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Derek Maris
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Trying to be up to something. "I'm probably about as close to normal now as I've ever been."-David Roth
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By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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Begging you to stop saying praxis
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Donald Trump "looking very strongly at" appointing Jose Canseco to head of the Federal Reserve. "He's been very fair to me in the past," Trump told the media on Air Force One. "And frankly much more fair than the Tampa Bay Rays were to him."
January 12, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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This is just what you like to see on here
January 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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We had a good run
2026 could be great. We simply don't know.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Bars
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes
D1) again, this is difficult to pull off at longer lengths. But you don't get good at a thing by not doing it.

E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
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The Elite would never let you have a specific name for a Donyell Marshall or Vladimir Radmanovic type of dude now. Because of woke.
December 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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The NFL is biased against middle-aged white men who have the desire but not the ability, patience, temperament, or health to play professionally. In this essay I
Getting paid 250,000 dollars to write an article called “the disappearing white male poster” about how I got blocked by Jack’s frozen pizzas on Twitter 4 years ago
December 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Whoops, almost forgot to say merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody!
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Finally. I have been dying to hear from the democratic party's centrist side
notus.com NOTUS @notus.com · Sep 29
A nonprofit group aligned with the House’s Blue Dog Coalition of Democrats is launching a new podcast to highlight the party’s centrist side.
www.notus.org/democrats/bl...
Blue Dog Democrats Launch a Podcast to Highlight Party’s Centrist Side
The number of moderate and centrist Democrats has waned significantly over the years.
www.notus.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I am prepared to vote for anybody who will stop this
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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“hi i’m prince and there’s no motherfucker sexier than a reading motherfucker”
"Hennepin County Library is honoring one of Minnesota’s most iconic artists with a limited-edition Prince library card, available while supplies last at all 41 Hennepin County Library locations" www.hclib.org/prince?fbcli...
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Bars
MAMDANI: “While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning.

They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Hell yeah
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM