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40s, Gamer, artist, aspiring author.
Head Painter Austintatious Paint & Minis Works.
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I could use a laugh this morning, so: what are y'all's favorite Far Side cartoons?
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I could use a laugh this morning, so: what are y'all's favorite Far Side cartoons?
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If Afghanistan and Iraq are any indication, soon we're going to start hearing from Very Serious People that we should keep our opposition to ourselves, that we should support our country and president during wartime.
Fuck that. War with Venezuela is a moral atrocity. I'll be silent when I'm dead.
Fuck that. War with Venezuela is a moral atrocity. I'll be silent when I'm dead.
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
If Afghanistan and Iraq are any indication, soon we're going to start hearing from Very Serious People that we should keep our opposition to ourselves, that we should support our country and president during wartime.
Fuck that. War with Venezuela is a moral atrocity. I'll be silent when I'm dead.
Fuck that. War with Venezuela is a moral atrocity. I'll be silent when I'm dead.
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1. What?
2. Venezuela is landlocked on three sides and thus incapable of being surrounded by an armada
3. No, really, WHAT?
2. Venezuela is landlocked on three sides and thus incapable of being surrounded by an armada
3. No, really, WHAT?
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
1. What?
2. Venezuela is landlocked on three sides and thus incapable of being surrounded by an armada
3. No, really, WHAT?
2. Venezuela is landlocked on three sides and thus incapable of being surrounded by an armada
3. No, really, WHAT?
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i see so much love for inclusive detective stories, nick & nora spouses, and solid whodunnits and yet i can get no traction for my series that is all that and more.
can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...
can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
i see so much love for inclusive detective stories, nick & nora spouses, and solid whodunnits and yet i can get no traction for my series that is all that and more.
can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...
can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...
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Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
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every 3 months we have to listen to a podcast explainer on some random fascist theorist from 100 years ago who got picked up by tiktok moms leading to a local explosion in the disease from "the velveteen rabbit". i feel completely insane
December 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
every 3 months we have to listen to a podcast explainer on some random fascist theorist from 100 years ago who got picked up by tiktok moms leading to a local explosion in the disease from "the velveteen rabbit". i feel completely insane
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I am 100% opposed to these laws because in all cases they are used to pressure disabled people to die. Because that's cheaper than providing the supports they need to live. It happens in Canada with MAID, it happens in Oregon, it will happen in Illinois.
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I am 100% opposed to these laws because in all cases they are used to pressure disabled people to die. Because that's cheaper than providing the supports they need to live. It happens in Canada with MAID, it happens in Oregon, it will happen in Illinois.
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Right! Links to preorder, should you need them! And as the book comes out in March, if you want to give a gift for Christmas, we are also giving away FREE printable Molly files!
December 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Right! Links to preorder, should you need them! And as the book comes out in March, if you want to give a gift for Christmas, we are also giving away FREE printable Molly files!
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
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My friend and brother Mohamed got banned from BlueSky because they hate people trying to live. It was just before a major storm rolled over Gaza. Please help him repair the tents his family lives in:
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
Help Mohamed Get His Family to Safety
Hello, this is Meave Gallagher, the sponsor of this fundraising campaign for our dear friend, Mohamed Ahmed, the displaced Palestinian farmer growing a small farm in Mawasi, Khan Yunis. His original g...
chuffed.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My friend and brother Mohamed got banned from BlueSky because they hate people trying to live. It was just before a major storm rolled over Gaza. Please help him repair the tents his family lives in:
chuffed.org/project/help...
chuffed.org/project/help...
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periodic reminder that the crusade against MSG was just racism and it is actually just magical science salt that gets you More Yummy for Less Sodium
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
periodic reminder that the crusade against MSG was just racism and it is actually just magical science salt that gets you More Yummy for Less Sodium
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What an astonishing outcome that no one could possibly have predicted.
The GOP just blocked extending the ACA subsidies - again.
Making people’s healthcare skyrocket while you control the White House and both chambers of Congress seems like a great move for the midterms.
Making people’s healthcare skyrocket while you control the White House and both chambers of Congress seems like a great move for the midterms.
