Exploded Bunbury
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Library scientist. Hobbies: Wikidata and portraits.
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“It is a striking indication of the social and cultural decay inherent in the final stages of capitalism, when elaborate scientific methods begin to be used, no longer to promote, but to eliminate intelligence from among the workers, because intelligent workers become Communists.” R. P. Dutt (1934)
April 2, 2026 at 9:45 PM
“It is a striking indication of the social and cultural decay inherent in the final stages of capitalism, when elaborate scientific methods begin to be used, no longer to promote, but to eliminate intelligence from among the workers, because intelligent workers become Communists.” R. P. Dutt (1934)
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My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?"
Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
September 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?"
Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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It’s still funny to me that the US had a presidential election that was basically like “Should the US kill itself” and “Yes” won (2024)
September 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It’s still funny to me that the US had a presidential election that was basically like “Should the US kill itself” and “Yes” won (2024)
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Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies
September 20, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies
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Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Speak at Your Own Risk
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
www.theatlantic.com
September 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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I wonder if this is legal to teach in Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I wonder if this is legal to teach in Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
September 9, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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It might seem that the existence of a Fetterman is an indictment of the senatorial system’s design but in fairness the Founders would have expected somebody who behaved like this to get killed in a duel by an irate constituent.
September 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
It might seem that the existence of a Fetterman is an indictment of the senatorial system’s design but in fairness the Founders would have expected somebody who behaved like this to get killed in a duel by an irate constituent.
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Sandy Berman said it better.
"DON'T DO IT. You are not Potus pawns nor MAGA minions."
"DON'T DO IT. You are not Potus pawns nor MAGA minions."
September 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Sandy Berman said it better.
"DON'T DO IT. You are not Potus pawns nor MAGA minions."
"DON'T DO IT. You are not Potus pawns nor MAGA minions."
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"Republicans have close ties with a thousand far-right media extremists" is a story the elite media got bored with a long time ago. Now they've found one left-wing media extremist they can badger every Democrat about, and they are PSYCHED.
September 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"Republicans have close ties with a thousand far-right media extremists" is a story the elite media got bored with a long time ago. Now they've found one left-wing media extremist they can badger every Democrat about, and they are PSYCHED.
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“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.”
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
September 2, 2026 at 4:04 AM
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.”
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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thomas jefferson was a slaver and a rapist, but you don't have to idolize him or even like him. nothing is stopping you from seeing Frederick Douglass or Ida B. Wells-Barnett as the American tradition you belong to.
September 1, 2026 at 11:57 PM
thomas jefferson was a slaver and a rapist, but you don't have to idolize him or even like him. nothing is stopping you from seeing Frederick Douglass or Ida B. Wells-Barnett as the American tradition you belong to.
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‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article https://theonion.com/wall-street-journal-defends-decision-to-publish-peggy-noonan-generated-article/
August 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article https://theonion.com/wall-street-journal-defends-decision-to-publish-peggy-noonan-generated-article/
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Real “mask off” moment to casually assert that half of the country believes a thing (the obvious implication, then, being that half of the country does not) and therefore it is the new reality we all must inhabit.
this is a pretty wild exchange with someone seemingly in a moderator position
August 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Real “mask off” moment to casually assert that half of the country believes a thing (the obvious implication, then, being that half of the country does not) and therefore it is the new reality we all must inhabit.
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To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you.
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
www.stripes.com
August 26, 2026 at 10:49 PM
To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you.
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I’m not sure how to convey this succinctly to legacy media who continues to go to Manchin for his opinion. But let me try:
No one, and I mean no one, gives a fuck what Joe Manchin thinks about anything.
No one, and I mean no one, gives a fuck what Joe Manchin thinks about anything.
August 26, 2026 at 12:51 PM
I’m not sure how to convey this succinctly to legacy media who continues to go to Manchin for his opinion. But let me try:
No one, and I mean no one, gives a fuck what Joe Manchin thinks about anything.
No one, and I mean no one, gives a fuck what Joe Manchin thinks about anything.
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One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
August 25, 2026 at 8:38 PM
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Debbie Dingell, from the logo
August 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Debbie Dingell, from the logo
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These people are wildly racist, smug, and gleeful about their destructive actions.
Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2026 at 12:41 AM
These people are wildly racist, smug, and gleeful about their destructive actions.
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The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
August 25, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
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I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die
August 25, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die
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Dear libertarians,
I hate to tell you this (I don’t), but you are children. And the barrage of perfectly preventable diseases becoming newly prevalent again and having to check the daily food recalls should be all the proof you need.
I hate to tell you this (I don’t), but you are children. And the barrage of perfectly preventable diseases becoming newly prevalent again and having to check the daily food recalls should be all the proof you need.
August 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Dear libertarians,
I hate to tell you this (I don’t), but you are children. And the barrage of perfectly preventable diseases becoming newly prevalent again and having to check the daily food recalls should be all the proof you need.
I hate to tell you this (I don’t), but you are children. And the barrage of perfectly preventable diseases becoming newly prevalent again and having to check the daily food recalls should be all the proof you need.
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Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
August 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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If you’re a white man in academia and you think your problems come from EDI/DEI/woke, you’re failing on observational skills, research methods and critical thinking.
August 20, 2026 at 10:37 AM
If you’re a white man in academia and you think your problems come from EDI/DEI/woke, you’re failing on observational skills, research methods and critical thinking.
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one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging
what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me
August 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM
one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging