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Making sure the backyard is well attended to
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Things are terrible, but here's a groundhog hogging its best ground, with a plum.
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Things are terrible, but here's a groundhog hogging its best ground, with a plum.
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Democratic messaging to our military about killing civilians extrajudicially is too polite. Soliders, sailors and Marines need fair warning that at a future point, a restored military judicial process will review these slayings, and those executing an unlawful order will be subject to that process.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Democratic messaging to our military about killing civilians extrajudicially is too polite. Soliders, sailors and Marines need fair warning that at a future point, a restored military judicial process will review these slayings, and those executing an unlawful order will be subject to that process.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
Saw these things the other day
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Saw these things the other day
Congrats to pegleg for making it all the way to the end of the line!
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Congrats to pegleg for making it all the way to the end of the line!
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It is indeed an important day of commemoration, but I ain't goin' with the poppies or the doleful laments for handsome youths cut down in noble sacrifice.
Wilfred Owen, killed in action months after writing this — and two weeks before the armistice
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
Wilfred Owen, killed in action months after writing this — and two weeks before the armistice
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It is indeed an important day of commemoration, but I ain't goin' with the poppies or the doleful laments for handsome youths cut down in noble sacrifice.
Wilfred Owen, killed in action months after writing this — and two weeks before the armistice
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
Wilfred Owen, killed in action months after writing this — and two weeks before the armistice
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
Donors called and didn't like the airport delays thing. Dumb dumb dumb
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Donors called and didn't like the airport delays thing. Dumb dumb dumb
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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What if, instead of AI replacing artists, AI could replace CEO’s and then the CEO’s salary could be spread amongst the employees.
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
What if, instead of AI replacing artists, AI could replace CEO’s and then the CEO’s salary could be spread amongst the employees.
RIP, Donna Jean - the only tapes that were ruined were the ones without you!
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
RIP, Donna Jean - the only tapes that were ruined were the ones without you!
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
1000x this
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
1000x this
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All of the Clinton-era conservative pearl clutching about the sanctity of the White House and the Democrats’ disrespect seems like it’s from another world now.
There was a whole scandal because Al Gore made fundraising calls from inside the building. They investigated the Clintons’ cat!
There was a whole scandal because Al Gore made fundraising calls from inside the building. They investigated the Clintons’ cat!
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans claimed to believe that the White House was such sacred space that getting a blow job in the Oval Office was grounds to remove a president from office.
October 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All of the Clinton-era conservative pearl clutching about the sanctity of the White House and the Democrats’ disrespect seems like it’s from another world now.
There was a whole scandal because Al Gore made fundraising calls from inside the building. They investigated the Clintons’ cat!
There was a whole scandal because Al Gore made fundraising calls from inside the building. They investigated the Clintons’ cat!
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Whoever signed up to be the architects and builders for this project should face professional opprobrium
October 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Whoever signed up to be the architects and builders for this project should face professional opprobrium
The time has come for GWB to speak. Is he waiting for a trump-caused mass casualty event?
October 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The time has come for GWB to speak. Is he waiting for a trump-caused mass casualty event?
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Abolish ICE. Bulldoze the ballroom. Jail the collaborators.
Should be the Democratic platform.
Should be the Democratic platform.
October 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Abolish ICE. Bulldoze the ballroom. Jail the collaborators.
Should be the Democratic platform.
Should be the Democratic platform.
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congratulations to the exactly zero Republicans standing up to denounce the desecration of the White House East Wing. take a victory lap, you gutless fucking cowards
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
congratulations to the exactly zero Republicans standing up to denounce the desecration of the White House East Wing. take a victory lap, you gutless fucking cowards
Ontario (Ford) coming in hot with a gipper-based anti-tariff ad.
October 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Ontario (Ford) coming in hot with a gipper-based anti-tariff ad.
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The allure of this technology is skipping the learning curve but then you don’t actually know how to do it
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The allure of this technology is skipping the learning curve but then you don’t actually know how to do it
Get off my constitution you idiots!
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Get off my constitution you idiots!
Viewpoint diversity is horseshit, McArdle. If you can stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. No affirmative action for bigots and Nazis.
October 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Viewpoint diversity is horseshit, McArdle. If you can stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. No affirmative action for bigots and Nazis.
Extinct like these haters of love and democracy are gonna be
October 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Extinct like these haters of love and democracy are gonna be
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First, it staves off apathy, cynicism, and despair.
Second, it demonstrates to those who might use violence against innocent civilians that they would be doing so against grannies, kids, neighbors.
Third, it shows allies and partners that the America they need is alive.
Second, it demonstrates to those who might use violence against innocent civilians that they would be doing so against grannies, kids, neighbors.
Third, it shows allies and partners that the America they need is alive.
Here is my question, and it’s an earnest one I promise: whose mind will it change and to what end?
I don’t have any answers about what we need to do. But like, we did protests in 2017, and 2020. Among the biggest in NATIONAL HISTORY. Voting in my opinion has a much more direct effect than this.
I don’t have any answers about what we need to do. But like, we did protests in 2017, and 2020. Among the biggest in NATIONAL HISTORY. Voting in my opinion has a much more direct effect than this.
The numbers I am seeing, and the breadth of people and places with basically no arrests and so forth, seem to me an unqualified political loss for them. It is a show of strength rather than the fight itself, but you can’t downplay it.
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
First, it staves off apathy, cynicism, and despair.
Second, it demonstrates to those who might use violence against innocent civilians that they would be doing so against grannies, kids, neighbors.
Third, it shows allies and partners that the America they need is alive.
Second, it demonstrates to those who might use violence against innocent civilians that they would be doing so against grannies, kids, neighbors.
Third, it shows allies and partners that the America they need is alive.