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I make and break things.
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Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.
January 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Allow me to explain why this is very fuckin’ bad.

Read this to learn something, or don’t and stay stupid. Whatevs; I’m getting stoned at the end of writing this either way.

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apnews.com/article/snap...
SNAP bans on soda, candy and other foods take effect in five states Jan. 1
Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new limits starting Thursday on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits.
apnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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“I’m here to search your child care center for fraud.”
a young man in a white t-shirt looks at the camera
ALT: a young man in a white t-shirt looks at the camera
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich not to throw a huge embarrassing snit over not having his ego fluffed.
tell me if you've heard this one before: a billionaire gets upset for being criticized for saying stupid things on social media, then confidentially concludes the problem is most certainly everybody else
Mark Cuban Says It’s ‘CRAZY’ That 'Real Conversations' Are Easier On X Or Threads Than On Bluesky
Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and longtime "Shark Tank" star, is stepping back from Bluesky, the social media platform once hailed as a kinder, more
offthefrontpage.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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2025 recapped
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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“Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner accused other companies like Google and Microsoft of ‘reshaping the address bar into an assistant prompt, turning the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship.’”

Well, Vivaldi. You had my interest; now you have my attention
After Outcry, Firefox Promises "Kill Switch" That Turns Off All AI Features
Mozilla's new CEO announced that Firefox would become a "modern AI broswer." Its most diehard fans are revolting.
futurism.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Politicians introduced 96 bills targeting transgender student athletes in 2025.

That’s more than 9x the number of trans people playing college sports nationally.
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Whiteness is a trick made to get people to believe their supposed racial superiority and that they can one day become an elite and therefore think interests are aligned more with the elite then with working people of all identities with whom they actually share much more in common.
December 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Where have I seen this before, oh right.
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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they should invent Online but the opposite
December 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Worth adding here that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by government contracts and subsidies, and so this really amounts to embezzling taxpayer funds to cover up the losses from his stupid idiot boxes.
December 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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so the two notable programming moves bari weiss has made at CBS are... airing an interview nobody watched and not airing a 60 Minutes segment that everybody watched. it's like she's satirizing herself
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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It's winter, and I see lots of you folks posting pictures of chili you've made. And that's great. But you can do better.

And so I, a native Texan, am here to teach you how to make better chili. I am going to discuss two recipes, one that is... extra, and one that you can whip up in a few hours.
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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SCP but all it does is activate kids autism
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I would rather walk in on my parents watching porno than catch them reading this
December 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I'm begging for atheists to add an ounce of dialectical materialism to their politics.
December 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Deepthroating is panphobia but we're not ready for that conversation.
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM