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oregon trail still: you have died of consumption
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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they linked this article in response about how all punitive, carceral legislation is directed at, and over-inforced on oppressed communities
“He was really nice and polite at first,” Bolden says. “But once he ran my name, he got real mean with me. He told me I was going to jail. I had my 3-year-old and my one-and-a-half-year-old with me. I asked him about my kids. He said I had better find someone to come and get them, because he was taking me in.” The Florissant officer arrested and cuffed Bolden in front of her children. Her kids remained with another officer until Bolden’s mother and sister could come pick them up. Image without a caption Nicole Bolden with her daughters Liyah and Lexus. (Photo courtesy of Nicole Bolden) The officer found that Bolden had four arrest warrants in three separate jurisdictions: the towns of Florissant and Hazelwood in St. Louis County and the town of Foristell in St. Charles County. All of the warrants were for failure to appear in court for traffic violations. Bolden hadn’t appeared in court because she didn’t have the money. A couple of those fines were for speeding, one was for failure to wear her seatbelt and most of the rest were for what defense attorneys in the St. Louis area have come to call “poverty violations” — driving with a suspended license, expired plates, expired registration and a failure to provide proof of insurance. AD The Florissant officer first took Bolden to the jail in that town, where Bolden posted a couple hundred dollars bond and was released at around midnight. She was next taken to Hazelwood and held at the jail there until she could post a second bond. That was another couple hundred dollars. She wasn’t released from her cell there until around 5 p.m. the next day. Exhausted, stressed, and still worried about what her kids had seen, she was finally taken to the St. Charles County jail for the outstanding warrant in Foristell. Why the county jail? Because the tiny town of 500 isn’t large enough to have its own holding cell, even though it does have a mayor, a board of aldermen, a municipal court and a seven-member police department. It’s pro…
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Gettin’ dat poosay
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Interestingly enough that aligns with our profile for Gilbert from 2014:
Eat, Prey, Kill: Navy Seal Taps Elizabeth Gilbert To Co-Author Bin Laden Assassination. Eat, Prey, Kill--A Special Ops Team's Search For Love And Redemption is the working title for a new account of Bin Laden's assassination. Chief Petty Officer O'Neill commented on the change of pace for the narrative, which has gone from action-suspense to romantic-murder: "After all the flak I got for claiming the shot, I wanted to tell a different story. At the time I was going through a rough divorce and was depleted physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This is the story about how a ruthless manhunt and subsequent murder of America’s most wanted criminal taught me how to love again and embrace my inner goddess." Excerpt from Eat, Prey, Kill "Prep the route." I whispered with quiet dignity into the head piece. Much like the paella I served my wife the night I confronted her about the affair, where I used a shock of saffron to flood her senses--I rolled a flashbang into the corridor, incapacitating the two men before they could reach for their weapons. Their dusky hands were stretched taut with fear, probing the walls for their Kalashnikov rifles, likely supplied by our own government in some covert operation, long ago--just as Pedro's knowing hands probed my wife's bosom, while wearing the gardener's gloves I gave him from my own garage, long ago . Eat, Prey, Kill hits the shelves 11/15/14.
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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right before you posted this I was reading some thing about Cthulhulian mythos, and this is one of the females. wanted to do one the ol fashioned way of cursing at GIMP for an hour
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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How Bluesky discourses are launched
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Dame Judi Dench Joins Bluesky, Defends Talib Kweli
December 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Horrifying breaking news as the Media Wars heat up:
TUBI LAUNCHES BLITZKRIEG AGAINST ROKU CITY Residents flee as the famous purple skyline burns; "The ambient strolling era is over," declares Tubi. ROKU CITY — Capitalizing on the confusion and uncertainty of the recent Warner Bros. takeover, Tubi launched a surprise offensive against the purple-hued metropolis of Roku City early this morning. Witnesses report that Tubi battalions breached the perimeter of the "scrolling screensaver zone" just before dawn, laying waste to the beloved vector-art diner and the bridge that goes nowhere. When asked by international observers what provocation justified the sudden invasion, Tubi High Command issued a blanket proclamation: "Ad-Supported streaming is the birthright and territory of Tubi. We will not accept a multi-polar streaming world. The purple reign is over."
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Ask a Tankie: Sylvia Wrath Addresses The Petty Tyrants Of The HOA & Steve's Stupid Wiener

