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Ben Oberkfell
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Netflix: Sure, AOL, AT&T, and Discovery all divorced them. But they won't try to stab *me* in my sleep
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · 7h
From October 2025: History tells us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to sell itself is probably going to end in disaster.

Read more from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
It is hard to overstate just how catastrophically the AOL Time Warner deal worked out in the end. The general idea was that AOL’s online platform could become a digital home for Time Warner’s wide array of content, which would theoretically attract new subscribers. Time Warner’s high-speed cable lines would provide the physical infrastructure necessary for AOL subscribers to access this media-rich content. This plan might have worked were it not for the advent of broadband internet, which was faster and more reliable than AOL’s dial-up offerings, and within a couple years of the company’s merger it was already bleeding billions of dollars.
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Do they store it in Logstash
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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This is the season of the year I find myself opening the FedEx app a lot, and it's just a crime what that app does to the main thread
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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They don't include the ingredients on the bag, you have to derive the formula yourself
Bag of "qudratini" gingerbread cookies
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🦁🎄
A long haired orange cat showing his face from inside a Christmas tree
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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American Express Launches Small Sweatshop Saturday https://theonion.com/american-express-launches-small-sweatshop-saturday/
American Express Launches Small Sweatshop Saturday
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Ben Oberkfell
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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** bangs head on desk **

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
In his view, sweeping statements like “vaccines don’t cause autism” are unproven, and have been deployed by public health leaders who want to ease parents’ fears. He said he is not saying vaccines cause autism; he is simply saying there is no proof that they don’t.
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I love this and I just texted my close friends that I am here for them to throw a Solving Life's Administrative Bullshit party
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d
This is...sort of brilliant.
Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab a six pack. And bring your bills, your credit-card statements, your school forms, the streaming services you need to unsubscribe from, the airline miles you need to manage, the expenses app you need to figure out. I’d be throwing the lamest party ever. At the heart of this party was a truth that has gone under-acknowledged in recent years: We’re all sinking. We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password. Disputing a charge means arguing with a chipper chatbot, or submitting to an hour of brain-melting hold music—call volume higher than expected!—only to be disconnected.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Ben Oberkfell
mikeisaac.bsky.social
this is 1. incredible and 2. basically a silversun pickups song
antlervel.vet Stella Claus I Guess @antlervel.vet · 21d
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The pigeon finally got to drive the bus
tuthanhha.bsky.social Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 22d
Man takes city bus for a joy ride, makes several stops along the way, allowing passengers to get on and off at bus stops, no damage to the vehicle.

"He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass"

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Man who took Hamilton bus on joy ride 'did a great job' driving, left no dings, say police | CBC News
He made several stops along the way, allowing passengers to get on and off, police say. He was then arrested.
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM