Mel
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Mel
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The fact that nothing is being done about this — and that people keep blithely hanging out on that site as though its owner and a key part of its official architecture aren’t actively enabling disgusting criminal abuse at scale — is making me lose my mind
Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day
January 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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We do not actually have to write this article once a week.

It is not surprising that young women want to know if their potential partner believes they should live as trad wives in a white ethnostate run by an all powerful God-Emperor.

Political affiliations speak to values. Values are important.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 13d
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas

He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic

Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates

He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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TCM Remembers 2025 | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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December 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.
December 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I cannot state any more baldly or clearly than I already have about what an immense menace RFK Jr. is. The number of preventable illnesses and deaths - of *babies* - will be horrific. This anti-vax crap is grotesque anti-science, and always has been.
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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The Globe's annual holiday crossword is here! 🧩❄️

You can play online now, print off the PDFs or pick it up in print on Saturday. Test your mental mettle at the link below and share your progress using #GlobeCrossword:
tgam.ca/holidaycross...
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I saw a clip of an old sitcom with a canned laugh track. That’s what generative AI feels like. Taking something vital & organic and making it hollow & mechanical. Here’s hoping AI’s fate will be the same as laugh tracks. A mocked relic of a time people accepted soulless absurdity for true emotion
December 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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“The Dancing Tree” for your Thanksgiving pleasure.

Have a wonderful day everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Get that Nuzzi garbage out of here. Out. Out!
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Repair Video

xkcd.com/3163/
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Angler on the Lakeside (2021)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
November 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I want to make a romantic comedy where the main cast play it straight but the comedy is a bunch of has been action stars doing one off roles like Rambo being the Barista handing the over workers office gal the coffee , and dude form Blade can be a dog walker passing by a scene in the park etc
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM