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and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.
After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
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Quirk Books Is Sold to Andrews McMeel - Publishers Lunch
Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.
Nate’s the fastest to get to 1000 points apart from mcdavid, Sid, and geno?!?!?!??! HELLO???????? I need to lie down
March 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Nate’s the fastest to get to 1000 points apart from mcdavid, Sid, and geno?!?!?!??! HELLO???????? I need to lie down
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Feels like we’re all in the backseat of a car being driven by drunks toward the edge of a cliff.
March 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Feels like we’re all in the backseat of a car being driven by drunks toward the edge of a cliff.
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Reminder that Adam Schiff and the state Democratic party ratfucked the primary election to make sure there was a republican in the other spot instead of Katie Porter or Barbara Lee, both of whom would have made far superior senators for this time.
Bunch of cowards.
This “oh noes trans athletes” is a cooked up grift and these door knobs are falling for it. Primary every single one of them.
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Schiff on transgender athletes: Confident that ‘local communities’ can ‘make decisions’ to ensure sports ‘safe,’ ‘fair’ thehill.com/homenews/sen...
This “oh noes trans athletes” is a cooked up grift and these door knobs are falling for it. Primary every single one of them.
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Schiff on transgender athletes: Confident that ‘local communities’ can ‘make decisions’ to ensure sports ‘safe,’ ‘fair’ thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reminder that Adam Schiff and the state Democratic party ratfucked the primary election to make sure there was a republican in the other spot instead of Katie Porter or Barbara Lee, both of whom would have made far superior senators for this time.
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Vivian reveals her father, Elon Musk, used sex selection for a male child in advance of her birth.
Malignant narcissists like Musk view their children as self-parts—reflections of them—rather than as separate, unique human beings and often react to a child’s individuation as a narcissistic injury.
Malignant narcissists like Musk view their children as self-parts—reflections of them—rather than as separate, unique human beings and often react to a child’s individuation as a narcissistic injury.
My assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for. So when I was feminine as a child and then turned out to be transgender, I was going against the product that was sold.
March 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Vivian reveals her father, Elon Musk, used sex selection for a male child in advance of her birth.
Malignant narcissists like Musk view their children as self-parts—reflections of them—rather than as separate, unique human beings and often react to a child’s individuation as a narcissistic injury.
Malignant narcissists like Musk view their children as self-parts—reflections of them—rather than as separate, unique human beings and often react to a child’s individuation as a narcissistic injury.
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we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
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The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*.
www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...
www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...
![I need to immediately move out of housing, I have lost my career and I have NO PLAN. This was my dream! All of my eggs were in this basket and I planned to stay till retirement. I had an appointment to meet a realtor today, but canceled, everything has been flipped upside down. I'm scared I?????????????????????!!!!!!??????????????????] I was terminated at 1:15pm 2/14/2025 via email.
Yosemite National Park the size of Rhode Island and has more locks than a small city, and without a locksmith I'm deeply concerned for the safety and security of the park and people in it. This is not right!
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February 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*.
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hell yeah what a precursor
February 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
hell yeah what a precursor
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Bottom line: Elon's vendetta against USAID and the federal workforce is shredding all of the systems that the USG has built up to protect the US homeland against global outbreak risks.
Scrambling to recall a few staff and issue some belated funding is just window dressing.
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Scrambling to recall a few staff and issue some belated funding is just window dressing.
/end
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Bottom line: Elon's vendetta against USAID and the federal workforce is shredding all of the systems that the USG has built up to protect the US homeland against global outbreak risks.
Scrambling to recall a few staff and issue some belated funding is just window dressing.
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Scrambling to recall a few staff and issue some belated funding is just window dressing.
/end
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Musk has said that he doesn’t think buying Twitter was a waste of money because he didn’t want a monetary return on his investment, but a political one: he bought Twitter to control U.S. political discourse. The think we should understand Bezos’ money-losing propositions at the Post the same way.
When no one wants to read shitty takes xeroxed from heritage written by yes-men he'll no doubt blame his employees instead of himself
February 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Musk has said that he doesn’t think buying Twitter was a waste of money because he didn’t want a monetary return on his investment, but a political one: he bought Twitter to control U.S. political discourse. The think we should understand Bezos’ money-losing propositions at the Post the same way.
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This would be a good time to have an actual opposition party instead of one compromised by the same big donors and foreign interests as the other.
February 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This would be a good time to have an actual opposition party instead of one compromised by the same big donors and foreign interests as the other.
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I find the idea of Musk being in control even more disturbing than the idea of Trump being in control.
February 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I find the idea of Musk being in control even more disturbing than the idea of Trump being in control.
Canadian USA relations happening now in the four nations facing off tournament - 2 fights-
sorry, make that THREE fights right off the face off. 9 seconds of this game have officially elapsed.
sorry, make that THREE fights right off the face off. 9 seconds of this game have officially elapsed.
February 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Canadian USA relations happening now in the four nations facing off tournament - 2 fights-
sorry, make that THREE fights right off the face off. 9 seconds of this game have officially elapsed.
sorry, make that THREE fights right off the face off. 9 seconds of this game have officially elapsed.
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It’s Milk Bank collection day, so let me tell y’all about a cool thing I’ve been doing these past couple months!
February 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It’s Milk Bank collection day, so let me tell y’all about a cool thing I’ve been doing these past couple months!
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It was *never* the responsibility for nonwhite people to confront and educate WW, and if folks think/thought otherwise please examine why you believe POC should do our — I’m speaking as a WW — labor…
The responsibility solely lies with white people, especially other WW.
Get to work.
The responsibility solely lies with white people, especially other WW.
Get to work.
people are telling me that I need to speak to WW in a way they can relate to because 54% of WW voted for Trump.
The Handmaid's Tale premiered in 2017. The majority of WW voters in 2020 and 2024 voted Trump.
Time to let go of the idea that it is nonwhite people's responsibility to hold WW's hand.
The Handmaid's Tale premiered in 2017. The majority of WW voters in 2020 and 2024 voted Trump.
Time to let go of the idea that it is nonwhite people's responsibility to hold WW's hand.
Please stop comparing everything to the Handmaid’s Tale. The Handmaid’s Tale was a story centered on a white woman who clearly was middle to upper middle class. That is not going to be the tale of the primary poor people of color who will bear the brunt of these policies in this country. Stop it.
February 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It was *never* the responsibility for nonwhite people to confront and educate WW, and if folks think/thought otherwise please examine why you believe POC should do our — I’m speaking as a WW — labor…
The responsibility solely lies with white people, especially other WW.
Get to work.
The responsibility solely lies with white people, especially other WW.
Get to work.
I really really enjoyed confessions of an ugly stepsister, so I can tell you that at least some of us do like the perspective.
Having bought and read several Gregory Maguire books with mixed feelings (but respect for his perspective) I wonder of the lovers of Wicked will ever attempt to read Lost or Mirror Mirror… or if they really just like the show tunes.
January 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I really really enjoyed confessions of an ugly stepsister, so I can tell you that at least some of us do like the perspective.
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I could accept everyone becoming dumber if we were also becoming nicer (golden retriever-fication) instead of getting more evil
January 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I could accept everyone becoming dumber if we were also becoming nicer (golden retriever-fication) instead of getting more evil
friendly reminder if you use a humidifier like I do, that regular de-scaling cleaning is not optional. this reminder brought to you by how absolutely embarrassing the inside of my mine looks right now.
January 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
friendly reminder if you use a humidifier like I do, that regular de-scaling cleaning is not optional. this reminder brought to you by how absolutely embarrassing the inside of my mine looks right now.
just finished Nona the ninth and I don’t know what to do with my hands or my brain I’m so ?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!
where are my queer Catholics to discuss this mindfuck of a series??
where are my queer Catholics to discuss this mindfuck of a series??
January 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
just finished Nona the ninth and I don’t know what to do with my hands or my brain I’m so ?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!
where are my queer Catholics to discuss this mindfuck of a series??
where are my queer Catholics to discuss this mindfuck of a series??
if you had told me how much i would adore reading harrow the ninth the first time I was reading gideon the ninth, i would not have believed you.
but i really do. i really really do
but i really do. i really really do
December 8, 2024 at 4:55 AM
if you had told me how much i would adore reading harrow the ninth the first time I was reading gideon the ninth, i would not have believed you.
but i really do. i really really do
but i really do. i really really do
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Always ask the question. Every story I’ve ever seen of someone curing their cancer using “alternative” therapies has a “also we did the normal stuff” subplot right beneath the surface.
December 1, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Always ask the question. Every story I’ve ever seen of someone curing their cancer using “alternative” therapies has a “also we did the normal stuff” subplot right beneath the surface.
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He summed up back to me, "So just to sum up, if you had to rank your feelings about Copilot, where 5 is very positive and 1 is very negative, you'd rank it between 'I hate it' and 'I think it's helping to destroy the world.'"
And I replied, "I mean, not on its own, but yeah."
And I replied, "I mean, not on its own, but yeah."
September 25, 2024 at 5:02 PM
He summed up back to me, "So just to sum up, if you had to rank your feelings about Copilot, where 5 is very positive and 1 is very negative, you'd rank it between 'I hate it' and 'I think it's helping to destroy the world.'"
And I replied, "I mean, not on its own, but yeah."
And I replied, "I mean, not on its own, but yeah."
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when i offer someone a drink at my house and they actually say yes so i get to feel needed
December 1, 2024 at 9:24 PM
when i offer someone a drink at my house and they actually say yes so i get to feel needed
cannot begin to tell you how disparate these reading experiences are, all at the same time. But they’re all good! The vibes just refuse to co-mingle (even though Hannah and Aubrey’s books are both non-fiction essays!!)
November 29, 2024 at 6:16 PM
cannot begin to tell you how disparate these reading experiences are, all at the same time. But they’re all good! The vibes just refuse to co-mingle (even though Hannah and Aubrey’s books are both non-fiction essays!!)
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Related: if you are going to do something illegal, even if it’s morally justifiable and the law is wrong, like helping someone cross state lines to get an abortion
don’t fucking skeet about it
don’t fucking skeet about it
after another long day of browsing old court documents, i just want to remind everyone that if a stranger agrees to do something illegal with you and they keep asking you to say out loud what the illegal plan is, that’s because the officer is recording you.
November 23, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Related: if you are going to do something illegal, even if it’s morally justifiable and the law is wrong, like helping someone cross state lines to get an abortion
don’t fucking skeet about it
don’t fucking skeet about it