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As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
December 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone
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Our 13th most-read article of 2025 was about how JD Vance probably didn't kill the pope.
Getting Ahead of It: JD Vance Almost Definitely Didn’t Kill the Pope
Our 13th most-read article of 2025. - - -Let’s make one thing very clear: So far, there is almost no proof that JD Vance is directly responsible f...
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December 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Our 13th most-read article of 2025 was about how JD Vance probably didn't kill the pope.
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In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
December 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
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This strikes me as very stupid!
A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption, Gal Beckerman reports. theatln.tc/KD2QRX9Y
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
December 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This strikes me as very stupid!
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The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
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These are my nominations for the single fucks given to Lord of the Rings.
![A still from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Gandalf watching Sauron's fort crumble, tears in his eyes. Closed Captioning has been added, saying "[Sauron] ...UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreia3dbrtwy25hfvxryiz5djur2umkwy45pbparhkh257cl6rlr7grq@jpeg)
December 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
These are my nominations for the single fucks given to Lord of the Rings.
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Who stands in the desert all smashed and alone?
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
December 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Who stands in the desert all smashed and alone?
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Vast trunkless legs sunk in sands level and lone
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
If King-of-Kings hubris be something you care
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
Just look on his Works all ye Mighty: despair
OZ-Y MAN-DIAS
"No one who's seen Avatar knows any of the characters' names or what happened" yeah I guess I wouldn't be impressed by movie magic either if I could read minds
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"No one who's seen Avatar knows any of the characters' names or what happened" yeah I guess I wouldn't be impressed by movie magic either if I could read minds
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Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
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December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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if you're cold, they're cold. bring them inside.
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happy holidaysssss
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happy holidaysssss
December 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
if you're cold, they're cold. bring them inside.
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happy holidaysssss
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happy holidaysssss
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Victor Wembanyama's personality begins to surface more, starting with showing his hatred for Gatorade bottles
December 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Victor Wembanyama's personality begins to surface more, starting with showing his hatred for Gatorade bottles
Was this in Alphabet Of Manliness?
December 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Was this in Alphabet Of Manliness?
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
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We should have been pushing heavy infrastructure spending for at least the past decade, building nuclear power plants, EV charging stations, subsidizing alternative energies and water catchment, supporting allies that provide key components for tech.
But we’ve just sat here, screaming about China.
But we’ve just sat here, screaming about China.
December 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We should have been pushing heavy infrastructure spending for at least the past decade, building nuclear power plants, EV charging stations, subsidizing alternative energies and water catchment, supporting allies that provide key components for tech.
But we’ve just sat here, screaming about China.
But we’ve just sat here, screaming about China.
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Watching The Karate Kid with the kids in a hotel room, explaining that we really did use the phrase “dead meat” that often in the ‘80s.
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Watching The Karate Kid with the kids in a hotel room, explaining that we really did use the phrase “dead meat” that often in the ‘80s.
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A suicide note from a notorious rich pedophile who got nabbed by the system commiserating with another notorious rich pedophile who got nabbed by the system about their fellow notorious rich pedophile who got put in charge of the system and didn't bail them out
We're all seeing this, right
We're all seeing this, right
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A suicide note from a notorious rich pedophile who got nabbed by the system commiserating with another notorious rich pedophile who got nabbed by the system about their fellow notorious rich pedophile who got put in charge of the system and didn't bail them out
We're all seeing this, right
We're all seeing this, right
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The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible
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December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible
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52% disapproval among white people seems like a notable problem for a party with a one-issue platform of white supremacy.
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
52% disapproval among white people seems like a notable problem for a party with a one-issue platform of white supremacy.