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Thinking is my day job so I don’t do it for leisure. he/him
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July 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
July 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Discovered a new game store in the bay area (Hayward specifically) because I happened to drive by it! It's called Tony's retro games, it has a decent selection, fine prices, but most importantly a very cute and sweet shop dog. They've only been open since March of this year.
July 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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😭😭😭
July 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I saw Flavor Flav in the mirror
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Jul 17
what's the most random interaction you've ever had with a celebrity?
July 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Shoutout to whoever subtitled this article over at @merriam-webster.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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things have learnt to walk
that ought to crawl

✨ SIGNALIS is 30% off in the Steam Summer Sale ✨
July 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Update (July 7, 2025)
July 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"no one is free until we are all free" includes the people who voted for fascism, this is hard to accept but true.
To say ‘some people deserve to suffer’ is a trick. It’s a trap. It presumes that human judgement will ever be sufficient to accurately determine who is deserving of suffering. And, it never, ever will be. And, so, every idea of ‘they deserve to suffer’ begins a step towards inevitable injustice.
July 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Microsoft announced this as the world's first "AAAA" game. I guess "aaaa" is what all the developers who just lost their jobs are saying. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-ha...
Xbox has cancelled its Perfect Dark reboot and closed its developer | VGC
The Initiative will be closed as part of Microsoft layoffs…
www.videogameschronicle.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Fun fact: air conditioning takes less energy than heating and no less important. The belief that it's "decadent" is puritanism.
Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.

I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:

foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning
An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.
foreignpolicy.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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#auspol
The Shovel 😎
Australia has cancelled its $368 billion AUKUS submarine purchase after someone realised it would be cheaper to just give China $300 billion in return for an agreement not to invade.
AUKUS Scrapped: Australia to Just Pay China $300 Billion Not To Invade — The Shovel
Analysts say the down side of the programs cancellation is that 24 jobs will not be created in South Australia in 15 year's time.
theshovel.com.au
June 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Nobody is making up shit about gay romance authors to make America look better
I take all reporting on China with a grain of salt, given the obvious propaganda interest, but I can't completely discount this either.

Either way, what is being described here is the future reactionaries want to see domestically.
The arrest of online fanfic erotica writers (99% young women) in China is still ongoing, some are getting sentenced to 10 years in prison

I didn’t see any newer international coverage of this but I saw on Weibo today that more writers are getting sentenced right now

amp.scmp.com/news/china/p...
June 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Yurple Tang
May 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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If you’re going to publish a mental breakdown as a self-destructive comic in a general cry for help then at least consider not doing it racistly
May 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Wake up guys, new cheese-based physics paper dropped
May 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?

guard: [looking away] fine

wife: did something happen?

guard: [tearing up] no

wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?
May 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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This is already how games work if you are over 35
ign.com IGN @ign.com · May 14
Hideo Kojima has an amazing idea for a "Forgetting Game" where the main character gradually forgets important information and abilities if you take too long a break from playing.
Hideo Kojima Has an Amazing Idea for a 'Forgetting Game' Where the Main Character Gradually Forgets Important Information and Abilities if You Take Too Long a Break From Playing
bit.ly
May 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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i recently launched a newsletter at @ghost.org to publish regular longerform blogs/op eds. check it out here. the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io
A Crabby Guide to Politics
Guides, explainers and salty takes on American and Global Politics. No nonsense, except when there is. Crabby because I'm from Maryland
the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io
April 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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the way this keeps happening I’m starting to suspect the War Thunder forums are involved somehow
May 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Democracy Sausage is entirely unpaid and unsponsored... but we do occasionally get fun things in the mail.
May 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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April 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM