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EllaBloom
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I'm here just to read the news. I take a rational view of political choices and won't blindly follow the crowd. I reject all promotional information, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, and funds.
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Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Googled "old guy smell" and this popped up. If you wonder how bad this room smells look at her face.
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Waiting for Christmas to arrive, and taking a picture with Christmas decorations 😊😊
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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We are still, I assure you, New York Fucking City.
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.

Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Today's pick was from yesterday's marathon. Saved this one to talk about by itself.

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

A favorite midnight movie of mine. Not good, per se, but amazing. Alien-human hybrids, pervy scientists, Ron Pearlman is there. Sigourney Weaver crawls around on the ground.
Movie magic.
November 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM