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Hoping to protect the integrity of my gag post


Richard 塚正ー緑's avatar Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social
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The Guardian has two (2) articles placing wheelie bins in the national contexts of the UK and Australia respectively, and this is journalism of high value if only because I would have otherwise forgot tonight in bin night

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We haven't had a poo jogger yarn in a while

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Guy who always cleans up after his dog because he's terrified Bellingcat will identify him

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Guy who refuses to clean up after his dog on the basis that poo bags are contributing to microplastic waste

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I'd almost consider one of those developer tool hacks to get a price discount for the pleasure of having done so, but even then I'd have to eat KFC

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My grandma and her sister once saw a costumed man handing out bags at the Easter Show and my great aunt demanded one, not to be denied the goodies others were getting. She did not get any STIs so THANKYOU CONDOMAN

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Emerging polities like the UK need a transition stage before getting to full democracy

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being funny as a result of past family trauma is like sad nepotism

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Occasionally Malcolm Gladwell, drawing on his own capacity as shameless bullshit artist, does an article noting insightful others doing the same. Likewise Acemoglu here is clear eyed about LLM's capacity for voluminous and superficially informed output of vapid bullshit

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The funny thing is the go to take has been "instead of the far right breakthrough we wanted to report on we got chaos" and drawing a binary between fascism and chaos is a rhetorical ploy with some precedent

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France's longest border is with Brazil

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For instance viewers in the high single figures

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Hurriedly editing my column about how the Le Pen juggernaut requires major parties to be more racist so it is about how curbing the far left requires major parties to be more racist

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One mistake Star Wars as a franchise made was focusing on Jedi and Sith shit when the absurd, stoic pathologies of the Imperial Navy were waaaay more interesting

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Speaking as someone who has hitherto believed music was the same everywhere, I expected to soon be very surprised

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More like La Poorouse amirite

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This is worded carefully enough to be deliberately trolling

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+210 seats gained on a +2% increase in vote share. FPTP Democracy truly a miracle of representation.

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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

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British constituency names were generated by the developers of Fighting Baseball for the Famicom

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Respecting the classics

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Now the Harper's Bazaar article....well they ordered it

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I too have not eaten a dog in that particular circumstance

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I appreciate this, but look at the box art that graphics cards had circa 2000, the women portrayed, and the dominant style and use case of image generators

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For each of their sixth birthdays I wrote, illustrated, printed and bound a book for my children. The last bit was by far the most fun and challenging. This is the real reason the book endures.

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Today the middle schoolers taught me that MILF stands for “man I love frogs.”

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G. Willow Wilson's avatar G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me
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This article contains a couple of hilarious misunderstandings ('Decompression' is a technique, not a movement) but is otherwise a fascinating insight into one of the most revered and complex comics creators of the 20th century.

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Not to do Discourse but the continued reputation of Burke and Oakeshott is always interesting given the most reliable source of constitutional novelty in the Anglophonic world

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Oscar Mayer Sack o' Sauce in a Can o' Meat (1948-circa 1955): A novel innovation, in which a meat product was sealed in a can, along with a separate bag of sauce to accompany it. The idea was to package both together for convenience, but separate to retain flavor and texture

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