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Figuring out where we go from here. Seeking community and new ways to engage people in progressive ideas. Weather, wildfire, wilderness and front-yard gardening. Midwest-born Californian. Exvangelical.

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That’s what they’ve led us to believe.

09.03.2026 15:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean their grasp of thermodynamics seems strong. Warm from move does indeed make more hot.

09.03.2026 15:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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07.03.2026 22:37 👍 13010 🔁 4945 💬 86 📌 240

Bet

08.03.2026 17:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UNCOMFORTABLY ENERGETIC

08.03.2026 17:13 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Only a failure if your goal is convictions. If it’s intimidation, suppression and punishment of free speech, they might be winning.

08.03.2026 16:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Background on WEXMAC TITUS:

08.03.2026 16:08 👍 276 🔁 64 💬 2 📌 0

Hard for oil to flow if all the terminals are destroyed.

08.03.2026 16:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

08.03.2026 00:22 👍 12025 🔁 2618 💬 227 📌 185

Daylight won’t save us

08.03.2026 03:13 👍 104 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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We don’t need talkers right now. We need fighters.

And no matter how many times they knock me down, I’ll get back up and fight with you. Every. Single. Time.

07.03.2026 22:06 👍 6908 🔁 1442 💬 110 📌 77
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Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as "thought leaders," researcher warns.

1. They platform Nazis.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

2. They platformed and promoted Bari Weiss, giving her the foundation to build her profile for her current role degrading CBS News. thedeepdive.ca/substack-fac...

08.03.2026 03:12 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So, the experts finished the ‘pump’ phase and re-allocated their portfolios so they’re ready for the ‘dump’.

07.03.2026 18:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is propaganda from Jeff Bezos to keep us from storming his mansion.

07.03.2026 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Chatbots do not know anything.

They stole every cookbook ever published, statistically analyzed the words in it, and generate output that is statistically similar to those words.

They don't know anything, especially not what those words actually refer to in physical reality.

23.12.2025 12:14 👍 134 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3

This is a pro-fun account.

There’s a lot going on, times are hard and they aren’t going to get better any time soon.

Celebrate your half birthday.Make up holidays.Find reasons to gather, party and fellowship.Find your people.Spend time with family and friends. Ignore anyone in opposition to fun.

07.03.2026 10:55 👍 630 🔁 144 💬 5 📌 11

I can't stop reading these, the qt/ replies are like putting culture in a blender and hitting "puree", it's so refreshing

07.03.2026 06:48 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

07.03.2026 03:01 👍 2078 🔁 405 💬 36 📌 46
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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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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d 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 - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• 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. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 20731 🔁 4415 💬 766 📌 1137

Also Ebay, Nov 1999. My Yahoo email got deactivated after non-use unfortunately, that one was a few years older.

06.03.2026 04:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If we can defeat the Atherton NIMBYS we are unstoppable.

06.03.2026 00:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is essentially the same argument many of the same people make against supporting the homeless. They’re far more concerned about smelling or seeing something unpleasant then actually caring for human beings.

05.03.2026 23:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also, Trump can’t install a new DHS secretary via Truth Social. Any nominee must go through Senate confirmation and Congress must deliver real guardrails to protect our communities. Senators know what happens when they confirm a dangerous DHS secretary — any nominee can’t dodge public scrutiny.

05.03.2026 20:47 👍 223 🔁 44 💬 6 📌 1

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

05.03.2026 16:31 👍 1434 🔁 336 💬 25 📌 0

I initially thought that Joel was sharing an old news story because I didn’t realize that this is different from the New York/Arizona/Vermont/Arizona YOUNG Republican Nazi group chat.

05.03.2026 02:59 👍 1372 🔁 380 💬 23 📌 6

We need better Democrats.

Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

05.03.2026 03:46 👍 5016 🔁 878 💬 79 📌 27

Might be the first state to have their entire delegation convicted of assault.

05.03.2026 03:29 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How long until we betray them?

04.03.2026 21:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A billion dollar 5th gen stealth jet shot down a 30-year old subsonic trainer.

04.03.2026 12:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0