Tim Heckman
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
Best callsign of the day goes to this military helicopter: COLT45
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Best callsign of the day goes to this military helicopter: COLT45
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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Gov. Newsom and California officials are looking pretty good right now for proactively closing I-5…
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Gov. Newsom and California officials are looking pretty good right now for proactively closing I-5…
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Hot water heater has died again as of yesterday, and all I want to do is take a nice shower. I guess I am getting a hotel?
October 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hot water heater has died again as of yesterday, and all I want to do is take a nice shower. I guess I am getting a hotel?
So how am I only learning about the No Kings Protests now, while I am doom scrolling because I can’t sleep? I would have totally gone to a few in Los Angeles…
I haven’t been totally under a rock the past two weeks, and somehow I didn’t hear anything about them. What the hell?
I haven’t been totally under a rock the past two weeks, and somehow I didn’t hear anything about them. What the hell?
October 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
So how am I only learning about the No Kings Protests now, while I am doom scrolling because I can’t sleep? I would have totally gone to a few in Los Angeles…
I haven’t been totally under a rock the past two weeks, and somehow I didn’t hear anything about them. What the hell?
I haven’t been totally under a rock the past two weeks, and somehow I didn’t hear anything about them. What the hell?
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Just checked the bad place and can confirm they’re losing their fucking minds
Is it really the case that MAGA is falling apart over Epstein?
Honestly I will never understand how this works.
Honestly I will never understand how this works.
July 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just checked the bad place and can confirm they’re losing their fucking minds
So if your Nintendo Switch 2 invite got filtered by GMail and expired before you saw it, are you just fucked?
July 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
So if your Nintendo Switch 2 invite got filtered by GMail and expired before you saw it, are you just fucked?
My partner in crime decided to quit a few weeks ago, and I collaborate with nobody else locally. But company has RTO policy, and so I have to do 90m LA commute 3d/week each way to be alone / on a VC.
I’ve felt a lot of emotions in my 15 year career; this is the first time I feel sad every day.
I’ve felt a lot of emotions in my 15 year career; this is the first time I feel sad every day.
July 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My partner in crime decided to quit a few weeks ago, and I collaborate with nobody else locally. But company has RTO policy, and so I have to do 90m LA commute 3d/week each way to be alone / on a VC.
I’ve felt a lot of emotions in my 15 year career; this is the first time I feel sad every day.
I’ve felt a lot of emotions in my 15 year career; this is the first time I feel sad every day.
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
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Apparently Marge didn’t read the bill before she voted for it.
June 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Apparently Marge didn’t read the bill before she voted for it.
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Day 1193 of my 3 day war. Several billion dollars worth of Russian aircraft were destroyed by several thousand dollars of Ukrainian drones.
I remain a master strategist.
I remain a master strategist.
June 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Day 1193 of my 3 day war. Several billion dollars worth of Russian aircraft were destroyed by several thousand dollars of Ukrainian drones.
I remain a master strategist.
I remain a master strategist.
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Aircraft carriers of the world
USA
UK
France
Ukraine
USA
UK
France
Ukraine
June 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Aircraft carriers of the world
USA
UK
France
Ukraine
USA
UK
France
Ukraine
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I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.
May 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.
Pretty sure I just watched a murder of crows letting a hawk know “you’re in the wrong neighborhood motherfucker”.
May 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Pretty sure I just watched a murder of crows letting a hawk know “you’re in the wrong neighborhood motherfucker”.
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"I didn’t become a universally beloved paragon of good decision making by heeding the unanimous consensus of experts."
I, Famously Good President Herbert Hoover, Am Imposing Tariffs to Bolster Domestic Manufacturing
“President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tarif...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"I didn’t become a universally beloved paragon of good decision making by heeding the unanimous consensus of experts."
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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Weather over the Pacific seems to be pretty shit right now.
a man is sweating while wearing headphones and making a face
Alt: Scene from Airplane! where Striker is sweating profusely.
media.tenor.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Weather over the Pacific seems to be pretty shit right now.
Yeah, this aligns with the sorts of experiences I've had... www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/a...
AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Yeah, this aligns with the sorts of experiences I've had... www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/a...
This vacation is going from bad to worse. Now I fucked up my lower back big time, but all I was doing was sitting in a chair. Getting jolts of nerve pain that is making me literally freeze in place. Thankfully I’m mostly over the food poisoning, but what a fucking nightmare.
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This vacation is going from bad to worse. Now I fucked up my lower back big time, but all I was doing was sitting in a chair. Getting jolts of nerve pain that is making me literally freeze in place. Thankfully I’m mostly over the food poisoning, but what a fucking nightmare.
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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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Hubble is going on 35 years old, and it's STILL taking incredible images 🤩
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
April 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hubble is going on 35 years old, and it's STILL taking incredible images 🤩
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
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What a summary of the anti-trans movement:
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
April 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
What a summary of the anti-trans movement:
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000
March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th
March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000