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Warren Terra
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It's been awhile since we had a bald President.
Eisenhower, the portrait on his Wikipedia page. He's not as bald as Mark Kelly but he's not hirsute up top.
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The Finnish rail network has one spur that goes along the Swedish border, and nothing anywhere near Norway. An incredible statement.
A map of the Finnish rail network, from Wikimedia Commons. source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finnish_railroad_network-en.svg Two cities on the Swedish border are included (Tornio and Kolari), and five on the Russian border (Vainikkala, Lappeenrata, Imatra, Parikkala, and Niirala)
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Okay, but maybe ...
A photo from Google Images of a British judge of some sort (white dress shirt, black suit jacket, black robes, glasses, and most importantly a white braided wig traditionally made of horsehair) is on the left, with an arrow pointing to the same photo on the right, but with the Missouri jidge's weird plastic Elvis wig superimposed over the British judge.
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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"at a fraternity party"???
The title, subtitle, and first paragraph of the section "The assault" from the Wikipedia article titled "People v. Turner" Link to article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner Text: The assault Caught in the act Two Swedish graduate students, Peter Lars Jonsson and Carl-Fredrik Arndt, were cycling on the Stanford campus at about 1:00 a.m., on January 18, 2015, when they spotted the assault taking place. According to Arndt and Jonsson, they surprised Turner behind a dumpster as he was on top of an unconscious 22-year-old Chanel Miller,[3] whose dress had been pulled up to expose her genitals,[27] her underwear and cell phone having been dropped beside her.[34] Jonsson and Arndt saw Turner thrust his hips into Miller,[35] whom the two men observed appeared to be unconscious. Jonsson testified that he confronted Turner and asked him, "What the fuck are you doing? She's unconscious." According to Jonsson, Turner quickly rose and attempted to flee the scene. As Arndt briefly went to determine whether she was breathing, Jonsson chased Turner, tripped him and held him down around 75 feet (23 m) away from the dumpster, asking "What are you smiling for?"[27] Later, responding to the assistant District Attorney's questions during the trial, Turner testified that he was laughing because he found the situation ridiculous.[36] Arndt then joined the chase, helping to pin Turner down while a third bystander called sheriff's deputies.[27] When the authorities arrived,[35][37] they arrested Turner on suspicion of attempted rape.[38]
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Oh, fuck off.

Yes, there was nothing in the emails, the biggest scandal that was uncovered was Podesta associating himself with a recipe for Risotto when his destiny obviously lay with Polenta.

