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oriana schwindt
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WGAE writer of television &c.

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tens of thousands? of people showing up in support of our Minneapolis brethren
a sea of people bundled up in the cold at dusk making their way up sixth Avenue in New York. one of the signs in front of the camera says “fuck Michael rapaport too” lol
January 23, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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all-time ethering of bari weiss in today in tabs
a screenshot of a paragraph of a today in tabs newsletter that reads "Also Today in Ridiculous: Bari Weiss, the Hannah Horvath of Leni Riefenstahls, got a full Clare Malone #longread in The New Yorker. There’s nothing really new in it, unfortunately, and all the sassy quotes are anonymous because no one who still has an actual job in media is going to risk open criticism until they’re sure she’s off that glass cliff for good. Meanwhile the 60 Minutes CECOT story Weiss held up in December finally aired on Sunday without any substantive changes, as Bari was unable to get any of her good friends in the Trump administration on camera to chat about sending hundreds of immigrants and refugees to a Salvadoran torture camp. Malice vs. incompetence: the struggle continues. " calling bari weiss "the hannah horvath of leni riefenstahls" is highlighted in green
January 20, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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the absurd amount of pride i felt cutting it open and seeing this! tastes even better!
a gorgeous cross section of a loaf of bread with a great crust and good air bubbles but not too many or too big
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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as fun as that screenshot is that makes it look like bari weiss is rapping about herself in the new yorker article, it's actually a quote from someone paraphrasing weiss' attitude in college over 20 years ago, not a literal direct quote from weiss' mouth
the full paragraph that gives context to the bari weiss "quote" in the new yorker story: A student magazine ran a short profile of Weiss; its author, Josie Swindler, seemed a little surprised by her subject’s charm. “What’s most striking about Bari is that she’s nice, doesn’t speak in soundbites and she doesn’t seem like a nut,” Swindler wrote, noting that Weiss had strayed from her “leftist causes” and been termed “a turncoat, a far-right extremist.” Weiss’s social life, for the most part, didn’t suffer. For a time, she dated Kate McKinnon, the future “Saturday Night Live” star. “Her whole thing in college was ‘I’m gay and I’m pro-Israel—good luck classifying me,’ ” the former classmate who worked with her said. “ ‘If you’ve got an issue with me, take your shot. You’ve never seen the likes of me. I’m so unpredictable, so heterodox.’ ”
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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"specialists in violence" is the funniest way possible to label dudes whose entire "training" is having their push-up requirement waived and being handed a gun. "specialists" don't need 6 dudes and 3 SUVs to detain 1 person
a darkmode screenshot of a bluesky post that says "It’s worth considering that an overnight dismantling of ICE in 2029 would release into the wild a whole herd of specialists in violence with scant other marketable skills."
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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great hoodies, too! got this at their waterville store
a hoodie from the bull moose shop, navy blue with cream text saying the name of the store and things like “new and used,” “new england’s record store”
January 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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YES. see also:
a tweet from january 4, 2021, from a user named @CALLHERDARIA, that says "i do not support all women. some of you bitches are very dumb!!!"
January 9, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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just saying!!!
a screenshot of the announcement that HBO Max has renewed THE PITT for a third season ahead of its season 2 debut
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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can't be too hard to figure out who this guy is, right?
a screengrab of a video that showed this man, wearing a "POLICE: FEDERAL AGENT" patch on the front of his vest with all the fucking gun cartridges he needs to murder people, murdering a woman in minneapolis today. he's pretty nondescript, and wearing a brown gaiter on the lower half of his face, but he's white and stocky with his greying hair in a crew cut
January 7, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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shit my bad fixing now
the mac trash icon has been clicked on, with the Open option above the Empty Trash option and the Empty Trash option selected
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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this was my 7th grade yearbook which may explain why Y2K nostalgia doesn’t really hit for me
a school yearbook from the year 2000. the cover design is that of a two-lane road stretching into a bright light at the horizon with “THE END” above the light and “2000” on the road, with the words “chi tho” embossed across it
January 6, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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today we honor the Caardvark
uhhhh a bipedal orange aardvark giving a sidelong glance at the camera. he is also dressed as an MTA... conductor? but with no pants. he has a portable metrocard swiper attached to his right arm and his holding a metrocard (blue, with yellow text) in his left hand. text to the right says "the Cardvaark" which i'm just now realizing is not how aardvark is spelled
December 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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married well
a christmas tree with lights and ornaments serves as the back ground to my palm, in which rests a lighter with the Mountain Dew Baja blast logo on it
December 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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the stollen turned out good, it’s a christmas miracle!
three uhhh pretty rustic looking stollen with powdered sugar liberally sifted on top
December 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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wishing a very benito mussolini's fate to his doppelgänger stephen miller
a black-and-white portrait of benito mussolini in fascist uniform. his arms are folded a photo of stephen miller with his arms folded. there's an uncanny resemblance
December 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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i know this kind of headline is for SEO purposes but that just raises the question of "who is searching these terms?"

