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“At last, a public intellectual who is not afraid to say it.” - Mr. Bitch. Words: @VanityFair @Slate @TheCut . I cancelled Ellie Kemper.

Innsmouth, MA
Joined September 2014
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@WB_Baskerville
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I never heard anything about this sphere before or during its construction. One day it was just there and everyone was like “The Sphere™️ is complete!” I won’t be shocked if the city of Las Vegas mysteriously disappears that’s all I’m saying
@LasVegasLocally
Las Vegas Locally 🌴
10 months
It's gonna take a while to get used to this
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For almost all of human history if 18,000 cows died in a single event it would cause the collapse of empires and usher in the birth of a new religion
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@WB_Baskerville
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1 year
As much as twitter pisses me off these days there’s simply no other platform where you can go to find out that the Borgia family still exists and they’re the fried chicken kings of Dublin
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9 months
I am declaring a Jihad on YA. It is no longer possible for us to coexist with them in peace.
@Historycourses
Abraham Ash
9 months
The Internet Archive is no longer lending books. It's over. The harm this does to me, personally, is incalculable. But we soldier on.
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3 years
Hamlet was simply the first guy to become the Joker
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Emmy Potter
3 years
will never get over the fact we've just allowed the J*ker to become the new male acting equivalent of playing Hamlet
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9 months
The jump cut to the boyfriend in this video is one of the greatest exercises in comedic timing I have ever seen. I fucking died.
@Luiseach
Sorcha Ní Nia
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STOP IT the NOISE I just made
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🅱️askerville
2 years
Seeing a lot of people not understanding why the elite American special forces in the original Predator are easily picked off one by one. It’s because the movie is about Vietnam. This is also true of Aliens.
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3 years
It’s awesome how the Zoomers are all deeply insane
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9 months
This guy made 10,000 “Life in the 1940s!” videos that everybody hated then by pure chance he finally landed on one that was good and now he’s gonna make worse versions of it forever. That’s life online for you.
@kylegordon101
Kyle Gordon
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Full song make a release next week - Aug 15!
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2 years
Dr. Gay Hitler is understandably getting a lot of the attention here, but I really want to emphasize how funny “George Washington Hitler” also is
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3 years
Andrew Cuomo be like “If a Covid vaccine have would thee, first you must answer my riddles three”
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@WB_Baskerville
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4 years
All guys want to desperately hold a defensive position against enemy wave attacks in overwhelming numbers. This is the secret desire of all dudes.
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2 years
“Well-funded well-equipped Americans go in to an environment they don’t know to fight an enemy they don’t know with the brash & arrogant expectation of victory and discover too late they bit off more than they could chew” what could have inspired this
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*American special forces, having become intensely frustrated at being unable to see or fight their enemy, unload automatic gunfire blindly in to the jungle* I can’t imagine this is referencing anything.
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3 years
There’s 14,000 accounts on here that are like “I have a Divinity degree from an Ivy League program and I’m a Christian Pastor but I’m like a cool Pastor, I reject every imaginable tenet of the Christian faith” it’s a endless supply how are there so many
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@mintymaiden I’m gonna be real with you I have never been to Nevada in my life
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8 months
You don’t really see the city calling forth levies of yeoman archers much anymore these days
@Pittsburgh
City of Pittsburgh
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The City of Pittsburgh is partnering with the @USDA to host a Deer Management Pilot Program with archery-controlled hunts in Frick and Riverview Parks during the 2023-2024 deer archery season.
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@Tomass321311390 I believe it’s like an arena
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You have to ask why no cops died. It’s not a pleasant question to ask, maybe it’s not an entirely fair question to ask. But if you were standing between him and those children, why are you here now? Why didn’t he have to step over your dead body?
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2 years
It’s wild that Pete Buttigieg was the mayor of South Bend Indiana with no viable path to statewide office so he just ran for President and flipped to being Secretary of Transportation and a front runner to be the next Democratic Presidential nominee. You can’t knock the hustle.
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He’s Tommaso d’Aquino not Thomas Aquinas He’s Bonaventura da Bagnoregio not Bonaventure He’s Egidio Colonna not Giles of Rome Stop Anglicizing the names of Italian scholars to conceal the fact that they were Italian You don’t see us calling John Locke Giovanni Lockanzo
@ShaykhAzhar
Shaykh Azhar Nasser
5 years
He’s Ibn Sīna not Avicenna He’s Ibn Rushd not Averroes He’s Jābir ibn Hayyān not Geber Stop Latinizing the names of Muslim scholars to conceal the fact that they were Muslims You don’t see us calling Shakespeare “Sheikh Zubayr”
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3 years
Actually Jesus the Christ has conquered all the powers of hell and delivered mankind from sin and death through His passion and resurrection. Hope this helps.
@AuntChaotic
Chaotic Witch Aunt (they/them)
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Today from Witchtok: A demon named Ambrose has been wreaking havoc across all of North America, including taking over covens and causing chaos, and tonight there will be a showdown with 24 deities to put him in Tartarus!
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“Are you Paul Dune?” “I used to be.” “We need you to come in, for one last Dune.” DUNE (2021)
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2 years
When you have a cat, which is a type of little guy that hangs out with you, sometimes he will reach his chin out and rest it on your arm, or come in from another room to sit down next to you. This is a premium experience.
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3 years
I came very close to taking my own life this summer. That feeling is returning. Please pray for me. I wouldn’t normally expose anything this personal on the TL but I need to tell someone and I don’t want to tell my wife or family because of the effect it has on them.
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This crab cannot conquer fire. He cannot split the atom. He cannot walk on the surface of moon, or send his technological marvels in to the deep abysses of space. Nevertheless he knows no sin, and he gives daily praise to the LORD by his simple tasks.
@RebeccaRHelm
High Seas Science
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"BuT HuMaNs aRe tHe mOsT AdVaNcEd sPeCiEs"
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1 year
I would actually love to read a long form article on how movie writers lost the ability to do quips well. Why can’t they write a little joke or ironic remark without it coming off as painfully formulaic and drawing attention to itself anymore
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Catholic masculinity is marrying a pregnant girl, suffering the mockery of the world, raising a child that isn’t yours, fleeing to the land where your forefathers were enslaved, receding in to silence. Letting the only word the world ever knows you spoke be the name of Jesus.
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DB Cooper is the funniest “unsolved mystery” because the answer is very clearly that he just died instantly lol
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@agostino_harry They got sued by a group of publishers, mostly driven by YA authors as I understand it, who argued that their lending model violates copyright
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Ellie Kemper I’m sorry I cancelled you call me
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@ThottonMather If someone did this at my thanksgiving I would simply jump through and out the window
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1 year
I hate the idea of public education as being principally about “career training” so much. It’s so anti-human. A decent humanistic education for everyone was a political victory that was won at great cost and is now in danger of being sacrificed on the altar of technocracy.
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6 years
The dating pool for young men and women is literally: -Persons damaged by sin who are nevertheless made in the image and likeness of God.
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9 months
My most medieval peasant coded trait is that I 100% believe in witches. You cannot convince me this was done by “sleight of hand”. This man is a sorcerer who has cavorted with devils to receive knowledge of unnatural and unholy arts
@Rainmaker1973
Massimo
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Magician Antonio Diaz, who goes by the stagename El Mago Pop, 'teleported' some volunteers at TODAY Plaza in a mind-blowing trick [full video: ]
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2 years
I find almost no (apparently) widely held moral belief more inscrutably alien than the position that “you don’t owe anybody anything”
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@monsterhogan123 You’ve been hearing this more and more
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5 years
@ebruenig @ByronTau Who among us in our teenage years didn’t personally harass an elderly Native American or two
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@WB_Baskerville
🅱️askerville
2 years
Pray for this person
@barukalas
Fr. Brandon ⚓️
2 years
Narrator: it’s true. All of it.
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If a grown man approached me & my family after mass and told me that he had been praying for a wife and God had shown him my sixteen year old daughter the events which would transpire from there would see me tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity
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Imagine if you were not extremely online and you took your like 7 year old daughter to Barbie on opening day and there were a bunch of men in their thirties there alone
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🅱️askerville
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Excuse me Mr. Jesus of Nazareth SIR when you said that you are the way the truth and the life and none come to the Father except through you you failed to respect the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
@MaxMillerOH
Max Miller
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This is one of the most bigoted tweets I have ever seen. Delete it, Lizzie. Religious freedom in the United States applies to every religion. You have gone too far.
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5 years
I like this painting a lot because you don't normally think of Jesus as a big hat guy. I like to think that at some point during the resurrection the apostles asked Our Lord "so where did you get the hat?" and He was just like "Hey man, don't worry about it."
@BishopBarron
Bishop Robert Barron
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Today’s Gospel reveals Mary Magdalene’s encounter with the risen Jesus. What if death and dissolution did not have the final say? What if, through God’s power, and according to his providence, a “new heavens and a new earth” were being born?
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2 years
People going to confession in movies and shows be like “Bless me father for I have sinned, I have committed one (1) sin that reveals relevant plot information”
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🅱️askerville
3 years
Close it again
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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Disneyland reopened in California after 13 months and people were in tears
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4 years
The line separating sophisticated French dude and Florida man passes not through nations, nor between classes, not between political parties either - but right through every human heart
@ExtremeItaliano
Italiano Jon Schwoerer 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇷
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@sh44sti imagine a country where this is their most famous living author
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@ChrisSchutte3 I would not go to Lowe’s 50 times a day. Would simply buy all the stuff I needed on one trip.
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Please pray for me I think im having a nervous breakdown
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🅱️askerville
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It’s so fucked up that you have to keep working during the summer. Our whole lives we have summer vacation then at a certain point they take it away from us and we just accept it.
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She seems like a nice person. I think you should look within to ask what it is about you that makes you want to denigrate others and take them down. You may find you’re a happier person when you treat others with kindness instead of malice. Cheers brother.
@JoshLekach
🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴
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What is this phenotype? Nickelodeon and it's consequences
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This is gonna be a controversial take around here but naming your kid like Athanasius or Scholastica is the Catholic version of naming them X Æ A-12
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1 like = 1 book I will tell you to read without any further context
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@kwhitaker_ Huge day for the fellas
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My grandmother left my grandfather to move to Las Vegas and pursue a dream of fame that never came true. He stayed behind to raise their ten children on his own as a single father without a college degree. He was simply built different.
@BrandonLBradfor
Brandon Bradford
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Was your grandpa that faithful or did camera phones not exist
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🅱️askerville
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@JaycelAdkins In Blade Runner 2049 when he goes to Las Vegas an it’s a heavily irradiated ruin, that was due to the sphere
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I hate the phrase “do the reading”. If you are defending a small and relatively fringe ideological viewpoint and you want it to get serious consideration it is your responsibility to explain it, not everyone else’s responsibility to read your favorite impenetrable tome
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🅱️askerville
4 years
@ebruenig I try to do this but I also wanna be like “hey it’s cool that I’m suddenly speeding up behind you this isn’t weird I swear”
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2 years
There was a study on rats once that gave them basically everything they could want. Food toys sex etc, just everything a rat could need out of life. They went insane and ended up either becoming severely depressed and lethargic or violent and self-destructive. That haunts me lol.
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🅱️askerville
3 years
It’s not like I was a starry-eyed free marketeer before this but watching the way capital has reacted to the first tight labor market of my lifetime has been unbelievably illuminating
@BitsHammer
Bits 🏳️‍🌈
3 years
JUST PAY A LIVING WAGE ASSHOLE
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3 years
Every book by an English historian is dedicated “To Gladwyn Turbutt- who took me to Crécy” and what that is referencing is a torrid homosexual affair that took place between the two ugliest men imaginable
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4 years
@APStylebook Hope she sees this bro
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🅱️askerville
4 years
I don’t usually like to share too much personal stuff on the TL, but please pray for me, 2020 has been the worst year of my life and I’m really not in a good place
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3 years
We can’t let the wealthy genetically manipulate their kids to be smarter. If you think the “I’m a gifted kid burnout” posts are bad now wait until they’re being made by kids who were told they were lab engineered to be geniuses
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3 years
Liz Bruenig said that she went to Indiana and that people “were nice” - come to find out she actually watched them kill someone. Pretty fucked up that she’d say that imo.
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3 years
Some people are younger than millennials. Here’s what that means for millennials.
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I do not want my parents to die because I love them hope this helps
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4 years
It’s endlessly hilarious to me that there’s literal Bourbons and Habsburgs just logging on to this website and posting.
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1 year
You can’t really love someone if you’re always holding them at arm’s length in preparation for the day when you’ll determine their presence in your life is no longer maximizing your utility. That is to live a life that is less than fully human. Imo.
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Dr. Nicole LePera
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Mature love: “I promise to be together for as long as it’s the healthy choice for us.”
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Part of what’s depressing about the collapse of the classics is that learning a language without intensive study taught by an expert is *extremely* hard. People can read Plato or whatever in translation on their own. Very few are going to be able to learn Greek on their own.
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If Christ did not rise then the world is an empty, meaningless place, consciousness a sorry accident, and life is nothing except a funeral march to your grave. But He did rise. The unconquerable enemy has been conquered. Happy Easter.
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4 years
@ebruenig As your height and weight scale up, the degree of upper body strength you need to hold yourself up scales disproportionately
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🅱️askerville
3 years
The feral boar returns to the eternal city. What turning of the great wheel does this presage?
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Wanted in Rome
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The video that everyone is talking about in #Rome this week: a dozen wild boar walking calmly through traffic on Via Trionfale. #cinghiali
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This is insanely evil and it really seems like the putative knowledge that was gathered as a result was little more than an excuse for the cruelty. We need to think about the level of blind deference that is given to any activity that is performed in the name of “science”
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