Andrew Nelson

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I push bits around. He/him.

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This is your regular reminder that scams are now the background noise of our lives. They will take a million shots at you and threat actors only need you to let your guard down once. www.itbrew.com/stories/2024...

Mark Cuban’s Gmail was hacked by a threat actor posing as Google—here’s how to prevent it from happening to youwww.itbrew.com Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said his Gmail account was hacked after a threat actor posing as a Google employee called him.

It’s bewildering; you got what you wanted, they conceded! If you don’t let up afterwards, the only lesson people will learn is to Never Back Down

we are not gonna make it through november On Here if we keep yelling at people after they back off their bad taeks

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we are not gonna make it through november On Here if we keep yelling at people after they back off their bad taeks

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Biden's mental acuity completely aside, any time I see stories about "elite Democratic donors" that include people like "Disney heiresses" talking to the press to get their way my immediate reaction is to think "fuck those people, how can I help ruin their plans"

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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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The founding fathers: checks and balances The Supreme Court: checks

Honestly the best part about something doing numbers is seeing the pfps in the notifications that have cats, and getting to see new cat pictures

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the whole Thief/Rogue fantasy archetype spins out from Gandalf trying to get Bilbo to sneak into Smaug's place. If he had wanted Bilbo to install a mini-split in the cave, one of the basic D&D classes today would be HVAC guy

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Look, son: In this world, sometimes you just gotta take the L stair on your way to King Street 👑

You can tell who did and who did not moderate IRC/phpBB/whatever back in the day, because all of us who did learned the true shape of online group culture: your culture is the shittiest person you don't ban

yeah, it is entirely possible to have a Normal Functional Discord!

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With the exception of the collar, the new live action Superman suit is almost an exact copy of the My Adventures with Superman design

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Worth noting that one reason Venezuela imploded as a society is that the government purged the state oil company of technocrats and replaced them with regime cronies who had no idea how the oil industry worked and it caused the whole thing to cave in and with it, Venezuela’s economy.

The future is terror. Funded by Heritage Foundation, the same group creating Project 2025, a GOP activist is snooping into the background of federal employees, creating a Trump enemies list. With Schedule F, they will fire those officials. apnews.com/article/trum...

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plansapnews.com Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homel...

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Firm believer in the direct correlation between driving like an asshole and being a general piece of shit in life.

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Coal power? Steam. Oil? Steam. Nuclear? Steam. Geothermal? Steam. Hydroelectric? Cold steam.

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This is exactly what we need. Let’s go back to the good old days when executives did time.

"U.S. prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing, after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters."

Exclusive: US prosecutors recommend DOJ criminally charge Boeing as deadline loomswww.reuters.com U.S. prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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in retrospect it seems inevitable that the furries would wind up running the gears of the thing

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I don't understand getting the opportunity to write a guest essay for the New York Times and thinking, "finally everyone will know that it is wrong to tell me, the main character of the universe, to take my shoes off in their homes"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi

The challenge of this world is to make your heart expansive when it wants to make it small

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Stop what you are doing & look at this frog. It looks like it should be playing in a band on Jabba's sail barge.

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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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too good not to share.

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For real though if I was a poor ass Toad living in the Mushroom Kingdom and saw Mario playing tennis with Bowser I’d be like “despite their pretend disagreements there really is only the uniparty”

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*succumbing to injuries suffered from getting hit by a Smart car* please just tell everyone it was a regular car

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You can say that you’re tired of being told this is The Most Important Election Of Our Lives, but the reality is that preventing a coup is going to take overwhelming numbers of votes for the foreseeable future and if you aren’t willing to vote all the time you have to be ready for The Consequences.

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In addition to the basic human rights violations, I think it is morally repugnant to operate a business that relies on incarcerated labor, and any business that does should be boycotted

There shouldn't be a big "unless they are incarcerated" asterisk to the ban on slavery in the US. Incarcerated individuals should be paid for their work. The current practice is a moral abomination, it sets people up for failure upon release, and it undercuts labor. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...

Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United Stateswww.nytimes.com Compulsory labor with little or no compensation should be unthinkable.

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That rumbling sound you hear in the distance is every single historian on this planet screaming.

The court's new hyper-literal originalism is producing a weird jurisprudence in which some cases turn on two competing, highly subjective, highly-distilled, multi-century historical narratives. The narrative that gets 5 votes then becomes "Official U.S. History" for every similar case that follows.

Amy Coney Barrett Sounds Fed Up With Clarence Thomas’ Sloppy Originalismslate.com In a trademark case, Barrett agreed with Thomas’ bottom line but sharply disagreed with pretty much everything else.

Please, please, please, do not re-use passwords. Use a password manager or just write them in a little book if you have to. Almost anything is better than re-use.

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

The most frustrating part of it is that we've just watched the Right use incrementalism as a ratchet to effectively dismantle the Great Society and administrative state, but have still drawn the conclusion that it won't work Nations are not speedboats, they are tankers. They take time to turn!