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Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
06.03.2026 01:05
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Possible also that most of the media attention was initiated by the right-wing press and with him just doing the job of being a city mayor there's less grist for the mill.
23.02.2026 22:21
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South Park episode nailed this
23.02.2026 22:18
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to lift
22.02.2026 22:33
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”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
16.02.2026 17:11
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The poet Lebo Mashile--not on Bsky--once said that raising her son not to hate women held the likelihood of raising him to be lonely because hating women was how men bond.
16.02.2026 18:20
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"Just for the record, I ought to tell you the facts. They’re boring, but you have a right to know.”
Reader: they were not boring.
05.02.2026 21:28
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Old enough to remember the first "Coalition of the Willing"
22.01.2026 15:01
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I like how this argument shifted from "they're going to cancel elections" to "they're going to intimidate voters into staying home from participating in the election which is apparently not cancelled"
18.01.2026 19:10
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He did face a crisis not of his own making in his first term: Covid. It didn't go great.
16.01.2026 18:51
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One suspects that if Trump had magnanimously told Machado to keep it, that she would be telling the media this.
15.01.2026 21:48
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My cheap psychoanalysis is that if some of these people acknowledged how many people didn't want the Iraq war then they would have to admit they were wrong and those people were right.
It's much less humbling to say "well, no one was right"
15.01.2026 18:45
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I think there's suppression but also a bias against things that don't succeed to change elite norms. There were probably millions of people protesting the Iraq war in 2003, same accusations of them being unemployed idiots recycled, but we've memory-holed it.
15.01.2026 18:18
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Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”
A profile in absolute courage.
15.01.2026 17:59
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I may be wrong but my feeling is that the framing is being done as low-effort SEO headlines.
15.01.2026 05:03
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I suppose to CNN's credit, if you want an expert on a jackbooted thug shooting someone and a government trying to sweep it under the rug, Rahm Emanuel is your guy:
15.01.2026 00:48
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Holy fuck they actually did it
08.01.2026 23:44
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Please stop reposting that BNO News account. All they’re doing is reposting information from Minnesota journalists but without any credit or sourcing.
07.01.2026 23:16
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Shoveling your own parking space and then trying to reserve it for yourself
06.01.2026 02:11
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The six percent are members of newspaper editorial boards and some magazine writers.
05.01.2026 23:09
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lol. Go for it. I'm a former public tv journalist and though Weta doesn't a lot of great things, if
I want to support local reporting I know where my money can do the most good
05.01.2026 19:11
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Co-sign. I was recently laid-off but my subscription to @51st.news is one of the things I decided to keep paying for.
05.01.2026 16:49
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@51st.news for DC
05.01.2026 00:43
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Perfection attained. Unless it's resulting in children accessing trans care. Then bring on the intervention.
03.01.2026 00:02
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Going to post endlessly about the ex I'm completely over.
03.01.2026 00:00
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The only network brave enough to tell you like it is: we love America and think it's the last best hope for Earth.
02.01.2026 23:56
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Going to show you how much I don't miss Twitter by screenshotting and posting tweets to bluesky over and over again
02.01.2026 23:53
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They try to get it right by straightening the tires but no attempt to rock back and forward. Rating: 2/10
02.01.2026 23:36
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Visiting the gravesite was a highlight of my last trip to London. It was wonderful sitting there and seeing and chatting to all the comrades from around the world visit it. In 30 minutes I met a British tour group, a Colombian on a motorcycle tour of Europe and a family of German trade unionists
30.12.2025 17:24
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