Dr. Book Lover
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Pie guy is blocked.
Life is too short for that kinda trash.
Life is too short for that kinda trash.
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Pie guy is blocked.
Life is too short for that kinda trash.
Life is too short for that kinda trash.
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
If Real Life(TM) was the plot of The Giving Tree, private equity is the boy/man, and the tree is the global economy.
And remember, the main thing the profit motive gets you is…
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If Real Life(TM) was the plot of The Giving Tree, private equity is the boy/man, and the tree is the global economy.
The remains the dumbest, cruelest timeline
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The remains the dumbest, cruelest timeline
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Federal agents in Chicago used tear gas more times in one day last month than Chicago police did all year.
Great reporting:
southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...
Great reporting:
southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Federal agents in Chicago used tear gas more times in one day last month than Chicago police did all year.
Great reporting:
southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...
Great reporting:
southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...
Oh, yeah. I went to the AMA (marketing, not medicine) conference in 2002 for the interview cycle. I had at least three of my 8-ish meetings on hotel rooms.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Oh, yeah. I went to the AMA (marketing, not medicine) conference in 2002 for the interview cycle. I had at least three of my 8-ish meetings on hotel rooms.
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Raphael Bostic at #appam2025 on his journey to becoming President of the Atlanta Federal Reserve - notes that he almost quit grad school multiple times, because “it is hard”: up to that point you are absorbing information as a student - in grad school you are a producer of information.
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Raphael Bostic at #appam2025 on his journey to becoming President of the Atlanta Federal Reserve - notes that he almost quit grad school multiple times, because “it is hard”: up to that point you are absorbing information as a student - in grad school you are a producer of information.
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In the last few days, there's been a lot of fearful chatter about how "ICE NOW HAS THE CAPABILITIES TO HACK INTO ANY PHONE" with Paragon Systems Graphite spyware. This isn't an accurate assessment of how the spyware works and who is at risk, so at LFP we made some graphics to help folks understand.
September 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In the last few days, there's been a lot of fearful chatter about how "ICE NOW HAS THE CAPABILITIES TO HACK INTO ANY PHONE" with Paragon Systems Graphite spyware. This isn't an accurate assessment of how the spyware works and who is at risk, so at LFP we made some graphics to help folks understand.
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
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Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou...
theonion.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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Good. Seriously. Please let Trump pick every SEC coach. Let him make every decision for the entire conference. The only way we'll ever break Trump fever in that part of America is to let him get involved with their college football decisions because they care deeply about that shit
November 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Good. Seriously. Please let Trump pick every SEC coach. Let him make every decision for the entire conference. The only way we'll ever break Trump fever in that part of America is to let him get involved with their college football decisions because they care deeply about that shit
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We're currently at the "Jesus didn't say we should feed people"
portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.
portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We're currently at the "Jesus didn't say we should feed people"
portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.
portion of the fall of American Evangelicalism.
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One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
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FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
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Adam Silver said WNBA players shouldn’t ask for revenue share because W revenue is much lower than the NBAs. But the NBA's financial condition heading into the 1983 CBA when players got rev share was similar/worse than where the WNBA is now. Going to discuss on today’s pod:
October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Adam Silver said WNBA players shouldn’t ask for revenue share because W revenue is much lower than the NBAs. But the NBA's financial condition heading into the 1983 CBA when players got rev share was similar/worse than where the WNBA is now. Going to discuss on today’s pod:
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Even when people point out that there are more white people on welfare...
They might not realize how right they are.
They might not realize how right they are.
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Even when people point out that there are more white people on welfare...
They might not realize how right they are.
They might not realize how right they are.
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tech bros keep promising self-aware ai when they haven't even cracked making self-aware tech bros
October 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
tech bros keep promising self-aware ai when they haven't even cracked making self-aware tech bros
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If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you see this, quote with a vampire that isn't Dracula.