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It’s me. @elgreg from the dead bird site. VP of tech at Slate. I like bikes.

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The C part I get. The M and the S, not so much.

10.03.2026 01:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I suppose it’s the lowest hanging fruit. Glad to know it’s out there though.

09.03.2026 13:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Plz do Drayne The Rock Johnson next thank you.

09.03.2026 11:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

06.03.2026 03:51 👍 2369 🔁 539 💬 39 📌 25

* Richard Scarry book of mistresses

26.02.2026 14:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today.

He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.

03.02.2026 10:44 👍 1746 🔁 471 💬 27 📌 34

Gritty McGrittface feels too easy/derivative

05.01.2026 13:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pace Layers and AI Integration
23.12.2025 17:21 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
CBS promo for an episode called “does America need God?”

CBS promo for an episode called “does America need God?”

Next up in “Things That Matter”: Does Brazil Need Chthulu? Does Lichtenstein Need the Tooth Fairy? Does Cambodia Need Zeus, The God of Thunder? A Serious Journalistic InvestigationTM

20.12.2025 03:25 👍 175 🔁 25 💬 23 📌 4
Now, just six months into Trump’s term, Ellison has procured for himself a sweeping empire, ruling over acres’ worth of A.I. infrastructure, gaining a megasized media arm for himself via Paramount-Skydance, potentially winning another powerful media apparatus with TikTok, and seeing his own ideologies and goals reflected by a friendly White House. The Trump 2.0 era has been spectacular for “one rich asshole called Larry Ellison”—mostly because he’s done so much to shape it.

Now, just six months into Trump’s term, Ellison has procured for himself a sweeping empire, ruling over acres’ worth of A.I. infrastructure, gaining a megasized media arm for himself via Paramount-Skydance, potentially winning another powerful media apparatus with TikTok, and seeing his own ideologies and goals reflected by a friendly White House. The Trump 2.0 era has been spectacular for “one rich asshole called Larry Ellison”—mostly because he’s done so much to shape it.

anyway congrats, as ever, to Larry Ellison slate.com/technology/2...

18.12.2025 23:20 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Yglesias giving a presentation.  Slide title: BAD GROUPS CREATE BAD INCENTIVES FOR DEMOCRATS. Newspaper headline: more democratic lawmakers visit el salvador to see abrego garcia, wrongly deported by the Trump administration

Yglesias giving a presentation. Slide title: BAD GROUPS CREATE BAD INCENTIVES FOR DEMOCRATS. Newspaper headline: more democratic lawmakers visit el salvador to see abrego garcia, wrongly deported by the Trump administration

An yglesias flashback

12.12.2025 11:51 👍 1455 🔁 194 💬 51 📌 37

I have trouble throwing away free stickers

11.12.2025 20:14 👍 145 🔁 48 💬 6 📌 2
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Eight months ago vs today. 🤡

@atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

11.12.2025 13:22 👍 10202 🔁 3499 💬 565 📌 290
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a man wearing a helmet and chain mail is holding a sword over his head Alt: a man wearing a helmet and chain mail is making raspberries with his tongue and antlers with his hands and then knocking them on his head. He is a guard on the wall of a castle. He is French. He is being very mean to the heroes of our story. It’s a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The man ia John Clease, one of the funniest people. He is being an obnoxious French-type person.
08.12.2025 02:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
08.12.2025 02:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Agreed. I have never not conflated the two of them in my mind. There must be a reason and this logic is good enough.

22.11.2025 12:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts

19.11.2025 15:31 👍 1657 🔁 387 💬 43 📌 12

Pretty sure we have the technology and bandwidth in 2025 AD to show more than 10 or 20 things at a time in the lists on the internets by default. And yet…

17.11.2025 20:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

17.11.2025 02:06 👍 1642 🔁 490 💬 84 📌 121

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

02.11.2025 14:26 👍 10067 🔁 1812 💬 78 📌 71

Depends on the pump. Portable ones can be tough. My little hand lyzene takes a few minutes and is really hard to get it over 80 psi. Definitely wouldn’t use this to replace a floor pump. I’d probably end up carrying both if I had an electric one just because of battery fear.

24.10.2025 12:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I ride with folks that have them and agree. Fantastic. On my list of $$ bike stuff I want. One word of warning: they can get really hot so use that extender/shield thing if you inflate a TPU tube that has a plastic valve stem or it will melt!

24.10.2025 11:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s great when someone has it on the group ride though!

24.10.2025 11:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

21.10.2025 21:28 👍 6284 🔁 968 💬 54 📌 15
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Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

21.10.2025 17:09 👍 21818 🔁 3310 💬 887 📌 299

If I understand correctly, Nevada's logic is that Boring Co. violated the law SO MUCH after its _first_ consent decree, that the fine for all instances would be unduly burdensome, whereas $240,000 should be plenty to deter Elon Musk in the future.

20.10.2025 16:50 👍 379 🔁 162 💬 1 📌 0

I understand that Democrats are not in control of Congress or the White House but it would be interesting to read a news story about why groceries are actually ruinously expensive right now.

15.10.2025 03:40 👍 64 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

Some things I've learned in my first few weeks:

1) There is a grey market candy swapping racket between janitors, TSA agents, CSRs, and everyone else who has to stand someplace all day at the airport.

Hi-chews, sour candies, and gummy anything are in highest demand.

07.10.2025 07:42 👍 670 🔁 52 💬 6 📌 30
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REPORTER: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient?

LEAVITT: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer.

(That's not a no!)

02.10.2025 14:21 👍 4145 🔁 1039 💬 767 📌 228