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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦
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“I am here, that I may wonder!” Goethe


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Looks like they deleted their account?
"No results found for j15royals," the username of the offending person
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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My favorite: "0% APR" cards are 22.3%! 🤪
CARD TYPE/INTEREST RATE Overall 25.32% Airline Cards 25.16% Hotel Cards 25.19% Flexible Rewards Cards 24.48% Cash Back Cards 24.47% 0% APR Cards 22.33% Balance Transfer Cards 24.49% Student Cards 21.87% Business Cards 21.92%
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I hear that. I love trees in that light.
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Snow day coping skills. Wassail. I like recipes where it’s basically, “Here are the ingredients. Put them all in a pot together, turn on the heat, come back in an hour, add bourbon, and drink it down.” The house is about to smell amazing.
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Wassail. I like recipes where it’s basically, “here are the ingredients. Put them all in a pot together, turn on the heat, come back in an hour, add bourbon, and drink it down.“
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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It's the Christmas season, so remember what Santa has ALWAYS thought about coal. End fossil fuels, for goodness' sake!
Picture of coal coming out of a red and white stocking with the caption, "If coal is so great, why does Santa put it in the stockings of BAD boys and girls?"
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The 1950s were pretty wild, too.
photo of bearded baby in sailor shirt
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I'm of Irish and German descent. People like me, who feel safe now, should remember that 80 years ago, Germans were persona non grata in the US. 120 years ago, signs like this were commonplace. Irish were pariahs. As Italians once were.

Deport criminals, fine. Leave our grandparents alone.
screencap of Google search for the phrase "Irish need not apply," showing historical images with that message.
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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To anyone calling the shooting of two National Guardsmen in DC "un-American."

There is literally nothing more typically American than gun violence. Nothing. That's like saying maple syrup is un-Canadian. It's so obvious as to be ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

"America is a gun." Brian Bilston.
The US flag, but instead of stars, there are handguns on a blue field; instead of red and white stripes, there are rows of red assault rifles.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Was just talking with friends about this last night. We were speaking of the merely little things we are in a position to do. Reminded me of Amos Oz's Order of the Teaspoon.
The Order of the Teaspoon By Amos Oz I believe that if one person is watching a huge calamity, let’s say a conflagration, a fire, there are always three principle options. 1. Run away, as far away and as fast as you can and let those who cannot run burn. 2. Write a very angry letter to the editor of your paper, or 1. launch a demonstration demanding that the responsible people be removed from office with disgrace. 3. Bring a bucket of water and throw it on the fire, and if you don’t have a bucket, bring a glass, and if you don’t have a glass, use a teaspoon, everyone has a teaspoon. And yes, I know a teaspoon is little and the fire is huge but there are millions of us and each one of us has a teaspoon. Now I would like to establish the Order of the Teaspoon. People who share my attitude, not the runaway attitude, or the letter attitude, but the teaspoon attitude – I would like them to walk around wearing a little teaspoon on the lapel of their jackets, so that we know that we are in the same movement, in the same brotherhood, in the same order, The Order of the Teaspoon.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Google AI doesn't do much better.
In answer to the question, "Who is the greatest human in history," Google AI suggests Michael H. Hart, Darwin, Beyonce, Jonas Astrand, Linnaeus, Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, Mark Zuckerberg, and John D. Rockefeller.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Watch/block this guy. Every reply he makes is a request to somebody to DM him. Reported.
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Sorry, WHAT about this is “adult content?”
Screenshot that shows that BS has labeled this video as “adult content.“
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Wendell Berry is one of my all-time favorite writers/thinkers. Poets have a gift for cutting to the quick.
Picture of children behind chain link fence, accompanied by the following text by essayist and poet Wendell Berry: "1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred. 3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy. 4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without. 5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill."
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Oligarchs and their pet members of Congress seem disinclined to care that insurance premiums are skyrocketing. #OneBudgetBustingBillAct
screen cap of text sent to me says, "Today I found out that my insurance will go up almost 400% if I want to keep the same plan. Oh, and now that may A1C is normal, they're not going to cover the medication that keeps it there. Fuck insurance companies!"
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I could see that something was there, but my camera really made it pop.
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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A breakthrough would be people growing their own food. Gardening, like Victory Garden gardening, is a revolutionary act. Lawns are a sign of acquiescence to late-stage capitalism and its fossil fuel guardians. Growing food gardens also grows community. As Robin Wall Kimmerer eloquently explains.
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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#NorthernLights in Iowa. From a friend.
Pic of Northern Lights from a home in Iowa
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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In Dubuque, Iowa! #NorthernLights
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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It's appalling that we as a country are stupid enough to make it profitable to advertise BS like this.
screen capture of ad. Man holds up shrimp – which is labeled S-H-I-R-M-P – and says "this is full of fattening chemicals." It's an ad for chocolate as a weight loss strategy. Small print on the bottom says "Results may vary and are not guaranteed."
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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@raygunsite.com does it again. #SandwichAgainstTheMachine

Cold cuts, deep cuts.
T-shirt has a picture of a hand holding a sub sandwich, and the text, SANDWICH AGAINST THE MACHINE.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Redistricting VA becomes possible if things go our way tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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America should focus on being good. Good to people like Scott and his boys.
Jason: do you get that SNAP benefit? Scott: No, I get I get $24. Bob: For SNAP. Scott: For SNAP. I mean. I’m at that I’m at that line that that’s all I get, which is just ludicrous, you know? Um, you know, uh um the housing and the and shit. You know, it’s through the roof on the rentals. You know? Um yeah. Bob: And so Des Moines has made not having a house, not having a home, a criminal offense. Scott: Right… Bob: What do you think of that?
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Doesn't sound all that bad, does it?
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"Some Eastern smarties called ours a “Sewer Socialism.” Yes, we wanted sewers in the workers’ houses; but we wanted much, oh, so very much more than sewers. We wanted our workers to have pure air; we wanted them to have sunshine; we wanted planned homes; we wanted living wages; we wanted recreation for young and old; we wanted vocational education; we wanted a chance for every human being to be strong and live a life of happiness. And we wanted everything that was necessary to give them that: playgrounds, parks, lakes, beaches, clean creeks and rivers, swimming and wading pools, social centers, reading rooms, clean fun, music, dance, song, and joy for all. That was our Milwaukee Social Democratic movement. There was but one way to get all of that — go after it and get it."
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Portland's frog is great, but the whistle and whistle blowers should be the symbol of our Resistance.

> Chicago's use to call reinforcements against ICE
> Government and corporate whistle blowers make it possible to enforce broken rules

They're loud and unapologetic. Like us.
picture of an orange whistle
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM