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imagine you make microwave popcorn and by wild chance every single kernel has the same exact popping point and after like a minute in the microwave the bag instantly fills up with a single earsplitting gunshot noise would that be fucked up or what

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25 years of ads peeled away

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Dances with Wolves (1990)

RIP Graham Greene (June 22, 1952 - September 1, 2025) 🕊

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Graham Greene has passed. RIP to a legend. Your work will be greatly appreciated. 🌹🪶

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This is truly heartbreaking! Growing up I didn't see much representation of Natives on the screen, we were lucky that one of those representing us was Graham.

From Thunderheart to Reservation Dogs, Graham was an incredible presence.

May you have a beautiful journey, Graham!

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hello what the fuck

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thank you osha thank you shift limits thank you mandatory breaks thank you overtime pay thank you labour laws thank you workers rights thank you unions thank you protesters thank you advocates thank you workers!!!!!!!

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he’s so flexible…

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Someone else has probably said it better than I am about to, but I think another incredible thing in the new Superman movie is we get to watch journalists doing journalism the right way. (I mean Jimmy's thing with his source is a little questionable, but hell she gave him real information of her own free will and honestly.)

But bigger than that, man was Lois right in the interview scene. She loves Clark and she knows he's a good writer but she also knows he is more than skirting the line with the way he's writing those stories about himself and she asks him hard questions he's not prepared for that make him think about that, he never treats her like an enemy because of it. He doesn't like it, he doesn't like what some of the questions might imply, but in the end I think he realizes that those are the kind of questions someone like him should be asked. She's doing her job, and doing it well.

And we watch the whole team go through all the steps of a decent story, as much as you can do that in a movie like this. No guessing, no innuendo, they do research, they get corroborating evidence, they run the whole thing past an editor, they write it up, they get the draft checked, they're working together as a team, and they put together a dense front page story that gives other journalists something they can confirm and publish with confidence.

I just threw some money at a unionized paper here in town and propublica because of this movie. I think it would be dope as hell if the fandom started giving money to Quality news organizations in honor of Lois Lane.

With NPR and PBS being gutted, local papers funded by local donations are going to be life-saving. Genuinely. Literally. They are going to fight corruption, and if there's anything that actually makes me believe in the phrase truth, justice, and the American way in some kind of idealized manner, it's honest to God citizen journalism and publicly funded press.

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the Ever Given was March 2021

the Titan submersible was June 2023

circa September 2025 we're due for another round of the internet's favorite game show, How Fucked Is That Boat

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LMFAO?

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Had a coworker tell me they hadn’t texted once because of the time. “I didn’t want to wake you.”

I stared at them through the dawning realization that they lived in a world where that was remotely possible. “My phone is on do not disturb if I’m sleeping. Why would I let random texts wake me up? My sleep is important.”

Equally baffled they replied, “What if someone at work needs you?”

“I am not a manager. No one at work will ever need me badly enough to interrupt my sleep. If I’m not working then there’s no reason to be calling me.”

“Not even if you need to cover?”

I laughed, “I don’t need to cover. They could ask me to cover but good luck getting ahold of me if I’m sleeping.”

They looked distressed at this idea.

To console them I added, “I have important people like my mom and my wife set to override. If they call they get through no matter what.”

There was a small pause before they asked, “You can do that…?”

So friendly reminder. Become unreachable. Work does not need you that badly. Sleep.

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happy LABOR DAY buckaroos. time to celebrate with these classic work trots

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This is a legitimate and damaging cultural shift for all involved parties and it needs to be addressed.

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IRS Free Online Tax Preparation Feedback Survey

For anyone in the US, the IRS just dropped a survey asking if people would like to file for free. People should take the survey!

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REWATCH -> Fear, Itself (4.04)