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cat and car enthusiast. worked at netscape before it was cool. made a game of dogs playing poker and wrote a book called sleepernet. go buy it
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my face when someone tells me "Christopher Nolan REFUSES to use 'CGI'"
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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fireworks for a muppet’s nye: thread
January 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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If you still for some reason post your art on Twitter - they added "edit" button to every image, which opens AI prompt letting anybody to modify it and post as their own.
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Monday 😮‍💨
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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People throw around “neoliberalism” far too much, but the meaning of neoliberalism is to use markets to solve any and all problems. In a way it’s a “relief” to face the barest, most gunmetal version of the thing, if only to marvel at it before it eradicates us.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Medical Student Practices Fat Shaming On Cadaver https://theonion.com/medical-student-practices-fat-shaming-on-cadaver/
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Bodied by my eldest , frankly
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."

If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... [email protected] [gift link]
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Checking in on MechaHitler
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
you’d never guess it from this photo, but mouse (foreground left) is roughly half the size of maggie (on the right.) #cats
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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hang this exchange in the Musée d'Orsay
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
replacing the progress bar, the new hardest problem in all of computer science is correctly managing red notification pips
November 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
snuggling season #cats #caturday
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
man i hope the california disaster-related emergency alert is different from the missing older person silver alert because they’re training me to tune out that insanely disruptive noise
November 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM