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power rando (he/him) PFP: old bearded guy wearing a hoodie and sunglasses in the snow Banner: pink crabapple blossoms in the foreground, a rusty old schwinn leans against a claw foot bathtub in a spring garden

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Champ (folklore) - Wikipedia

I picked up a hitchhiking fairy in Vermont last summer. Only fair that we share Champ

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_(...

23.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Love - My Little Red Book [1966].
YouTube video by HarryLimePresents Love - My Little Red Book [1966].

Love

youtu.be/ftO9ClIhFAo?...

22.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Years ago on a run, a woman flew past me on the path, saying “nice stride!”

I was thrilled for the compliment from someone obviously better at what I was then doing

I’m on the right track!

Would I say the same to a random woman? Of course not

22.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s a 23 year old WH staffer sure he’ll be the hero once he gets grok to tell him how to make a bunch of people in Greenland sick

22.02.2026 03:52 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Part of the context here is that Bucks County recently elected an anti-ICE sheriff to replace their pro-ICE sheriff. The actions of Quakertown police (which is separate) are best understood as a gang that sees its power to intimidate slipping and so has initiated a violent suppression campaign.

21.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 1012    🔁 374    💬 24    📌 13

Ok, yeah, like tip of the spear, I get it, but you mean to tell me there’s a rest of the spear?

21.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And maybe genXers are the worst because we saw all these serious doubts and cracks in our values exposed and then plastered over with smiley face stickers of Reaganism and woo woo

The clear message as we reached adulthood was that the counterculture had failed

21.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Unalloyed cynicism

21.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I appear to have re-muted the main character just in time

21.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The type of masculinity you find in the Clearance corner at Big Lots, near the bathrooms

21.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think I don’t want to know what “punk league” is

21.02.2026 12:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Banish them to the Metaverse, where they can move but will not have legs

21.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This has been true for decades, but where is the “better elites” pipeline?

20.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

+Stephen Miller

20.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Once copy edited an article in a good journal about a generic drug that caused cancer cells to kill themselves

Checked in years later to find subsequent studies showing mixed results

…and also an internet conspiracy that it was a cure for all cancers suppressed by pharma

20.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Botstein has to go

20.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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College President Allegedly Made Nazi Reference In Sexual Assault Discussion The liberal arts school is now the subject of two federal complaints.

Parents of students aren’t having it

Bard’s handling of sexual assault on campus has been terrible and now this

"A girl drinking a bottle of vodka and then going to a party is as wise as me walking into a Nuremberg Rally while wearing the yellow badge."

www.huffpost.com/entry/bard-c...

20.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

This also represents my planned choreography, but with jumps and stuff

20.02.2026 07:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Teengenerate “Dressed in Black”

20.02.2026 07:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Where will we get our expertise?

20.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Between ICE attacking blue cities, cutting blue states’ funding, trying to outlaw being trans, saying autistic lives aren’t worth living, etc., the regime has come after me and mine, and every Republican is fine with it, and no, I’m not going to forget that

Expect others won’t either

20.02.2026 07:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

John Roberts: Fools! They’ll rue the day!

19.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

John Roberts: Fools! They’ll rue the day!

19.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Well. If somebody wants to use one like a pillow, they’ll roll it up

18.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is not true. I am in a slob/slob relationship, and it has endured for decades

18.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If another person posts the RFKjr Kid Rock video again with “I sure didn’t need to see this” or whatever, I’m going to scream

17.02.2026 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lets get the being nice to people bit done first. It ought to be the easier use case

17.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No. They won’t. Not if they want to keep their job.

If a bot can’t handle what a human is expected to in the same role, that’s bad design

17.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
A yellow tractor in front of a red-roofed sugar house. You can tell it’s a sugar house bc of the steam chimney next to the smoke chimney

A yellow tractor in front of a red-roofed sugar house. You can tell it’s a sugar house bc of the steam chimney next to the smoke chimney

Gonna be fired up in a month

17.02.2026 18:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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He’s fetching and fetches

INT 6
CHA 18
DEX ??

17.02.2026 06:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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