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    "Brotherly Iraq." ISTG.

    WTI crude is $112.06/bbl; mid-December it was $55.13. That's 103% in 107 days. www.google.com/finance/beta...

    Side note: over half of Russia's income is from oil. They can't balance their budget at $55/bbl. Doubling the price of oil is a godsend for Russia & OPEC.

    A graph of WTI crude oil price for delivery in May 2026. Graph (mostly green lines on a black background with mostly white block text) extends back ~1 year. The most recent price shown is $112.06 on 3 April 2026 at 9:51 p.m. UTC. A dashed line extends up from 16 December 2025, highlighting that the graph said $55.13 on that date. That means oil is ~103% more expensive than it was 107 days earlier. Other text on the image shows that oil has gone up 80.77% since the beginning of the year, 93 days ago.
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    Apr 4, 2026
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    🧵 Thread: I know the USA has a reputation for, um, impolity: our citizens are sometimes considered rude or boorish abroad; our federal government is out of control. I like seeing No Kings protests internationally, but I think Canada & Mexico would be lining the borders w/ hate signs. I'm tired…

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    Oct 19, 2025
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    Stolen from The Bad Place because I got a laugh out of it, & we all might as well get whatever else we can out of it too. x.com/webflite/sta... #NJ #UFOs #drones #aircraft #IranianMothership

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    Dec 15, 2024
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    From an interview with Christopher Walken about this role:

    "In the Bond movie I had my hair dyed an impossible yellow color, and that became my motivation in a lot of scenes: I had a secret subtext, which I never discussed with anybody. Every time I had a scene with somebody I’d be thinking: What do you think of my hair? Do you like my hair? Do you like what they did to me? That they made me look like this? So next time you see the movie, every time I torture somebody I’m really thinking, You see what they did to me with this hair?"
    Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social
    Shout-out to the Bond movies for making an evil tech founder a super-villain back in 1985, at least 25-30 years before the rest of us caught on.
    Chris Walken as Max Zorin in A VIEW TO A KILL
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    Apr 29, 2026
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    [gets out can of Ubik, sprays it around liberally]

    A fake advertisement for a spray can of a substance called Ubik. Ubik is from a Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. It's supposed to help preserve the appearance of reality in a milieu that doesn't correspond with normal consensus reality. The ad has a blonde woman with tied back hair, holding a can of Ubik. For some reason, "Ubik" is mostly in mirror reversed letters, but the letters are in the correct order for the word. The backward appearance for the word is both on the can & in a logo at the bottom of the page. The ad has the woman saying: "I came over to Ubik after trying weak, out-of-date reality supports. My pots and pans were turning into heaps of rust. The floors of my conapt were sagging." "But now I use economical new powerful today's Ubik, and with miraculous results." The ad goes on to state "Entirely harmless if used as directed!"
    Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social
    I think we can agree that's what adds the third and final level of spookiness
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    Nov 1, 2024
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    Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social, do you have any clues about how to read through a 44 pound lap dog? #dogs #BusterP

    Buster, a tan and white Australian Cattle Dog mix, sits in my lap while I'm reading a book. I'm visible on my right side while Buster sits in my lap & looks at the camera. In the foreground is the top part of a very orange opaque plastic bottle. In the background are a light, a bookshelf with 2 tea sets stop it, and one of a pair of french doors with a miniblind to the right.
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    Nov 16, 2024
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    Probably no one's going to GAF, but Asheville's ~250 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, and that place isn't even in the same state.
    The # of people without power has finally gone below a million. It's now ~700,000 across 5 states.
    www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/w...
    #Helene2024 #NCwx

    Before-and-after images show Helene wiped parts of North Carolina off the map | CNN
    New before and after satellite photos paint a grim picture of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in parts of western North Carolina that have been hard to access after the storm swiped away the state’s ro...
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    Oct 4, 2024
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    Purposes of The Internet:

    1. Porn
    2. Stupid animal pictures
    3. Complaining about shit

    Faine Greenwood @faineg.com
    that’s basically why we have the internet
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    Apr 27, 2024
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    A collage of 6 pictures of Werner Herzog in front of a microphone, being interviewed. Text over the 6 photographs says: There were some filmmakers speaking in an auditorium like this one about how documentaries should be made, how we should be like fly on the wall and not interfere And I just couldn't take it anymore so I grabbed the mic and said NO! We are directors, we are creators, we should be the [edited to say furries instead of hornets] furries that sting There was a roar of disgust against me So l shouted -- Happy New Year losers!
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    May 4, 2026
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    These MFs just want to arrest people, beat them up, drag them off to holding, smoke a cigarette (because they're getting off on it, duh), collect their paycheck from US, & go home.

    Fuck them. I hope they all burn in hell.

    Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social
    A restaurant worker in Charlotte is tackled to the ground by Border Patrol agents who raided the kitchen. He had no criminal record at all.
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    Nov 23, 2025
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    The Mamdani sign generator at URL https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html, used with the following text, taken from Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation: “Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives while from the dimlit halls of other places forms that never were and never could be writhe for the impatience of the few who never saw what could have been. In the black water with the sun shining at midnight, those fruit shall come ripe and in the darkness of that which is golden shall split open to reveal the revelation of the fatal softness in the earth. The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear, but whether it decays under the earth or above on green fields, or out to sea or in the very air, all shall come to revelation, and to revel, in the knowledge of the strangling fruit—and the hand of the sinner shall rejoice, for there is no sin in shadow or in light that the seeds of the dead cannot forgive. And there shall be in the planting in the shadows a grace and a mercy from which shall blossom dark flowers, and their teeth shall devour and sustain and herald the passing of an age. That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated it shall walk the world in the bliss of not-knowing. And then there shall be a fire that knows the naming of you, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you that remains.”
    rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social
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    Nov 9, 2025
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    Apparently I stole this from somewhere over 8 years ago.

    An American Choppers 5 panel meme, with Paul Teutel Sr. & Jr. Sr. is made up too look vaguely like a cat. He starts in panel 1, & they alternate. 1 — Sr: I DEMAND WET FOOD 2 — Jr: THERE ARE BIKKIES IN YOUR BOWL 3 — Sr: THEY BRING ME NO PLEASURE 4 — Jr throwing chair: IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR ME TO FEED YOU EXCLUSIVELY WET FOOD I'M ON THE BENEFIT SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO SUBSTITUTE IT FOR BIKKIES 5 — Sr, now standing up: I'M A CAT YOU KNOW I CAN'T COMPREHEND CAPITALISM, WELFARE OR YOUR FINANCIAL LIMITATIONS
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    Nov 1, 2025
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    Oh hell yes. 😂
    imgflip.com/memegenerato...

    Trump to NYT translator Meme Generator - Imgflip
    Insanely fast, mobile-friendly meme generator. Make Trump to NYT translator memes or upload your own images to make custom memes
    Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
    Meme of Trump-to-NYT translator. Trump: I TOLD PETE, WE SHOULD USE SOME OF THESE DANGEROUS CITIES AS TRAINING GROUNDS FOR OUR MILITARY, NATIONAL GUARD, BUT OUR MILITARY. BECAUSE WE'RE GOING INTO CHICAGO VERY SOON. THAT'S A BIG CITY WITH AN INCOMPETENT GOVERNOR. STUPID GOVERNOR NYT: Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders
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    Sep 30, 2025
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    Sorry, couldn't help myself.

    A meme from Imgflip\.com called "Guy talking to girl." It shows a guy in a club or bar environment yelling in a woman's ear while she has a slightly tired/pained expression on her face. The text, following a recent tweet repeated on Bsky, says "Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thucydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Machiavelli, Melville, Milton, Conrad, Rimbaud, & Hölderlin"
    Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social
    Every woman I know with advanced degrees has dated this guy/met this guy at a party and he has implied how ignorant/stupid she actually was because she didn't recite the History of the Peloponnesian War from memory. And then he's been blocked/avoided by every one of those women.
    Coeur de Leon @sufipervert Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lemontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thuscydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendahl, Cellini, Machiavellli, Melville, Milton, Conrad, Rimbaud and Holderin.
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    Aug 17, 2025
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    Fucking Nazis. 🤬 "The videos showed roughly a dozen people, dressed in black and wearing face coverings, marching through the streets of Columbus carrying flags with red swastikas on them."
    www.bbc.com/news/article... #USA #Nazi #Ohio #Columbus #pepperSpray

    Biden condemns 'sickening' neo-Nazi march in Ohio
    Videos showed masked men shouting racial slurs and carrying swastika flags in Columbus on Saturday.
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    Nov 19, 2024
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    Fuck yeah. This January 6th, support the good people still left in the U.S., and burn Donald Trump in effigy. This is the best idea I've heard in a long time. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvx9w/jan-6-commemoration-insurrection

    America Needs a Guy Fawkes Night for Jan. 6
    Insurrection Day would only be celebrated by about half the country and instantly derided by the other half. That’s all the more reason to do it.
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    Nov 4, 2023
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    I guess localities having systems for hack licenses wasn't such a bad idea after all, no?

    Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
    “A federal jury in Phoenix on Thursday ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a passenger who said one of its drivers had raped her, setting the stage for thousands of similar cases around the country.”
    Uber Is Responsible for Rape by Driver, Jury Finds
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    Feb 6, 2026
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    Name This Movie. Wrong Answers Only. 📽️ #NameThisMovie #WrongAnswersOnly #FilmSky

    A still from a movie. As this is part of a film quiz, no more information will be provided.
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    Jul 16, 2025
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    Reply to @faineg.bsky.social

    The main reason I left FB a couple years ago was because too many family members had gotten too toxic for me. I would dread trying to use the platform, even after blocking some of them or otherwise restricting their access. And when I realized how much dread I had, I bailed. Fuck that place.

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    Jan 11, 2025
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    Fortunately, the Asheville Citizen-Times still has their paywall down. But imagine if you will what would cause the governor of a state to tell the world at large "Please, don't come here." That's how fucking bad it is.
    www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
    #Appalachia #Helene2024 #NCwx #NC

    'We don't want you here': NC Gov. Cooper to fall color tourists after historic floods
    Tourists and travelers have been asked not to come to Asheville and Western North Carolina after historic floods from Tropical Storm Helene.
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    Oct 4, 2024
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    My Elon Musk statue is raising a lot of questions already answered by my statue.

    I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com
    www.expressnews.com/business/art...
    Giant Elon Musk bust raises questions as it's towed across South Texas
    It’s the latest project of a French tech entrepreneur who earlier commissioned a giant mural of the tech mogul.
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    Aug 22, 2024
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    The whole purpose of the postmenopausal female is to guide humanity toward an enlightened path through power and influence.

    A still from David Lynch's Dune. A Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother is testing Paul Atreides with the gom jabbar. Both characters are dressed in very baroque costumes. The Reverend Mother is holding a needle, out of sight, against Paul Atreides's neck on the far side. On the near side, Paul's hand is inside a box designed to cause him extreme pain while not physically damaging his hand.
    Brian Hawkins @brianhawkins.bsky.social
    The whole purpose of the postmenopausal female is to orchestrate the assassination of the monstrous boy king and make sure his equally monstrous mother knows it
    The incomparable Diana Rigg as Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones
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    Aug 15, 2024
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    Great. Another fucked-up result of climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
    #food #vegetables #climateChange #globalWarming #biofortification

    Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?
    A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bullet
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    Mar 31, 2024
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    “We know what they want to say, but they don’t have the courage to say the n-word.” That's exactly right. https://www.thedailybeast.com/baltimore-mayor-turns-tables-on-racist-bridge-conspiracy-theorists #racism #Baltimore

    Baltimore Mayor Turns the Tables on Racist ‘DEI’ Attacks
    “We know what they want to say, but they don’t have the courage to say the n-word,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott told MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
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    Mar 28, 2024
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    Name This Movie. Wrong Answers Only.
    #NameThisMovie #WrongAnswersOnly #FilmSky

    A still from a movie. As this is part of a film quiz, no more information will be provided.
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    Nov 29, 2023