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Steve / Pinderb
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Roller Derby Non-Skating Official, retired Software dev, Long Island, NY. Merrick Chorale. he/him
Pinned
Something to come back to.
Fine Multlimediating
Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
#RollerDerby
11/15 6pm door, 7pm game to benefit American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Old Bethpage, NY.
www.eventbrite.com/e/long-islan...
Long Island Roller Rebels Charity Game
Our season closer approaches! Come out and join the Rebels for our Black vs. Blue Charity bout as we hit the track for a good cause!
www.eventbrite.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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when I worked in community services in the US, I helped fill out SNAP applications for people who'd once had successful careers as lawyers, healthcare professionals, bankers. The jaws of poverty can snap shut on anyone.
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Summary of the commercials for NJ governor:
Whoever is elected, taxes and electric bills will go up.
Whoever is elected, taxes and electric bills will go down.
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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sometimes I do want to tell my children like, you are going to need to learn to lie better than that
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Please, remember to wear your red MAGA hats when you’re in line at your local food pantry.
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Nothing says dementia like a guy taking a dementia screening and thinking it was an IQ test.
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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If you thought our entire government and state media apparatus is now a scheme to roll like a baller while doing oppression as a side effect, you wouldn’t be totally wrong.
people like this get security details to make themselves feel important
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I'm from Trinidad & Tobago. I can't tell you how many horrible things have been going on here since we elected a Trump friendly government in Apr via low voter turnout, as happened in the US.

But today, after having us under a State of Emergency for months, they've called out all armed forces. 1/3
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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The media is a bunch of 12 year old boys awestruck by a tough guy routine
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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ICE has beaten, detained & arrested 170 citizens, at least 3 of whom were pregnant

George Retes is a US veteran who was held in solitary for 3 days

Kristi Noem says it’s not happening, but @motherjones.com has done the reporting

If they treat citizens this way, imagine what they do to immigrants
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
www.motherjones.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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You can't make this up.
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Local man admires beauty of an autumnal swamp
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I'm groping for the right words to describe this
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.
A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration.

The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
It’s Official: Poverty Got Worse Under Joe Biden
A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
jacobin.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Sitting in a vegan Chinese restaurant, listening to R&B, watching Rocky and Bullwinkle on the TV over the bar, listening to the table next to me speaking in Spanish, and thinking...

...this is what makes our country great
September 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I just noticed this list is up to 988 games. Who wants to find the missing 12 that will get us to 1000?
boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/297...
Games by Women & People of Marginalized Genders
There are several other geeklists that limit themselves in some way (one game per designer, noteworthy games). What if we tried to make a list that has all the games we know of that have at least one ...
boardgamegeek.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM