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May 4
🎶Hinky dinkle dee ... hinky dinkle dum .. was the _______ interesting song that he sung ... 🎶 -- The African Queen @NYTGames #spellingbee @thegridkid
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19 Dec 2017
[Thread] Obama years, in no particular order ....
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Apr 2
Aaaaand we have a 2026 April Fool's Day winner 🤣
We’re excited to announce the launch of the D.O.N.T. traffic safety initiative. D-Don’t be distracted O-Observe your surroundings N-Never assume others will stop T -Texting can wait Let’s work together to keep our roads safe. D.O.N.T. Use common sense. Every stop, every time.
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Mar 17
Annie Hall dinner joke reference ftw
NYT editorial board, while ostensibly opposing Trump's attack on Iran, registers only process complaints over "strategy" then says it "welcomes" regime change. The liberal opposition folks, Trump's a crazed war-monger and in such small portions! nytimes.com/2026/03/17/opini…
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Mar 10
I guess it's deliberate but the fact that, unlike the "green text" originals, the only present-tense imperative statement is the first one (which makes it unnecessary) bugs me
Replying to @RealPostFolder
Customer support repeating your exact words back to you like an NPC dialogue tree has to be the most infuriating experience on earth
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Mar 8
so--- what I'm hearing is a baseless claim that 50% of NYC Jews are so ill-informed and so easily manipulated that they can be tricked into voting for someone whose wife is [accused of being] the enemy of their people ¯\_(🤡)_/¯
Replying to @Olivia_Reingold
Yeah, it's sad, but most folks don't care — they think it won't happen to them. There are 1 million Jewish people in New York, and if my information is correct, over half voted for Zohran! Can you believe that? He manipulated the elections with social media and socialist propaganda, but in the end, he and his wife are 7th-century supporters of the Ali terrorists' playbook. Not surprising, and it's happening in many cities and states across the US! Michigan, Texas, and even Florida are dealing with this craziness. I say wake up, but I think I'd rather see these folks go to sleep!
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Feb 27
English is (hopefully) the only language in which you can write an eight word sentence consisting of a single repeated word (but you must get the capitalization right) Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
😂 🇵🇹 Portuguese is the only language where you can write a full text with words all starting with “P”. Pedro Paulo Pereira Pinto, pequeno pintor português, pintava portas, paredes, portais. 1/2
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Feb 21
🎶 I'm happy, hope you're happy too ...🎶 #Nytspellingbee #DavidBowie
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Jan 25
Dem silence is not merely shameful, it is proof, as if any were still needed, that they are allies and supporters of trump and ICE. House Dems just helped pass a House bill renewing ICE budget. Minneapolis Dems refused to arrest murderers of their constituents. 💩💥💩💥💩💥
I just got off a call with a friend in minneapolis I didn’t understand how bad the situation is right now, I don’t think any of us outside MSP do they were patrolling outside her window as I was talking to her there are thousands of them she (a white woman) now carries her passport with her when she leaves the house our call was interrupted by helicopters last year the ICE budget was $10B it’s now $85B this is coming to your doorstep soon the silence of CEOs and even Democratic leaders right now is shameful. if you don’t understand how 1930s Germany happened, this is how it happened. there’s nothing more unamerican. my grandpa manned a machine gun in the south pacific to fight this ideology. our constitutional rights are being shredded to pieces, and the powerful are bending their knee to it. i don’t care about your stance on immigration, if you support masked thugs terrorizing american communities, pointing guns at citizens and demanding papers, entering homes without warrants— please, take a hard look in the mirror and reevaluate the dissonance with your american values and the freedom your ancestors fought to give you.
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Jan 22
There's also this gem ...
SIGNS of our times On a plumber’s truck: "We repair what your husband fixed." On the trucks of a local plumbing company in NE Pennsylvania: "Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber." Pizza shop slogan: "7 days without pizza makes one weak." Sign over a gynecologist's office "Dr. Jones at your cervix." At a tire shop in Milwaukee: "Invite us to your next blowout." Door of a plastic surgeon's office: "Hello. Can we pick your nose?" At a towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows." On an electrician's truck: "Let us remove your shorts." In a non-smoking area: "If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action." On a maternity room door: "Push. Push. Push." At an optometrist's office: "If you don't see what you're looking for you've come to the right place." On a taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff." In a podiatrist's office: "Time wounds all heels.” On a fence: "Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive." At a car dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment." Outside a muffler shop: “No appointment necessary. We hear you coming." In a veterinarian's waiting room: "Back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!" At the electric company: "We would be de-lighted if you send in your bill. However, if you don't, you will be." In a restaurant window: "Don't stand there and be hungry. Come on in and get fed up." In the front yard of a funeral home: "Drive carefully. We'll wait."
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Jan 21
If only there was an opposition party etc. etc. etc. ¯\_(💩)_/¯
72 minuti. 72 minuti di delirio in diretta mondiale. 72 minuti in cui il Presidente degli Stati Uniti ha confuso la Groenlandia con l’Islanda. Più volte. Mentre spiegava perché vuole comprarla. 72 minuti in cui ha minacciato un alleato NATO, la Danimarca, con queste parole: “Potete dire di sì, e lo apprezzeremo. Potete dire di no, e ce lo ricorderemo”. 72 minuti in cui ha definito la Groenlandia “un pezzo di ghiaccio” da cui dipenderebbero i destini della Terra: “Quello che chiedo è un pezzo di ghiaccio in cambio della pace mondiale”. 72 minuti in cui ha dichiarato di avere “100% sangue scozzese e 100% sangue tedesco”. Che farebbe 200%. Ma la matematica, evidentemente, non è il suo forte. 72 minuti in cui ha affermato che gli Stati Uniti, dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, avrebbero “restituito la Groenlandia alla Danimarca”. Peccato che sia falso. Gli Stati Uniti non hanno mai posseduto la Groenlandia. Mai. Nel 1916 riconobbero ufficialmente la sovranità danese. Durante la guerra ottennero solo basi militari temporanee. E nel 1946 provarono a comprarla offrendo 100 milioni di dollari. La Danimarca disse no. Non c’è stata nessuna “restituzione”. 72 minuti in cui ha sostenuto che “la Cina non ha pale eoliche”. La Cina. Il Paese che da 15 anni consecutivi è il primo produttore mondiale di energia eolica. Quello che costruisce il 45% di tutti i progetti eolici del pianeta. Ma per Trump, “non hanno campi di mulini a vento”. Li vendono “agli stupidi”. 72 minuti in cui ha detto che “tutte le grandi compagnie petrolifere stanno venendo con noi in Venezuela”. Peccato che il CEO di ExxonMobil, tre giorni prima, gli avesse detto in faccia che il Venezuela è “non investibile”. Peccato che Trump si sia infuriato e abbia minacciato di escludere Exxon. Peccato che le altre compagnie stiano alla finestra, terrorizzate. Ma lui, a Davos, ha detto che “stanno venendo tutte”. 72 minuti in cui ha affermato che “praticamente non c’è inflazione” negli Stati Uniti. L’inflazione americana è al 2,7%. Superiore all’obiettivo della Fed. In aumento, secondo le previsioni, a causa dei suoi stessi dazi. Ma per lui, “praticamente non c’è”. 72 minuti in cui ha attaccato il presidente della Federal Reserve chiamandolo “stupido” e “Jerome troppo-tardi Powell”. In diretta. Davanti ai leader economici mondiali. 72 minuti in cui ha raccontato di aver messo dazi alla Svizzera per ripicca, perché “una donna” di cui non ricorda il nome “lo aveva accarezzato per il verso sbagliato”. 72 minuti in cui ha detto che “ieri il mercato è crollato a causa dell’Islanda”. L’Islanda. Un Paese con 380.000 abitanti. Che avrebbe fatto crollare Wall Street. 72 minuti in cui ha sostenuto che gli Stati Uniti “hanno pagato il 100% della NATO”. Il 100%. Quando la quota americana del budget NATO è circa il 16%. Ma per lui, il 100%. 72 minuti in cui ha confuso l’Azerbaigian in “Aber-bajian”. 72 minuti di flusso di coscienza. Di bugie verificabili. Di numeri inventati. Di minacce ad alleati. Di insulti a funzionari. Di gaffe geografiche. Di millanterie smentite dai fatti. E il mondo, in silenzio, ha guardato. Ha guardato il Presidente della più grande potenza mondiale confondere due nazioni, minacciare la Danimarca, insultare la Fed, mentire sul Venezuela, inventarsi dati sull’inflazione, negare l’esistenza dell’industria eolica cinese. 72 minuti. E pensare che una volta, per molto meno, le carriere politiche finivano. Oggi, invece, si va avanti verso il prossimo delirio. Benvenuti nel 2026. #Davos #Trump
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The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram. 100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show. I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell. You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures. Here is the actual science of what you are watching: 1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk. 2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time. 3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate. 4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared. 5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed. Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit. They didn't die because of Instagram. They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.
This clip truly epitomizes the age of Instagram stupidity, where the urge to record stuff is now powerful enough to override instincts programmed into humans since the dawn of time.
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27 Dec 2025
my GOD, just absolutely f*¢k this guy & his sneering repulsive utterly flatheaded, utterly shallow stupidity and WOW she finally just shut him up 🤡🎉🤣🤣🤣
27 Dec 2025
Bill Maher suddenly went quiet when she dropped THIS. Great stuff from @AnaKasparian
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27 Dec 2025
Ullage is the empty space at the top of containers of liquids or other space-filling contents (rice, cereal, etc). Ullage motors are small rockets on each stage of a liquid-fueled rocket that create thrust to push fuel to the bottom of the tank, creating ullage.
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16 Dec 2025
Laocoön (lay-Ak-a-wan) and his sons, citizens of Troy, being strangled to death by sea snakes sicced on them by Athena for having the temerity to urge their fellow citizens to reject the generosity of the Greeks 🐴
In the year 1506, a 1000-year-old statue was discovered in Rome. But it was missing an arm, So the pope launched a contest to see who could come up the best recreation of the missing arm. Michelangelo’s version lost, but 400 years later the original arm was was found and had been sculpted in the exact same position that Michelangelo designed.
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14 Dec 2025
Of what use is a newborn babe?
4 Dec 2025
Replying to @Rainmaker1973
Whats the point if there is no net energy generation in fusion technology and we have by many orders or magnitude cheaper, faster, safer and more reliable ways to generate energy,
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13 Dec 2025
Whenever I come across a reference to my grandfather Dwight he always comes across as faintly ridiculous or wrong-headed but that's because his f.r./w.h. takes are invariably the ones chosen for discussion 🤪😆 also it's Macdonald, not MacDonald 🙄
12 Dec 2025
Replying to @sapinker
A fatuous diatribe against a dictionary based on a modern understanding of language, by their dance critic Joan Acocella, an ignoramus on this topic, mirroring a similar polemic by the critic Dwight MacDonald in the magazine 50 years before: slate.com/culture/2012/05/st…
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13 Dec 2025
Cervantes starting to regret his decision to write Book 2 #donquixote
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10 Dec 2025
This is fine, just tell me exactly what vocabulary to use to express my anger at what Israel & the IDF are doing in the Gaza Strip -- I'm willing to learn... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Jewish creators behind "Mad Men" and "The Americans" said young Jewish artists now "feel under siege in Hollywood" amid rising antisemitism. Joel Fields, co-creator of The Americans, said: "People will say they haven't turned on Jews, only on 'Zionist oppressors.' But that phrase has become a new code for anti-Jewish bigotry – and we know what it is." He added: "They don't recognize the bigotry; they think it's moral righteousness… Most people in the West think Jews are only a religion. They don't understand Jews as an ancient people with a shared homeland, culture, and history – multiplicities of religious expression, all bound by one book and one story. That misunderstanding is part of the confusion right now." jpost.com/israel-news/cultur…
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6 Dec 2025
Lunatic: Jews are titans of the film, banking & genocide industries because the gentiles forced them into those industries, because the gentiles considered cinema, usury & indiscriminate mass-murder "disgusting" 🤯🤡🙄🤪😱😜💥
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jews were forced to "control Hollywood." "You made us do that!" She says the same goes for banking.
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