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Ashwin Rodrigues

@shwinyo

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writer. bylines on my cutting-edge website. email is best for contacting me. have fun out there

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JD Vance has the face of a man caught between eras. He looks like he wants to segregate a My Chemical Romance concert
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2 years
guy with 8 followers: Mr. Elon sir, have you thought about replacing all data centers with an electrochemical potato battery Elon Musk: working on it now
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5 months
a Jewish guy in Brooklyn once politely asked me, an extremely sweaty post-soccer brown man, if I could go inside his apartment and flip a switch because it was Shabbat. I did it and he offered me a popsicle but I said no thanks. NYC baby
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People told me to be careful walking around NYC as a religious Jew. I say, here I am. I will never cower in fear.
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We interviewed all the people who say "hey" on Slack and wait for you to say "hey" back before saying anything else. We asked them what the hell their problem was. They said "nm u"
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1 year
Podcast ads 10 years ago: Dear listener, everything is pretty good. A sock and underwear subscription, and you'll be complete. Also you can buy mattresses online now! Neat! Today: Turns out gambling is your only chance to make it. Try computer therapy in the meantime. Gambling.
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3 months
the Olympics contains some of the purest, most essential sports like Running Real Fast but also Can You Train a Horse to Be Polite and, based on what I've seen on here, Looking Cool with a Gun
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@ScottNover I didn't want to gloat but I guess I should be clear. everything you've said is true and that's how I ended up inventing the Metaverse.
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7 months
“AI” is often shorthand for A Indian guy
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Amazon billed its "Just Walk Out" stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped. How insanely dystopian.
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1 year
wow! I am ready to hear more about the company CULTURE! haha. please
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Ashwin Rodrigues
5 months
@SammBlum if you spell my name right maybe
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1 year
@bigblackjacobin that's crazy you can just deploy them with clicks like it's Warcraft
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
the last president is recorded on film and phone calls saying “it’s crime time, I’m the president and we are gonna do crimes,” and he appears to have a robust campaign set up for his next election. which he is allowed to do for some reason
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Ashwin Rodrigues
6 years
@Knightcartoons @theheraldsun @usopen Mark Knight, the third K is silent. thanks
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10 months
Bill Ackman should just hop on a quick call with Isaac Chotiner and get this all squared away.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
11 months
Isaac Chotiner called just to wish me a happy Thanksgiving but we ended up chatting for 45 minutes. It was really cool, he seemed really impressed and interested in how I think.
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1 year
@edzitron They’re going to put you in Synergy Prison
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
y'all. *please* hire someone who does crossfit and is also insane if you want to cover the MTG divorce properly.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
5 months
@RelevantRachel I’ve heard about this. I never thought it would be me
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
wow. my 3 year old, Glorm, just asked if regional banks are actually at risk or are they being used as a rhetorical human shield in a hostage situation to make VCs whole asap? can't make this up
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
Ted Cruz used to seem like a smart guy pretending to be dumb but now it seems like he might've idiotpilled himself
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Ashwin Rodrigues
3 years
nobody is going to spoil the Matrix for me.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
4 years
adding a "no journalists of color have ever left their spouse for Martin Shkreli" slide to my diversity training slide deck
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4 years
Christie Smythe covered white-collar crime for Bloomberg News and lived "the perfect little Brooklyn life" with her husband. Then she threw it all away for one of her sources: infamous pharma bro Martin Shkreli.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
guy who died: I died. it's not fair that other people lived
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
(Camera pans to a weird guy shoveling clam chowder into a dumpster.) Imagine if this was a bank. And also a hospital. Once Twitter is X, it will all be possible. If you don’t understand it you’re not smart enough.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
some people are misinterpreting this. to be clear, I think you can be a very special boy with very lovely ideas even with just 8 followers. you can also be bad at reading comprehension
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Ashwin Rodrigues
4 years
people might not be so cavalier about photoshopping Senator Sanders into different scenes if they realized each one creates a universe and duplicate Bernie who's trapped there
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Ashwin Rodrigues
4 years
The kids are calling it Chaiting. They publish whatever bullshit comes into their brain. Gets 'em high. And they get paid big bucks to do it.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@jordanbpeterson sir I don’t know who you meant to message but you Tweeted this
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Ashwin Rodrigues
3 years
(weird college student coding a website that allows creeps to rank women based on their appearance) one day we will decide who lives.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
We must take a moment to step back and interrogate the systems which led to guys like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson becoming popular. (camera pans to Loser Factory running at full capacity) stop this is serious
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Ashwin Rodrigues
11 days
Soon, pressing the "A" key will return a different letter. DMs will be public and Tweets will be private. We will set an angry dog loose in your apartment if we can find it. Our intern was forced to eat an AirTag.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@AnthonyHopkins give Mr. Hopkins his phone back
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
@joshgondelman or you order it and then they ask you "what's on that again" like you're some kind of sandwich historian
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
This is like the owner of AIM posting increasingly troubling away messages and everyone is just responding with the meanest things they can think of
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
Holy cow! The Musk DeSantis Twitter Space had over 500 million American viewers, according to the engineer we asked while we dangled his family over the ledge of a building we don’t pay rent for.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
6 years
@CraigSJ la didadida, god is mi dad
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
after my Twitter account that solely posts videos of me attempting to lick the tires of moving Teslas loses one follower: Mr. Musk. Please do something. It’s like I’m being killed by the Matrix
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Ashwin Rodrigues
10 months
love to send a fleet of submarines to look for a nickel
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NYPD overtime pay for extra officers in the subway went from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million this year, according to city records obtained by Gothamist.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
4 years
don't hurry to make jokes. there's no rush
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Ashwin Rodrigues
3 years
a funny thing about this NYT story: there is no head-on photo of anyone wearing the Yeezy jacket. exhibit 2 is probably why
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Ashwin Rodrigues
5 months
imagine if RFK Jr. became president and the first thing he said during the inauguration was "the Worm in my brain is awake now." that would be interesting, but we don't know if the worm shares any values with the American people
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
telling people you heard something stupid on the Bill Maher podcast is like saying you sprained your ankle rolling around in a landfill. ok, but what were you doing there?
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@david_j_roth the cowboy hats will continue to get larger until the situation improves
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Ashwin Rodrigues
4 years
pitbull sleeping with a brick sounds like a big body bes mantra
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Ashwin Rodrigues
5 years
Attention freelancers: I'm looking for 200-500k words (plus illustrations) reimagining the Bible as an anime-style graphic novel. If we like your work, we will provide you a coupon for 3 (three) canned Goya products and a hat.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
some conservatives are still trying the "Be Scared: If It Could Happen to Them It Could Happen to You" bit, while reacting to news of a guy who called a mass shooting a hoax and ruined the lives of surviving family members. I'm not a pundit but I don't know if that's relatable
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
There was another author who saved her secrets for a book. There actually was a whole chamber of them. And now that author is now widely reviled.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
There’s a weird glitch on Twitter right now: if you put “single and open to new experiences” in the bio, your wife gets really mad
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
Did You Know: The guy with (Alpha Male) in his user name who keeps popping up on here is Australian
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@KeenanPeachy C student POC kids. they sound real and scary. but not if you sing it to the tune of "More Than a Feeling"
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
guy whose whole account has been daily photos of his feet on different pizzas for 9 years: folks I’m not sure how much longer they’ll let me be on this site
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Ashwin Rodrigues
3 years
well, VICE has decided to be one Indian lighter. today's my last day.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@bigblackjacobin his thread starts like it might be some kind of IDW antivax mind puzzle instead of solid proof that he's unqualified to talk about everything he talks about
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
@KrangTNelson Musk replying to a white nationalist meme: 🎯 Twitter CEO: Barbie or Bomb Man? On our platform, they’re both winners!
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Ashwin Rodrigues
5 months
@SammBlum it’s fine lmao and for anyone spectating Sam is my friend in real life
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
when Beyoncé said "it must be the cash cuz it ain't your face" Jay Z must've been like, hey now. you don't mean that. must be a lot of situations like that in their household
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
a lot of people are missing the point here: if you stare at the middle of the photo for long enough, you can see their common ancestor (the guy from the Six Flags commercial)
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
I wonder if these metaverses will ever look good or if people will just mentally deteriorate until they're convinced it looks cool. both seem like possibilities
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Snoop & Eminem performing at MTV VMAs in @OthersideMeta and using their @BoredApeYC IP
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
crypto guys constantly have to go in front of lawyers and say things like "imagine, for a moment, a widget. or a tiddlywink."
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
As a society, we need to get better at identifying objects.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
3 months
RFK Jr. is like a creation of Jack Handey: eating roadkill, framing cyclists for bear murder, covered in bugs, and yet seemingly unaware what all the fuss is about
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@EWErickson remember when you shot the newspaper with a gun to show that you were mad at it
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2 years
@david_j_roth Biden toppled me with a flying two leg kick while I was using the Coinstar kiosk. every Liberal who saw this happen just laughed at me and did more inflation
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
“if you’re scared, it’s murder time. and there are plenty of reasons to be scared” is not working out as an operating principle
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
On average, New Yorkers that slept with their windows open last night swallowed 3 spiders who were also smoking cigarettes. Cool ass spiders who also have tattoos of other bugs smoking cigarettes. “Pretty sick, but still not great,” say scientists
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1 year
therapist: I think this behavior is socially stunting patient, misunderstanding: hell yeah player. you see it
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Ashwin Rodrigues
6 years
@BetoORourke do more than hold up a coexist bumper sticker
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
if a movie is longer than 2.5 hours, there should be a legally required scene in the middle where one of the guys says "I'm gonna go to the bathroom for 15 minutes or so" and they just show the bathroom door, so you know you won't miss anything if you also go to the bathroom
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@jordanbpeterson The woke tyrants don't realize the horrors visited by an all-meat diet on a brave man's body. They have never dropped a screamer and they are willfully avoiding such a scenario.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
5 years
I am so, so happy to share that I'll be joining the @VICE team next month as a staff writer on the culture desk. I'll be writing about comedy, hip-hop, and tech/culture. I will let you all know when I get an email address. I can't wait to get started!!!
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
we used AI to make the Indian guy from the Simpsons a Level 500 Bushwick Man
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6. Apu
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
glenn greenwald is gonna have to get a multiscreen military grade posting rig
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Tucker Carlson attacks BTS for speaking out about hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans
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2 years
@oneunderscore__ Fiminist iminims!
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2 years
being rude
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3 years
so each vax dose is like a balloon in Mario Kart
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2 years
amazing. he continued "maybe if these regional banks also have huge unhedged bets on interest rates and a majority of their customer base in a group chat with Peter Thiel. goo goo ga ga"
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2 years
I’m honestly confused how young people could feel despair at a time when the hottest real estate market is in the metaverse. Can’t square that circle
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2 years
@GOP I’ve heard from several PR experts that this family should never be mentioned with dogs at any time. Be careful, social media guru
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3 years
@oneunderscore__ this tweet has identifiable information in it. consider deleting
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6 months
someone needs to be brave enough to drive to their vacation home, turn off the Wi-Fi, and write 15,000 words on the Exact Right Way to Protest
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2 years
@DawnEMcKenzie that’s so cool that Scott Baio follows you. I hope you have that on your resume
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Ashwin Rodrigues
1 year
it did seem like many people reacted to the original Hasan Minhaj story with something like "good, I didn't like his comedy" so will be interesting how this is digested. but maybe later. although entertainment reporters aren't war reporters so I guess soon is good too
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
@Curioustweeter9 nothing, necessarily
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
first of all it's not a divorce, it's a "kipping marriage"
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1 year
One of the most encouraging things you can say to someone who just ran a half-marathon is “oh yeah I also haven’t run a marathon”
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6 years
@DragonflyJonez if you didn't listen to the album through a gaming headset without skipping any tracks you're not going to understand the lyricism. smh
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1 year
it's like I said at the time
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1 year
some of you seem like you've been waiting for this Hasan Minhaj story to come out since 9/11
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6 months
this is conflating two things, one of which is real: 1. aside from sports, appointment TV doesn’t really exist 2. if you date a teenager as a 39-year-old, people don’t give a shit how astute your grocery store observations are
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Jerry Seinfeld says TV comedy is being hurt by "the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people." “It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, “Cheers” is on. Oh, “MASH” is on. Oh, “Mary Tyler Moore”
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first day as a business reporter for @morningbrew . really excited to join the team here. physically I'm in my apartment but you know what I mean
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8 months
I thought this was morally rotten but then I saw the graph is green. phew.
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The CEO of Kellogg is happy to say that more people are eating cereal for dinner. In fact, the company is leaning into it and intentionally advertising about cereal as a dinner meal for cash-strapped families.
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2 years
Tucker Carlson tilting his head back and forth like a dog hearing the words "walk" and "park" as the world's most brilliant man explains how to build The AI That's Nice to Us
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Ashwin Rodrigues
4 years
kanye played Sim City, Pokemon, and Monopoly in one night
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Ashwin Rodrigues
2 years
people are snitching on this person’s employer because of a funny and accurate description of the VP (who is my aunt btw) it’s pathetic to see
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broti gupta
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Kamala Harris talks like she has a translator earpiece on and it has water damage
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6 years
@mathewrodriguez Interviewer, to camera: Well, there you have it. I think we all learned something today. Is there going to be racism tomorrow? Tune in to find out.
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Ashwin Rodrigues
3 years
if this guy starts a thread on your crime and policing story, your shit is about to get wrecked
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Alec Karakatsanis
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THREAD. This morning, the New York Times published another piece of copaganda that makes provably false claims. I try my best to explain what happened below, why it is harmful, and how it connects to deeper flaws in how the news talks about safety.
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6 years
@PostOpinions did an opioid write this
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5 months
what if people make fun of Google search sucking ass too much so the next time you punch in directions on Maps it just says "fuck you." I am doing my part and searching "good job" and "very nice, thanks!" repeatedly for the rest of the weekend
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