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Jesse Mac
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Dad. Teacher. East Bay lifer. History nerd. Minivan still dented.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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wait they are wrong though, aren’t they??
A bearded man stands indoors in a brightly lit living room, facing the camera with a comically intense, furrow-brow expression. He’s wearing a bright blue T-shirt featuring the number “42” surrounded by illustrations referencing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, along with the words “Life,” “Universe,” and “Everything.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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bartender had a VERY bad day
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Rome: Pathway to Power wormed its way into my brain in the mid-90s. Playing it again, it’s too crude to be much fun.

But finding games that made me *feel* the way this game made me feel in 1995 is something I’ve always been chasing.
A painted game cover showing a stern Roman soldier in detailed armor holding a short sword upright. Behind him stands a grand Roman temple lit by torches, with robed figures and guards gathered on its steps. The title reads “ROME AD 92: From Slave to Emperor – a game of adventure, ambition and intrigue!”
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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how dare u
A cozy reading corner lit by soft daylight. A patterned sage-green armchair sits in the foreground, holding a round green turtle-shell pillow and a fluffy black cat curled up asleep. Behind the chair is a wooden roll-top desk with books, a red lamp, and potted plants on top. To the left, a tall bookshelf filled with books stands next to a TV cabinet, with a globe and a decorative skull on top. Beige curtains filter the sunlight, giving the room a warm, calm atmosphere.
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I don’t have emotional intelligence in that I am autistic and understand people more from studying them in books than I do from actually talking to any of them. Even then I still make a lot of mistakes. However, I do have emotional intelligence in that I try to regularly reflect on past actions, make changes to my behavior if needed, and repair harm when necessary. So tell me. Do I have emotional intelligence?
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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tfw you’ve become your father
A man stands in front of a mirror taking a selfie with a phone in his right hand. He has short dark hair, a trimmed beard, and is wearing a black jacket over a zip-up hoodie. He’s smiling with a playful, slightly scrunched expression. Behind him on a white shelf is a large orange toy dinosaur balanced across a storage bin, along with several books, toys, and a San Francisco Giants hat.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Two from the East Bay! I was born in Harold and Maude, currently living in Sorry to Bother You
Harold and Maude original theatrical poster. Sorry to Bother You original theatrical poster.
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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woah
Sweet Dee, a blonde woman stands in a dimly lit bar, staring ahead with a confused, slightly alarmed expression. Her posture and narrowed eyes give her a subtle, birdlike alertness, as if she’s noticed something shiny or threatening offscreen. Behind her, a cluttered bulletin board and dartboard add to the chaotic atmosphere.
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Given the context of this week, we must conclude that he’s taken a hostage and is threatening to harm him
A screenshot of a Truth Social post from an account labeled “The White House.” The post reads, “Quick break from the Oval, because he’s still Grandpa,” followed by a blue heart and a football emoji. Below the text are two photos of Donald Trump. In the first photo, he is indoors holding a red football and pointing playfully toward someone off-camera, standing in front of a row of framed black-and-white presidential portraits. In the second photo, Trump stands in a White House colonnade with a young boy wearing a suit; the boy is holding the red football while Trump rests his hands on the boy’s shoulders.
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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🎁 for you
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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i don't like living in a country that is the culmination of five centuries of violent white supremacy
Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Dear MAGA,

What kind of Americans are you, defending a pedophile?

