exercisable upon a change of control.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
jdconnor.bsky.social
The cholla gets all the tourists but the ocatillo has its charms
Cholla cactus patch Cholla cactus bulb with cup like new growth Ocatillo branch with tiny deciduous leaves hiding its thorns. Hard greenish resin fills the gaps in the bark A cluster of red ovoid ocatillo blossoms
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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But those trees! Those trees! Those Truffula Trees! All my life I'd been searching for trees such as these.
A stand of crazy fluffy palms above a stone entrance arch
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
jdconnor.bsky.social
The coterie powerful men who were Jeffrey Epstein's friends to the end has nothing on the abuse engineers who continue to serve him beyond the grave, paying themselves millions and claiming not to have known anything about anything.
www.wsj.com/us-news/epst...
The CPA and the Lawyer Who Served Jeffrey Epstein—and Control His Fortune and Secrets
Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke worked for the convicted sex offender for years. The men deny they knew about Epstein’s crimes.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
jdconnor.bsky.social
“It drove. It drove being driven. It drove driving itself”—American Carpool
The instrument panel of a Honda Odyssey showing it is stopped and has 150,000 miles on it. The tire light is on but that’s just because the sensor is broken. The tires are fine. In the background, Joshua Trees.
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Asking Unicode to consider my proposal for an emoji for “hater”
A round orange cat blobs beneath a chair. He hates you.
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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And which are you?
A box of dates with two possible varieties: Prime and Grinders. The font is great. This box is Grinders
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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As a confirmed sicko and so I don't lose track, I keep an overview spreadsheet of the LoRs I have to write each year. Just crossed 100 🍾🥂🎉
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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sadvil.bsky.social
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
jdconnor.bsky.social
gf left me for a catchers mitt, but i'm not mad. don't tell the buddha i got mad.
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
jdconnor.bsky.social
Coming Soon: Disney's Live-Action Moana, Or, How to Train Your Dragon Only the Dragon is the Water Tendril from The Abyss But Maybe Less Ominous
Teaser poster for Moana showing a wave breaking and a teen girl in a bandeau gently touching the wave's nose? idk
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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not me flaming out AND fading away
(also not me with time to read this rn)
Splash page for a magazine website. Left a photo of a pale white woman wearing a close fitting black top. She stand in front of rocky vegetation with the ocean a blur off in the distance. Right: "EXCLUSIVE Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto: Read the Exclusive Excerpt She flamed out and she faded away. Vanity Fair’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth. BY OLIVIA NUZZI NOVEMBER 17, 2025"
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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late night. looking for peer reviewers for journal essays. finding people who have written much better versions of the essay i need reviewed. finding myself caught between the scylla of the desk rejection and the charybdis of even more developmental editing. tonight's dreams will be unsettled indeed
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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margaretconnor.bsky.social
Honestly I think this guy in 1966 or whatever had the right idea, but he truly couldn't fathom how much worse it was gonna get. I tried to watch MOBY DICK (1956) on Pluto yesterday and every ad break was for Brendan Schaub's podcast.
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Picking someone up at the airport in the LA rain and google maps wants me to drive north into the valley and then back down through the Sepulveda Pass.
a woman in a blue jacket says " no "
ALT: a woman in a blue jacket says " no "
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November 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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doesthedogdie-dot-com canwechangetheendingsothedogdieslikeasickvariationongiftofthemagi-dot-com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQX...
Merv - Official Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
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November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Video (may be unsuitable for some viewers)
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November 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Trump believes that a human body contains a finite amount of energy so it must be conserved. But MTG is a CrossFit enthusiast, and once they reach criticality, every release of energy only yields more energy. They are the Tetsuos of rage.
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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@aimeemann.bsky.social's beautiful cover of "Rainy Days and Mondays" may be from the soundtrack to The Chair Company, but it is what happens when you let @programme4.tv into your heart. Also, it is raining in LA, I am strung out from the world—not me weepy in a cafe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
Rainy Days and Mondays (from "The Chair Company")
YouTube video by Aimee Mann - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The Times got the interview but I got the American Canto ARC
The opening of Pound's Pisan Cantos, but torqued for American Canto The enormous tragedy of the phone in the scrivener’s bent shoulders Bobby! Bobby was red and nude, Thus Bob and Livvy en flagrante Behind the wheel and en flagrante That maggots shd/ eat the dead bullock in the back of the van, the twice crucified where in the chat will you find it? yet say this to the Timesman: no bang, just a hangout, not a bang just a google hangout, To buy in the city of Malibu whose terraces are the lounges of stars.
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM