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Ball and chain. Packers shareholder. Duller than you can possibly imagine. Personally wrecked Brooklyn. "A quality follow" -- @pkafka

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Carlos Yu
9 years
I am the lone man other men tell to smile. Before me, it was the late Vincent Schiavelli. This cursed amulet! Still, it's a living, I guess.
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8 months
when I say that Americans and Europeans at matched income levels are still behaviorally very different (and that this shows up in our divergent health outcomes), this is *exactly* what I mean.
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walking five minutes through bend, oregon, to get a coffee, just to be told that the dutch bros is drive-thru only
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3 years
@rachsyme haven't ever seen a child Gary or Craig
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Carlos Yu
8 months
huh, a lot of responses! thank you. please note that I am not making a moral judgment in either direction. (I will point out that cars are used by many mobility-impaired people in the US for whom walking is painful, difficult, or impossible. they get left out of these convos.)
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Carlos Yu
5 months
@AChillGhost just because a substance is inherently inimical to human life doesn't mean oh wait maybe it does? anyhow, you should read about fluorine compounds.
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Carlos Yu
5 months
@AChillGhost there was a group of chemists who tried isolating elemental fluorine gas in the nineteenth century. they're called the "fluorine martyrs".
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Carlos Yu
5 months
remember East Palestine? remember how a parody *falconry* account made it into an apocalyptic crisis? remember the five-minute hate conducted against... the Secretary of Transportation? of course you don't. you were briefly manipulated into thinking it was important.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
yes. it feels like the mainstreaming of sectarian people who don't feel comfortable with uncensored material but who use secular and Tumblr language to express their discomfort. it's combining with rule-based interaction and social risk aversion.
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Lon Harris
1 year
I can't say exactly how widespread it is, but there is absolutely a strong cultural backlash right now against any and all romantic storylines in film or TV from viewers younger than me.
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1 year
@BeijingPalmer these guys get tag-teamed by pickpockets and mysteriously lose money at ATMs all the time
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Carlos Yu
2 years
gotta be @GriffLightning as the producer of the podcast on Old Hollywood
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2 years
Rian Johnson is starting to write the third ‘KNIVES OUT’ movie. Who do you want to see in the cast? (Source: )
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Carlos Yu
4 years
I've never seen this clip before but intuited that Mandy Patinkin would exclaim "Mazel Tov!"
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4 years
cleansing your timeline with this Mandy Patinkin clip from 2012 when the interviewer's wife went into labor
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Carlos Yu
2 years
actual embryology is kinda creepy! I've seen people tweet this already, but are lawmakers gonna charge one zygote with murder if it absorbs another in the womb? is the resulting chimera legally two people, even if it only has one body? which one is the evil one? so many questions
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Carlos Yu
2 years
of course there's folk gynecology. some of it predates even the earliest scientific thought, but some of it is new, and vicious. e.g., no fetus survives an ectopic pregnancy. it's like expecting one to survive in a glove compartment. but it is popularly believed that they can.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
hating Buttigieg is an amazing way to shine klieg lights onto your personal insecurities. please, dorks, never stop. if you really thought he was beneath notice, you wouldn't notice him.
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Carlos Yu
5 months
so many Americans think there's a hard color line in the Middle East and you people are goddam nuts
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Carlos Yu
7 years
@Nicole_Cliffe "Imagine if you couldn't enjoy nature, video games," it was here that I lost it.
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Carlos Yu
6 years
this would be an excellent time for Joe Biden to make a full and complete apology to Anita Hill.
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Carlos Yu
4 years
imagine if the Soviets had invaded North Dakota, RED DAWN style, and executed one in 800 North Dakotans. especially the older ones.
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NORTH DAKOTA hits COVID milestone: 1 out of every 800 residents dead
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@TheLincoln tired: "eighth-grade boys are poorly behaved and we need to pander to their mindset" wired: "we pander to poor behavior and eighth-grade boys emulate it"
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Carlos Yu
5 years
@LuxAlptraum @ztsamudzi I was telling my stepdaughter the other day, I always do the count. if that count is too low, I know this is not a place I want to be. No place, no group, no organization gets that white by accident.
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Carlos Yu
5 years
@Nicole_Cliffe direct eye contact in Filipino culture can be *very* aggressive. even though I'm first (born here) generation, I once made a belligerent drunk back down at a bar in Brooklyn that way. he was so freaked out that he complained to the bartender about it, and was kicked out.
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Carlos Yu
3 years
@madavis71415872 @paradoomer you mean we have to *keep on* voting?!?! NO NONO NO NO NO NO NOOOOO next thing you know you're going to tell me we might have to become involved in the political process why can't we live in a normal country where everything is already taken care of and we can sit in our vats
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Carlos Yu
2 years
wait there's a controversy because a woman bluffed a man in poker? maybe one out of a hundred men should be executed until we improve. oh wait COVID did that already. hmm, this is a toughie.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
oh shoot, the whole bizarre "why can't the AI use racial slurs even if it's to save the world" argument is taking exactly the form of the "why can't the US use torture even if it's to save the world" argument from the goddam W years.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@BeijingPalmer this will be the epitaph for the current phase of American culture
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@LuxAlptraum he's a older white comedian who tells it like it is, which means he's a de facto culture hero for millions and millions
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Carlos Yu
4 years
as the Bible says, marriage is the holy union between a man, a woman, and a cabana boy. why do you think they call it Two Corinthians?
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Carlos Yu
9 months
@TheLincoln that segment of nerd culture was always super white-coded.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@agraybee nah, this guy has other reasons
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Carlos Yu
1 year
which circles back to the first post. these people are *scared* of their feelings, and are trying to turn it into a politicized and medicalized identity. they're objecting to media representations that frighten them, like a Reverend Wildmon of an earlier generation.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
thank you bored teacher for creating this meme-killing worksheet! I hope that hundreds like it proliferate and destroy the concept of the meme from our public spaces, and we can go back to abusive chain letters like God intended.
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Carlos Yu
3 months
@Caissie the raw ageism on display. they've never seen it, which tells me how much time they've spent among the elderly about whom they speak so very, very confidently.
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Carlos Yu
5 years
who is this handsome young man at the Union Street stop, @GriffLightning ?
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Carlos Yu
1 year
it's a little tedious to see this sex-phobic anxiety reskinned in the language of online social justice.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
@BeijingPalmer no one expects the Brazilian imposition
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Carlos Yu
1 year
"how can a guy with a white supremacist ideology not look particularly white, that has to be wrong" it's more fruitful to try to figure out what's happening from jackass's point of view. you're just telling me you have a stricter definition of "white" than he does.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
the (male) actor who no longer wants to perform in intimacy scenes out of respect for his marriage plays a serial killer on TV? so the *killing* is okay but the *kissing* is out the young people who like this trend aren't doing it out of morality but prudishness
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Carlos Yu
1 year
why are today's men so angry about a woman partner's sexual past that they use serial killer terminology to describe her dating life? what the hell is going on? the ridiculous double standard, the transparent attempts to control women through shame, and for what?
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Carlos Yu
10 months
"but but but I am a full member of the creative class! I make ironic cartoons about forgotten pop culture figures and my sales are terrible! how can you say the economy is doing better when my income is less than a gas station attendant's?"
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Carlos Yu
2 years
and people say marijuana use is harmless
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Carlos Yu
7 years
Occam’s razor...
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Carlos Yu
3 years
that Sturgis wave is darkness visible
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3 years
the spread of COVID-19 visualized
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Carlos Yu
6 years
@HeerJeet the Republican far-right has been clear about its disdain for the Reconstruction amendments for some time, but they form the basis for most citizenship law in the US.
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Carlos Yu
6 years
can't wait till we separate the children from white evangelical Trump supporters and place the kids with nice same-sex couples.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@profmusgrave dude is partaking from other parts of the pharmacopeia
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Carlos Yu
4 years
what the actual
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4 years
Introducing our newest Pringles flavor: CryptoCrisp, an exclusive #NFT flavor created by artist #VasyaKolotusha . Only 50 exist, all starting at the price of a Pringles can. Click the link to get your *digital hands* on one!
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Carlos Yu
7 years
@Nicole_Cliffe "The opportunity cost of having a child that I'm financially responsible for significantly outweighs some abstract sense of morality that I apparently violated." ... she should have harvested his organs and raised the child on the proceeds.
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Carlos Yu
6 years
@kibblesmith for years I have been waiting for the Elseworlds where the Wayne family saw ZORRO, THE GAY BLADE. I am not joking.
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Carlos Yu
4 years
like I've been saying for so very long: Greenwald is still a Republican. yes, that makes you people who believed in his breathless billionaire-funded non-journalism... suckers. oh well! try harder next time.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
just going to point out that combined arms military operations are not social explosions, and that in many ways they're the opposite of social explosions. even the smallest raid requires organization and planning. it's not a bar fight.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
for young people, it provides the illusion of structure and equity over the chaos of human sexuality. it partakes of that godawful symptom of consumerism, the marketing category. and it creates artificial distinctions between friendship, romance, and sexual attraction.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
it was originally a helpful taxonomy promoted by university LGBTQ+ centers to help confused young adults about their feelings in dating and friendship. and it's become weirdly dogmatic and sex-negative, because it's useful for dogmatic and sex-negative personalities.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
some 38-year-old who thinks hating the Secretary of Transportation is a substitute for a personality "maybe I can cyberbully him into resigning" get back to work, Jetson. Christ, what a bunch of losers.
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Carlos Yu
3 years
@BeijingPalmer it's all about aesthetics for them, you see. they have no real analysis. just vibes.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
@jjdotbiz "did David introduce himself too quickly again? I thought they retired that bit"
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Carlos Yu
1 year
this may sound tangential, but it isn't: "romantic orientation" is not a clinical category, but too many people (meaning greater than zero) believe it's a permanent state of their psychology. it's become thoroughly medicalized, in that bizarre American way.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
JFC don't release the Uvalde photos. this ain't Emmett Till's time. have people not *seen* the gore hounds on Twitter with their pants around their ankles searching for atrocity photos from Ukraine? the freaks love that sort of thing. this is what they *want*.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
if I'm getting this, working from home tapped into a vein of highly productive workers who could not function in a workplace either at all or anywhere near their at-home performance. it's necessarily a one-time surge, but wow.
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@playedaroundwi4 Thanks and totally agreed and looks like WFH might be behind the surge in folks with disabilities that are now able to work (estimated at almost 2m in the US). No commute and much more agreeable working environment.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
@jays_ear @BeijingPalmer a place where many people could get cheap but popular food quickly at the same time? a standard menu to benefit from economies of scale, but each individual dining place small and locally managed? yeah that would be very positive!
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Carlos Yu
7 years
@stephanieboland @Nicole_Cliffe but but but that would never happen
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Carlos Yu
4 years
the last five questions on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test are... naming the correct month, year, day of the week, place of the test, and city. I bet Trump has difficult with those. his week is structured by golf.
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Wallace told Trump that he also took the cognitive test and it's not very hard. Trump sharply objected: "... the first few questions are easy, but I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. I'll bet you couldn't, they get very hard, the last five questions."
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Carlos Yu
5 years
@LuxAlptraum my new family teases me about carefully unwrapping and later reusing the paper. but I grew up in a family that used to use the Sunday comics for wrapping. so.
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Carlos Yu
4 months
@azforeman I checked the Internet SF Database after seeing this poem, and this sonnet and a trippy essay on Vulcan society immediately before it are the author's only publication credits. pure outsider art.
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Carlos Yu
7 years
@HeerJeet Denial.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
just came across "rotating villain theory" and these people had head injuries as children, yes?
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Carlos Yu
6 years
@anildash they left out the millionaire parental loan, the windfall inheritance, and the mysterious lamp they found at a thrift store.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
... the ways cishet men have traditionally talked about sex have been grotesque. let me tell you some of the things I've heard. hold onto your hats, people, because it's rough.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
the boutique carmaker buys a network to eliminate its standards and practices and to charge its top content producers to appear on it, and doesn't understand why its top advertisers are dropping depth charges onto his brilliant plan
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Carlos Yu
1 year
compare 2004 Kerry, who had a youth surge, while 2016 Clinton did not. I think Obama just wildly outperformed, because he was a once-in-a-century-or-more political talent, and everyone assumed it was a new norm and anyone could do it.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@BeijingPalmer it does explain Tracey's otherwise thoroughly unwarranted self-confidence
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Carlos Yu
2 years
@jayrosen_nyu @KevinMKruse consider Scott Walker's crusade against the University of Wisconsin.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@AndrewSshi "I burnt him out." uh-huh
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Carlos Yu
4 years
@HeerJeet @fmanjoo ... dude, you can't even get this right. It's the memories of the eaten dead, not ancestors. It's the second-biggest plot point in the goddam series. why do you have a job?
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Carlos Yu
2 years
@midnight_pals okay the feet line caused some serious nose pain snorting
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@BeijingPalmer I'm morbidly curious about the 108 °F fever that produced that number
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Carlos Yu
5 months
@BeijingPalmer dude, it's this guy.
