Coba Weel
@weel.bsky.social
SJW eurotrash 🇳🇱 immigrant in Alta California 🌁 YIMBY UU queer techie scum ⚧ genderqueer tranny (she/her or they/them) 🪗
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oh lovely the anonymous tankies are googling my name
yes i did work there. you’ll never guess why i got fired.
yes i did work there. you’ll never guess why i got fired.
the problem with robotaxis is the way they decouple traffic from parking send bleet
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
the problem with robotaxis is the way they decouple traffic from parking send bleet
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Deciding "Gatekeep, Gaslight, Girl Boss" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all haven't been cyberbullied by your Asturian boyfriends and it SHOWS.
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Deciding "Gatekeep, Gaslight, Girl Boss" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all haven't been cyberbullied by your Asturian boyfriends and it SHOWS.
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* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
In Search of Van Halen's Brown M&Ms
Contract riders and the meaning of a modern pop star
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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
germany?
* Haribo used to sell a gummi candy in Germany called "Asses With Ears."
I promise this image is 100% real and not AI.
I promise this image is 100% real and not AI.
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
germany?
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When Oakland had a fight over demolishing the ruin that was once Biff's coffee shop, I started calling the preservationists who were older than the building "historic".
They did not like that.
They did not like that.
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When Oakland had a fight over demolishing the ruin that was once Biff's coffee shop, I started calling the preservationists who were older than the building "historic".
They did not like that.
They did not like that.
The US government removed two displays about black soldiers from the visitors center at the US war cemetery near my home town. People got big mad. Believe it or not, this is in important site for the descendants of the deceased AND for locals. There is now a new exhibit just outside the cemetery. 🤷♀️
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The US government removed two displays about black soldiers from the visitors center at the US war cemetery near my home town. People got big mad. Believe it or not, this is in important site for the descendants of the deceased AND for locals. There is now a new exhibit just outside the cemetery. 🤷♀️
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7. Rubio saying a few hours later that the plan was drafted by the US, not Russia, after having first said that it was a Russian draft
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
7. Rubio saying a few hours later that the plan was drafted by the US, not Russia, after having first said that it was a Russian draft
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4. Zakharova stating that there have been no real negotiations since Alaska
5. A clueless Driscoll, who was supposed to talk some military to military cooperation in Kyiv, being tasked to brief Ukraine & NATO on the plan
6. Rubio denouncing the whole thing a day before agreed negotiations in Geneva
5. A clueless Driscoll, who was supposed to talk some military to military cooperation in Kyiv, being tasked to brief Ukraine & NATO on the plan
6. Rubio denouncing the whole thing a day before agreed negotiations in Geneva
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
4. Zakharova stating that there have been no real negotiations since Alaska
5. A clueless Driscoll, who was supposed to talk some military to military cooperation in Kyiv, being tasked to brief Ukraine & NATO on the plan
6. Rubio denouncing the whole thing a day before agreed negotiations in Geneva
5. A clueless Driscoll, who was supposed to talk some military to military cooperation in Kyiv, being tasked to brief Ukraine & NATO on the plan
6. Rubio denouncing the whole thing a day before agreed negotiations in Geneva
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Nominally yes, but the Supreme Court has created this bastard doctrine called qualified immunity, which makes it nearly impossible to sue police for violating your rights until an appeals court in the jurisdiction finds that the right was "clearly established" to exist
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Weirdo foreigner question out of curiosity: If it's 1st Amendment protected in one state (NC), is it not in all states?
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Nominally yes, but the Supreme Court has created this bastard doctrine called qualified immunity, which makes it nearly impossible to sue police for violating your rights until an appeals court in the jurisdiction finds that the right was "clearly established" to exist
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The state is not a tumour on a preexisting society that can be separated and extracted from it, it's a form of social organisation that forms part of a society.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The state is not a tumour on a preexisting society that can be separated and extracted from it, it's a form of social organisation that forms part of a society.
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Oh look, that slimy fuck is slithering out from beneath a log again to bedevil mankind
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Oh look, that slimy fuck is slithering out from beneath a log again to bedevil mankind
Sacramento County approved a big solar panel and grid battery site. People are complaining about cutting of trees. You might think that means there is currently a forest. These are pictures of the actual landscape in question, which is currently a sheep ranch.
I looked at where this is to be built. This is what it looks like. You’re making it sound like a forest.
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Sacramento County approved a big solar panel and grid battery site. People are complaining about cutting of trees. You might think that means there is currently a forest. These are pictures of the actual landscape in question, which is currently a sheep ranch.
I know very little about public opinion but even if corruption still isn’t on people’s radar, cracking down on consumer level fraud has got to be a winning platform, surely. There’s just so much of it. Right? But what do I know.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I know very little about public opinion but even if corruption still isn’t on people’s radar, cracking down on consumer level fraud has got to be a winning platform, surely. There’s just so much of it. Right? But what do I know.
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you may not know this but “dad” is short for “Daddleways” as in “Daddleways does it differently”
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
you may not know this but “dad” is short for “Daddleways” as in “Daddleways does it differently”
No idea what the source is on this one (please, people, linking things does NOT hurt on this site) but as the great sitcom sage once said, the government is a not a team, it’s a loose confederation of warring tribes.
The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
No idea what the source is on this one (please, people, linking things does NOT hurt on this site) but as the great sitcom sage once said, the government is a not a team, it’s a loose confederation of warring tribes.
you may not know this but “dad” is short for “Daddleways” as in “Daddleways does it differently”
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
you may not know this but “dad” is short for “Daddleways” as in “Daddleways does it differently”
polandball maybe onto something youtube.com/shorts/WhP2o...
Puppetry
YouTube video by Polandball Official
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November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
polandball maybe onto something youtube.com/shorts/WhP2o...
we have this electric thermos that plays a minuet when the water is hot and i think all household devices should do that but, like, different minuets
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
we have this electric thermos that plays a minuet when the water is hot and i think all household devices should do that but, like, different minuets
uh?
Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
uh?
latin
Cf. mutatis mutandis, "the things which need to be changed having been changed."
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
latin
a moped in dutch is “bromfiets” i.e. “vroom bike”
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
a moped in dutch is “bromfiets” i.e. “vroom bike”
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And the World Bank! The "agreement" makes promises on "Europe" (all of it), NATO (all of it), Canada, Japan, and the World Bank, at last count. Also, all other countries: it says the bit of Donetsk currently occupied by Ukraine will be "internationally" recognized as Russian (unlike the other part).
November 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
And the World Bank! The "agreement" makes promises on "Europe" (all of it), NATO (all of it), Canada, Japan, and the World Bank, at last count. Also, all other countries: it says the bit of Donetsk currently occupied by Ukraine will be "internationally" recognized as Russian (unlike the other part).
The Ukraine "agreement" would be hilarious if it weren't infuriating.
And Japan! Don't forget Japan!
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The Ukraine "agreement" would be hilarious if it weren't infuriating.
It does look like Molotov-Ribbentrop all over again, in that clearly nobody checked with Poland. "European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland." The Polish air force may be surprised to learn that was ever in question, seeing as they are, uh, Europeans with fighter jets stationed in Poland.
Dmitriev-Witkoff pact
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It does look like Molotov-Ribbentrop all over again, in that clearly nobody checked with Poland. "European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland." The Polish air force may be surprised to learn that was ever in question, seeing as they are, uh, Europeans with fighter jets stationed in Poland.