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Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Known for bold raids on urban bins, raccoons are becoming more domesticated – so how they look will gradually change, says science writer Helen Pilcher
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Mentally replacing every "ChatGPT says..." or "we asked AI..." headline with "bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer."
You can do anything you want, including adding multiple colorful ribbon markers to your pocket notebook. You can just do that.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You can do anything you want, including adding multiple colorful ribbon markers to your pocket notebook. You can just do that.
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“Although I’d been told I was just in remission, I really thought I was cured after they did that godawful adaptation of Death on the Nile where they gave Poirot’s moustache its own backstory. I didn’t even want to re-read the book to point out all the ways they’d ruined it.”
Autistic woman experiencing flare up of chronic special interest
An autistic woman is experiencing a severe episode of a debilitating long-term special interest, sources have revealed. Megan Aldrich, 47, has lived with a life-altering obsession with the detective…
thedailytism.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“Although I’d been told I was just in remission, I really thought I was cured after they did that godawful adaptation of Death on the Nile where they gave Poirot’s moustache its own backstory. I didn’t even want to re-read the book to point out all the ways they’d ruined it.”
I know we’ve all recognized the role of the animated Robin Hood movie in awakening a generation of furries but we should not forget the moral of the film: always mislead, mock, and ultimately clown on the aristocracy because in truth they are dumb and weak and they have stolen what is ours.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I know we’ve all recognized the role of the animated Robin Hood movie in awakening a generation of furries but we should not forget the moral of the film: always mislead, mock, and ultimately clown on the aristocracy because in truth they are dumb and weak and they have stolen what is ours.
When I see the Rich get owned by the Poor.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When I see the Rich get owned by the Poor.
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one of these but with a hot dog
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
one of these but with a hot dog
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DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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h-o-t-t-o-g-o
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
h-o-t-t-o-g-o
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
how spell hot dog? I don't know!
I’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show I watched are trying to rescue me. Noice. Smort. Toit.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show I watched are trying to rescue me. Noice. Smort. Toit.
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it both rules and sucks that isaac chotiner continues to run circles around basically the entire media class using a unique genetic superpower known as "object permanence"
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
it both rules and sucks that isaac chotiner continues to run circles around basically the entire media class using a unique genetic superpower known as "object permanence"
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
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You gotta go pick up your uncle, yeah he mixed up his medicines and went crazy yelling about Uncle Tupelo songs again
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
You gotta go pick up your uncle, yeah he mixed up his medicines and went crazy yelling about Uncle Tupelo songs again
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THIS
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
THIS
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
It saves a tremendous amount of overhead (money) and time (money) and complications (people who are eligible dropping out because they can't prove they are), but mostly it forecloses an extremely common form of fiscal parental abuse.
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You should wear a mask if you *don't* have symptoms. If you *do* have symptoms you should stay home and not infect anyone else (if you have *any* choice in the matter. Obviously not everyone does.)
UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
Source: archive.md/z6uDK
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
You should wear a mask if you *don't* have symptoms. If you *do* have symptoms you should stay home and not infect anyone else (if you have *any* choice in the matter. Obviously not everyone does.)
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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[Cheech Marin's entire monologue on the front steps of the Twitty Twister], Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
[Cheech Marin's entire monologue on the front steps of the Twitty Twister], Charlie Brown
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We Thought You Was A Toad, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We Thought You Was A Toad, Charlie Brown
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Even pirating Harry Potter lends the fandom legitimacy and currency.
People, big respected names, took joy in disclosing they were playing the game, to taunt trans people.
Don't be that person. Ignore it. Watch a better show, read a book that doesn't help fuel trans genocide.
#harryPotter
People, big respected names, took joy in disclosing they were playing the game, to taunt trans people.
Don't be that person. Ignore it. Watch a better show, read a book that doesn't help fuel trans genocide.
#harryPotter
HBO CEO Casey Bloys says 'HARRY POTTER' Season 2 is already being written
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Even pirating Harry Potter lends the fandom legitimacy and currency.
People, big respected names, took joy in disclosing they were playing the game, to taunt trans people.
Don't be that person. Ignore it. Watch a better show, read a book that doesn't help fuel trans genocide.
#harryPotter
People, big respected names, took joy in disclosing they were playing the game, to taunt trans people.
Don't be that person. Ignore it. Watch a better show, read a book that doesn't help fuel trans genocide.
#harryPotter
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Got me a movie, I want you to know!
Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know!
Girlie so groovy, I want you to know!
Don't know about you, but I am un...
Chien!
Andalusia!
Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know!
Girlie so groovy, I want you to know!
Don't know about you, but I am un...
Chien!
Andalusia!
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Got me a movie, I want you to know!
Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know!
Girlie so groovy, I want you to know!
Don't know about you, but I am un...
Chien!
Andalusia!
Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know!
Girlie so groovy, I want you to know!
Don't know about you, but I am un...
Chien!
Andalusia!
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sorry to Wizard of Oz post, but I was raised on the Midwestern cut of the film where Oz is in black and white and Kansas is in color so that we would be discouraged from flights of fancy and excited to return to farm work
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
sorry to Wizard of Oz post, but I was raised on the Midwestern cut of the film where Oz is in black and white and Kansas is in color so that we would be discouraged from flights of fancy and excited to return to farm work