Captain Kramer
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"Captain, maybe we should start helping people."
"No... That's just what they'll be expecting us to do."
"No... That's just what they'll be expecting us to do."
Gretna, Louisiana, where the police blocked refugees from escaping the Hurricane Katrina disaster via a federally-funded highway bridge?
That Gretna?
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bri...
That Gretna?
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bri...
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Gretna, Louisiana, where the police blocked refugees from escaping the Hurricane Katrina disaster via a federally-funded highway bridge?
That Gretna?
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bri...
That Gretna?
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bri...
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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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yeah Thanksgiving should be understood as a Civil War holiday more than anything about colonial America
This is my yearly reminder that
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
yeah Thanksgiving should be understood as a Civil War holiday more than anything about colonial America
No fan base, just more electoral college votes than his tepid, incompetent opponents.
Now do neoliberalism's impact on Americans and Democrats' key role in it.
Now do neoliberalism's impact on Americans and Democrats' key role in it.
Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
No fan base, just more electoral college votes than his tepid, incompetent opponents.
Now do neoliberalism's impact on Americans and Democrats' key role in it.
Now do neoliberalism's impact on Americans and Democrats' key role in it.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
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well yeah with all those insider trades why would she complain?
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
well yeah with all those insider trades why would she complain?
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Top 5 Side 1, Track 1s
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Top 5 Side 1, Track 1s
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
LOL
BREAKING 🚨: Campbell's Soup
$CPB has fallen to prices not seen since the Global Financial Crisis 📉📉
$CPB has fallen to prices not seen since the Global Financial Crisis 📉📉
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
LOL
Morning raven fly-by.
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Morning raven fly-by.
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In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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When you're confident in defending a riotously broken publishing model, because the poor municipal-funding cousin occasionally, literally papers over bankrupt logic, blame ML or whatever.
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
When you're confident in defending a riotously broken publishing model, because the poor municipal-funding cousin occasionally, literally papers over bankrupt logic, blame ML or whatever.
Brilliant commentary from the talented Patrick Lawrence:
thefloutist.substack.com/p/as-our-pos...
thefloutist.substack.com/p/as-our-pos...
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.”
All around us the light dims on humanity’s shared aspirations. It falls to us to restore them.
thefloutist.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Brilliant commentary from the talented Patrick Lawrence:
thefloutist.substack.com/p/as-our-pos...
thefloutist.substack.com/p/as-our-pos...
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Dear @nytimes.com
Boomers can afford to go protest because they’re living on their pensions, 401ks, and living in their $1M 3br/2ba ranch homes which they bought in 1978 for $87,000
GenZ is working 2 jobs , living with roommates, and paying off student loans and for health insurance
🤨🤦🏼♂️
Boomers can afford to go protest because they’re living on their pensions, 401ks, and living in their $1M 3br/2ba ranch homes which they bought in 1978 for $87,000
GenZ is working 2 jobs , living with roommates, and paying off student loans and for health insurance
🤨🤦🏼♂️
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Dear @nytimes.com
Boomers can afford to go protest because they’re living on their pensions, 401ks, and living in their $1M 3br/2ba ranch homes which they bought in 1978 for $87,000
GenZ is working 2 jobs , living with roommates, and paying off student loans and for health insurance
🤨🤦🏼♂️
Boomers can afford to go protest because they’re living on their pensions, 401ks, and living in their $1M 3br/2ba ranch homes which they bought in 1978 for $87,000
GenZ is working 2 jobs , living with roommates, and paying off student loans and for health insurance
🤨🤦🏼♂️
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Where is Gen Z? They're at WORK motherfuckers. They're broke
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Where is Gen Z? They're at WORK motherfuckers. They're broke
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November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM