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TIL about UTA, a Japanese rabbit photography team, who take many cute photos of bunnies and also the occasional metal as fuck one mymodernmet.com/rabbits-figh...

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One of these days I'm going to come up with a funny or cool stained glass use for this disappointed president Hoover commemorative glass plate, but the design has yet to present itself. I've been holding onto him for years lol

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I said on Slate Money this week that everyone is going to know who Curtis Yarvin is shortly because Thiel and Andreessen and Vance all buy into a lot of his theory and he’s no longer a fringe character among techno libertarians. Here’s a sampling of what he believes:

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy

since what i care about most is the last line, what i want is humility from everyone yelling about what the "only path" forward actually is

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this "i bet you think robocop was political" take brings up a nagging concern i've had watching The Boys S4, which is that our reality is becoming so Verhoevenized the fascist dystopia satire gags don't land right anymore

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On This Day In History: July 20, 1969

“As for the local Butler Township police, it's unclear if they have drones - apparently, they don't even have a police chief at the moment”

I wrote about how Donald Trump's attempted assassin apparently used a DJI drone to scope the rally site out in advance, and my thoughts on the matter and what it means.

Trump's Attempted Assassin Flew A Drone Over the Rally Site: My Thoughtslittle-flying-robots.ghost.io It was Friday evening. I was trying to relax. And then all of a sudden, a dozen people sent me the same link. Drone news. Of course. Why does big-drone related news never seem to drop at 10:00 AM on...

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virtual power plants! "This feature could potentially be worth hundreds of dollars a year to a homeowner, without affecting the cooktop’s ability to make a meal" www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

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generally not a fan of talking in a movie theater but i make an exception for the time i saw Thor: Love and Thunder with an italian friend and the first time Jane showed up he shouted “ah, natalie portman! always beautiful!”

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I’m using this the next time I have to teach the Romantic sublime

Rat on a NYC sidewalk: disgusting, terrifying, might run over your foot Rat on a NYC subway track: delightful, so industrious, fun distraction to watch while waiting for your train

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I was looking for a Glenn Greenwald tweet about Trump being anti-war but when I searched this far funnier article came up from November 2020 where he says anyone who doesn’t believe Trump will peacefully leave with no problems is a hysterical crazy person

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Wrote a quick post on something I’d been thinking about: houses and cars aren’t just pricey to buy; they’re *inherently* expensive to own. This distinction has implications for a policy regime that assumes home and car ownership is or can be universal. open.substack.com/pub/gregshil...

Houses and cars can be albatrosses. What does this mean for policy?open.substack.com Home and car ownership are unaffordable to many—and that's inherent in their cost structure. Would it be better for policy to accept this and build around it rather than merely trying to change it?

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I have just seen a video so shocking…so disturbing…that I can’t bring myself to post it here. Liz Truss, in front of a huge American flag, tells Pennsylvania Republicans that she has a Liberty Bell shower head, an exact replica of one Reagan had, as “a symbol of liberty and democracy”. Crinnnnge!

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Yeah this is, like, Rosemont Station's online dating profile picture

[OC] Rosemont Station, Illinois. r/brutalism

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become inconsolable

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🎶 if you're lost you can look and you will find me

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Saw a clip of John Carpenter and Charles Band talking about their most difficult actors and Charles Band talks about how Klaus Kinski almost murdered someone with a knife and then he asks Carpenter who he disliked the most and he goes “Chevy Chase” and they both kind of agree Chevy Chase was worse

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People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

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Just using "anti-woke" like it's a factual news descriptor now I guess www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...

Leaked memo shows J.D. Vance’s anti-woke ideology on foreign affairswww.washingtonpost.com J.D. Vance, Trump’s VP pick, froze dozens of ambassador nominations over LGBTQ issues and diversity hiring, offering a glimpse of his antiestablishment views.

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#FridayNightScudStud

“F.B.I. investigators who searched the family’s home discovered it was cluttered and not well-cleaned, something akin to a compulsive hoarder’s house.” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/u...

From Honor Student to the Gunman Who Tried to Kill Donald Trumpwww.nytimes.com Thomas Crooks was a brainy and quiet young man who built computers and won honors at school, impressing his teachers. Then he became a would-be assassin.

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Tim Kaine becomes the first Senator, to my knowledge, to call for the unilateral recognition of the State of Palestine by the United States. "Since Israel has made plain that it will not accept Palestinian autonomy, the U.S. should no longer condition recognition on Israeli assent..."

Kaine Statement on Knesset Vote Rejecting Establishment of Palestinian State | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginiawww.kaine.senate.gov WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations...

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Arnold Friedman, Snowscape, 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135472

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we're eager for your questions! Grace Howard, a researcher who wrote a new book called The Pregnancy Police, has agreed to answer questions from Bolts readers on all this—so please do submit... or just drop them below!

We want to hear from you: What do you want to know about how pregnancy is being surveilled and criminalized in states—and about the new legal realities since Dobbs? Chime in here, and we’ll try to answer! boltsmag.org/ask-bolts/

Ask Bolts: How Is Pregnancy Policedboltsmag.org Send us your questions on how pregnancy is surveilled and criminalized.

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absolutely brutal lmao

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One thing zoomers will never understand is how soda and beer cans used to have little tiny openings for little tiny sips and it took until the 1990s for beverage scientists to unlock the proprietary technology of Bigger Hole

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Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is emergency mini-primary

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while everyone's on Nate Silver, remembering the time he sent sad message to me via a mutual because I posted this