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wrote that essay about superhero dicks * published in the New Haven Independent, New Haven Review, FSF, Fangoria, Blood Knife, Seize the Press, Typebar, Current Affairs * rs-benedict.com * RIP Rite Gud

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seeing lots of flags at full staff. seems nobody in my town respects diane keaton

11.10.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 395    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2
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ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to groundβ€”then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doorsβ€”so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

11.10.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1333    πŸ” 770    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 85
Breaking Bad except dubbed over by the average anime dub voice actors
YouTube video by Freddy Breaking Bad except dubbed over by the average anime dub voice actors

crying at this, which somehow I've never seen before

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8d...

10.10.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

10.10.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 16914    πŸ” 7469    πŸ’¬ 1300    πŸ“Œ 759
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My friends and I did absurdist protests at the 1992 RNC (the Pat Buchanan one) at the Astrodome, not with costumes (too damn hot) but with signs accusing Bush of not remembering the Alamo and not standing up to the International Zinc Cartel. Here we are with some mounted police.

10.10.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 318    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as β€œwar-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as β€œwar-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

10.10.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10866    πŸ” 3173    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 234
The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
YouTube video by The Onion The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

10.10.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1251    πŸ” 246    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 58
Two guys being like waaaaaa ughhhh to that uncle Roger guy in front of Jamie Oliver

Two guys being like waaaaaa ughhhh to that uncle Roger guy in front of Jamie Oliver

I’m not sure but I think YouTube just recommended a half hour video of two guys reacting to a YouTube video where one guy reacts to a YouTube video of another guy

09.10.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 376    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 5

Again, only conservatives do this, Nancy Pelosi has never demanded the Church be less homophobic if it wants to keep her

09.10.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A high risk pregnant woman in Texas is advised to go out of state prior to delivery.

She learns about the abortion ban & how it puts women’s lives at risk.

She regrets her vote.

Rather than provide support, her husband insults the β€œliberal doctor” and refuses to leave Texas. 1/2

09.10.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

It is deeply offensive to me that I have to go to sleep so I can be well rested for work tomorrow rather than staying up all night playing Silksong.

09.10.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Baseball Sickos cartoon

Baseball Sickos cartoon

When the Yankees get eliminated

09.10.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4003    πŸ” 624    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 23
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to β€œMunch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. β€œAI is absolutely the wron...

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

09.10.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1421    πŸ” 493    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 32

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

09.10.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2292    πŸ” 284    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 5
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Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

08.10.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 640    πŸ” 243    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 42
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Γ‰tant DonnΓ©s (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas)

Based on 1966 assemblage by Marcel Duchamp, his last major work. Hand embroidered on cotton. Custom order.

08.10.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The media's really just going to bounce over the fact that at Trump's meeting today they said "we've been fighting antifa for a hundred years, since they tried to stop us in 1930s Germany" and everyone nodded along, huh

09.10.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 467    πŸ” 177    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 8
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A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

My superhero boners essay got cited in The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

09.10.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you. You people couldn't hang with real slackers. finn wokeupchic β€’ 4d It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

09.10.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3348    πŸ” 562    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 830
The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

08.10.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1225    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 8
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WATCH: β€˜Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

06.10.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 9354    πŸ” 2384    πŸ’¬ 327    πŸ“Œ 988
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FIRST ON 13: Documents: Capital Region Chamber senior VP allegedly tried to entice minor for violent sex The senior vice president of the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce was arrested on federal charges Tuesday for allegedly talking about engaging in violent sexual activity with a girl who he thought w...

Chris Hansen could probably take down the entire Republican party if he really applied himself wnyt.com/top-stories/...

09.10.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to  his Patreon subscribers. 

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

@evanhill Β· 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

09.10.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3187    πŸ” 1110    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 73
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American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

09.10.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2825    πŸ” 1062    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 183
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🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
1/2

09.10.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 20749    πŸ” 6813    πŸ’¬ 496    πŸ“Œ 345

Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.

09.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 256    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
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Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

08.10.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 21921    πŸ” 5245    πŸ’¬ 793    πŸ“Œ 939

we paid for this

08.10.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You guys ever look at your rapidly diminishing prospects in life and just, like, fart a little about it?

13.11.2023 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

08.10.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2094    πŸ” 619    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 17

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