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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The responses to this post make me feel better--I'm not alone! I use a clock radio and love it. I do use an alarm on my phone for cooking, though, and it's an app that looks like an old-fashioned twist timer.
Do people outside of TV and the movies still use alarm clocks? Or does everyone pretty much use their cell phone.
January 3, 2026 at 12:25 AM
The responses to this post make me feel better--I'm not alone! I use a clock radio and love it. I do use an alarm on my phone for cooking, though, and it's an app that looks like an old-fashioned twist timer.
Instacart is a ripoff
December 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Instacart is a ripoff
Reminds me that I need to buy this book:
I think engineers are especially prone to Trumpism, for reasons that are complex but have to do mostly with narrow expertise and a belief in yes/no, right/wrong solutions. I wrote about this problem in The Death of Expertise:
December 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Reminds me that I need to buy this book:
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WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
Unreal. People are going hungry but the president is throwing parties like this??
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Unreal. People are going hungry but the president is throwing parties like this??
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif:
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif:
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Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)
If you see this, post a vampire who isn't Dracula
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
If you see this, post a vampire who isn't Dracula
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If you see this, post a vampire who isn't Dracula
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If you see this, post a vampire who isn't Dracula
@arimelber.bsky.social The year 2000 was last century. 2001 is the first year of the 21st century.
October 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@arimelber.bsky.social The year 2000 was last century. 2001 is the first year of the 21st century.
Yup.
At least on social media, one reason people are "like this" is: the internet removed even the smallest frictional costs for blurting out whatever stray neuron is in your brain.
Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.
Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.
Why are people like this?
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Yup.
Funny shit here.
Look, this is fun, but I have to go shopping for chairs. Or, as I call them, "Non-standing rest units"
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Funny shit here.
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I ended up turning this into a little bit of a thread, because I sincerely want to understand why so many of the people who could do something about this endless parade of horrors are choosing to enable and endorse it all through inaction.
It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist.
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
August 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I ended up turning this into a little bit of a thread, because I sincerely want to understand why so many of the people who could do something about this endless parade of horrors are choosing to enable and endorse it all through inaction.
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prescient (from 3 months ago)
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
August 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
prescient (from 3 months ago)
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One fine day, sooner or later, all the secrets will seep or tumble out. On that day decent folks will be stunned these traitors were even more horrible than we ever imagined.
July 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
One fine day, sooner or later, all the secrets will seep or tumble out. On that day decent folks will be stunned these traitors were even more horrible than we ever imagined.
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Live your life in a way that the entire planet won’t rejoice when you’re gone….and everyone knows who we’re talking about. 😡
a woman says he is a monster in a netflix advertisement
ALT: a woman says he is a monster in a netflix advertisement
media.tenor.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Live your life in a way that the entire planet won’t rejoice when you’re gone….and everyone knows who we’re talking about. 😡
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You've been conned.
July 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
You've been conned.
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Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
July 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
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Wallace: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” says the guy who’s still talking about his 2020 election loss.
July 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Wallace: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” says the guy who’s still talking about his 2020 election loss.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I hate that the thanks for donating to a Democratic candidate is having my phone number sold on a list to a hundred other campaigns, all of whom send me passive-aggressive texts asking for my donation, often weirdly attempting a guilt trip, as though I knew them. I really don’t like that.
May 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I hate that the thanks for donating to a Democratic candidate is having my phone number sold on a list to a hundred other campaigns, all of whom send me passive-aggressive texts asking for my donation, often weirdly attempting a guilt trip, as though I knew them. I really don’t like that.
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We are living in the dumbest timeline
May 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We are living in the dumbest timeline