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Derek Helling

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I push buttons on a keyboard connected to a computer and then the numbers associated with my money get bigger for a period of time. It’s way rad. He/him/his

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I just learned that Nancy Wilson was married to Cameron Crowe.

So, if Nancy went to a family reunion with Cameron and wanted to know how many people were there, she would have been Counting Crowes.

You're welcome.

29.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nothing is more American than “journalists” licking the boots of the very charlatans who are buying the publications they work for and stripping them for parts while paying them pennies for their labor.

26.10.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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25.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

23.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 11530    🔁 3335    💬 567    📌 599

Democrats are still voting to support Trump nominees

21.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 805    🔁 223    💬 42    📌 15

The entitlement is wild.

White people: we DO NOT have a right to infringe upon the communication of others.

The only time it matters whether we understand another person is when they attempt to communicate with us directly. If that isn’t the case, it doesn’t concern us. FFS.

19.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did he survive an NFL wild card playoff game being exclusively broadcast on Netflix?

18.10.2025 23:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally, a network willing to tell the truth about collegiate American football

18.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Owners of NWSL franchises see the NFL taking advantage of a publicly subsidized developmental system and want the same thing for themselves. NWSL owners’ mission to replicate the NFL includes the exploitation of athletic labor long before the workers formally take the pitch for their clubs.

17.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely. $0.50 per word should NOT be phenomenal compensation. It should be paltry in the US in 2025.

17.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For context, paying writers $0.50 per word is PHENOMENAL in the USA in 2025. Exploitative content mills are out here trying to manipulate people into producing copy for as little as a single cent or “based on page views.”

17.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 35    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

One of the best pieces of French literature, Madame Bovary, was written over the course of five years. Gustave Flaubert scrutinized every word choice and sentence structure for days. Given the general quality of most of the marketing copy I see online, more of Flaubert’s approach is welcome.

17.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So you can actually impose consequences for people being literally the worst. Huh. Neat.

16.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One random dude: “I wouldn’t mind it if the venue had better accommodations for people with sensory issues during games.”

Bootlicking media: POSITIVE ATTITUDES!!!!

16.10.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

NO 👏 EXTERNAL 👏 DEVICE 👏 CAN 👏 PREVENT 👏 THE 👏BRAIN 👏SHIFTING👏INSIDE 👏THE 👏SKULL👏FROM👏IMPACT👏. That’s what a concussion is. People selling these things are snake oil charlatans.

16.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, but this was the goal. He wanted to destroy it.

14.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I will celebrate. However, the problems with the United States of America aren’t going to magically disappear when Dump dies. His government is “pulling back the curtain on the portrait of Dorian Gray” on the USA. America can’t become healthier until we acknowledge the extent of the illness.

14.10.2025 09:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That citation was a lie. The United States of America has always been terroristic when that terrorism suited the interests of a privileged few. Americans can’t improve until we acknowledge our problems.

14.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They were kidnapped, not arrested. Stop normalizing illegal activities.

14.10.2025 09:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is true to my experience. I will never forget when I called Franklin out for pushing players to do offseason workouts in the height of a global pandemic while keeping his family at home and he had his staff message me demanding a phone conversation.

13.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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People who brag about only speaking one language are usually terrible with that one language. 95 times out of every 100, the people in the USA who are screaming, “SPEAK ENGLISH!” the loudest are also the people typing “sentences” like, “your the best,” on social media.

13.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your definition of “democracy” and Marchado’s are VERY different, I assure you George.

12.10.2025 21:59 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Definitely not the hero we deserve but the one we need.

11.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great. Now stop stealing from the players. Without them, there is no WNBA.

11.10.2025 11:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“It will be held in the strictest of confidence”

10.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

09.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 12655    🔁 6705    💬 107    📌 223

And I have some oceanfront property in Iowa to sell.

09.10.2025 07:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The difference between MAGA and people like Newsom is that Newsom will go out of his way to make life impossible for trans people while holding a Pride-themed fundraiser for his campaign.

08.10.2025 00:12 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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