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MagicBear
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the Platner discourse has frustrating echoes of the Newsom discourse, in that people seem to want us to just give up now and lock in without waiting to see if something better turns up. this isn't blackjack! we can keep asking the dealer to turn over more cards for like another YEAR
Anyone telling you this spells doom in Maine is being silly.

It is now 230 days until the primary and 377 days until the general.

And it’s not like the campaign has already been going for a long time. Platner just announced 293 days before the primary and 440 days before the general election.
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
People who googled your tattoo + "meaning" this week just to double check, what's a cool thing you learned?

Mine is apparently sometimes a symbol of innocence?
is this a second kitten or the kitten already in your house?
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There's a lesson to be learned here in that a lot of people looked at Mamdani and Platner and decided that the latter was a "young authentic candidate" and the former was not for reasons they insist are not racist
“What if we get young “authentic” candidates with no political experience, run them in high profile races, and roll them out the with the political media and small dollar donors with little to no vetting?”
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the through line of "got an accidental nazi tattoo while drunk" to "regularly takes shirt off at the bar" to "starts a senate campaign with no experience and no plan to address any of this" to "gets a terrible coverup overnight" is "total lack of judgment and impulse control"
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Something I learned from my public health days is that an easy way to improve health broadly in the U.S. would be to simply increase funding for SNAP so families could buy what they want. Too long we've restricted SNAP because of ridiculous ideas about what lower income people should eat.
SNAP assistance should be enough to cover 2000 calories a day of HEALTHY food PER PERSON. Yes I want the government to make sure everyone has wholesome, tasty, filling meals. The problem isn't that people need assistance with food, it's that the assistance is a freaking joke.
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Oh for fuck's fucking sake he got it covered with a Norse Ragnarok tattoo of Fenrisulfr devouring the world
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner tells AP he got a new tattoo to cover one seen as a Nazi symbol.
Yessssssss, I've seen I think the same person on YouTube shorts.
As we've all seen this week, you could do infinitely worse!
might I recommend not eating your family
It was a legitimately lovely tattoo! Well done with nice strokes, and the characters for beef are beautiful. Just uhh not the same thing as family at all. Not even the same number of characters.
Thinking a lot this week about the time I saw a person on the train with "beef" tattooed on their neck in Chinese and when I said "cool tattoo" it turned out they thought it said "family". At the time, I thought that was an extremely embarrassing tattoo mishap.
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the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.
when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:
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Friends don’t let friends use this privacy violating nightmare. Just say no! Not even once!
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
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Look I’m not blaming anyone I’m just asking if anyone has checked the British Museum for the Louvre’s jewels
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Sometimes, it sucks when you're doing your best and feel like you have no immediate results to show for it. But that doesn't invalidate your efforts, bro. You've been working hard, trying. Out there giving everything, whatever everything is for you on any given day. That's always enough.
oh no! get well soon ❤️ the thing about investing in a solo project is that we know you're just one person 😅 I hope this is just you being hard on yourself and people aren't being dicks about you being a human living in a body
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NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol
was talking to a bookstore proprietor today about a cool book they liked because the art has an almost 3d effect

mused that "it's almost like riso printing with these blue outlines"

"... wait"

reader, can you guess why it looked so much like risograph printing?
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who could possibly say which judge wrote this opinion. a mystery
trick question: all the reptiles are cool