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wick @litwick.net · Dec 2

It’s not how far you go, it’s how go you far.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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wick @litwick.net · 20h

I did not!

wick @litwick.net · 20h

usually this means he wants treats, I just wish he'd make his presence known instead of just silent submarining his way right into perfect killing-us-both position

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wick @litwick.net · 20h

Tu'i Malila - the tortoise reportedly given to the royal family of Tonga by Captain Cook in 1773 - could have, in theory, attended Ken Kesey's Acid Tests

and participated, if she wanted to

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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wick @litwick.net · 20h

Cal has grown so far past Raleigh itself and has become Cal Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area

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wick @litwick.net · 21h

I've got Hulu Live and HBO Max, just not the 'right' Hulu Live or the 'right' HBO Max.

So I'm cooking a dinner that takes a long time instead.

wick @litwick.net · 21h

I still do not know when it will go down, but I do 100% know how

An Oregon Trail-esque tombstone detailing a poor man's death because he tried to walk whilst not knowing his idiot cat had decided to stand between his legs.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h

vlad guerrero jr is the product of a 30+ year project to concentrate an entire planet's psychic resentment against the yankees into the form of a single human

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wick @litwick.net · 21h

nothing cooks for one hour in an oven, y'all real ones all know that

wick @litwick.net · 21h

this is not entirely true, I apologize.

it is 'roast meats at 425 for 25-30 minutes with halfed/diced potatoes and carrots open faced for dinner' weather OR 'roast meats, potatoes, and carrots in broth for three hours for dinner' weather and folks, THAT is my season

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wick @litwick.net · 21h

it is 'roast meats, potatoes, and carrots in broth for an hour for dinner every night' weather and folks, THIS is my season

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wick @litwick.net · 22h

the Mariners are gonna win the goddamn World Series

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wick @litwick.net · 22h

Ke'Bryan Hayes would've hit that pitch 7 feet straight into the dirt

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wick @litwick.net · 22h

Eugenio Suarez just hit the absolute piss out of a playoff baseball in a not-Reds uniform

I am verklempt

a woman in a purple sweater and glasses is sitting on a couch with her hands on her chest .

ALT: a woman in a purple sweater and glasses is sitting on a couch with her hands on her chest .

media.tenor.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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wick @litwick.net · 23h

I should've read the question better, since nothing could ever 'ruin' the original Fletch. That remains a classic despite the subsequent slop.

wick @litwick.net · 23h

the first Fletch remains an all-time banger

the others? hot garbage.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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wick @litwick.net · 1d

All booze is in easily throwable containers if you try hard enough

wick @litwick.net · 1d

Jose Rijoe

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.”

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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wick @litwick.net · 1d

I am just a simple man who thinks Portugal and Tortuga should be pronounced the same way

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wick @litwick.net · 1d

oh noes, Scuffy musta been carrying the water drugs

wick @litwick.net · 1d

Ann Peebles' version of "I Take What I Want"

Perfect voice for the perfect soul groove, I can (and often do) listen to this for an hour at a time.

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wick @litwick.net · 2d

That means it's been 15 years and a couple weeks since Jay Bruce's walk-off to win the Central?

My back hurt just typing that.

Tim Kelly @timkellysports.bsky.social · 2d

Roy Halladay’s son Braden threw out the first pitch to Carlos Ruiz on the 15th anniversary of his postseason no-hitter

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