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Just another old cishet white guy, but I recognize my demographic is the most destructive in 14b years. Trying to reverse that everywhere I can.

I'm here for the joy, y'all are the coolest folx I've ever met.

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2026-11-03 15:10:45 UTC

Let’s make this the worst day in Cheetolini’s life…
…so far.

2026-09-25 15:01:05 UTC

Tomorrow, we celebrate Stanislov Petrov Day.
You, me, and everyone we will ever know owe our lives to this man.

2026-08-19 14:24:45 UTC

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@nprofile…u76z
I got a tip from a scheduler:
If the patient portal allows you to reschedule, try it weekdays when the scheduling office is closed. Around dinner time is best.
You might drop in to a slot someone just cancelled from.

2026-08-18 16:38:15 UTC

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@nprofile…z6kv
What do you suggest, 110 or 120dB?

2026-08-12 00:05:23 UTC

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@nprofile…4e7w
Gaffer tape is what movie gaffers (lighting electricians) use. It is fancy duct tape, usually with low-tack adhesive, and leaves no trace when peeled off most surfaces.
Some of them also have a no-adhesive stripe down the middle.

2026-08-11 13:40:29 UTC

Folx, the commonly used grey cloth tape is really and truly called DUCK tape. It was never intended for use on HVAC ducting.
The name is from the original base cloth: cotton duck, a kind of canvas.

2026-07-23 14:21:36 UTC

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@nprofile…tly8
One can only make a Caeser Salad on the Ides of March. Otherwise, it's just stabby lettuce.

2026-07-21 02:55:38 UTC

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@nprofile…emk6
Buy a bunch of cheap Craigslist bikes, mangle them, chain them to that trailer.

2026-07-05 17:07:42 UTC

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@nprofile…926n
But it’s the principle of the payment, that’s important.
To a man whose depths are shallower than a slime-covered, algae-filled, toxic reflecting pool.

2026-07-04 15:49:10 UTC

Inchmale: How are you?
Hollis: Complicated. How are you?
Inchmale: Decidedly less so, on good days. I think fatherhood agrees with me.
“Spook Country” by William Gibson

2026-07-03 01:24:13 UTC

Ok, let’s over share:
What was your first car?
(Embarrassing stories only. )

2026-06-12 22:17:53 UTC

Oh hey, some orange turd is celebrating another lap of the sun destroying lives and ruining the nation.
I believe we're supposed to be celebrating? At a march somewheres?

2026-06-09 19:54:23 UTC

Hey you young people! (I’m late 60’s.)
Learn and practice NOW the methods you find comfortable for asking others to help you.
This ability, and gratitude for the results, needs to be second nature before your 50th birthday. Really.
Ask for help doing something you’re absolutely certain you can do alone. Get good at getting help. When you think you’re good at it, start asking strangers.
Normalize getting help, doing together, and gratitude.
This lone wolf stuff is bullshit.

2026-06-03 22:55:58 UTC

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@nprofile…9q5z
That is AMAZING. Will prints be available for purchase?

2026-05-26 16:01:51 UTC

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@nprofile…kahw
It’s also possible that the CRM software logged all Mrs. Miasma’s communications, and your call was over the magic threshold.
She may’ve loosened the jar so you could open it.

2025-12-14 20:06:43 UTC

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@nprofile…sm7r
I don't know who this Theter Piel is, but he's clearly a Big Deal Businessman and I wish to invest in his company.😆

2025-12-09 13:23:39 UTC

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@nprofile…aklu
I use this all the time and no one gets it. They're all so unhip....

2025-12-04 23:38:47 UTC

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@nprofile…nks4 @nprofile…5qu8
"...to dispel about Alzheimer’s is the reality of how hard it is..."
Dispel: (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
I really hope 1) that's a transcription error or 2) someone misspoke.

2025-12-04 20:17:47 UTC

Neil Stephenson has a brilliant essay about AI slop. The self-feeding-loop he calls the "Inhuman Centipede."
Nailed it.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z
Thanks @nprofile…998y for sharing.

2025-12-04 15:07:29 UTC

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@nprofile…ekm4
You're right about the funding's intent, but dead wrong about the baker: there was no gay couple. The real story is a court taking a Potemkin case as if it was a serious issue to support their desired outcome.
So actually, this post is at best noise or outrage porn.

2025-12-02 15:32:18 UTC

"I'm a newbie and I want to use <built-in feature>."
DO NOT FUCKING EVER rtfm them. EVER. If you can't find|provide a real set of instructions for their use-case, sit down and shut the fuck up.
Never RTFM anyone, ever. Directly support or be quiet so others can.

2025-11-30 16:22:57 UTC

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@nprofile…y70r
On this crusade, we have failed.

2025-11-20 20:29:40 UTC

I'm fed up with search engines.
I want a find engine.

2025-11-01 20:14:25 UTC

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@nprofile…hc5w
WOW! "Fighting a war by <teleconferencing>" is such an eloquent summary of "House of Dynamite" (Netflix) as well.
It's a nifty trick: rows of tables with only monitor-cases visible to the camera: signals "capability" to the audience without spending a penny. Logos visible, so MFR paid for placement. You only need live monitors in front of extras wearing glasses, though I suppose production could pump imagery to all for pretty cheap for reflections.

2025-10-29 22:47:05 UTC

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@nprofile…dzr3 @nprofile…d9d3 @nprofile…vry2
A quotation popularly known as "Wilhoit's law" is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
However, it was actually a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit [Wikidata], years after Francis Wilhoit's death.

2025-10-12 18:41:47 UTC

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@nprofile…fle4
Oh come on, this is NOT news. My bro lives under the Blackhawks' flight path to this building, and they're CONSTANTLY in the air.
But even if they're not so equipped, you better believe the FBI's surveillance or contractors' ELINT planes are constantly orbiting the city.
Check any ADS-B webpage, you'll find those obvious flight patterns in less than a minute. (Racetrack, figure 8, or even just spirals in circles.)

2025-10-11 15:48:41 UTC

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@nprofile…xt3g @nprofile…pdwz @nprofile…2hrv
Gotta agree: EU-style "water closets" are wonderful. Buc-ee's is 99% of the way to ungendered bathrooms.
The rest of the place, however, is best experienced with welding goggles, hearing defenders, AND earplugs. Very bad sensory overload.

2025-06-18 17:52:48 UTC

The AI how-to guides fall into 2 categories: Time-wasters/harmless, Hallucinatory/dangerous.
Time-wasters/harmless:
<vamp>
<padding>
<disclaimers>
<limitations>
<Remove "how to" from title.>
<ads>
Hallucinatory/dangerous:
<50,000 words of platitudinal tautologies, interspersed with recommendations that are exactly the opposite of safety and the original goal>
<ads>

2025-06-11 17:54:57 UTC

I gather we're supposed to start putting "V" 's up. During WWII the resistance graffiti'd V's everywhere, and the Nazis found it quite disconcerting.
I'm going to start carrying sidewalk chalk.

2025-06-07 14:17:46 UTC

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@nprofile…d0dx
Beautiful and terrifying

2025-05-30 19:58:18 UTC

Why did smartphone makers train us to accept "the notch" in screens, and the giant, protruding lenses on the backs?

2025-05-28 18:12:19 UTC

"POTUS is considering..." means bidding is open. If you don't get the outcome you want, you know you were outbid.

2025-05-19 23:03:27 UTC

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@nprofile…zp6v
That took a long time to read...I LOL'd so loud the dog was frightened.

2025-05-10 04:44:22 UTC

As Starlink goes from 7,200 now to it's 42,000 full, licensed limit, it will reach a rate of 25 satellites re-entering per day. We're about to learn if stratospheric aluminum vapor's affect on our other fuckup.
Thanks to Prof. Lawlor @nprofile…kyj5 for the stats.
#AnthropogenicGlobalClimateChange
#AGCC

2025-05-08 22:20:56 UTC

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@nprofile…xvlc
Because you are an ARTIST!!!!!!

2025-04-25 21:45:13 UTC

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@nprofile…lst5
No SFX or music cues? HELL NO, sound is more than 50% of the show.

2025-04-23 15:39:18 UTC

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@nprofile…4yw8
Whooping cough is so very much more serious than people imagine. Coughing until one vomits, bruises a rib, or damages the cartilage in the ribcage are just a hint of what's in store. Plus a permanent, non-productive cough for the real winners.

2025-04-18 20:30:24 UTC

@nprofile…qz4x :
"At this point, Zuck[erberg]'s CFO...wrote to Zuck warning him that it was illegal to buy Insta[gram] in order to 'neutralize a potential competitor.'
Zuck replied that he was, indeed, solely contemplating buying Insta in order to neutralize a potential competitor."
Yes, folks, the rich aren't like other people. They're vastly dumber and need that wealth to protect them from the mean, nasty, and ugly world.

2025-03-30 18:15:19 UTC

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@nprofile…sczv
New bucket-list item: to carry your tripod(s) and hydration supplies on one of your ventures.

2025-03-30 05:01:35 UTC

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@nprofile…48vs
There are FOUR cantilevered monoplanes there. In just 6 years. The Wright's plane looks like an old box kite comparatively.

2025-03-27 00:00:00 UTC

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@nprofile…sczv
Yes to the story and when can I move in this place?

2025-03-17 04:54:30 UTC

We've gotta do better. Gene Hackman died a week after his wife Betsy Arakawa. She dies of Hanta Virus. He, with Alzheimer's and heart disease, died near the house entry and with an empty stomach.
We've got to normalize checking on our neighbors.

2025-02-24 19:10:34 UTC

Holy Crap, if Canada decides to invade the US, I'm in a northern border state. Within artillery range, in fact.
Getting my white flag ready and learning "O, Canada!" and hoping it's soon.

2025-02-06 17:22:39 UTC

Spy rule 7382:
Do NOT hold your clandestine meetings where thousands of high-rise windows are overlooking you.

2025-02-05 04:35:40 UTC

USAID doesn’t save lives, it PREVENTS WARS. Wars against the US.
It is the cheapest and most successful defense of the country in history.
“The best place to store your extra food is in your neighbor’s stomach”
-old Inuit saying

2025-01-30 04:36:29 UTC

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@nprofile…w0lm
That form says it expired 1/31/2024.

2025-01-04 16:29:35 UTC

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@nprofile…q5wq
As a retired network engineer, I really don’t want sysadmins knowing anything about networking. Because the corollary is I have to learn sysadmin stuff which inevitably means Microsoft stuff and that’s just cursed knowledge I don’t need.
Besides, if those folks can’t keep their bigendian and littleendians separate, please keep them away from my trunking protocol.

2025-01-03 18:22:12 UTC

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@nprofile…skc4 @nprofile…ws3x
I agree, with minimal shading and wind-blocking, the power requirement is pretty low.
Except at high latitudes/altitudes becase we need heaters to prevent hard-freezing the soft-cooling stuff. Outdoor pop machines have heating options, I think both heat-pump and resistive.
But I'm off to research that part now!!!!!

2025-01-03 18:02:55 UTC

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@nprofile…ws3x @nprofile…skc4
I was thinking that the property-owner would just have to pay that, and the community could collect to repay them.
Identifying the property/location is interesting.

2025-01-03 05:48:26 UTC

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@nprofile…skc4
Is there a summary of the process to set this up?

2025-01-03 00:21:46 UTC

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@nprofile…knl5
In hindsight, this is like that Scientific American study of dangerous dogs that found the best predictor was the owner, not the dog.

2024-12-28 23:01:59 UTC

Remember that the male lions are mostly for show, the females do the hunting.
Therefore it should be DOUBLY imopressive that I stalked and brought home TWO sandwiches.
I almost mussed my main.

2024-12-27 22:17:17 UTC

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@nprofile…hfty
Can I ask which Blossom? (if this is THE most unhip question in recorded history, I will accept appropriate shaming.)
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=blossom

2024-12-27 00:51:27 UTC

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@nprofile…qtsx
And because we're such assholes to each other, the interactions will eventually boil down to degrading each other's contribution.
I only had a brief 9 years of a team that everyone contributed wholly and always. I wish everyone to have such an experience.

2024-12-24 02:24:47 UTC

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@nprofile…f83e
Our (US) state now offers Missing and Murdered Indiginous Family Members (#MMIFM) license plates. #RedHand

2024-12-23 20:35:51 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
That last one, I burned up/out some expensive appliances.

2024-12-23 20:32:04 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
What would you put on that shelf (if the fan spins)?
Timed-release confetti?

2024-12-21 15:13:18 UTC

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@nprofile…hl6k @nprofile…fynq
Harvard did a study in the 80’s or maybe 90’s that every 20 mins of commute was worth $9k of salary.
They measured the impact of lost socialization (bowling leagues, for example) as well as the costs of the longer drive.
In ‘07 I went from a 70 mile commute, to a 3 block walk. ‘‘Twas a bit of a revelation.

2024-12-21 03:30:54 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
I won’t share this or abuse this knowledge.

2024-12-20 01:30:44 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Thanks Vee. I'm using it.

2024-12-20 00:18:07 UTC

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@nprofile…rmmx
Right back atcha, Scalzi Family. Best wishes for 2025.

2024-12-20 00:14:57 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
USA: Land of health control and gun care.

2024-12-20 00:07:56 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"
Abe Simpson

2024-12-17 18:22:37 UTC

The side effects of "just living" with a very slow, treatable form of cancer in retirement:
Every day, I have less money to handle the inevitable planned "suprise" payments to health insurance stockholders.
Every day, recovery will get harder and longer.

2024-12-16 23:55:32 UTC

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@nprofile…9p2a @nprofile…jzz7 @nprofile…vdm6 @nprofile…vu2w
Chicago uses “yous” as well.

2024-12-16 18:13:08 UTC

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@nprofile…0tvd
Oh god yes. Might be a simple roadside sobriety test: Do you prefer Jira to ServiceNow’s developer module?
(Trick question, as SN products cause suicide.)

2024-12-16 03:51:15 UTC

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@nprofile…vdm6
Truly one of the most useful words in the English language. Second person ambiguous now has unspecified gender in addition to quantity. Perfect.

2024-12-12 20:23:51 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Shade that beauty in chocolate brown and this is every day with Ladybug.
That narrow-eyed look burns.

2024-12-12 00:21:53 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
A vet once told us getting a dog for protection is silly, they’ll show the thief where the silver is for a piece of pepperoni.

2024-12-11 04:11:17 UTC

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@nprofile…fynq
You can find the complete download size, I believe it’s all media and edits? Few hundred gig compressed IIRC.
The media will be the largest chunk of it.

2024-12-11 03:55:28 UTC

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@nprofile…fynq
Uh, did you see this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes

2024-12-10 21:13:08 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
WAIT, us too!!! In the middle there!!! We'd bring a big chunk of Lake Superior to sweeten the deal.

2024-12-07 04:29:27 UTC

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@nprofile…8eay
Scrape the roller drums! That little grey line of (ick) changes the diameter of the roller and that changes the pulses per inch.
I hated thinking about what that grey stuff was.

2024-12-05 21:23:14 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
This is nuts. But I shall follow your direction, my Fearless Leader!!!!!

2024-12-03 01:10:35 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Friends don’t let friends perpetuate questionable memes.
Scroll down to “Validity” if you’re in a hurry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

2024-12-01 22:37:21 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz
Is it possible it's old enough to have been steam-powered? (Mechanical transmission of power might be ever so slightly safer than Ye Olde Electric Motors with the sparky commutators.)

2024-12-01 21:37:14 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
I'm sorry for your loss Vee. Can you share a story about him?

2024-11-30 19:14:53 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Who, the persistence to pull that off is mind-blowing...

2024-11-27 21:38:52 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Hope you feel less-bad Vee. Do you need to borrow a dog for bed-snuggling?

2024-11-27 15:37:53 UTC

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@nprofile…chpz
Goddammit. History records that jailing student protestors is never the right course of action.

2024-11-26 21:30:43 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
The impact sounds like one of those cartoon-honks.

2024-11-26 20:46:38 UTC

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@nprofile…8eay
There’s a lot of clean glass and plastic there, if its guts suck, maybe it’s a nice shell to put something in?
Remember, the interals could even be a modern single-board PC and a few AAAs to run some kinda emulation just for the looks.

2024-11-25 21:09:21 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Was a feature of Snow Crash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata

2024-11-25 03:18:42 UTC

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@nprofile…kyj5
AMD CPUs are cheaper bang for the buck than Intel. A dedicated GPU (and more importantly, Video RAM) is a good thing.
My new Lenovo V15 G4 ABP 83CR was cheap ($800) and runs crisply.

2024-11-25 01:14:20 UTC

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@nprofile…8eay
Remember those?! I could play music on one without loading down the CPU/OS.

2024-11-23 00:08:50 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Clearly a person who's only ever lived at lower latitudes/milder climates.
Get those socks on FAST, the floor is FREEZING COLD.

2024-11-22 18:39:53 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz
Do they smell as bad inside as outside?

2024-11-22 01:07:35 UTC

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@nprofile…6fzr
Done. Keep up the great work, I depend on you.

2024-11-20 01:28:49 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Jeez Vee. Come to the arctic (liberal) north!
(I always say we are the Florida of Canada. I can't seem to get them interested in adding us.)

2024-11-19 19:41:40 UTC

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@nprofile…chpz
Nobody cares, the right won. Not “correct.”

2024-11-18 01:27:42 UTC

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@nprofile…y03m
1918 Flu Redux!!!!!

2024-11-17 21:00:57 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
https://youtu.be/Bm6yYvKbPt4

2024-11-15 02:16:18 UTC

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@nprofile…fecl
Honestly, H5N1 is going to be so bad, I don’t think even rfk could make it worse.

2024-11-14 22:36:22 UTC

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@nprofile…vdm6
FUCK YEAH THAT'S MY MAYOR!!!!!!
In your FACE reactionary minoritarians!

2024-11-14 22:33:13 UTC

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@nprofile…taps
Motorcyclists tap their head/helmet.

2024-11-07 23:48:43 UTC

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@npub1dts…6798
I heard recently that most/all bulldogs are born by c-section because the puppies can’t be delivered vaginally because their heads’s too big. Sharing that because it makes this cartoon even more heartbreaking.

2024-10-19 20:07:11 UTC

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@npub1dts…6798
Only if it's the short bus. I'm not "real bus" material.

2024-10-14 22:52:21 UTC

Let's try to remember that the Luddites weren't anti-technology, they were pro-craftsman. They wanted workers to own the means of (their) production.

2024-10-13 20:03:08 UTC

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@npub1dts…6798
My first moto could take these at Ludicrous Speed without ill effects. This makes me want to go back to one like it.

2024-10-13 19:54:51 UTC

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@npub1dts…6798
WAIT, if NO ONE has ever observed, gazed, or used this mirror, how do we know it's a mirror?