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ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...
Insane number of quote skeets. The only time Stephen Pinker was worth a damn is when he coined "igon [sic] value problem" re:Gladwell languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1897
“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes:
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it is also the official pub day for apesht.org! please buy my wife's zine to help support her addiction to secondhand books about primate research.
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if you were wondering how he only served 13 months in prison after raping multiple minors, it's because he served zero jail time for raping multiple minors. the only jail time he served was for financial crimes covering up sexually abusing children. he kept his congressional pension up to now
Dennis Hastert — the former House speaker who was later sentenced to prison time over hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse of teen boys — has died at age 84.
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very excited for everyone to see a sample of carrie's work. the companion article on helping hands is fantastic. order links at apesht.org. official pub date is Tuesday. AND subscribe to Luke's Welcome To Hell World!
Happy to share an excerpt from the first issue of the new Ape Sh*t zine by @monkeywire.bsky.social out this week from @orbooks.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/the-bizarre-...
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The amount of people who I know who have a casual amount of magic cards for kitchen table play is quite a bit. I've seen players leave the game for a bit to come back for a set that suits their fancy. Magic can be an inexpensive hobby if you don't try to keep up with the Joneses.
I know we are all dunking on the NYT article for using Magic the Gathering as an example of a cheap hobby, but people forget that the majority of players who aren’t on Reddit actually only makes a few purchases a year and plays with what they have.
This fucking interstitial waiting room for external links that Google Gemini provides on the search page is designed to stop people from clicking through to the underlying link... ugly ugly ugly business. www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
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Meanwhile, the market has - Dozens of confirmed early cases (the lab has zero) - Clusters within the market near animal stalls - traces of virus found in animal cages Leakers often cite "bayesian likelihood" but animal spillover is common while a novel virus leaking from a lab has never happened.
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Still can't get over the fact that @playstation.com announced an end to physical media in the same post they announced the closure of their digital store for older platforms. Literally justifying the worries people have about a digital-only future within the same post.
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