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A place I wake up blushing like I'm ashamed to be alive

11.09.2025 02:28 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I never engaged with them entirely because the discourse and baggage steered me away, but in recent years its become so clear they had more integrity than the thousands of other lefty podcast hosts who turned into cretins and reactionaries

23.06.2025 19:24 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Folks things are not looking good on this front

26.05.2025 16:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I do not think there is any capacity for happiness in a life that is bound to the financial burden of car ownership

21.05.2025 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When you take your car into the mechanic do you have a number in mind like “okay if this is more than $500 I’m just gonna end it all” or just me

21.05.2025 16:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I was a billionaire I would not be addicted to the internet and group chats I would probably just buy a house and invite people over to my house to hang out and watch movies or something. That’s the dream

05.05.2025 13:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The world’s blurriest photo of phil elverum

The world’s blurriest photo of phil elverum

Here’s the world’s blurriest photo of phil elverum. Plus I got to see him body a taco before the show

20.04.2025 04:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gender Ally McBeal party

17.04.2025 11:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

God is a Mr. Beast-style YouTuber and my life is a prop in a video entitled “I gave this man suicidal ideation EVERY DAY of his life 😈🤣 How many decades can he survive? (CHALLENGE)” and the thumbnail says “15+ years??? 😧”

16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.

yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.

no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.

26.11.2024 10:14 — 👍 7127    🔁 2036    💬 84    📌 274

The lived human experience is palpably cheapened with Elon in the world. It is metaphysically embarrassing to be a human in this moment of history

14.04.2025 13:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still thinking about this

11.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

musk is one of those guys that i dont think actually has qualia

10.04.2025 22:12 — 👍 160    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

God hates us too much for this to happen but it’d be so cool if he offed himself over this

09.04.2025 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ethical gnomonogamy is when you date several sundials at once send tweet

08.04.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This comes after reading the full page on Columbia’s La Violencia so in general I’m having a hard time picturing a near future without unspeakable violence

07.04.2025 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think it definitely was. They biffed the ending but whatever, sometimes a show can just be an acting showcase

07.04.2025 16:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ruined my morning by going through the full “crimes involving the order of nine angels” wiki

07.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My favorite tree is the bradford pear I don’t know why I just love being around them in the spring

06.04.2025 00:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This whole project is abstractly interesting in a “can what this AI produces be considered a game?” sense, but tech media’s total reluctance to actually explain what the technology is doing is infuriating

05.04.2025 23:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just made mapo tofu and I always chew on a little sichuan pep as a treat

05.04.2025 23:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jaime Montana Cook is at
Sackets Harbor Central School.
5h •
Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

05.04.2025 17:00 — 👍 5976    🔁 2632    💬 90    📌 196

Well usually I would say dick explosions but in your case that’s a workplace accident waiting to happen

05.04.2025 03:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Luigi was the sneak preview for Woke 2

04.04.2025 17:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m a library worker and we pretty much only get sloppy print-on-demand garbage for classics anymore because they’re $2 cheaper than penguins

04.04.2025 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Clear now that what the trump admin is doing is eliminating the very expectation that the government needs to act on things. Can’t pressure them to address the climate or medicine or public health if there’s no research or data about what needs done

04.04.2025 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Millennial parenting influencers: buzzfeed listicle top ten heckin poop machine bebe memes

Gen Z parenting influencers: motherhood connects you to something greater than yourself: the advancement of the White Race

04.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People have no idea how professional and conventional the average 1950’s commie was. It wasn’t a counterculture thing until it was forced to be

04.04.2025 12:41 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Lucky brand fish sauce

Lucky brand fish sauce

If you don’t have this in your house I’m not coming

If you do have this in your house I’m gonna put my whole mouth on it

03.04.2025 23:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
New York Mag article “Addicted to Onlyfans: men are spending tens of thousands of dollars to text with their favorite creators”

New York Mag article “Addicted to Onlyfans: men are spending tens of thousands of dollars to text with their favorite creators”

See this is why you should only date men like me (annual salary under $40,000)

03.04.2025 22:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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