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@eephusasher and @urban_asher combined into one great taste. Hiding here as the world crumbles around us.

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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:

A line from the Simpsons that describes your sex life: Stupid babies need the *most* attention!

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George Lucas in 1999 making a movie about how the senate and Supreme Court are hopelessly corrupt:

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"How did this happen?" Well first of all the country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains, so write that down.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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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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Charity is a means of control, which is why conservative monsters absolutely love it.

A homeless shelter wrote an amicus brief in the Grant’s Pass case. They argued SCOTUS should let the city arrest the homeless because, and I am not shitting you, the ban on doing so meant less people were willing to abide by their “two church services a day and no sex” requirement to sleep inside.

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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Would be funny if Hamburg had a rival city called Cheeseburg. I think we’d all enjoy that

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If you want to understand the origins and solutions of the American homelessness problem, a really important starting point is to understand that the problem mostly exists in places where *there are lots of jobs and the labor market is really strong,* not in economically depressed areas.

This thing is busted because I am obviously the most bouba man in existence.

introducing @kiki-bouba.mozzius.dev like the labeller to find out if you're kiki or bouba (wip, still working out the prompt)

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Muppet History, an account that is a national treasure, and the official Muppets account both point out that THE MUPPET MOVIE debuted in the U.S. a scant 45 years ago today, January 22, 1979. One of the greatest movies ever made.

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The "dudes rock" meme is a genuinely blessed addition to gender discourse. We've managed to make our positive model of masculinity something brand new. Overenthusiastic, enterprising, goofy, joyful, carefree, boisterous, camaraderie, all the qualities that we got scolded for in school.

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The way we’re all told to treat all this as normal. It’s fine that half your email is scams. It’s fine that you can’t answer your phone. It’s fine that every Instagram post is full of scam bait comments. It’s fine that people text you weird phishing links. Just adjust your behavior.

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Me restraining my cat while accepting my pizza delivery.

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I teach in schools and I have never seen young men as radicalised by the far right as they are now. I have never been so often warned by teachers about students before taking their classes. There is a level of rage there that is startling.

Polls in the US have shown gradual drifting of young voters to the right, and much of the left/liberal reaction has been ‘these polls are wrong, because young people are hard to poll’, and maybe they’re right, but there is no shortage of evidence for the trend elsewhere.

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You should not drink from a filtered fountain/bottle filler if the light is red. It means they're probably not maintaining it well and a spent filter can put bad stuff back in the water.

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.

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There is plenty of good fiction where the fictional musicians’ music isn’t also great but this is one of the ones where it is

I'm begging everyone who has Peacock to watch We Are Lady Parts season 2. It's so good and I need more of this show. Or if you don't have Peacock, pony up for just one month so you can watch this incredible show. Please.

My first “this website is free” on this website

When another boy has a balloon

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Doctors should be able to prescribe money.

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CEO Relieved AI Can Never Replace Him If He Already Contributes Nothing To Companywww.theonion.com NEW YORK—Expressing confidence that the new technology wasn’t a threat, FinCorp Solutions CEO Charles Markham reportedly expressed relief Wednesday that artificial intelligence could never replace him...

I can’t exactly say I’m surprised by Hochul killing congestion pricing in Manhattan but it’s still a gut punch.

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[explaining deterrence to a zoomer] So what happened was, one night Stanislav Petrov saw something that didn't pass the vibe check

deterrence is a funny thing. on some level it is just... vibes. an actor won't do a thing because it fears the consequences. but it is also very real. a lot of ink has been spilled about what the west is deterred from vis a vis ukraine, but deterrence is causing arguably bigger issues for russia:

Mad Men TNG DS9 SportsNight Veronica Mars Cheers Night Court Family Ties Derry Girls The Wire Shows Ive rewatched lots but had bad seasons that I skip: West Wing Community The Good Place Frasier New Girl

What TV series have you watched all the way through more than three times?

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Exactly right. Biden set records for deportations and the right is still screaming that we have "open borders." Stop trying to meet these psychos halfway.

There is no amount of increasing border enforcement or deporting people that will ever make the American right wing believe the border is being properly handled by a democratic president. Any compromise on this is just a signal that they can demand more & keep the issue live. Immoral, bad politics.