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The only proper way to learn US elections results today is via Destiel meme. Because it is 5th November and circular nature of historic poetry demands it.

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I work for a nonprofit that deals in terminal diseases, so I google a lot of obituaries, and obituaries are an insane part of the virtual world and the weird panopticon in which we’ve found ourselves. I’m not even counting the obits with autoplay midi files when you load the page, like some kind of morbid MySpace. 

Say I’m looking for the obituary of someone we know has passed, call him Joe Weston, that’s a relatively common name. If I google his name plus the disease we know he passed from, I’ll generally find any obituary that exists for him with relative speed. 

But if I just google his name and “obituary”, Google tends to show me obits in a virtual geographic plotting – it starts with obits of people with that name who are closest to the location where Google thinks I am, and radiates outwards from there. So unless it’s a famous person, if Google senses via my IP address that I’m in Chicago, it starts with obits in Chicago, then gives me obituaries in the burbs, then Illinois and Wisconsin, then Michigan, and so forth. I almost never search just the name and “obituary”, so I only noticed this because my work’s VPN is located on the east coast and if I’m on the VPN it starts my treasure hunt in Connecticut. 

What I’m saying is that I, a researcher in death, am surrounded by ghosts, and Google knows where they are. 

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you STAB caesar? you stab his body like the enemy? oh! oh! jail for brutus! jail for brutus for One Thousand Years!!

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Is this Wire Mother and Cloth Mother test?

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it is also worth noting that this will be used to cover up the inaction on the cost of living crisis. expect a bunch of "uk coming together to mourn the queen" bullshit soon when families are choosing between heating their homes and feeding their kids

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Say what you want about the Queen but meeting Liz Truss and immeadiately dying after 96 years of perfect health is the most iconic way imaginable to immeadiately shadow that awful womans entire prime ministership in bad omens and misery. honestly what a way to take one for the team

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Serbia really said out damn spot

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a piano: onstage

eurovision fans:

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for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

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I hate that SEPTember OCTOber NOVember and DECember aren’t the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months.

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Probably the best joke I’ve ever made

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you've been hit by

you've been struck by

a roman senator ₍ₓ₂₃₎

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Is this what shiny pokemon would look like in real life?

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This looks like one of those american Sexy Female Halloween costume, I’m just not sure if it is supposed to be Ursula or Doc Ock

Jack Irving @jackirvingstudio London Fashion Week.

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Wordle just continues the long trend of proving that humans are not immune to squares. Fuckin' minecraft, tetris, 2048, scrabble, sudoku, the companion cube, dice, and now wordle? Forget cats, it's humans who can't say no to an interesting box.

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i love being on this site i feel like a fucking sim . eeby deeby!!! goopsie srcunkly scrimblo. goopsie scaboinky boinky splurge? glup shitto. blorbo plinko !!!!

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Yule cat

Michael Ramstead