who watches I Love LA (a funny show! but not one with any mystery to it!) and doesn't understand the events that unfold on-screen?
a screenshot of an article firefox's browser thinks i should read that's a photo of rachel sennot and tallulah from I Love LA with the headline "The I Love LA Season 1 Ending, Explained" from the publication Glamour
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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why is every fucking app like this now. what the fuck is an orb. why do i need it on the app where i talk to @bythebywater.bsky.social people
a screenshot of discord where it says “orbs are now on mobile” with a button that says “start earning orbs” ????
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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silmarillion posting
a four-panel meme based on tobias and lindsey fünke's conversation in arrested development, but they are labeled, respectively, dior eluchil and nimloth from the silmarillion. in panel one, dior/tobias says "i have advised a number of eldar to explore keeping a silmaril" in panel two, nimloth says "did it work for those people?" in panel three, dior says "no, it never does" in panel four, he continues "...but it might work for us"
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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google still can't fucking figure out which emails are spam but sure gemini can diagnose your cancer
just the spammiest email of all time that went right into my inbox. subject line: SYSTEM ALERT: DEC 11, 2025 PLATFORM SHUTDOWN, from "notification@trans-now dot net." the body is great, from "Cloud." "Your Cloud data is at immediate risk of deletion. Dear us, We attempted to renew your Cloud+ subscription, but your payment method has expired. As a result, your personal data is now at risk of being permanently removed from cloud [sic]." not pictured are the FOUR attachments that gmail did not clock as huge security risks. nice
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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the company that literally rewrote copyright laws to squeeze an extra 20 years out of mickey mouse has now exchanged access to mickey mouse for magic beans www.wsj.com/business/med...
"As part of the ageeement, Disney will receive warrants to buy additional OpenAI equity. Disney employees will also use OpenAI tools including ChatGPT to build new products."
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Consulting Class Are Useless Parasites, Part 32398 of an Infinite Series:
a screenshot from the linked hollywood reporter article: "The big-picture takeaway from Bain partners Chris Xanthakis, Nicole Magoon, and Daniel Hong: “Successful companies will invest in premiumization, personalization, and partnerships to draw people back to theaters.” After all: “Audiences haven’t abandoned theaters; they need a more compelling reason to go.” "
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"committed libertarian" wants to build a state that's run like a company. you know, two organizations that famously never curtail individual freedoms.

these people are dumber than anyone can imagine www.ft.com/content/b127...
a screenshot from the linked FT article, where milton friendman's grandson (lol) is talking: "Over Zoom, he explains that, as a committed libertarian, he came into the space in the hope of building a state that mirrored his politics. In a democracy, he says, “power is so diluted” that the people cannot stop laws being passed that “help special interests and harm the masses”. Now, he says, he wants “a home for my tribe”. To that end, he is attempting to create cities that are run like a for-profit company, rather than by democratically elected officials. “A private venture-backed company is the city operator and [its directors] design the laws and they earn revenue through some combination of rents, taxes, service fees,” he says of his proposed model."
December 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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supposedly the fire department complained they can't... what, get their trucks into an 11' bike lane/buffer zone? if the parked cars then the NYFD should advocate for their removal, not removing clear space!
the street plans for 31st street in astoria, with the top one being what exists and the bottom one being what was planned and basically implemented. on top, there's a 13' parking lane, then a 3' column for the elevated subway, then two 14' moving lanes, then another 3' column, then a 13' parking lane. on bottom is the redesign, which has an 8' bike lane, a 3' buffer zone, an 8' parking lane, two 11' moving lanes, another 8' parking lane, and then a 3' buffer and an 8' bike lane. HOW IS THIS CONTROVERSIAL????
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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terrific
a hollywood reporter headline that reads "Warner Bros.' Hidden Appeal to Netflix: AI supercharger" and the dek that reads "Training data and meme materials are elements the WB library offers that Netflix badly needs as it prepares to buy the studio"
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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fuckin lol
an email from the northwestern medill dean telling us northwester uhhhhh isn't going to be doing its giving tuesday "'cats give back" fundraiser this year HMMMMM
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM