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Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
October 8, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?
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I am brimming with holiday spirit
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am brimming with holiday spirit
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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
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.
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A good rule of thumb is to have nothing to do with nazis.
I don't care that Hitler was anti-smoking and built autobahns. Plenty of non-nazis don't smoke and build things. Admire them.
Wint said it better than I.
I don't care that Hitler was anti-smoking and built autobahns. Plenty of non-nazis don't smoke and build things. Admire them.
Wint said it better than I.
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A good rule of thumb is to have nothing to do with nazis.
I don't care that Hitler was anti-smoking and built autobahns. Plenty of non-nazis don't smoke and build things. Admire them.
Wint said it better than I.
I don't care that Hitler was anti-smoking and built autobahns. Plenty of non-nazis don't smoke and build things. Admire them.
Wint said it better than I.
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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
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Cheap, minimally online if at all, doesn't spy on you, doesn't have subscriptions or micro transactions, won't be enshittified, you own it, reminds them of simpler times or childhood, modern pop culture is adversarial and alienating
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Cheap, minimally online if at all, doesn't spy on you, doesn't have subscriptions or micro transactions, won't be enshittified, you own it, reminds them of simpler times or childhood, modern pop culture is adversarial and alienating
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Because English has a fault line in it, the French and the Old English that preceded it. Wine is a French word, and chug, while it doesn't have a root in Old English (rather an steam engine onomatopoeia), it resembles the Old English type of word, and this alone can often cause disjointed feeling in
Why does it sound so much grosser to me to chug a glass of wine than a bottle of beer, even though I LIKE wine and don’t really like beer?? why???
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Because English has a fault line in it, the French and the Old English that preceded it. Wine is a French word, and chug, while it doesn't have a root in Old English (rather an steam engine onomatopoeia), it resembles the Old English type of word, and this alone can often cause disjointed feeling in
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Nothing like a summer in the electorate to bring a dose of reality
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
First whispers of discontent for Labor are coming from within
Labor has the space to do what it wants – and what it wants, apparently, is to be the Liberal Party of the 1990s.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Nothing like a summer in the electorate to bring a dose of reality
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Parnia Abbasi was a 23-year-old Iranian poet who, along with her whole family, was killed this past June by Israel. I just translated an excerpt of her poem The Dying Star for my book. I have no idea if I'll get to use it in the book, but translating it made me cry, so I'd like to share it with you:
![“In your world,
the freedom of light.
In my world,
the game of shadows
[...]
Somewhere,
you begin.
You call out
the whisper of life.
In a thousand places,
I end.
I burn.
I become a dying star
Silent in your sky
like smoke.”
The Dying Star
by Parnia Abbasi
Translated by Sophia Babai](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:acxaxpjo6md5st5ufvraqcob/bafkreifxhznrosnqw3qgc2mtsz7vs4b3yc4im546u55kdd4zxt25br6eje@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Parnia Abbasi was a 23-year-old Iranian poet who, along with her whole family, was killed this past June by Israel. I just translated an excerpt of her poem The Dying Star for my book. I have no idea if I'll get to use it in the book, but translating it made me cry, so I'd like to share it with you:
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My agenda for Australian welfare is that all payments should be raised above the poverty line and the partner income test should be abolished for at least those pensions given on the basis of incapacity (AP and DSP)
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My agenda for Australian welfare is that all payments should be raised above the poverty line and the partner income test should be abolished for at least those pensions given on the basis of incapacity (AP and DSP)
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reminder: It is illegal to use a device like the Allmiibo ($12) to skirt around the $30 greed of a $4b company UNLESS of course you own every Amiibo and manually scanned them into the Allmiibo (after wiping it because it comes preloaded with all of them)
you should never do this
you should never do this
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
reminder: It is illegal to use a device like the Allmiibo ($12) to skirt around the $30 greed of a $4b company UNLESS of course you own every Amiibo and manually scanned them into the Allmiibo (after wiping it because it comes preloaded with all of them)
you should never do this
you should never do this
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PSA for the fellas:
Every woman you know has been in a room with a Pete Hegseth (sometimes drunk, sometimes not) who raged at her for not being instantly charmed by, or acquiescent to, him—like Hegseth rages at reporters—and had to do a quick calculation about getting out safely. And a lot didn't.
Every woman you know has been in a room with a Pete Hegseth (sometimes drunk, sometimes not) who raged at her for not being instantly charmed by, or acquiescent to, him—like Hegseth rages at reporters—and had to do a quick calculation about getting out safely. And a lot didn't.
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
PSA for the fellas:
Every woman you know has been in a room with a Pete Hegseth (sometimes drunk, sometimes not) who raged at her for not being instantly charmed by, or acquiescent to, him—like Hegseth rages at reporters—and had to do a quick calculation about getting out safely. And a lot didn't.
Every woman you know has been in a room with a Pete Hegseth (sometimes drunk, sometimes not) who raged at her for not being instantly charmed by, or acquiescent to, him—like Hegseth rages at reporters—and had to do a quick calculation about getting out safely. And a lot didn't.
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
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I've entered a loop in which thinking a lot about the time I dreamed about going to see a movie called UNCLE SLAYER (tagline: Everyone Is Somebody's Uncle) causes UNCLE SLAYER to recur in my dreams, which causes me to think more about UNCLE SLAYER, a completely fake movie that does not exist.
January 31, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I've entered a loop in which thinking a lot about the time I dreamed about going to see a movie called UNCLE SLAYER (tagline: Everyone Is Somebody's Uncle) causes UNCLE SLAYER to recur in my dreams, which causes me to think more about UNCLE SLAYER, a completely fake movie that does not exist.
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
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Part of why the discourse around Israel is borked is that the US is so invested in not admitting the ways we (where by "we" I mean weapons / oil manufacturers and the politicians they pay, not really anyone else) directly and delightedly benefit from having Israel run trampling around the region.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Part of why the discourse around Israel is borked is that the US is so invested in not admitting the ways we (where by "we" I mean weapons / oil manufacturers and the politicians they pay, not really anyone else) directly and delightedly benefit from having Israel run trampling around the region.
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We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.
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In the muppets universe do you think there is one muppet who is regarded as a dangerous conspiracy theorist for yelling about how everyone is being secretly controlled by a hand inside them
The other muppets think this is a metaphor, and he's like "no it's a literal hand inside you! Inside you all"
The other muppets think this is a metaphor, and he's like "no it's a literal hand inside you! Inside you all"
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In the muppets universe do you think there is one muppet who is regarded as a dangerous conspiracy theorist for yelling about how everyone is being secretly controlled by a hand inside them
The other muppets think this is a metaphor, and he's like "no it's a literal hand inside you! Inside you all"
The other muppets think this is a metaphor, and he's like "no it's a literal hand inside you! Inside you all"