But the coverage was huge, yet more of a years-long obsession about supposedly damaging secret emails.
The top half of the front page of The New York Times on a Saturday 9 days before the 2016 election. Every inch of it is about Hillary's emails. There was a "nothingburger" there too, there was never any substance to the supposed scandal. But the media used it as a tool to convince voters Clinton was shady (and by contrast Trump, a cheat and a crook his whole life, literally lies 90%+ of the time, was their champion for reform).
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Next time just use Bluesky's recently expanded post reporting options.
The Bluesky "Why should this post be reviewed?" dialog box with an option inserted and highlighted: Said Something Inaccurate Before you ask, it was neither sarcasm nor a joke. I’ve heard of those. The form is a bit wrong, because after I finally got around to updating my template for making these images, maybe a year late, Bluesky changed their form to include yet more options, and I haven't updated the template to match the new one yet.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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They're just taking sensible precautions.
The Zelda "it's dangerous to go alone! take this." meme but instead of a sword Link is being given this kitten wrapped in a blanket.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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He denies being a serial sexual harasser and says that the book that accused him is full of fabrications.
The book "the eXile: sex, drugs, and libel in the new Russia", a memoir co-authored by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi. When people started pointing out the memoir bragged about a whole range of despicable and unforgiveable and sometimes criminal behavior, Taibbi started saying his co-author wrote those parts, and also that they weren't true, that the book was gonzo exaggeration and invention. But he had earlier done an extensive book tour describing the book as accurate and factual.
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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As Nancy Mace's lawyer I recommend that she continue posting AI videos in which she drops massive amounts of feces upon her former partner who is suing her for defamation.
Benicio del Toro as the "Samoan" lawyer "Doctor Gonzo" in the film of Hunter Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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The top of the article, since there's no useful preview:
A screencap of the top of the article, including the headline, three bullet points at the top, and the first sentence: After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest Story at a glance: * White students at Coosa High School in Georgia waved the Confederate flag and hurled racial slurs leading up to homecoming. * The students with the Confederate flag did not face repercussions. * School administrators suspended several students of color who were protesting. Two white protesters were left unpunished. There's also a sidebar with the current most popular stories on the site; three and a bit are visible, none are this story. Black students were suspended from their high school for planning a protest after another group of students came to school waving a Confederate flag.
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Nobody puts Baby in a flag.
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray on stage at the end of the film 'Dirty Dancing' when Swayze says 'Nobody puts Baby in the corner' (Baby is the name/nickname of Gray's character).
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Now that they're so big on continuity I want to see them figure out how to bring the second Casino Royale back into the fold.
A very 1960s poster for the 1967 film 'Casino Royale' starring David Niven as a James Bond and also dozens more Jameses Bond. Featuring Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, and Woody Allen among others.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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One of the things at that link is an anthology of Cahiers du Cinema, including a 1955 review of Rear Window - but not by Truffaut.
Two cropped screenshots, one showing the top of the title page (indicating it's an anthology of 1950s Cahiers di Cinema) and one showing that Claude Chabrol wrote a review of Rear Window in the April 1955 issue. There is another piece by Truffaut elsewhere in the table of contents, but it doesn't say it's about Read Window.
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The list of books he pretends he read and Blinkist can help you pretend you've read, is up to 11. It's VERY funny.
* two "Elon is great" books
* one by a noted sex pest
* one by a noted racist
* two very old classics for respectability
* three AI thumbsuckers
* two unobjectionable pop-science books
A screenshot of the eleven books Blinkist says Musk recommends. Text copied from the page, so after each title, author, and one-sentence summary there's the length of Blinkist's summary in minutes (they're a company that sells book summaries for people who want to pretend they read books - Cliffs Notes as podcasts) and rating out of five stars. Elon Musk Ashlee Vance Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 22 min 4.3 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 19 min 4.2 The Big Picture Sean Carroll On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself 17 min 4.0 Lying Sam Harris Why we need to stop lying and start telling the truth 9 min 3.7 Superintelligence Nick Bostrom Paths, Dangers, Strategies 17 min 4.1 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith The most influential economic book of all time 10 min 4.3 Merchants of Doubt Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming 18 min 3.8 Human Compatible Stuart Russell Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control 22 min 4.4 Liftoff Eric Berger Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX 21 min 4.5 The Art of War (new version) Sun Tzu Classic military strategy for politics, business, and everyday life 10 min 4.0 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins A landmark work in the field of biology and evolution 21 min 4.4
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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A modified Bil Keane Family Circus cartoon in which the dad (who was originally asking "all right - who is kicking the table?" instead asks "all right - who knows what a magnet is?". Two kids who were originally responding with "nobody" and "not me" are now both responding with "nobody". A ghost labeled "nobody" is kicking the table, at which the family is sitting and eating.
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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I assume you mean in the Senate, and my rejoinder to you is in the image below.

Yeah, sure, a third party with 20 Senators would be an incredibly bloc with its hand on the balance of power. But imagine if that third party had 70 Senators! Or Eleventy!

There's no path to the situation you envision.
Berkeley Breathed's "Bill The Cat" with his tongue out going "THBBFT!".
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The list is now up to eleven and it's VERY funny.
* two "Elon is great" books
* one book by a noted sex pest
* one book by a noted racist
* two very old classics he's DEFINITELY not read
* three AI thumbsuckers
* one anti-science screed

and one book by Sean Carroll that I assume is probably good
A screenshot of the eleven books Blinkist says Musk recommends. Text copied from the page, so after each title, author, and one-sentence summary there's the length of Blinkist's summary in minutes (they're a company that sells book summaries for people who want to pretend they read books - Cliffs Notes as podcasts) and rating out of five stars. Elon Musk Ashlee Vance Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 22 min 4.3 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 19 min 4.2 The Big Picture Sean Carroll On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself 17 min 4.0 Lying Sam Harris Why we need to stop lying and start telling the truth 9 min 3.7 Superintelligence Nick Bostrom Paths, Dangers, Strategies 17 min 4.1 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith The most influential economic book of all time 10 min 4.3 Merchants of Doubt Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming 18 min 3.8 Human Compatible Stuart Russell Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control 22 min 4.4 Liftoff Eric Berger Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX 21 min 4.5 The Art of War (new version) Sun Tzu Classic military strategy for politics, business, and everyday life 10 min 4.0 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins A landmark work in the field of biology and evolution 21 min 4.4
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I wasn't familiar with it, but Google was there to help.
A cropped screenshot of the Google results for "joker rule" giving a bunch of text about what the term means in American Mahjong. Hopefully it's accurate, but it's not relevant.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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As was foretold in prophecy.
The Plastic Surgery scene in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, actress Katherine Helmond getting her face horribly distorted because it's a signifier of high status in the oppressive one-party authoritarian state.
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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It's incredible how much of a non-story this is. You get five whole sentences in, and what the fuck are we doing here?

A corporate messaging account follows thousands of accounts, some of them are follow-farming pornbots. Call in the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
Sentences 5 and 6 of the Axios story (link below). Sentence 5 is bolded in the beginning as a section heading (the one previous section was biographical notes about Talarco) and sentence 6 is the first bullet point in the section. Text of the two sentences: Talarico's spokesperson JT Ennis said in a statement that "the social media team — including James — follows back and engages with supporters who have large followings and does not investigate their backgrounds." The Instagram accounts Talarico follows typically have at least 50,000 followers. Talarico and his campaign team both use his account. He has more than 1.7 million followers but follows only about 3,700 people. Note that "only about 3,700 people" is in itself bullshit on stilts. That's way too many people to demonstrate a close interest in the average person they follow. Link to article, if you really want it: https://www.axios.com/2025/11/08/texas-senate-talarico-instagram
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I can offer you this for next time.
A modified version of the Bluesky dialog box you get when you try to report a post: a list of options including "Misleading Post", "Spam", etcetera, each with a subheading, and afterwards additional steps (select moderation service, submit report). An option has been inserted, and highlighted with a red glow: Failed to recognize hyperbole The most egregiously reportable offense a Bluesky user can commit
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Not New Jersey then?
A still from the filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, featuring the title character and his son, captioned "everything is legal in New Jersey".
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I don't know about the Bodegas of New York but in mini marts elsewhere in the country you can often buy the Methadone of fireworks.
A box of "POP-ITS", a trademark for a product sometimes generically called a "bang snap". Little paper bags containing sand and silver fulminate, that makes a loud pop (and blows the bag open making a very small mess) when the bag is thrown against a hard surface. No fire danger or direct harm is likely, and they're popular with schoolkids, who unfortunately sometimes use them to harass other people, or animals.
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Four co-chairs, one executive director, all of them women.
A cropped screenshot from https://www.transition2025.com/ showing the four transition co-chairs (Grace Bonita, Lina Khan, Maria Torres-Springer, and Melanie Hartzog) and the transition executive director (Elana Leopard). The original has biographical sketches of each that won't fit in this alt text and that you can read at the link.
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The team.

The only name I recognize is Lina Khan, but she's an obvious superstar.
from https://www.transition2025.com/ "the team" so far: five women with headshots, titles, names, and and bios. I've pasted in their names and bios below; they're too long for one alt text, so the last two are alt text to the next image. Transition Co-Chair Grace Bonilla Nonprofit leader and lifelong New Yorker Grace Bonilla currently serves as president and CEO of United Way of New York City, a leading citywide nonprofit helping low-income New Yorkers by coordinating service providers, companies and local government services. Bonilla previously served as Administrator of the New York City Human Resources Administration and as the first Executive Director of New York City’s Taskforce on Racial Equity and Inclusion. Transition Co-Chair Lina Khan Former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is the nation’s leading antimonopoly champion. As the 57th FTC chair under President Biden, Khan spearheaded the administration’s efforts to reinvigorate antitrust and consumer protection enforcement. Before heading the FTC, Khan was an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative law, and as legal advisor to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra. Transition Co-Chair Maria Torres-Springer Housing and economic development leader Maria Torres-Springer has held numerous leadership roles in city government, most recently serving as First Deputy Mayor in City Hall. Torres-Springer was previously Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and president and CEO of the NYC Economic Development Corporation. She has also served as vice president for U.S. programs at the Ford Foundation and is the incoming President and CEO of the Revson Foundation. (alt text continued next image) Continuing the alt text with the last two titles, names, and bios: Transition Co-Chair Melanie Hartzog Melanie Hartzog is the President and CEO of the New York Foundling, one of the city’s largest and oldest non-profit organizations that helps children, youth, adults, and families in need through services, support, and advocacy. Hartzog previously served across two mayoral administrations as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, as the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget, and as Family Services Coordinator for the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services and Deputy Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services. She also led a social services unit in the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget, and was a Director for the Human Services Council of New York City, Inc. Transition Executive Director Elana Leopold Transition Executive Director Elana Leopold has served on Mamdani’s campaign as a senior advisor, acting as a liaison to civic, business and cultural leaders across the city. Leopold, a native New Yorker, held several senior roles during the de Blasio administration including senior advisor to IGA and senior aide to the Mayor, as well as serving on the 2013 transition following his successful 2013 campaign.
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM