Prufrock451

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Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals

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What a sentence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. battleshipnc.catalogaccess.com/archives/28073

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Whoops!

This whole thing is painfully obviously a prewrite about his new statesmanlike tone, based on the advance text of the speech, that they then tried to stretch and patch to acknowledge what he actually said www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/u...

Trump Struggles to Turn the Page on ‘American Carnage’www.nytimes.com On the last night of the G.O.P. convention on Thursday, Donald J. Trump promised to bridge political divides, and then returned to delighting in deepening them.

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So! Google just isn't a search engine anymore. No I mean literally. They're no longer indexing the entire Internet. Intentionally. It's more like they're assembling a "WOW Best Of The 90's" album of the internet. www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-d...

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Contentwww.vincentschmalbach.com Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google. You search for a unique sentence from your…

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It appears that either presidential candidate or even a senior cabinet official would have done for a depressed young man looking for a blaze of glory, and Trump came to his area. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/u...

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Tremendous that for decades we've lampooned "Villain spends time elaborating every detail of the evil scheme right before they implement it, giving the hero the time and information to foil it" as like cartoonishly stupid and then here comes the Heritage Foundation.

Honestly it's pretty funny that proudly publishing all their goals and plans may be the thing that gets a good chunk of people to realize how batshit they are. Like they could have just... not published it... and then tried to do all that stuff anyway.

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Nice

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Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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bridget epitropakis

Ok the ai is good again

AI fake sadly

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Gehn is so smart, folks. “You can’t close the Star Fissure,” they told him

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Monterey Jack

Scorpion frog etc etc

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“Someone shot me so it’s time to move on from the rape I did” is incredible

NEW TONE

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Lotta weird signals and signs!

Man, it really is strange what it’s been 24 hours and we just haven’t heard from Trump at all

The “horseshoe theory” is rightfully believing a lot of people on social media should be kicked in the head by a horse

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This is a syndicated story so you may have seen it already, but it ran on page A2 today and is cracking me up. I love a good conceptual art piece. What commitment!

These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted themapnews.com An Australian art museum curator has divulged that she was the creator of three paintings that she presented as works by Pablo Picasso -- and which prompted a gender discrimination case when she only ...

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a new life awaits you in the offline colonies

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I quit

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Jamelle Bouie coming back like hey everyone I just had a great time, some of the best paella I’ve ever h-OH NO

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Keith Smith 🪴🔭💻

Ok, this guy knew where I was going

If you’re sick of politics (like me!) and you have no idea what either party is up to, then join me as I build the world’s greatest collection of dessert recipes! A new great recipe every day for the next year! Just Google “Project 2025”

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Yayoi Kusama imagining an itch she can’t reach in the middle of her back

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this is by far the craziest longshot candidate replacement idea I’ve heard, but if the technology’s there I’ll hear them out

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lol www.npr.org/2024/07/12/n...

After Biden's debate performance, the presidential race is unchangedwww.npr.org The poll also found that, at this point, no other mainstream Democrat who has been mentioned as a replacement for the president on the ticket does better than President Biden.

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My fern appreciation thread

GOOD MORNING! I knew vaguely that ferns reproduce using spores instead of seeds, but what I did not know is that the spores do NOT grow into a fern. They grow into a gametophyte. Bear with me because YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING

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the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

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Seems worth noting that the Republican platform makes a big deal out of fighting crime and inflation, both of which have been plummeting

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Just to be clear why this is odd -- the narrative I see pundits pitch is that the public is obsessed with Biden's age and the Project 2025 story is not breaking through. These searches aren't perfect proxies but this complicates that a bit at least.

Weird case in point I put 'biden age' and 'project 2025' into Google Trends which isn't a perfect comparison but the result I got was completely unexpected

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This is peak cyberpunk

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Tired: Kevin Costner should have just made Horizon as a limited run TV series. Inspired: Kevin Costner should have made Horizon into five 85 minute feature films like the Ranown westerns.