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I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids! “One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando

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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

07.03.2026 07:02 👍 8 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

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We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

07.03.2026 04:49 👍 5023 🔁 1043 💬 43 📌 14

You can!

07.03.2026 04:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Name a TV show you feel like no one remembers but you:

Salvage-1

07.03.2026 03:44 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 10

Thanks mom.

07.03.2026 02:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Selfie - I’m wearing a black t-shirt and holding up a book with a black cover and pink text: How to Die (And Other Stories) by Mike Monteiro

Selfie - I’m wearing a black t-shirt and holding up a book with a black cover and pink text: How to Die (And Other Stories) by Mike Monteiro

Stickers inside the pink box the book was shipped in: one Gilly and Billy cartoon guillotine sticker and 3 round stickers with the blue and green Waymo logo and We killed Kitkat around the edge

Stickers inside the pink box the book was shipped in: one Gilly and Billy cartoon guillotine sticker and 3 round stickers with the blue and green Waymo logo and We killed Kitkat around the edge

More goodies from the box - whistles in pink, light blue and black with Fuck ICE embossed on the side

More goodies from the box - whistles in pink, light blue and black with Fuck ICE embossed on the side

Hey the world may be kinda shitty right now, but at least this arrived before Armageddon! Mike’s writing has helped me get through the past year and change, now the collection is in one place. Get yours here! Fun extras, too!

www.mulebooks.com/store/how-to...

06.03.2026 23:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Never going back to this fascist shithole.

07.03.2026 01:10 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Nice!

06.03.2026 23:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What did you get?!?

06.03.2026 22:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How to start a record collection This week’s question comes to us from YuYu Schatz: I recently got my first record player. What records should I get? Congrats. I’m sorry. I tried to talk...

Look, it’s been A WEEK. As a treat, I’ve put together a newsletter where we can all fight about something with lower stakes, that will also fill us with joy, and get us to listen to our favorite records. You’re welcome. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

06.03.2026 21:33 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 2

This happened a while ago, and maybe it’s been fixed, but on my last visit to PHL I was attempting to charge my laptop. Every wall socket I tried spat the charger back out. And I tried at least a dozen. It was the most Philly thing.

“Charge my laptop, please.”
“Fuck you. Make me.”

Respect.

06.03.2026 19:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

PHL. The Greyhound Terminal of airports.

06.03.2026 18:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

06.03.2026 18:46 👍 4346 🔁 941 💬 59 📌 9

Donald Trump is a child rapist

06.03.2026 18:29 👍 1423 🔁 412 💬 34 📌 6
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*For everyone thinking this is satire: I get it.
We all joke so much here.
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*and my final note - I'm not disparaging plumbers here. I come from a VERY blue collar family. My mother managed a Taco Bell and my dad was a contractor. I have a ton of relatives who went to trade school. My point is that I do not wish for any of them to be in charge of homeland securitv. 3/3

Thread 256K views bookandbeerreview 4h & Threads Good news: my plumber from when I managed an Applebees is now in charge of homeland security and that is one of the least crazy things about the current administration so that's fun for all of us 1/3 • 19.6K Q 452 G 1.5K 7 1.6K Top v View activity > + bookandbeerreview 2h *For everyone thinking this is satire: I get it. We all joke so much here. But, alas, I'm serious. I managed restaurants for nearly 20 years before becoming an author and he was, indeed, a plumber in Oklahoma when I ran an Applebees there. The company was called Mullin Plumbing. It appears he stepped down and handed over the company when he got into politics. 2/3 O 2.4K Q12 G 45 V 22 bookandbeerreview 2h *and my final note - I'm not disparaging plumbers here. I come from a VERY blue collar family. My mother managed a Taco Bell and my dad was a contractor. I have a ton of relatives who went to trade school. My point is that I do not wish for any of them to be in charge of homeland securitv. 3/3

“Good news: my plumber from when I managed an Applebees is now in charge of homeland security and that is one of the least crazy things about the current administration so that's fun for all of us”

05.03.2026 23:32 👍 76 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

it's almost like the consultants should be focus grouping mamdani instead of their racist aunt

06.03.2026 17:24 👍 187 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 0

We know that ICE never left Minnesota, but there are signs that any drawdown phase is over.

ICE activity is ramping up across the country and Minnesota isn’t exempt from that. ICE has set a new baseline of “normal” ICE activity in our state and that baseline is rising again.

06.03.2026 16:29 👍 157 🔁 77 💬 4 📌 1

Dear readers, as I am attempting to track down how many books were lost in The Great Mail Truck Raid, if you’ve received your book can you please post a photo of yourself smiling and holding the book? If you have a cute pet, please include your pet in the photo. Thank you.

06.03.2026 16:24 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

06.03.2026 13:15 👍 7038 🔁 2386 💬 157 📌 52
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

Don’t trust Proton Mail. www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

06.03.2026 00:15 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 2

I can make it even darker. If you ordered your book from me you might’ve found the secret story. They book the postman returned to me no longer had the secret story. It’s just out there. By itself.

06.03.2026 00:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How to Die (and other stories) — MULE BOOKS This is a pre-order! Book will ship in February March.* On April 2, 2024 I sent out a newsletter asking people to send me questions. I promised to answer a question a week. This book is the resul...

Oh yeah, buy my book! People are LITERALLY heisting mailtrucks to get their hands on it. It's THAT good! www.mulebooks.com/store/how-to...

05.03.2026 23:59 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, that to me is the saddest part. The boxes are PINK. They scream I AM FULL OF DONUTS. Imagine being hungry and thinking THE MAIL TRUCK IS FULL OF DONUTS and then you get rewarded with THAT fucking book.

05.03.2026 23:58 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Most likely.

05.03.2026 23:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, and Jared from Minneapolis, your book has seen some shit, man!

05.03.2026 23:53 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyhooo… I've got my eye on the shipping software. Whatever isn't marked as "in transit" by tomorrow will get re-sent. Which is really fucking annoying… but in the larger context of everything else… we deal.

Therapy is amazing.

05.03.2026 23:51 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And the person who swiped the boxes from the mailtruck? I don't know what kind of day they were having. I don't know what happened to them in life that led to them swiping the packages from a mailtruck. (Yes, this is an ad for Universal Basic Income.)

05.03.2026 23:49 👍 40 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This dude was probably nervous as hell as he drove over here to deliver this news, and he seemed genuinely concerned about my shipment. The UPS guy went out of his way because he stumbled on a stack of packages that weren't even his concern.

05.03.2026 23:47 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

And to be honest, I was starting to get angry. But then I realized this guy wasn't at fault. Sometimes stupid shit happens and it's fair to get mad that stupid shit has happened, but it's not ok to get mad _at_ someone because stupid shit happens. It just happens.

05.03.2026 23:45 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0