Ask a Tankie is The Spin Cycle’s advice column for class traitors. Have a question for Sylvia? Submit it to the Central Committee or DM us.
Dear Sylvia, I’m literally shaking right now. My HOA sent me a nasty letter because the heirloom tomatoes in my front yard "edible landscape" are looking wilted. I’m trying my best, but balancing my high-pressure remote marketing job and planning our month-long vow renewal in Tuscany is exhausting. How do I deal with these petty tyrants trying to ruin my aesthetic? —Literally Shaking Dear Literally Shaking, Oh, Jennifer, let me fetch my smallest violin—wait, I pawned it to buy ammunition for the coming class war. You’re "shaking" because the localized enforcement arm of private property capital—your HOA—is critiquing the performative agriculture you use to signal virtue while your actual sustenance comes from exploited migrant labor and plastic-wrapped Whole Foods delivery? Imagine your problems when the capitalist hellscape you subsidize with your existence of buffoonery collapses and the roving death squads and toxic air pollution force you from the lands you stole and ruined. Every word you typed is a hate crime against the proletariat. Hire a local landscaper and pay them a thriving wage to maintain your delusions of sustainability, you useless leech. —Sylvia Dear Sylvia, I find my wife has been less affectionate since the birth of our son. I don't want to be pushy but it's been a year since we've been intimate. Any advice? —Steven from Dearborn Dear Steven, Wow, Steve.. Yes, that's a real head scratcher. Why would your suburban jizz replicator decide to avoid your pale flaccid inchworm after issuing forth another land-invading, oozing parasite wrapped in the pasty mole-flecked garbage skin of his father from her spiritually dead vagina? Try giving her a week off from her duties, compliment her, and buy her some anti-nausea meds for when she has to look at your face. —Sylvia Sylvia Wrath is a militant communist and advice columnist. Send your bourgeois problems to her for revolutionary correction.
December 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Our Tech and Theology correspondent GiGi Allen reports on Peter Thiel's recent focus in his "Theology of the Disruptor" series:
PALO ALTO — In a four-hour keynote described variously as "labyrinthine," "barely audible," and "moist," billionaire Peter Thiel launched the latest installment of his Theology of the Disruptor series today. The lecture, titled "The Passion of Jeremy Piven," offered a revisionist defense of the actor’s infamous 2008 exit from Broadway, which Piven blamed on "mercury poisoning" from eating too much sushi. While the media mocked Piven for using a "rich man’s disease" to quit a play, Thiel argued that the actor was actually crossing the metaphysical divide to become Silicon Valley's first "Bio-Sovereign." [ ADVERTISEMENT ] Mercury Test Kits - The Home Kit basiccopper.com • Sponsored [ ▶ ] "The mob calls it 'quitting work because you ate too much tuna,'" Thiel murmured, staring past the audience at a blank wall as pools of the billionaire's trademark gelatinous sweat gathered at his feet. "I call it The Sushi Singularity," he continued. "Piven did not 'get sick.' He attempted to escape the stagnation of mammalian biology by voluntarily replacing his blood with heavy metals. He was trying to go from Zero to One... in terms of toxicity." Thiel refused to take questions, noting only that he will be returning next month for the next installment: The Last Temptation of Turtle.
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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and finally...

WHAT...uh..possibly got us on a list?
Trump Campaign Pivots From Speeches To Side-Show Events Des Moines, Iowa–Trump’s dramatic tumble in the polls has lead the campaign staff to take drastic new measures. Speechwriters and policy spokespeople have been fired for an all Carny Festival staff. At a rally stop in Des Moines, Trump issued the following statement: “The rigmarole of talking is stupid, it takes doing to do. From here on out, communication will be only through Twitter, and appearances by me will be non-verbal tests of strength…AND PAIN!”
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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WHAT WE GOT RIGHT
Police Adopt ‘Five-Second Rule’ For Shooting Suspects With Impunity Police brass have formally adopted the "Five-Second Rule," applying the playground logic of "God made dirt and now you die" to lethal force. The policy grants officers total immunity if they open fire within five counts of a suspect hitting the pavement—a measure upheld by the Supreme Court’s recent codification of the "Tag, You're It" doctrine.
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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WHAT WE GOT WRONG:
Marvel Releases Historic Reboot “X-Men. Days Of Presidential Past” Marvel has released the first scenes of their gritty, historic reboot. Bryan Singer gave a brief and frank explanation for the new direction: “I don’t give a fuck.” Here’s the line-up: Professor FDR: Possesses great mental faculties. Runs administration for many years despite being confined to a wheelchair. Offers mutants “New Deal” Nixon-O: Fortifies influence of his office through his powers of repulsion and paranoia. Wears helmet so the “Pinko Professor” doesn’t read his thoughts; also for touch football. Martin Van Wolverine: Political career marked by incredible regenerative powers–gets to presidency despite getting beatdown for entire time. Skeleton fused with tariffs and bad policies.
December 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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As our team slowly emerges from the Appalachian hollers, leaving behind the last ten years of Pentecostal Snake Races, Stanley Cup Ether Speakeasies and Moonshiner Influencing;

We're taking a look at where we left off 10 years ago to see..

WHAT WE GOT RIGHT:
(from 2015)
This Day In Anti-Vaxxer History Gene Kelly contracted polio on the set of Singin’ in the Rain after replacing the vaccine with the “medicinal crust” of Ovaltine. While the beverage provided zero antibodies, his six-can-a-day habit resulted in the first recorded case of “Malt Lung,” causing him to bark out clouds of cocoa dust every time he called people commies .
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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‪A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS:

Ten years after the ill-fated "Don Draper Night", we are shocked to announce we've been acquired by a "Mr. Musk". We're unsure why he keeps calling our paperboys "moderators," but the check cleared.

We're obligated to publish his first Letter from the Chairman unedited.
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ FROM THE DESK OF KIMBAL MUSK ┃ ┃ Subject: I Bought The Cloud ┃ ┃ Status: DICTATED / UNREAD ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ KIMBAL: Hello, Blue Sky! It’s me. The other one. The fun one. The one who didn't hit the Baba Yaga in a Cybertruck and just... kept driving. I am SO excited to announce that I have acquired this digital town square. We are going to revolutionize the "Blue" brand. Jeff has Blue Origin. Well, I have Blue Sky—and together we're going to revolutionize the spaceship social media frontier with the cowboy spirit, and by being technically less bald! We are going to— [AUDIO INTERRUPTION] AIDE: Sir? Sir, please stop typing. KIMBAL: Not now, Jared. I’m tweeting to my subjects. AIDE: You didn’t buy the app, sir. You bought "The Spin Cycle." KIMBAL: The Spin Cycle IS the app. It spins! It’s the cycle of space news! AIDE: It is a defunct print newspaper from the Catskills, sir. The inventory is just wet pulp in a barn. The locals use it to burn bodies. KIMBAL: ... AIDE: ... KIMBAL: (Whispering) Can we burn the bodies in space? AIDE: No, sir. KIMBAL: (Back to phone) Anyway, enjoy the new features!
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM