"Cop press release" headlines are so pervasive that even places like the BBC instinctively use them even when there are no cops to protect. It's just the way editors think now. This man fell off a cliff.
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Without further exposing the victims of this, someone with the contacts should report out why Google reinstated Kiwi Farms to search results after delisting it.
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"You're all just contrarians"
Contrarians (muttering): How dare you. You always say this about anyone who doesn't toe the woke liberal left line ab—
Rich German: YA WE ARE CONTRARIANS.
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Politico’s new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media. My latest washingtonpost.com/media/2022/09/
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The traditional method is that the author was mistaken in his summarizing of myth he even then did not understand well, but it's there all the same, and Tolkien was among those who put much thought into how to integrate it.
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Certain people have been trying to get rid of this line from Anglo-Scandinavian myth for a good 800 years now
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For sale, baby shoes, never worn, 4k, hyper realistic, dramatic lighting, unreal engine, octane render
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Reporter: "Patriot Front, a group accused of having far-ri"
Patriot Front: Oh we're white nationalists, totally.
Reporter: "Patriot front, a group considered to be white nati"
Patriot Front: We're Nazis, really. You can put that in your story
Reporter *gritting teeth*: No
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USB Promoter Forum: USB4.1 2x2 Gen 1 V2 SuperSpeed Will Resolve Consumer Confusion
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The ElfQuest audio drama just dropped its 1st ep. I’ve been a fan since I was 10 years old so I’m kind of freaking out. Boarding my flight for Dragon Con now to listen.
Please do yourself a favor and listen to this. Look for it in your podchaser and follow.
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Wonderfully dystopian facebook ad.
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What NBC means with "possible holding a vape pen" here is that he was unarmed
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2027. A coke costs $5. Moscow lies in ruins even as the EU collapses. It now takes Minecraft 41 minutes to start up.
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They tossed him in there, didn't they
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By age 30, You Should Have a Drawer with a Raspberry PI you don't use and a dozen USB cables.
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"Who shot dead", means.
This police press release language wasn't even in the press release! Editors are so used to using it they simply write it in now without being asked to. They think in it.
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State of the used vehicle market: 8 grand for the burned-out husk of a camper van
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Proud of my old Wolfen review.
"We should think about why a movie from 35 years ago had Donald Trump ripped up under the Battery Park windmill by nature's last secret to stop him becoming a politician"
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Food for thought: if the US cut just 2% of its annual defense budget it could afford to construct a colossal obsidian sphere in the San Francisco Bay. On top of the obvious economic benefits, it would be visible throughout all of northern California and emanate an ominous hum!
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Here's dystopia for you: game reviewers shorting the stock of the companies whose godawful games they're crudely bullied into obeying PR embargos for
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You can see when the Saints Row review embargo lifted
axios.com/2022/08/22/sai
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First thing I got from Stable Diffusion, from a plainly innocuous prompt
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Perfection. No notes.
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It's wrong to assume that the word "Metaverse" signals undisclosed sponsorship of coverage but there sure is a lot of high quality PR in ready-to publish-form going around using that word instead of virtual reality.
(The internet didn't die 5 years ago, that's when it was born)
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The Awwwyeahhtollah
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There are actual, real human beings trying to blame the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie due to a fatwa declared in 1989 on Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars in March of 2022.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: This weekend, I watched a hacker jailbreak a John Deere tractor live on stage; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/08/15/dee
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There is a certain "sweet summer child" sympathy that leftists experience watching right-wing cranks think they can tackle cops in their khakis and baseball caps.
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In Canada, the Q-anon crowd decided they were going to "arrest the police" for covid crimes.
I don't understand what went wrong when he said "stand down you are under citizens arrest" for some reason it just didn't work..
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If you plot the aesthetics of Street Fighter against its illustrious sequels, then imagine going in the opposite direction instead, you will soon hit "The Fighter in the Street", a lavish Merchant Ivory film shot by the BBC that won eight nomations and no awards at the 94 Oscars.
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I love the original Street Fighter aesthetic. The less cartoonish style, the muted colors.
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they printed them on the cabinet
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A guy so unbelievably full of it that even the Daily Mail can't miss
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Malcolm Gladwell slams working from home: 'What have you reduced your life to?' trib.al/nP98YQQ
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Cock and burlington coat factory, Dr. Freeman.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN PITER
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Reading about an early Amiga pirate group rising because they had access to blazing-fast academic internet and couldn't help but think "Our Lag Means Death"
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"The British consumed toast in such vast quantities that until the partial recovery of Wikipedia in 3644 A.D., they were known as the Painted Toastware Culture due to the massive toast racks discovered there by archaologists"
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sometimes i see something with a function so specific but so briefly useful that it makes me wonder what archeologists some centuries from now are gonna guess it was for
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been helping my boy learn his shapes
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Last month, I had the opportunity to cover Ljubljana Fashion Week for Donruss Trading Cards. Enjoy all the hottest moments from the runways, red carpets, afterparties and more. 🧵
1/ Actor Chris Pine enters the Sergio Faro Couture event. (Gown by Sergio Faro; photo: D. Thorpe)
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