Andy of Maps

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Mapmaker. Scribbler. Yeller. Painter now?
Following me is a poor life choice. Sorry.

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have been making my way through oliver stone’s 1980s output and it is very interesting to watch PLATOON and WALL STREET as variations on a theme boxd.it/6PuxHJ

Review of ‘Wall Street’ (1987) ★★★★boxd.it Watch Platoon and Wall Street back-to-back and you’ll quickly see that these are two movies tackling the same questions: what does it mean to be a man and how does one become a man? To answer the…

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Every August, typeface designers flock to the middle of the desert for a week of sex & drugs, and they erect a large wooden word with all the spacing fucked up. They call it Kerning Man

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If the French defeat the Nazis and America doesn’t, we will have to retire some of our most cherished jokes.

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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Criminalizing sex work has nothing to do with protecting women. Banning adult content on crowdfunding and payment platforms has nothing to do with protecting children. The goal of these laws/policies is to remove one of the few sources of income for queer, disabled, and other marginalized folks.

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seriously I cannot get enough. cry more. cry harder. understand that as long as people draw breath the opposition to fascism is stronger than you. whatever your reasons for being a fascist, know every time that your gains will be short ones which you'll relinquish in tears every. fuckin. time

DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS btw

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"Lord, I see what you are doing for LePen's National Rally, and I want that for Trump's GOP."

"Lord, I see what you are doing for the Tories, and I want that for the GOP."

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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lord i see what youve done for other peoples

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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NYT says their performance on Threads today was an aberration, & not indicative of deeper problems they've had with social media. Unfortunately, that hasn't satisfied many observers whose concerns are growing louder. The stakes are too high. For the good of the news, the Times should step aside

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Torn between saying this is a PSA and charging you all to read my skeets

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I got you, babe 🪶

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It’s also McCarthyist claptrap that reduces all human imagination, empathy, and ingenuity into “I Gave You All the Clues Mister Police,” which, to be fair, is the reading level at play in the scenario.

i am really, REALLY not okay with the idea that someone writing about sexual assault means they must be an abuser. for one thing, the vast majority of art about sexual abuse is created BY THE VICTIMS. the idea that depicting abuse makes you an abuser really fucking pisses me off actually.

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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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ACAB. The penguins are innocent.

Important penguin news

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Well this is grim

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USA Today rounding up the known fireworks deaths and serious injuries so far. Please be careful out there this weekend. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

From Illinois to Utah: Firework mishaps claim lives and injure dozens this July 4thwww.usatoday.com At least 4 fireworks deaths and dozens of injuries have been reported across the U.S. during this year's July Fourth celebrations.

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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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It's the weekend, baby 🐬

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Your lips to god’s ears. The number of people I’m seeing more committed to not admitting they were taken for a ride by the media freak out than forming a united front against fascism is worrying.

We’ve all watched the GOP drag rapists, criminals, florid wackos, and brain-dead white supremacists to electoral victory over and over again. Perhaps the Democrats can summon up some of that energy to save our democracy and our lives.

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MOAR TRAINS!!!!!!!!

More trains please.

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.

Daniel Craig introducing The Weekendwww.youtube.com Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.

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This is good. This is VERY GOOD. The tip I would leave for the quality of that joke, and the likely face the customer made, would be large.

The bartender at my local pub is from Cork. His response to anyone ordering an Irish Car Bomb: "Can't make you that, but I can make a 9/11. It's just two kamikazes dropped in a Manhattan."

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Headed to the beach? Anchor that umbrella, friend. A flying #beach umbrella is deadly.