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Spent a year seeing if Mastodon would fill the hole left by the murder of Twitter. It didn't. Seems like there are more people here.

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Oh no. And I was JUST saying that, as opposed to the world of tea, the world of coffee is mostly free of this nonsense.

29.10.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This announcer realising he's just worked 2 games but still getting paid only for one is the most relatable guy in America tonight

28.10.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1768    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2

My moka pot has more genuine passion than most pitch decks.

28.10.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s because of the lower voltage here; makes kettles take much longer to boil in the US than in the UK.

26.10.2025 06:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Double feature with BUNNICULA

25.10.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a neon sign for the last drive in with joe bob briggs ALT: a neon sign for the last drive in with joe bob briggs

I may not love every movie shown on #TheLastDriveIn, but I love the show itself and have seen every episode. Happy 200th to the cast & crew!

25.10.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why so early with the exposition? Why not wait until after the end credits? #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

25.10.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I only have two questions about JACK-O:
1. What the hell is happening?
2. Why?
#MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn
Fun Phil Donahue story though.

25.10.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

21.10.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 14812    πŸ” 8017    πŸ’¬ 988    πŸ“Œ 1293

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs

Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

20.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4672    πŸ” 1223    πŸ’¬ 213    πŸ“Œ 56

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

20.10.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 11188    πŸ” 2195    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 33
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This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

13.10.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2820    πŸ” 1057    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 88
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True bravery!

12.10.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10727    πŸ” 2570    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 62
Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

bitch what

12.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4047    πŸ” 1259    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 228
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

11.10.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21210    πŸ” 6155    πŸ’¬ 400    πŸ“Œ 1152

Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton

05.10.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push The SPLC is the second civil rights group to lose its affiliation with the agency this week.

The FBI cut ties with Southern Poverty Law Poverty Law Center, an important civil rights group. The FBI doesn’t care about our civil rights anymore.

04.10.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

01.10.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 18895    πŸ” 4301    πŸ’¬ 262    πŸ“Œ 96

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

01.10.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 19233    πŸ” 5415    πŸ’¬ 591    πŸ“Œ 254
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KIMMEL: β€œThat sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

01.10.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 22866    πŸ” 7004    πŸ’¬ 346    πŸ“Œ 244

My most common coffee error: weighing the grounds in the Chemex, then forgetting to tare the scale again before I start my bloom/pourover. It doesn’t happen a lot, but it’s happened at least thrice. I don’t even know why I do it – I already weighed the grounds when I made them!

24.09.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

23.09.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 31837    πŸ” 8706    πŸ’¬ 1347    πŸ“Œ 539
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πŸ”₯

21.09.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9207    πŸ” 1996    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 56

To the nation's doctors: we are one-quarter through the twenty-first century. Stop asking me to dig out faxes and checkbooks; modern tech is now part of the price of doing business. I'm not asking you to adopt ApplePay, but I should be able to pay any medical bill that exists online.

19.09.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best thing Kimmel could do right now is do what the Right does when it is deplatformed: replatform yourself on another service, go live, and dunk on the administration harder than ABC would ever have allowed him to. Go full South Park on them. Do an hour on Patel lying under oath about Epstein.

18.09.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1996    πŸ” 397    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 23
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LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

18.09.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4375    πŸ” 982    πŸ’¬ 324    πŸ“Œ 1422

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

17.09.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24232    πŸ” 7225    πŸ’¬ 1106    πŸ“Œ 497
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Hey @shudder.com , it looks like you've -- perhaps accidentally -- uploaded a low-res version of this month's episodes of #TheLastDriveIn to your service. Very pixelated and unpleasant to watch. Could we have the same experience as the broadcast ep? Thanks! @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social #MutantFam

15.09.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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