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Empty out the locker room, let me find my space

location: more like GREATEST Boston

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Charles Minard's famous map/infographic of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, which failed disastrously due to the French troops' unpreparedness for the cold weather; from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard
January 14, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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ah.
Text from the "Health and death" section of Wikipedia's entry on Scott Adams: On May 19, 2025, Adams said on his daily podcast Real Coffee with Scott Adams that he has prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, and that he only has a short time left to live. He has stated that the cancer has spread to his spine, which has caused him to use a walker due to the immense pain. He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work. Just the section that says "He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work."
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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presented without further comment
from my Pocket Casts app, this evening's NPR State of the World and Washington Post Post Reports podcasts, titled "Even Amid Violent Crackdowns, Iran's Protests Continue" and "Will these Iran protests bring the government down?" respectively.
January 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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I don't know if this is just me, or a People of a Certain Age thing, or a more widely shared interpretation, but this is always how I picture the Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear
The Teeny Little Super Guy from Sesame Street. He is a cartoon man with red pants, a yellow shirt, a bulbous nose, and a porkpie hat, and he lives on the surface of a clear plastic cup on a granite kitchen counter. He is not actually wearing OSHA-approved hi-vis gear, but his shirt is, as mentioned, bright yellow.
January 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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In the sense that you're not any kind of Democrat, George?
Fundraising email header in my Gmail inbox from George Conway, subject line "I'm not your typical Democrat."
January 10, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper in NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955, dir. Charles Laughton), silhouetted in a rocking chair on a porch at night, with a shotgun laid across her lap.
January 9, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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All right, you know what, it's a great day to log off. I'm calling a lid and putting up the sign. Let's try again tomorrow, everyone.
A faded red sign with all-caps white lettering, mounted on a door painted brown. It reads, "NO POSTING ALLOWED".
January 3, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Platonic Solid Snake (@Pliny_theElder)'s famous 2017 twitter reply to @DarkTriadMan, @RationalMale and 6 others, edited to read: "the artist is a Japanese illustrator famous for his 1980s city pop album covers you dork ass losers"
January 2, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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"Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture." "They're the same picture." meme from THE OFFICE. the two pictures are Phil Lewis's photo of the Washington Monument garishly lit up with colors, stars, and a giant "250", and the neon-festooned "Trump White House" photoshop from Obama's 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner address.
January 1, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Happy New Year once again from the Somerville ACAB Lion, despite the little dusting of snow and the fading of time.
A small statue of a lion in a snowy side yard. The snow has been brushed away from the concrete retaining wall at the edge of the yard along the sidewalk to show the faded but still legible "ACAB" written a few years ago in heavy black marker.
January 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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and now it's time to kick off the new year in the manner in which I intend to continue, to wit: going to bed.
classic Austin Walker "take so bad" tweet edited to read "y'all ever see a year so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?"
January 1, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Say, bird knowers, can y'all tell me who these guys are, because I think they're nesting in my vent hood outlet duct
Two birds sitting on the gutter of a snowy roof. They're pretty round, and a similar size to robins. They have mostly dark plumage with light flecks, and relatively short bills.
January 1, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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the famously memed photo of a fox, ears back and legs braced, buffeted by a snowstorm, with the text "IT FUCKEN WIMDY".
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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the "are ya winning, son?" dad standing in the doorway
December 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I mean look at this
A Catholic-style devotional candle, a tall, narrow pillar in a full-height glass jar, but with an image of writer, podcaster, singer, and rapper Dessa in a robe and stole, holding a pen, instead of a conventional saint.
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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How about this graphic I made but haven't turned into an actual sign yet
A black-and-white photo of Jason "King" Kendall, vocalist of seminal Boston punkabilly band The Amazing Crowns, with a slicked-back pompadour and wearing an embroidered Western shirt, in front of a chain-link fence. Text around the perimeter, in the style of the original _The Amazing Royal Crowns_ record, reads "No Kings But King Kendall".
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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the kids still know about this Tumblr Classic™, right
tumblr post with multiple replies: haraii: "christmas eve what about christmas adam" kowka: "happy christmas adam to all men's rights activists" forfuturereferenceonly: "Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for 'evening'. Please don't turn activism into a joke. Thanks." reindeerplaydate: "Someone isn't having a good christmas adam" theguilteaparty: "Christmas Adam: December 23rd. Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying."
December 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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little Joey Calvan teasing Kermit by saying "Cookie Monster" instead of the next letter of the alphabet
December 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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the well-known three-panel dog "no take! only throw" comic strip, but it's "rewards of being loved" instead of throw and "mortifying ordeal of being known" instead of take.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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quick reminder that no one should buy anything from Humble or have anything to do with them
top of a promotional email for Humble's "The Complete Lovable and Vibe Coding Bundle"
December 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Barret Wallace in FINAL FANTASY VII (1997) exasperatedly exclaiming, "The planet's dyin', Matt!"
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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big new destiny art post but this is obviously the important part
Destiny 2 cinematic still of Eris Morn and the Drifter kissing passionately.
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I know not to expect much from the Times, but jesus. archive.is/yMNWW
NYT article headline: "Woody Allen Is Not Sorry About His Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein"
December 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Movie theaters forever
Sam Neill at the end of IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994). He is seated in the front row of an empty cinema, wearing loose-fitting scrubs-like asylum inmate clothing covered in hand-drawn crosses, with a large tub of popcorn, beginning to laugh maniacally at the film adaptation of Sutter Cane's prophetic eldritch horror novel.
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Or if you tilt it a little,
The Clamp Cable Network logo—a metallic, angular, sans-serif capital C angled up 45 degrees, with a squished Earth caught between its arms as though being squeezed in a clamp—from classic sci-fi horror comedy _Gremlins 2: The New Batch_ (1990)
December 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM