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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 7h

I finally read that Peter Thiel essay about Alan Moore's WATCHMEN, and it's incredible that his actual argument is: "Moore argues that Ozymandias will fail because history defeats all world conquerers, and no victory is permanent. But maybe I, Peter Thiel, am built different?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 8h

how to lose friends and alienate people

screenshot from allrecipes:

Mock Strawberry Jam
4.3 stars (28) 24 Reviews 6 Photos
Make a batch of this mock strawberry jam recipe whenever you have a bumper crop of zucchini squash. It tastes like the real thing! Your family and friends will never know the difference unless you tell them.
Submitted by Patricia Canerdy | Updated on July 8, 2025
Buttons for Save, Rate, Print, and Share; the top of a photo of jars.

Screenshot from allrecipes:

Ingredients
Original recipe (1X) yields 96 servings

5 cups peeled, shredded zucchini

5 cups white sugar

2 (3 ounce) packages strawberry-flavored gelatin (such as Jell-O)

3 tablespoons lemon juice

The little "Local Offers" box cannot find any ingredients on sale near me, because I don't live in the United States of America.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 5h

I know England used to rule us with a tyrannical king, but sending them this as revenge is uncalled for.

Jets' stats for the London game: 82 total yards, 8 first downs, 0/0 in the red zone

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 9h

As a singular American figure, the 47th president might have a singular effect on Roberts's legacy. That's why the Trump opinion looms so large. It would be a tragedy for Roberts if his long tenure as chief justice were reduced to that single ruling and opinion because the portents of doom in the Sotomayor dissent prove accurate in the extreme-and turn what
Roberts meant as the solution to a problem of constitutional governance into a license for autocracy.

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James Cobo @jamescobo.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing movie, up there with Kidman’s very best performances (To Die For and Eyes Wide Shut, although there are a bunch of contenders)

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · Jan 13

Rewatched Birth. Love that movie. Here’s how you know it’s good: it’s in the strike zone of IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes for a good movie.

The Google result for Birth showing a 6.3 imdb and a 40% rotten tomato ranking

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h

I'm crying

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 16h

It gets even funnier

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16h

AI could never invent the Bruce Springsteen ska version of the Monster Mash. This requires human creativity to sing.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 16h

I'm hyperventilating www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOoz...

Monster Mash - Bruce Springsteen - Rochester, Oct. 31, 2012

YouTube video by BlackLabProductions

www.youtube.com

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Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 17d

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James Cobo @jamescobo.bsky.social · 16h

I was strongly considering buying an Ecler Warm2 but I extremely do not want to deal with this shit, another win for America’s thriving rotary dj mixer manufacturers

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James Cobo @jamescobo.bsky.social · 16h

Once upon a time I was able to buy records from anywhere in the world

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19h

Wait so just to be clear then the cat's name was Buster Keaton

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 21h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Apr 7

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline:
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2d

All-time social media graphic from ESPN

An image of a Giants player back flipping with the text

He’s genuinely an idiot.
GUNNER OLSZEWSKI
on Cam Skattebo

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 1d

A chat with @andyzax.bsky.social reminded me of a real late 1990s artifact, Vangelis's "Tegos Tapes," done for a Greek surgeon as background music for training videos because said surgeon figured just him talking would be boring as shit. 8 hours plus of spacelanes drift!

Vangelis - The Tegos Tapes (1998) : Annum Integrum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Tegos Tapes is an interesting example of an obscure and heretofore unreleased Vangelis soundtrack unknown by many of even his most devoted fans.The...

archive.org

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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 5d

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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James Cobo @jamescobo.bsky.social · 2d

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