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"[O]f all the emotions – and indifference, too, because even indifference is an emotion of a sort – only love sees the unveiled truth." – Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl

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Congratulations to St. David Beckham. Well deserved

05.11.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m not psychologically prepared to get the snow blower ready, but the forecast is telling me I need to

05.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Instead, the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn't know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don't like it.

Instead, the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn't know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don't like it.

😵

05.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dudgeon and Draggin, a game of resentment and ennui

05.11.2025 16:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shame on me for taking a story that confirms my priors at face value without investigating it. If it seems too good to be true…

05.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, and it shows the limits of voting based on vibes. But vibes are way more important than a lot of smart people want to admit.

05.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
• 9:39 PM CST
TEXAS
Texas voters approve constitutional amendment that requires US citizenship to vote in the state
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U.S. citizenship is already required to register to vote in Texas.
The Associated Press declared the measure passed at 10:31 p.m. EST.

• 9:39 PM CST TEXAS Texas voters approve constitutional amendment that requires US citizenship to vote in the state BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Share 凸 U.S. citizenship is already required to register to vote in Texas. The Associated Press declared the measure passed at 10:31 p.m. EST.

I think this sums up the ignorance of the right wing pretty well

05.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Absolutely. The typical online lefty views candidates as a checklist of policy promises. It’s a terrible way to choose a person who is going to have to respond to uncertain events. As demented as the “Trump seems like a nice man” voters are, I think they’re closer to the right way.

05.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🙏

04.11.2025 21:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh my assumption is it explodes every time

04.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kind of remarkable that American media is still unwilling to call torture torture all these years later.

04.11.2025 16:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Roger Goodell, give me a call

04.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The goalposts in football should be electrically charged so they shoot a bolt of lightning at the ball on a successful field goal

04.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Churchill is such a neat concept

04.11.2025 03:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What, you want me to create and return a function-local variable like some kind of plebe?!

03.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, a balk is when

03.11.2025 22:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bears-Bengals might have been the craziest football game I’ve ever seen

02.11.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How is it possible that sports writers still write “untracked” when they mean “on track”

02.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alejandro Kirk is why baseball is still the best

02.11.2025 01:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like that Ohtani tips his cap to the ump before every at bat

02.11.2025 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Link from Tears of the kingdom, skydiving

Link from Tears of the kingdom, skydiving

Computer, what’s that? Zoom … enhance … hm thought so

02.11.2025 00:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe you could live on the streets of Mackinac island

01.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big shoutout to all the members of the church triumphant, today’s your day

01.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now that is a cute puppy

01.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This week and next penn state has the chance to do the funniest thing ever 🤞

01.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watching college football with the local radio announcers is the way to go. So much better than the tv audio

01.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

11am on Saturday, time to watch 3.5 hours of gambling ads

01.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe there is a real backlash, because the mainstream opinion of religion does seem to be that it’s an entirely private matter that must not ever affect our relations with others in any manner

01.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A New York Times headline: “Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash”

A New York Times headline: “Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash”

An actual backlash, or a handful of terminally online people and we’re reporting on it to stoke controversy?

01.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🤮

01.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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