Remember, he’ll be dead soon. Who will protect you then?
Jesse Plemons stands in camouflage uniform beneath harsh sunlight, his expression eerily composed. A rifle hangs across his chest, his left hand raised near his cheek as he casually itches his face. His red-tinted glasses blaze against the green backdrop, the only vivid color in the frame, drawing the eye like warning lights. This is the chilling Civil War scene where he coldly asks, “What kind of Americans are you?”—a moment of quiet horror that captures the film’s moral disintegration and his unnerving calm amid violence.
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Remember kids, to the average Republican, terrorists blowing up 224 people in American embassies is less of a crisis than a sex scandal!
A year after the film came out, Republicans invoked it to suggest that Bill Clinton had fired dozens of Tomahawk missiles at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and a training camp in Afghanistan associated with Osama bin Laden to distract from his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Those 20 August 1998 strikes were launched two weeks after al-Qaida had killed 224 people in bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, but also just three days after Clinton had admitted to an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky.
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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“On ne peut point régner innocemment.”
Oil painting portrait of a young man with pale skin, soft brown curls, and a calm, serious expression. He wears a high white cravat and a dark coat against a muted brown background. The light falls gently on his face, emphasizing his smooth complexion and reflective gaze.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Well someone had a hell of a weekend
A quiet residential street in Oakland under soft morning light, showing a completely burned-out car on the right side of the road. The charred vehicle’s metal frame is twisted and blackened, surrounded by ash and debris near the curb. Behind it, a wooden fence and a few single-story homes with autumn trees line the street, while several intact parked cars are visible further down the road. A leaning metal pole is in the foreground on the left.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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😍
A painted portrait of a gaunt, homely man with uneven features and hollow cheeks, gazing upward with a strained, almost feverish expression. His sallow skin and deep-set eyes give him a weary, haunted look. He wears a rumpled white cravat and a spotted fur-trimmed coat, which only accentuates the sharp angles and awkward proportions of his face. The plain background draws attention to his unsettling intensity and unflattering realism.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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post you from a different era ~2007~
Me at 24 years old, dressed as the Mole Man from the Adult Swim show Saul of the Mole Men, poses with actress Irina Voronina. Jesse’s costume includes a shaggy, moss-covered suit with large orange foam abs and dark gloves. Irina is wearing a fur-trimmed gray cavewoman outfit with a skirt and matching top, smiling and striking a playful pose beside him. As it was taken backstage at the Adult Swim Upfronts in 2007, there are clothing racks and boxes visible in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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dont mean to be alarmist, but the passage from this so-called Bible that the pope is quoting talks about entire nations being judged for their actions, and the most important of these is "I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in"
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I got to type this today and it felt really fucking good
Photograph of a laptop screen that says “Read Dick Cheney’s Obituary
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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A stock photo of a woman in a blue denim jacket leaning on a park bench, smiling dreamily into the distance. The image is posed and idealized, meant to invoke an ironic wish that something were real.
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Here it comes…
Black-and-white still from Citizen Kane. Four men in early 20th-century office attire stand around a printing table in a newspaper pressroom, illuminated by overhead lamps. One man on the right holds up a freshly printed front page of the Inquirer with the bold headline “FRAUD AT POLLS!” and a smaller line reading “Charles Foster Kane Defeated.” The other three men lean in, studying the layout gravely, their expressions tense and focused
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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proud of this one
A screenshot of a text message conversation. The first person, in gray bubbles, writes, “It’s been a pretty damn good day politically. Mad that I didn’t put duck Cheney on my bingo sheet.” They then correct the typo with “*dick.” The second person, in a green bubble, replies, “Well he was shooting at a duck when he shot his friend in the face, he definitely earned the sobriquet.” The exchange refers humorously to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s infamous hunting accident.
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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A still from The Omen shows a woman standing on a high ledge, looking downward with a serene expression. Her mouth is covered by the Democratic Party’s blue-and-red donkey logo. The movie subtitle at the bottom reads, “Look at me, Dick. It’s all for you.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Happy Election Day! #Yeson50
A person with short hair, a mustache, and a beard stands smiling in front of a Progress Pride flag, which features rainbow stripes along with chevrons of black, brown, light blue, pink, and white. They are wearing a black hoodie with the “New California Republic” logo from the Fallout video game series, showing a double-headed grizzly bear walking past a red star. Their hands are behind their back, and they’re tilting slightly with a friendly expression.
November 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM