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writer & editor, inveterate communist, wife guy, he/him

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microsoft teams has added a feature called β€œstoryline” that now lets you create a social media feed to share with coworkers, as well as a helpful self-euthanasia device that delivers 5,000 ccs of powerful scorpion venom directly into your brain

05.08.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 544    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

more honks

04.08.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was 100% convinced this was what was happening to me when my parents told me I could go to the gifted program

03.08.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the European bakery sells bricks of rye that look like they're from a cold war era Latvian bread repository. elite bread experience. get some herring, some pickles, a shot of vodkaβ€”breakfast of champions

03.08.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The chess argument reveals a fundamental ignorance about chess, chess AI, the Kasparov–Deep Blue match, and LLMs simultaneously. If you know anything about any one of those topics it immediately falls apart.

03.08.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's the sheer vapidity of it, for me. lazy, incurious, boring people

01.08.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

man the pocketknife discourse is just dismal. I don't have a knife as some violent fantasy! I just find a little daily joy in using things that are designed, made, and maintained with care. let people enjoy things!

31.07.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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this is an incredible paragraph of text Weaponizing therapy speak. it’s flawless & should be studied by students of the rhetorical arts alongside Aristotle for millennia to come. It’s making me go crazy like that guy who tried to pulverize the PietΓ  di Michelangelo for being too beautiful to exist

28.07.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

yes, this particular brand of weaponized idiocy predates AI by several decades

30.07.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it is undignified to be food

30.07.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I Overreacting? My Wife Keeps Trying to Get Me to Murder King Duncan So She Can Be Queen of Scotland

28.07.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it doesn't go far enough. one day all of our art institutions will be cubes inshallah

30.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

drinking at 11 in the morning implies a carefree and leisurely approach to life that is inherently opposed to the Calvinist ethic that dominates American public life

30.07.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

how do you feel about being attached to a giant magnet

30.07.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

with the human body usually mining is when you hug it close and say "mine" and give it a lil smooch. but your thing sounds cool too

30.07.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A quote: Elevated concentrations of CO2 directly enhance plant growth, globally contributing to β€œgreening” the planet and increasing agricultural productivity

29.07.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I Overreacting? My Wife Keeps Trying to Get Me to Murder King Duncan So She Can Be Queen of Scotland

28.07.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

taco is your friend from high school who knows the secret recipe for 8 loko

28.07.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this did not work but I feel like it could have

28.07.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

at the theater I unlocked my phone to show my ticket but forgot that I'd been texting w/ my sister about boobs being eugenics-coded now and accidentally tried to get into the theater by just showing the usher a picture of Sydney Sweeney

28.07.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

it's what plants crave

25.07.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

was it the Lance Hendricks one? it's probably been the most helpful to me in making a good microfoam BUT you have to bear the psychic cost of hearing him call it "silky milky"

25.07.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the best comment on that was the one that was like, so right bestie he's too dangerous, you should get a safe adult or medical professional to help you

23.07.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(guy inventing the smartphone) what if a palmpilot... could make you mentally ill

21.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A hunting blind: a small cylindrical shed painted camo green.

A hunting blind: a small cylindrical shed painted camo green.

calling hunting blinds male gazebos from now on

20.07.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

multifarious penumbra (your printer's rap name)

20.07.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tabby cat looking hatefully out the window at another cat who has never experienced a thought in his life

Tabby cat looking hatefully out the window at another cat who has never experienced a thought in his life

our indoor cat has an outdoor nemesis who definitely has no idea they are nemeses

20.07.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the spectre of cummunism

20.07.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we have carhenge, a stonehenge made of cars. superior henge IMO

18.07.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

entirely possible that the main reason Trump hasn't released the files is not that he cares about the probably negligible political fallout but that he's scared of what the other men on the list will do to him

18.07.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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