December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What an astonishing outcome that no one could possibly have predicted.
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It's true that immigration can threaten a nation's cultural values.
But only if that nation's "cultural values" are bigotry, inhospitality, prideful ignorance, rigid forced conformity, and stunted parochialism.
Oh, and bland food.
And stale music.
But only if that nation's "cultural values" are bigotry, inhospitality, prideful ignorance, rigid forced conformity, and stunted parochialism.
Oh, and bland food.
And stale music.
December 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's true that immigration can threaten a nation's cultural values.
But only if that nation's "cultural values" are bigotry, inhospitality, prideful ignorance, rigid forced conformity, and stunted parochialism.
Oh, and bland food.
And stale music.
But only if that nation's "cultural values" are bigotry, inhospitality, prideful ignorance, rigid forced conformity, and stunted parochialism.
Oh, and bland food.
And stale music.
Here, hope this makes someone’s day better.
It tried, but I’m Inna Fucking Hole, emotionally.
It tried, but I’m Inna Fucking Hole, emotionally.
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Here, hope this makes someone’s day better.
It tried, but I’m Inna Fucking Hole, emotionally.
It tried, but I’m Inna Fucking Hole, emotionally.
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That digital ghost is not your dead grandma, I am so sorry to have to tell you this. it is a code that someone else built, someone your grandma never met and has no connection to beyond the snapshot of her life you would have provided. The machine cannot know the whole of who your grandma was.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
That digital ghost is not your dead grandma, I am so sorry to have to tell you this. it is a code that someone else built, someone your grandma never met and has no connection to beyond the snapshot of her life you would have provided. The machine cannot know the whole of who your grandma was.
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You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
nah dawg this is petty as shit
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
This.
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
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I miss the blogosphere and the link-driven, non-algorithmic web.
But one thing I miss so very much was that brief period when Google worked well and you could do a first-result reverse directory search for any incoming number that popped up on your phone. That was so cool, and it's so long gone.
But one thing I miss so very much was that brief period when Google worked well and you could do a first-result reverse directory search for any incoming number that popped up on your phone. That was so cool, and it's so long gone.
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I miss the blogosphere and the link-driven, non-algorithmic web.
But one thing I miss so very much was that brief period when Google worked well and you could do a first-result reverse directory search for any incoming number that popped up on your phone. That was so cool, and it's so long gone.
But one thing I miss so very much was that brief period when Google worked well and you could do a first-result reverse directory search for any incoming number that popped up on your phone. That was so cool, and it's so long gone.
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Had a dream last night that was the usual mess, but at the end, I was watching a giant polar bear walk toward me, carrying a volcano like a snailshell on its back.
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Had a dream last night that was the usual mess, but at the end, I was watching a giant polar bear walk toward me, carrying a volcano like a snailshell on its back.
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
“Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”
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I'm at MFF table F21-22!
I didn't wind up shipping extra plush due to Pig's sudden passing, so hurry over if you want a Purrmaid!
But I hopefully have plenty of pins, stickers, and prints!
#mff
I didn't wind up shipping extra plush due to Pig's sudden passing, so hurry over if you want a Purrmaid!
But I hopefully have plenty of pins, stickers, and prints!
#mff
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'm at MFF table F21-22!
I didn't wind up shipping extra plush due to Pig's sudden passing, so hurry over if you want a Purrmaid!
But I hopefully have plenty of pins, stickers, and prints!
#mff
I didn't wind up shipping extra plush due to Pig's sudden passing, so hurry over if you want a Purrmaid!
But I hopefully have plenty of pins, stickers, and prints!
#mff
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it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes
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Grappling with the Torah and Talmud and thousands of years of other, very learned Jews grappling with the Torah, I am struck by the way Jews have consistently said "wait, this is cruel, G-d must not have meant this how it sounded" and argued and reasoned things to a more loving position.
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Grappling with the Torah and Talmud and thousands of years of other, very learned Jews grappling with the Torah, I am struck by the way Jews have consistently said "wait, this is cruel, G-d must not have meant this how it sounded" and argued and reasoned things to a more loving position.