Larry

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Just Some Guy (he/him) in the USA. Engineer in food plant construction. Probably too Online. Medium-left politics.

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Matthew Downhour

one thing that always strikes me is that the Justices of the Supreme Court are... really uneducated? Borderline innumerate, etc. They know the made-up game of pretend called "Law" a little bit, but when it comes to any factual knowledge they're ignorant & incurious

"dogged by controversy"

Official Kristi Noem social media accounts appear to have been deleted

Official Kristi Noem social media accounts appear to have been deletedwww.theguardian.com Error messages shown on Facebook and Twitter pages for South Dakota governor plagued by dog-killing admission

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Warren Terra

I feel like JQ Adams is probably under-rated here too; wasn't he a big-time swimmer like his whole life

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Matthew Downhour

wondered who the healthiest president would've been, and accidentally gave my brain a splinter with the intrusive thought "if he was around today Teddy would be a CrossFit Sicko"

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post malone ergo propter malone

(Stephen Hawking's Robot voice) "Curious"

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Faine Greenwood

"CANada Oil, Low Acid" specifically; particular cultivar bred with like a twentieth of the bittering acids of more common breeds. Got genericized from that specific one to any low-acid breed, so these days a "canola plant" is any rapeseed subtype that's been bred to that trait

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c0nc0rdance

in fairness, I reckon the Sahara is a strong answer to the question "which desert is the Most Desert"

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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge

The "toilet paper in the trash" is pretty specifically Mexican? I believe originally because their waste treatment plants couldn't handle the paper or something like that

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Michael Tae Sweeney

They were both Mad Max movies that didnt quite to seem to understand that about themselves

Sweating like a pig, as the saying goes

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Zoë Alice Minneapolis 🏳️‍⚧️

This is astrology. These are zodiac signs

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Kevin Snyder

404media had a story, "what's the deal with those bots posting AI Stuff on Facebook", and one of the types they found was "regular user whose compromised account posts AI Stuff even while they keep using it like normal" wonder if there might be some kind of parallel here

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post malone ergo propter malone

I'd assume this would be true without intervention, but that trans women would tend towards intermediate heights if they got on hormone therapy before puberty

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post malone ergo propter malone

suspect the ethnicity & age demographic effects might swamp it as a measurable, independent variable

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Dr. Fade

whats the ratio of comp / contact hours on that? Is that even minimum wage

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

setting parental controls to shut off the president's wifi at bed time

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Patrick Cosmos

Archibald Stanton www.loonyparty.com/5007/8188/si...

Sir Archibald Stantonwww.loonyparty.com I am a West Yorkshire toff educated at Eaton – Earlsheaton that is Dewsbury WF12. You may have never voted before. But what if there was a Party dedicated to fun? There is! The Loony Party pu…

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum

"King of the Hill is ending" was literally a cover story for the propane trade magazine, in real life

At a naturalization ceremony. Congratulations to all our new US Citizens

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journeyman folklorist

reminds me of when the Death Valley park rangers here in the US have to put out a letter every summer, "knock it off with the damn fried eggs"

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drow zelensky

yeah I hazard to guess she's the person most likely to be the Dem candidate in 2028 or 2032, and in such a circumstance I'll be voting for her I think

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drow zelensky

you know for someone who claims to Not Care about US cultural hegemony, you sure do seem to know a lot about our vice president's personality

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

thought it'd be funny to look up the dates and see what Joe was getting up to while they were active, and I guess he married Jill just about when the Sex Pistols were the most In The News (1977)

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chatham harrison is tending a new garden

print it out and stick it on the wall like one of them posters of a cat dangling from a clothesline captioned "hang in there"

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Michael Tae Sweeney

brutalism, as a style, is notorious for high maintenance costs. Much more difficult to repair crumbling bits of single-pour concrete than to replace bricks

My first thought was "Utah, later than you'd think - 2010?" On a hypothesis of "eh probably some kind of Mormon Nonsense"

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Michael Tae Sweeney

just put everybody on the Federalist Society on the No-Fly List and keep explaining that the list is secret, actually

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Kevin M. Kruse

Shawn Harris! He's been on Bluesky for a while now

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Mark Shore

I want The Coin to be enormous. Weigh at least a ton. That way when Hollywood does a heist movie about it the crew will need a forklift