Malaclypse the Middle

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A hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Ex Sociology adjunct turned Accounting nerd. North of Boston, near witches. Born into a 321 PPM world. He/Him

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PlanetCarnival

My spouse had success with wintergreen lifesavers.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)

All the ones wanting a white savior.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)

Unfortunately, this sentence is true whichever one of the likely nominees you are talking about.

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Drove into New Hampshire today, and immediately saw a “Democrats Will Protect Your Reproductive Rights” billboard with an American flag and a bald eagle on it, from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). Excellent work. More of that please.

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

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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The NYT's Growing Social Media Gaffes Lead To Serious Questions Regarding Paper's Viability

Okay, looks we may be jumping the gun here. Lorenz says the NYT says they didn't delete their Threads account on purpose.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

Plus, there's all the unanswered question's surrounding Sulz and kitten-murdering.

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hammancheez

Cenk teaming up with Joe Walsh and Brianna Wu is what the kids nowadays call "overdetermined"

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hilzoy

One of the things I love about where I live is that there are dozens of congregations that have been around since 1692, and now they all have year-round pride signage. Cotton Mather must be spinning in his grave.

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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

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Warren Terra

I doubt I'm the only person like this: bsky.app/profile/mala...

Every time I see Gina Raimondo's name it takes me a moment to remember that she's the semi-corrupt RI ex-Governor and not the TERF lady who got fired from Star Wars.

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God forbid women have hobbies

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Related: consider literary criticism, a field in which I assume no one thinks that there is e.g. a One True Interpretation of Finnegan's Wake, or even Pride and Prejudice, to which all existing interpretations are better or worse approximations.

And it's really important that judges act in such a way as to make this belief reasonable. If they could just make up whatever they wanted -- "When the Constitution says that a President must be 35 years old, I interpret '35' to mean '9' -- there would be no such thing as the rule of law.

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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. “Hey,” the Party said, “This incredibly stupid, un-cool garbage is super cool and good actually, you fucking moron. LOL. LMAO.”

Added alt-text, and that sentence gets worse with every next word.

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Snitty

He made torture - literal torture - something normalized.

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The Fall always had great taste in covers, but this is their best, teasing the cynicism out of Ray Davies’ lyrics and giving it a punky sneer youtu.be/N0I2u6DKnwI?...

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

The Fall - Victoria HDyoutu.be Working from home alternative classics ➤ https://bit.ly/3aOLq7HThe Fall covered The Kinks 'Victoria' back in 1988, again taken from The Frenz Experiment. Enj...

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J.J.

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Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Heroyoutu.be Album: Broken English - 1979

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Megan Goodwin

The movie is so perfectly cast.

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Malaclypse the Fetus

Oh, sure, find a way to make Kid Rock do something cool, or at least funny.

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️

“There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time.”

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Comfortably Numb

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I am a pudgy middle-aged balding white dude who rides a bicycle, and yet even I can clear the Kid Rock bar.

Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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Read this, share this widely

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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Mike W

Smells like Teen Spirit by Patti Smith Istanbul not Constantinople by TMBG Brain Damage by Bim Skala Bim Wish You Were Here by Rasputina

How did I forget this? youtu.be/-Fw_YuuGqBY?...

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Official Audio)youtu.be Official Audio for "I Wanna Be Your Dog” by Joan Jett & the BlackheartsListen to Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: https://JJatBH.lnk.to/streamYD Subscribe to the...

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Malaclypse the Middle

Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.