501
I'm just imagining some dude spending his last moments on earth drafting an unfinished tweet about M&Ms. Carpe diem.
502
Like, come on, guys. Be productive with your time.
503
people seriously discussing the footwear of candy mascots
504
In times of trouble, take comfort in knowing that the ol' proxy-war-via-arming-and-militarizing-random-populations strategy is definitely not the kind of short-sighted policy that everybody will soon regret.
It is simply the road to peace.
independent.co.uk/news/long_read…
505
True story: the CIA station I worked at in Europe had an enormous, wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling World Map because even career intelligence officers often had no idea where Country X was located.
The number of new arrivals who confused Sweden and Switzerland would astonish you. twitter.com/SameeraKhan/st…
506
Very few on either side of modern conflicts are thinking critically about the consequences of their methods. Scarce are the genuine attempts at persuasion, and what passes for argument has become the tired recitation of slogan and slur.
Amidst fire, we slumber and calcify.
507
Wow! I very much hope they enjoy it.
There is some profanity in the original, but there's a Young Reader's edition that should be streamlined and especially accessible for kids:
us.macmillan.com/books/97812507… twitter.com/AndysTechGarag…
508
I have eaten
the positions
that were in
the orderbook
and which
you were probably
saving
for retirement
Forgive me
they were margined
so deep
and so liquid
509
It will never stop being funny to me that there is some kind of long-running mutual suspicion between the Danes and the Swedes, and if you ever ask them what it's all about, as soon as they overcome their shock at your total ignorance they start talking about cannons and kings.
511
The authors of the 36,000 furious pieces that hyped a secret plot by the Communists to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids—which perhaps could have merited more skepticism—should probably pause and reflect on how their work affected the discourse.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
512
Starting to feel like this press conference was a mistake.
513
Beware those who water the gardens of hatred and war.
515
518
At some point, the DNC/corporate-media blob may want to reconsider whether sabotaging the candidate with a genuine, lifelong focus on the struggles of the working class was really the galaxy-brain play they imagined.
(Source: news.gallup.com/poll/388781/po… )
519
Thieving people's medical supplies and then just... throwing them on the ground is a level of villainy the people who write scripts for cartoons would reject as unrealistic.
520
Scenes from the decline. twitter.com/johnschreiber/…
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Il est facile d’oublier, maintenant, combien de temps tout le monde s’est battu pour que cela se produise, et très franchement, à quel point il était improbable que nous puissions réussir. Quelle fin heureuse rare et extraordinaire!
journaldemontreal.com/2022/01/09/nou…
523
Kansas City gets right up to the line of describing Mike Pompeo as "a boot-licking little weasel whose treacherous squeaks are not to be trusted on matters with even the lowest of stakes."
They probably didn't want to defame an animal.
kansascity.com/opinion/editor…
524
The recitation of facts is increasingly viewed as political, and even offensive. That is a grim omen.
525
The founder of Visa's tweets are so incredibly dark I have trouble believing it's a real account. twitter.com/deewhock/statu…
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