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contacted the office at my employer, they more or less called me an idiot, submitted one form to IRCC, and sorted everything out. anyway, the lesson here is to never trust a lawyer under 40.

The No. 1 Country Song in America Is by a Non-Human Artist A country tune currently sitting atop the Billboard charts was made by a machine.

Is cultural bankruptcy a term yet?

www.thedailybeast.com/the-no-1-cou...

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

I feel like there’s a good chance Bovino will just refocus energy back to LA and rejoin the current goons for the completely cynical reason of the weather being nicer.

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

Know this, @schumer.senate.gov — if you cave, we will not rest until you are primaried and wrested from your seat. When kids on SNAP aren’t being fed, we’re even more hungry for justice. New York has shown you the people’s power just days ago. You *could* join with us, still, and do the right thing.

The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?

Prince loved to remind people that he wrote this song while looking in the mirror:

You're so good, baby there ain't nobody better
So you should never, ever go by the letter
You're so cool, everything you do is success
Make the rules — then break them all 'cause you are the best

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

"WEBSITE FOR 38 YEAR OLDS" in the style of Zohran Mamdani's campaign logo

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

There's a little hole in the wall in Chinatown. I always have between two and six pounds of their cha siu (roast pork) in our freezer for when she needs roast pork egg fried rice.

Similarly, she can make mushroom stroganoff on the spot for me whenever.

i've never seen housekeeping but local hero is a fabulous movie with a great mark knopfler score

Two from writer-director Bill Forsyth! LOCAL HERO (1983) & HOUSEKEEPING (1987) screen in 35mm this coming Tuesday & Wednesday, November 11th & 12th. Tickets: buff.ly/uLPEQtY

DHS getting screwed by Spirit with ridiculous upsells is the most American thing about this most fascist endeavor.

TAXES FOR BILLIONAIRES

FLORIDA FOR COWARDS LEAVING NYC

The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

Trump standing uninterested as Quint is eaten by the shark in Jaws

lmao

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Oh I like this. I want this.

The loud part out loud

US military strikes another boat in the Caribbean, killing 3 | CNN Politics The US military conducted a strike against a vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday, killing three people, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Man, this shit is out of hand and someone need tell us why in the fuck we are blowing up fucking boats? This ain't the shit we are fucking supposed to be doing. Someone please explain why in the entire fuck we are just blowing up fucking people? It needs to happen now

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

[Goose meme]
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

i say thank you to the bus driver when i get on and yell thank you when i get off every day i ride the bus, and i take two buses to and from work, being nice and friendly costs you nothing and should be your default expectation for yourself because it improves your day and everyone else’s day