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Principal Software Engineer Backend (Golang / Scala) 📍Palm Springs, California Forced birth is slavery. LGBT rights are human rights. Carbs are poison. Mask bans are murder.
30.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 182 🔁 17 💬 10 📌 2
Made me LOL
31.10.2025 02:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A gang of far-right extremists have sent the US military to cities with Democratic mayors and kidnapping people at the behest of a proto-dictator and his white supremacist party and very serious pundits with national platforms take a look and say “hmm yes the left is forcing their views on people.”
30.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 537 🔁 127 💬 29 📌 4
U.S. Map showing Minnesota among a handful of states in the $12,000-$17,999 tier with 40+ states showing bigger increases up to $49,000.
Minnesota looks good on this map of Obamacare price hikes post-subsidy expiration … until you realize “good” means a $12,000-$17,999 annual increase, not a $28,000-$49,000. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
30.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 178 🔁 75 💬 6 📌 5Lord give me the confidence of a woman who just got booed off the stage twice in her own district
30.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 327 🔁 52 💬 10 📌 0Bahahaha
RFK: Tylenol causes autism.
Tylenol: Do you have evidence? We can sue you.
RFK: Tylenol doesn't cause autism.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
The GOP is trying to force Democrats into a Sophie's Choice situation between 24 million Americans losing their health insurance, or 42 million Americans going hungry.
It's a false choice. Neither have to happen, and Dems are right to refuse to give up the fight for both.
you have just described taxes
29.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 2719 🔁 243 💬 54 📌 5me: a guy here was arrested for assaulting a woman while he was cosplaying as a nazi officer
Dad: what is cosplay
me: *explains*
Dad: sounds like a nazi who stopped "cosplaying" as a normal person
This man's ability to randomly say insightful thing while also putting cosplay in quotes is a trip
TIRED: I can’t go to bed, the game’s still on.
WIRED: I can totally go to bed, the game will still be going in eight hours.
He’s the chairman of Gloo. He’s the head of Sporkfister. He founded Blappo, a Bafflegab Company. He’s CEO of Syzygy. He’s Chief Vision Evangelist at Dumpstr (formerly General Electric).
29.10.2025 00:23 — 👍 665 🔁 134 💬 28 📌 5centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
28.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 9376 🔁 2002 💬 227 📌 113It’s not a coincidence that all of these (billionaire-funded) justifications for the Democratic Party taking more “centrist” positions are emerging in advance of what is likely to be an electoral blowout by the Mamdani campaign.
It’s predictable to the point of being tiresome.
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. It’s striking that Mr. Trump is so worried about a TV spot featuring a President who left the White House nearly 37 years ago. .. Perhaps Mr. Trump fears he’s going to lose the tariff case, and maybe he also knows his tariffs are unpopular ..”
www.wsj.com/opinion/reag...
It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.
26.10.2025 23:47 — 👍 2750 🔁 530 💬 17 📌 12
26.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 65 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 1
Mamdani up another two points on this alone
26.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 2171 🔁 141 💬 74 📌 4Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms, no hobbies, because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life.
26.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 517 🔁 106 💬 19 📌 15
Everyone watch this short bunny animation!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODs...
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
Saw the article asserting most Trek fans were Republican dudes and it was written by the same dude who a 13 years ago trashed Redshirts (which went on to be a NYT bestseller and win several awards, including the Hugo), so it's safe to say his track record with Trek-aligned material is dodgy at best
25.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 1939 🔁 159 💬 84 📌 13A few days ago, a reader reached out to tell me the leader of his book group came to their Halloween meeting dressed as Elena from my novel GIRL IN THE CREEK. She clipped toadstools to her outfit & stuck them on other members to infect them with the Strangeness.
THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER!!!!!
24.10.2025 02:42 — 👍 67 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 2
As someone said, The West Wing is now just, The Wing.
23.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the SEC should have a law that just says any CEO who uses the term "infinite money glitch" just has to go straight to prison, right away
22.10.2025 22:22 — 👍 579 🔁 76 💬 10 📌 4making the world a better place by turning credit card debt into a cryptocurrency casino
23.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 876 🔁 114 💬 26 📌 13💯
23.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
22.10.2025 22:33 — 👍 22419 🔁 9940 💬 769 📌 700The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
