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Co-owner: Discourse Blog. "One blogger" - The New York Times. Found at various points of time in: Rolling Stone, Mic, GOOD, Heeb. Splinter was a good website. I'll have the soup. www.discourseblog.com

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Glengarry Green Goblin

09.12.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jimmy Fallon Is the ChatGPT of Talk Show Hosts He's not just an obsequious kiss-ass. He's actively making the world worse than it already is.

Sam Altman is a ghoulish villain, sure, but let's not discount Fallon as the real stinker of the pair.

09.12.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"go make a hill in the yard"

09.12.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Laughing to myself as I imagine a "conservatives are the *real* punks" cover version of Thunder kiss '65

09.12.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

working myself up into a froth-mouthed fury over having this blizzard on a goddamed tuesday

09.12.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sure, but am i gonna wake up at 6 am to beat the line? (maybe, but keys is right there too)

09.12.2025 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's one in the village now

09.12.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what the fuck could be so broken in a person's brain that they'd feel compelled to create "wizz, the 'tinder for kids' app"?

09.12.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Read that headline out loud. Let the words actually hit your ear drums. Do you feel stupider yet?

09.12.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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gonna be thinking about this hed when i ask my neighbor to run me over with his snowblower over and over until I am scattered across the entirety of my front yard.

09.12.2025 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Susan Tincher was just released at the St. Paul Fort Snelling ICE facilities, per her husband Jim.

09.12.2025 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

single digit: write it
double digits: draw it

09.12.2025 17:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Northsider Susan Tincher was taken away by what her husband assumes were ICE agents this morning at 21st Street and Oliver Avenue North around 6 a.m.

โ€œNo idea where she is,โ€ Jim Tincher, Susanโ€™s husband, shared with North News Tuesday morning. โ€œThis is just ridiculous.โ€

More here:

09.12.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Fun fact: bananas today are far less slippery owing to the original export cultivar ('Gros Michel') being almost entirely replaced by the modern cultivar, Cavendish. That's why banana skin slips have largely vanished from contemporary comedy discourse.

08.12.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dozens of vultures dropped dead on a building full of kids but i'm choosing to think it's fine and nothing to worry about

09.12.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

boooy was i not expecting to see that logo today

09.12.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I think straightforward video clipping is a useful and worthwhile service! But quoting a CNN broadcast of a Politico interview that is, itself, posted online, i, uhโ€ฆ idunno man. Whatโ€™re we even doing here at this point, yโ€™know?

09.12.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anyway, i hope a roving pack of furious mothers catches the beep-boop guy and tears him into small, soggy pieces.

09.12.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not the point, but this exchange really clarified something about Fallon for me:

He *is* the ChatGPT of late night hosts: someone who sees other (ostensibly talented or interesting?) people, and tries to mimic their shtick back at them, only it's always noticeably worse and off-putting.

09.12.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Two screenshot of Divine being interviewed for TV. Divine is a big drag queen in a red dress wearing elaborate makeup.
Interviewer: "Can you give us some of your political beliefs?"
Divine: "Kill everyone now."

Two screenshot of Divine being interviewed for TV. Divine is a big drag queen in a red dress wearing elaborate makeup. Interviewer: "Can you give us some of your political beliefs?" Divine: "Kill everyone now."

Pink Flamingos (1972)

26.11.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 620    ๐Ÿ” 177    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Unless you're the state of Minnesota

09.12.2025 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 282    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
grain belt beer neon sign, hennepin bridge and snowplow pickup at night

grain belt beer neon sign, hennepin bridge and snowplow pickup at night

#RealMPLS

09.12.2025 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!

08.12.2025 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think thereโ€™s enough in that world to handle another installment (and then some) but, yeah, I hear you about the fatigue. Iโ€™m also a very filthy casual gamer, so my standards are pretty low all things being equal

08.12.2025 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My *guess* is it, coupled with the reveal after that, is supposed to set up a third one.

08.12.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.

Now you're upset?

Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

08.12.2025 21:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1724    ๐Ÿ” 451    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

you gotta picture it like an old loony toons pie sitting on a windowsill, the steam making a "come here" finger curl while a cat floats toward it on tippy toes not quite touching the ground... only, the exact opposite of that.

08.12.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine the odor wafting down the concourse, mingling with the scent of Cinnabon and Panda Express across from your gate.

08.12.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This peckerhead wants travelers to work up some swamp ass in their brooks brotherโ€™s suits before taking a cross country flight.

08.12.2025 20:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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