Ken Houghton

@klhoughton.bsky.social

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I think what we sometimes forget is how this impacts my group, white straight podcast enthusiasts aged 25-50 who have a Hulu subscription and strong feelings about FX’s The Bear

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you see your pets twitching their little limbs in their sleep and say to your partner "look, it is running through a field in its sleep", you are wrong: your pet is in a casino: throwing dice, playing slots and video poker, walking on two legs and betting large on a blackjack table

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I used to be obsessively engaged with the social media news/opinion cycle until one day I wondered "What is the point of this? It doesn't help anyone." So I made a decision to use the time and energy for stuff like writing letters to my reps instead. Not telling anyone what to do, just works for me.

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We met Nobel Prize winner and the patron saint of time physics, Kip Thorne, last night and be officially blessed our #SDCC2024 panel on time travel. He signed two of his books for the comicon audience that we will be giving away at the end through trivia. Please spread the word.

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Having established my expertise, over the last several years, in Ukrainian troop deployments, immunology, large vessel shipping operations, and geriatric medicine, I will now draw on my experience in security detail deployments. In this thread I will

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They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.

Book about book bans banned by Florida school boardwww.theguardian.com Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty

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the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

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Truly, there is a Lar for all occasions.

From my Larchives :)

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The sum total of evidence here is 3 state level polls, a quote from David Axelrod and a quote from one (1) New Mexico voter www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/u...

Democrats Fear Safe Blue States Turning Purple as Biden Stays the Coursewww.nytimes.com Lingering worries about President Biden’s age could make Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia competitive, party operatives believe.

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I was prepared to flip out but then read they were children of the night manager, which suggests a lot more context

I might burn all the world

10-year-olds found working at McDonald’s until 2 a.m.www.axios.com More than 300 minors, including two 10-year-olds, were found working at McDonald’s later and longer than the law permits.

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There's a guy on the Madison WI subreddit that has been reviewing Italian beef sandwiches with a pro/con list, detailed explanation and numerical ranking system. He's up to 33 entries and he's doing the lord's work.

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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I think the reason these last two weeks has pissed me off so bad is I have always hated people who panic and flail around and make the situation worse. Liberal media is no better than that one dickhead that seemed to show up at every bad crime scene I ever worked just to break down screaming.

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Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth are connected by the fact that a ton of Americans thought this was the weirdest, wackiest person they’d ever encountered because a ton of Americans did not personally know any Jewish people

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I love how Meta pays thousands of data scientists $400K each a year to build systems that see me join a Facebook group called Chicago Lost and Found Pets and confidently intuit that I want my feed to be filled with lost and found pet posts from similar groups in places I don't live

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Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth were unapologetically themselves despite endless scrutiny. They both brought joy, knowledge, and light to countless folks. It’s heartbreaking to lose them both today while the cockroach felon lives on.

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A fun fact about Rocky River is that I was in a car crash seven and a half years ago there where my car hit black ice, spun out and flipped over. I lost consciousness and was in shock; the cops beat the paramedics there and berated me while sobriety testing me. Then they ticketed me for 600$.

Rocky River, Ohio Population: 19,986 Photos from Google Places API Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_River,_Ohio

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One of the best things about Nova Scotia, besides the scenery and people, is the lack of chaotic, angry traffic. -She posts from Quebec City

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Here is a full transcript of Jack Posobiec's alarmingly fascist speech about the war against "un-humans," which he delivered from the main stage of the National Conservatism Conference this week, immediately before a speech by a US Senator. Read it for yourself www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/jack-posob...

Jack Posobiec's Speech About "Un-Humans" at the National Conservatism Conferencewww.hamiltonnolan.com Read this for yourself, please.

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New York Times Editorial Board: "Mr. Trump’s political agenda cannot and must not be opposed by violence. It cannot and must not be pursued through violence." Ok but to be clear Trump's political agenda *is* violence. We get that right? I dont want us to miss that www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to Americawww.nytimes.com Political violence is antithetical to our democracy.

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New Grant Application: For this application please submit a timeline, a fully completed project, six supporting documents showing that you have already self-financed all of the work the grant would hypothetically support, and 7 letters of support from everyone remotely interested in the subject.

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The DOJ is reportedly prepping a rental market collusion lawsuit against software maker RealPage, whose tools are used by landlords to set apartment prices. Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs: www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.www.propublica.org Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...

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who is this person who worked in tech saying "the reason people hate tech is because they don't understand content moderation is really hard" no actually I think we just are annoyed that computer search bars go straight to bing instead of showing me the contents of my computer that I own right now

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“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” That quote is almost always misattributed to Mark Twain. It was actually Clarence Darrow who originally said it. I mention this for no reason whatsoever.

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Dr. Ruth taught me a lot about sex. I so appreciated her frank straightforward advice that empowered so many of us. May her memory forever continue to be for a blessing.

Dr. Ruth “defended abortion rights, suggested older people have sex after a good night’s sleep and was an outspoken advocate of condom use … In the 1980s, she stood up for gay men at the height of the AIDS epidemic and spoke out loudly for the LGBTQ community.” apnews.com/article/ruth...

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96apnews.com Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died.

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(drake rapping in 2025) hey kendrick it's been a while. first of all it's "ephebophile"

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I withstood the era of people telling me I should read Hillbilly Elegy because of where I'm from. Now I'm living free and easy in the era of people hating J.D. Vance, and I never lifted a finger.

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Cycling is always so social to me. In my 12 minute ride to drop off, I: 👋🏻 Said hi to a friend walking to work 🚦Chatted with another person a bike at the stoplight 🔐 Chatted with someone at the bike racks This just does not happen when I am driving.

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The gubernatorial candidate who said his opponents should be murdered currently has a slight lead in the polls. At best it’s 50/50. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/govern...

North Carolina : Governor : 2024 Pollsprojects.fivethirtyeight.com The latest political polls and polling averages from FiveThirtyEight.

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A crass, boundary-ignoring, frat boy douchebro appointed to the federal bench by Trump? Well I never

Trump judge in alaska lasted 4 years before having to resign for sexual harassment cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/ce...

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