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Carlos Yu
6 years
people might ask me, why are you not aghast at Ocasio-Cortez or Warren's ideas, but think Sanders is a plague on American politics? here's the thing: AOC and Warren are smart. Sanders is an airhead. IN ADDITION, he's a white flight candidate who was mayor of a lily-white city.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
@cstross @GreatDismal this is closer to warmed-over Vinge. soon we will experience the biggest step in consciousness since the evolution of metazoan life! and it will be memes of a monkey clapping cymbals in time to the Horst Wessel song
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Carlos Yu
4 years
@noel_maurer who knew that forty-plus percent of the country does not think the United States as described by the Constitution and legal precedent is a good idea, instead preferring an ethnonationalist state with an unconstrained executive branch doing pretty well, given that constraint
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Carlos Yu
7 years
oh hell no. Obama had decent taste, but Gingrich even wrote the stuff and look how he turned out.
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Carlos Yu
9 years
@mallelis TEMPLETON IS THE ULTIMATE RANDIAN AND THE TRUE HERO OF CHARLOTTE'S WEB
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Carlos Yu
6 years
@HeerJeet a Miller-Sessions special, is my guess.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
do these "men" think their lives will be improved if they deflower (and sweet Jesus, what a word) a terrified virgin on her wedding night? maybe they can hang a bloody sheet from the hotel window to show the world they were first.
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Carlos Yu
9 months
it's awesome that this kid is in the world championship at age sixteen but I hope the Doctor destroys the laboratory where he was artificially aged into excellence because why would anyone trust Britain with that technology
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Carlos Yu
1 year
here, you Internet weirdos. try organizing a simple one on paper: plan a raid on your local car dealership. your mission is to liberate ten of the finest automobiles they have in stock for your exurban compound. assume complete surprise and all the police are in Atlantic City.
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Carlos Yu
5 years
explaining the Arthur Funko to Michael Mann: these little dolls, they look like Fisher-Price figures, they won't make one for this character Arthur, he's like Robin except he's a nervous accountant. yeah it's pretty good. @blankcheckpod @GriffLightning
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Carlos Yu
3 months
wow, accidentally ended up rubbernecking at the train wreck of British gender anxiety Twitter for a solid thirty minutes. the average gender-anxious Briton believes crazier things than the love child of Taylor Lorenz and Chaya Raichik. and it's all secular!
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Carlos Yu
6 years
@chick_in_kiev a real edgelord would have sent an amount that needed no decimal, to demonstrate his complete superiority to such muddy concerns.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@bitterkarella wtaf it's the webcomic equivalent of a divide by zero error
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Carlos Yu
2 years
@BeijingPalmer RIGHT? it's like the communitarians: have they ever lived in a snoopy small town?
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Carlos Yu
9 years
@mallelis THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSSED! http://t.co/vzl8a34Hfu
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Carlos Yu
1 year
I'm kind of tired of low empathy 20-year-olds scolding their betters about their lack of morality. you can see the ghosts of the authority figures they're reacting against hovering around them like an aura.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
remember how the Bernie Bros brought an enormous inflatable joint to the Democratic convention in 2016? look how little marijuana legalization has changed the political landscape. "whoever legalizes it will be in office forever maaaaan." no, we get ridiculous ads for gummies.
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Carlos Yu
7 years
@xychelsea It must suck always being confused with Peyton.
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Carlos Yu
5 years
as long as there's room for @GriffLightning in #F10
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Carlos Yu
2 years
anyhow, on my road trips I think about how to redesign this country to accommodate fifty million climate change refugees. we've got Interstates going through big chunks of beautiful, thinly populated areas nominally in the *Rust Belt*.
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Carlos Yu
1 year
@BeijingPalmer amazing to see the "he was no angel" rhetoric come from the alleged left
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Carlos Yu
4 months
@TheLincoln she has a degree in English... and has never studied the process of composition of a novel? writers document this stuff! sometimes exhaustingly! people used to get PhDs about it!
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Carlos Yu
4 months
@BeijingPalmer if we split up the sexual orientation spectrum just a little further, there's a huge tranche of men who are sexually attracted to the distinctive parts of women's anatomy, but who don't actually like women. no they don't find relationships fulfilling.
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Carlos Yu
5 years
this is a-m-a-z-i-n-g. his allies are trying to give him an out, but his farty ego can't bear the help, so he shuts them down.
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Carlos Yu
2 years
as the word "copaganda" establishes itself, I'm going to put my marker down that "docaganda" will become widely used by the anti-medical right. and then both will disappear as brief generational markers? one can hope.
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