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it's easier to count the details here that are correct
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
February 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
it's easier to count the details here that are correct
Guy who canceled his New Yorker subscription once they no longer carried The Borowitz Report
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Guy who canceled his New Yorker subscription once they no longer carried The Borowitz Report
One annoying Gamer Complaint I see is people complaining Super Mario Odyssey "could have been" great after the art book was released. It's already great, and if they included every idea they'd had into the game they would only now be 50% through development
February 14, 2026 at 2:25 AM
One annoying Gamer Complaint I see is people complaining Super Mario Odyssey "could have been" great after the art book was released. It's already great, and if they included every idea they'd had into the game they would only now be 50% through development
I had no idea they sounded like this
February 14, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I had no idea they sounded like this
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Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:
"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"
It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.
loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...
"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"
It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.
loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...
Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work
The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.
loadbearingtomato.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:
"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"
It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.
loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...
"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"
It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.
loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...
it is beyond time for the AMA to bar this guy
Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein.
Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.
Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.
Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show
Mehmet Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 AM
it is beyond time for the AMA to bar this guy
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
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I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast!
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast!
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
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"Sam va Lentín"
Patrón de los lentos
Feliz día, espero que el Señor Frodo os espere y acompañe 🥰💖
Patrón de los lentos
Feliz día, espero que el Señor Frodo os espere y acompañe 🥰💖
February 14, 2024 at 9:04 AM
"Sam va Lentín"
Patrón de los lentos
Feliz día, espero que el Señor Frodo os espere y acompañe 🥰💖
Patrón de los lentos
Feliz día, espero que el Señor Frodo os espere y acompañe 🥰💖
people are saying that he's following an actual California law, which is true, but Newsom being unwilling to carry his "parody" of Trump to anything radical like ignoring a law no one will punish him for disobeying is, in this instance, weakness, in my opinion
Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day
Governor Newsom proclaims Ronald Reagan Day | Governor of California
www.gov.ca.gov
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
people are saying that he's following an actual California law, which is true, but Newsom being unwilling to carry his "parody" of Trump to anything radical like ignoring a law no one will punish him for disobeying is, in this instance, weakness, in my opinion
what do you even say at this point. The entire administration is made out of sins
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM
what do you even say at this point. The entire administration is made out of sins
this is stupid. We can just put them in jail
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 13, 2026 at 6:53 PM
this is stupid. We can just put them in jail
it's surprising seeing Tarantino successfully write a person who isn't a talkative movie buff because he doesn't seem like the kind of person with any interior life at all
February 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
it's surprising seeing Tarantino successfully write a person who isn't a talkative movie buff because he doesn't seem like the kind of person with any interior life at all
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it is good to speak openly about addiction recovery and i think it is clear that someone who is saying they are not afraid of germs because they did cocaine off a toilet seat is not speaking from a place of recovery they are speaking from a place being a fucking anti-germ theory loser. fuck him!
February 13, 2026 at 5:34 PM
it is good to speak openly about addiction recovery and i think it is clear that someone who is saying they are not afraid of germs because they did cocaine off a toilet seat is not speaking from a place of recovery they are speaking from a place being a fucking anti-germ theory loser. fuck him!
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February 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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I really don't like the fact that we've retconned the history of the Republican Party pre-2016 as if it weren't a fetid swamp of ghouls
One of the weirdest things to explain to future generations is that Republicans went from "some evil and but mostly people you disagreed with" to "cartoon assholes who reveled in being evil because they were some variation of insecure loser."
I derive too much smug self-satisfaction from the fact that guys like Fuentes are pure evil.
February 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I really don't like the fact that we've retconned the history of the Republican Party pre-2016 as if it weren't a fetid swamp of ghouls
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The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
New intro screen for Metal Gear Solid 4 in Master Collection vol 2
February 13, 2026 at 8:05 AM
The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
his hair was perfect
Just saw a St. Paul mailman wearing shorts.
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
his hair was perfect
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Legend
Okay but she posted on Reddit after the broadcast that she realized partway through Double Jeopardy that this was her only way to win, and started deliberately picking clues/buzzing in to maximize the odds that they would be tied going into Final. Absolute galaxy brain.
February 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Legend
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For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.
In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabled, w promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can’t stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it.
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there's a lot of reason to doubt him!
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
there's a lot of reason to doubt him!
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
A two-hour YouTube video essay analyzing the quality of Beck's Spanish in "Que' Onda Guero"
February 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
A two-hour YouTube video essay analyzing the quality of Beck's Spanish in "Que' Onda Guero"
I have my doubts about the sincerity of this, but it is very funny that a bunch of razor-cynical ad execs shit the bed so hard with a Super Bowl commercial that it tanked this deal even temporarily
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 4:43 AM
I have my doubts about the sincerity of this, but it is very funny that a bunch of razor-cynical ad execs shit the bed so hard with a Super Bowl commercial that it tanked this deal even temporarily