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Faced with one final test before his admission to the criminal organization, gang initiate Hector Gunnerson was reportedly forced to peacefully deescalate a conflict Thursday to prove that he was not a cop. “I know Big Mike vouched for you, but before you can run with the Riverside Boys, we need to make sure you’re not an undercover,” said gang leader Butch ‘Mad Dog’ Tucker, who nodded for one of his men to start a verbal altercation with another gang member so that Gunnerson could either help amicably resolve the dispute or violently escalate it, depending on his instincts. 

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Trump and Vance really put the tyrant in tantrum, didn't they? Pathetic. Weak, cowardly, sniveling little bullies is all that they are.

I understand that I'm just one person who voted against all of this. I understand that this is just my Tumblr thingy. I understand that when the history of this is written, I will not even be a footnote.

But it is still important to me to go on the public record: The way Trump and Vance treated the President of Ukraine was despicable. It was a betrayal of an ally that is fighting for its very existence. As an American, I am disgusted with the rulers of my country. I am disgusted with their supporters, who ought to be ashamed of themselves.

To the people of Ukraine, I am so sorry. 75 million of us did everything we could to stop this. but there is a white supremacist cancer in America's blood, and the 2024 election confirmed that it has metastasized. For what it's worth, I stand with you, as I stand against the tyrants who disrespected your president today.

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Ernie and Bert in the Suburbs

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Beautiful stuff here

2/22/25.

Holy cow. Where has this band been? Nag Ar Juna are (were) a Japanese oddball/jangle/pop band. This was released in 2013 by the Tokyo label de.te.ri.o.ra.tion. The label's last release was 2019.

Nag Ar Juna move between pop sounds reminiscent of early Pastels, Bronze Float (listen to that guitar), The Clean or The Velvet Underground (some of these songs have that Mo Tucker chug). There are several releases on the label from this band. Really, take some time to go through them all. I've been listening most to "How Many Friends Can Die Happily?", but "doqu" has more vocal interplay (male and female). There's a definite Georgia Hubley vibe on the 2nd song, "Sasage".

Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention Maple Fyshh. Nag Ar Juna must have listened to them while growing up. But, I hope it always goes without saying...Nag Ar Juna have crafted a sound all their own. Fantastic.

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For easy gif access

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Elon Musk is mad about Judge McConnell’s decision to unfreeze federal grants…

So he posted a picture of his daughter, her full name, her position of where she works, and a page of a signed tax statement she filed.

The judge’s daughter. 😯

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seeing trump 2024 plasy out is making me realize that the trump 2016/brexit comparsions were way overblown. trump 2016 was just racist guy winning us election, fork found in kitchen, this is the usa's brexit -- setting decades of carefuly cultivated imperial soft power on fire for no reason because the ideological tail has been allowed to wag the dog

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Doing social media fast on this gruesome day and I thought reading 80+ year old poetry would be an escape.

Guess not.

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All I know is that I’ve wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I’d get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don’t want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow’s sky.

— Kazuo Ishiguro, "When We Were Orphans" (Faber and Faber, September 18, 2000) (via Make Believe Boutique)

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I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

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New Year's Eve 1957 with the moomins and Tove Jansson at Kalastajatorppa, Helsinki, Finland.

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Never understood the whole “I’m gonna pretend to do stuff; gotta paint my face white” genre

MimeFest

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“Charisma does not originate inside the person called ‘charismatic.’ It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist.“

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Quoting an unpublished memoir is so mean.

In his unpublished memoir, Gene Rayburn called Mark Goodson a bastard.

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“Hold on with a bull-dog grip, and chew and choke, as much as possible.” goes so hard.

Telegram from Abraham Lincoln to Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant at City Point, Virginia

Record Group 107: Records of the Office of the Secretary of WarSeries: Telegrams Sent and Received By The War Department Central Telegraph Office.

[handwritten in upper right corner] 133

[handwritten and underlined upper left side] "Cypher"

[typeset letterhead] Executive mansion,

Washington, [handwritten] August 17. [typeset] , 1864.

[handwritten] Lieut. Gen. Grant [blue stamp "PRINTED WAR RECORDS 1861-1865"]

City Point VA. [handwritten check mark]

I have seen your dispatch express

ing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are.

neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog

grip, and chew and choke, as much as possible.

[signed] A. Lincoln

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