June the Obscure
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An old lady who loves literature, cats and the arts
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Happy #BannedBooksWeek! Mikey Burton’s design illustrates this year’s theme, “Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read,” by imagining all the things we can let books be: a wild ride, a safe place, a hiding spot, an exit strategy. What will you let books be this (and every) week? 📚💙 #ALA
October 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Happy #BannedBooksWeek! Mikey Burton’s design illustrates this year’s theme, “Let Books Be: Protect the Freedom to Read,” by imagining all the things we can let books be: a wild ride, a safe place, a hiding spot, an exit strategy. What will you let books be this (and every) week? 📚💙 #ALA
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And after that he dug in his heels and set his jaw and rubber-stamped everything Trump wanted for the next 1000 months
Playbook: Sen. Thom Tillis lashed out in private texts to Trump earlier this year, saying he refused to take his "bullshit" and that, had Trump directly threatened him with a primary challenge, he would've "immediately told you to fuck yourself" and announced his retirement early.
October 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
And after that he dug in his heels and set his jaw and rubber-stamped everything Trump wanted for the next 1000 months
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getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
October 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
October 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
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abolish the death penalty
October 1, 2026 at 4:32 AM
abolish the death penalty
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Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
September 29, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
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September 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
Ironic Star Wars Moment
Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."
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September 28, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
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Let's see the essays. Make them public. Let us read these scrawled golden tickets offered up by Cornell administrators to allow rapists to continue on with their lives unscathed. Was there a required word count? Did any of them use AI to write their "sorry for raping you" pieces?
Let us read them.
Let us read them.
September 28, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Let's see the essays. Make them public. Let us read these scrawled golden tickets offered up by Cornell administrators to allow rapists to continue on with their lives unscathed. Was there a required word count? Did any of them use AI to write their "sorry for raping you" pieces?
Let us read them.
Let us read them.
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The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
September 27, 2026 at 9:32 AM
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Nirvana’s “Nevermind” turns 35 today — an album the band almost titled “Sheep”, referring to people who follow the herd.
“Dreaming of the person you want to be,” Cobain said, “is wasting the person you already are.”
“Come As You Are” 🎸
“Dreaming of the person you want to be,” Cobain said, “is wasting the person you already are.”
“Come As You Are” 🎸
September 25, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Nirvana’s “Nevermind” turns 35 today — an album the band almost titled “Sheep”, referring to people who follow the herd.
“Dreaming of the person you want to be,” Cobain said, “is wasting the person you already are.”
“Come As You Are” 🎸
“Dreaming of the person you want to be,” Cobain said, “is wasting the person you already are.”
“Come As You Are” 🎸
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There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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JD Vance is using AI to kick hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance. These are AI death panels.
September 22, 2026 at 4:58 PM
JD Vance is using AI to kick hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance. These are AI death panels.
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imagine being 40 points underwater on "people wanting you to stay alive"
This is frying me
September 21, 2026 at 7:32 PM
imagine being 40 points underwater on "people wanting you to stay alive"
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Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
September 20, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
September 20, 2026 at 3:58 PM
“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Trump treats WH reporters like shit. They should respond in kind. No more deference. Talk back to him. Tell him he just lied, and didn’t answer the question. Correct him. Confront him with reality. Ask him why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Ask him if he’s lying or just crazy.
September 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Trump treats WH reporters like shit. They should respond in kind. No more deference. Talk back to him. Tell him he just lied, and didn’t answer the question. Correct him. Confront him with reality. Ask him why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Ask him if he’s lying or just crazy.
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If you are attacking Doctors Without Borders or World Central Kitchen,
you are wrong and can get fucked.
you are wrong and can get fucked.
September 14, 2026 at 7:28 PM
If you are attacking Doctors Without Borders or World Central Kitchen,
you are wrong and can get fucked.
you are wrong and can get fucked.
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He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
September 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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I mean, destroy humanity or don’t, I just can’t pay attention to the “will they or won’t they” plot anymore. It’s like the last three seasons of Moonlighting here.
September 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM
I mean, destroy humanity or don’t, I just can’t pay attention to the “will they or won’t they” plot anymore. It’s like the last three seasons of Moonlighting here.
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Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
September 11, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
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First to drink the Kool-Aid, first to ask for seconds.
September 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
First to drink the Kool-Aid, first to ask for seconds.
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a little maddening to be doing corporate code of conduct training in this day and age
"it is illegal to bribe people"
is it though, is it really
"it is illegal to bribe people"
is it though, is it really
September 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
a little maddening to be doing corporate code of conduct training in this day and age
"it is illegal to bribe people"
is it though, is it really
"it is illegal to bribe people"
is it though, is it really
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Just gonna share this again.
🔥Jewish Actor Mandy Patinkin (brillant in Homeland) gets really passionate about Gaza and the child killer Benjamin Netanyahu.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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September 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Just gonna share this again.