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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken My blog in desuetude: https://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com

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Want. 😍 Just the thing for my morning Manhattan commute.

07.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly, Pritzker should order the IL National Guard to start shooting at any foreign state NG that invades Illinois territory.

07.10.2025 01:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Tate Britain’s Lee Miller show is a seize-the-day marvel With an unerring eye, the photographer captured the 20th century in all its beauty and brutality

With an unerring eye, the photographer captured the 20th century in all its beauty and brutality: on.ft.com/4gWf4uJ

06.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars on Simons Foundation

One of the most important contributions to the study of how stars evolve didn’t come from an astrophysicist. It came from a computer scientist: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/12/a-stellar-revolution-how-open-source-tool-mesa-changed-the-way-we-study-stars/ #science #astrophysics

06.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to ALISON BOSHOFF

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

06.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 7457    🔁 954    💬 598    📌 872

I want to see farmers force-feeding a tied-up Kevin Hassett soybeans like a goose.

06.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I would remind folks that among the reasons Stephen Miller is saying crazy crap on Twitter is because he's losing in the courts, both judicial and public opinion.

05.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 5822    🔁 1288    💬 196    📌 75

Live feed of Eric Hamilton, lawyer for the Department of Justice:

06.10.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ?
Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

Haddock : Quelle semaine, hein ? Tintin : Capitaine, on est lundi, il est 10h

06.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 2254    🔁 645    💬 9    📌 15

God help the ICE CoD cosplayers if they shoot or injure a cop. Cops don’t take that shit from anybody, and they are vengeful.

04.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly, it’s overdue.

04.10.2025 21:45 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

a reminder for Chicago folks that picking up or throwing back a tear gas canister will badly burn you unless you're wearing welding gloves which can be purchased for very reasonable prices at Menards

04.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 643    🔁 220    💬 18    📌 9

“Philosophy, it seems, should be reflectively aware of itself as a technological product – which is to say a special kind of very human product. Logic itself emerges from the technology of writing.“ – Ong, Orality and Literacy

03.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t threaten us with a good time.

03.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

He’s incommunicado, undergoing full-body cheeseburger replacement therapy.

03.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Umm… if you expect to hear plainspoken criticism of the economic effects of Administration policies from an industry famously noted for… [checks notes] …valuing making money above all else (and preserving their ability to do so without government pressure), I think you have some recalibration to do.

03.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power.

Democrats: Read this.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

03.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 649    🔁 203    💬 49    📌 21

not for nothing but two scoops is hiding again, the WH puts this on his schedule and then sent the couch fucker

last seen 3 days ago

03.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 39    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Where is Governor Pritzker? Time to bring the hammer down, Guv. @govpritzker.illinois.gov

03.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Executive time”

03.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I must have been trying to compensate for the Southern Hemisphere. 🤔

03.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nope. The abortion on the right is drug-addled South African misogynist incel design.

03.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bah

03.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stopped clock, etc.

03.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh wow, that's really something.

03.10.2025 10:27 — 👍 77    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0
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Investors could face a bonfire night surprise on Trump tariffs The legal tussle over the president’s trade policy is a result of the way he wields power

Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

on.ft.com/3KCKpGx

03.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It’s only a small part of the horror and disgustingness of this Administration, but the sheer number of young women eagerly whoring themselves out to the Great Pumpkin and his minions is truly appalling. “giftgirl2025” 🙄

03.10.2025 01:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, Tim Cook, you absolute wobbling pussy. Fuck you.

03.10.2025 01:14 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Nah, we don’t like each other.

03.10.2025 01:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can someone please check on Tyler Cowen? 😳

02.10.2025 22:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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