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Dan Yocum. Ugh, but 🐸.
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Polymath. Linux. Physics. Astronomy. Airplanes. Music. Human rights for everyone. Not in that order.

Bad Takes R Us

Be Better. Do Better.

He/Him
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Trump tears down the East Wing of the White House?

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Congress remains shutdown and Johnson won't swear in Grijalva.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

ICE invades Chicago? (Fuck ICE!)

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Stay focused. Ignore the distractions. Demand the Epstein files.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
July 1, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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I have been called a meaner fellow, but I should like to be a whole fellow, not a half. I am entirely myself.
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the Costco Kirkland brand Merano wool socks are absolutely the bomb.
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Hey chat, tell me more…
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Anyone have experience printing double sided A5 paper? Is this a me problem? Am I the only one?
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It’s true.

Just ask my wife how long it takes me to hear her.
That's so fascinating.
December 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“BOWMAN: Now, we're still talking to military officials, many active duty, some that are in the retired community that keep in touch with their former colleagues. … we have to find workarounds… We're going to find a way to get the information for the American people, period.”
How NPR keeps reporting on the Pentagon after being barred from the building
NPR's Tom Bowman says his decades of roaming Pentagon halls ended after NPR refused to sign a new policy requiring reporters to wait for official information releases - but his reporting hasn't slowed...
www.npr.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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"What's He Building" by Tom Waits
Album: "Mule Variations"
Time: 09:52 am
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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SG: Yeah, do that.
Kagan: LMAO that's not how anything works. If we give credence to the logic, it's going to apply.
SG: But what if it doesn't
Jackson: You know that's not how anything works
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What?

No.

I…

Fuck.
Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.

Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Rule of Law.

It still exists even if these fucking shitheads think it doesn’t.
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
FFS
breaking: the negotiated NDAA to authority military spending would ban trans women from competing in sports at military academies

it would likely be the first sports ban in federal statute, and would codify a definition of sex as solely defined at birth

unless something changes it is set to be law
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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life is not only pointless, it’s also stupid
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Our hospital system gifts all employees a Christmas ham instead of a bonus, which is way better, because it is ham
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Not wrong!
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Mark Kelly here, reaching out one more time to test how many fake spam numbers you will allow me to text you from before you decide to block an American space hero
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Not saying you’re wrong, but I know there exist in the world data centers that aren’t exactly public knowledge.

Here’s one we do know about…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Da...
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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How all universities should respond to kidnappings on campus: "They aimed weapons at witnesses that included staff and students while many more students watched from their windows. These tactics, with the implicit threat of violence, are unacceptable, dangerous, and profoundly disturbing."
Augsburg University officials: ICE agents pointed weapons at students, staff during confrontation
Augsburg University officials say ICE agents pointed weapons at students and staff while conducting an operation on the Minneapolis campus targeting an undergraduate student on Saturday, the universit...
www.fox9.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"House of Dead Memories" by Sugar
Album: "House of Dead Memories (Single)"
Time: 4:54 pm
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Tis the season for Dibs! #chicago
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM