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We could be doing so much better than this. "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." -Joe Biden, who never actually wanted people to hold him to that ...

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you know what's cheaper and safer than a ring camera? a fake camera. I've had one since my last porch theft three years ago and it even fooled the eye of a cop trying to get me to snitch on my neighbors. you can't subpoena a recording that doesnt exist.

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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

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Scratch one

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Congrats to the US organization that most makes me understand why the CCP did that to Falun Gong

09.02.2026 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SCIENTOLOGY BABY LETS GO

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Ok, here's how the Patriots can still win...

09.02.2026 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't catch much of that in clone wars, but in Samurai Jack, there's a lot of it. Maybe it's unconscious but I don't think the frank miller 300 homage was an accident

09.02.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As long as everybody respects everyone else's traditions, which are preserved in their original forms, it's cool, but a melting pot where all of those get together and build a city...that's seen as sinister and wrong.

09.02.2026 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I love his work but the themes are always. Tradition = good, cosmopolitanism = evil, violence = sad necessity. I would be pleasantly shocked if he was left of George W Bush.

09.02.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

genndy tartakovsky

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JG Ballard

JG Ballard

β€˜The cameras were long a feature of neighbourhoods where the worst crimes were committed in finished cellars and carriage houses. But after the government published a private white paper on their utility in identifying undesirable aliens, they were sold to the public as a tool to locate lost pets.’

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america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

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I cheered. I am so stupid.

09.02.2026 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.

The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.

Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.

Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

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Me and my wife 5 mins ago fr

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The Death of Direct File Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Sophisticated punts enjoyers

Sophisticated punts enjoyers

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I was about to say as a new Yorker this shit lookin awful familiar ...

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Yup.

Same way "industrial musicals", weird shows they did at sales conventions, kept actors working between Broadway shows...

youtu.be/QTgS1SXr0nc?...

08.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

good of example of the way that Gen Ai harms art is not through really replacing capital a Art but by replacing human slop with robo slop, and the dirty secret is that slop pays the bills and subsidizes actually good art.

08.02.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 6

Anime w her and the Civil War sniper as enemies

08.02.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

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Look. The sleep deprived line attorney or press flack probably just wrote the date wrong in their draft. That said. Lol. Lmao

08.02.2026 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing you have to realize about how American Empire works is that the party that just won the Japanese elections was founded by a war criminal with a suitcase full of cash from the CIA...

...Each word of that is 100 percent true and yet when you say it out loud YOU sound crazy.

08.02.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone who says social media is the problem does not remember 2001-4, I'm sorry. There was a plurality of this country in the streets saying stop this dumb bullshit and they painted HOWARD DEAN as too extreme a reaction.

08.02.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

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*sees an Olympian perform an indescribable feat of awesome prowess and finesse*

announcer: oof, that's going to cost them points

08.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i don't think christians should be allowed to vibe advertise in commercial breaks like they're selling coca cola. no more shots of the night sky and vague cursive text about finding purpose. show your weird-ass mega pastor asking for money and telling people cholera is caused by loose morals

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