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I know it's too soon to adopt another dog but I also have definitely been repeatedly checking an NYC rescue's social media for updates on a dog whose countenance reminds me a lot of Kitty

astrology nonsense 

aw man, i was doing my annual adding of mercury retrogrades to my 2025 calendar and one starts on my birthday

I think this joke format is already very dead but: Richard Kind Lookalike Contest

sharing [www.miningartifacts.org](miningartifacts.org/) in case you enjoy lovingly crafted 1990s aesthetic websites for highly niche research interests

Absolutely wrecked because a friend's cat that has been in cat hospice mode for almost two months passed away today. it's not that I even knew the cat all that well, but it's the second friend whose pet died this year and I am so tired of people I love getting kicked in the teeth by the universe and I miss my dog so much and it reminds me of how much it hurts

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Oh man you know who would be having such a time with The Discourse if he were alive today? Baudrillard

Ramsey says before I go to war with the data centers we need to get a verandah he can pine from and read my letters from the front

Extra depressed this time of year by default because it's when my dad died but also everything is bad and my dog died two months ago so it is really just not a good time

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UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors. https://buff.ly/3ZPLOPu

The thing you have to understand about the original Gilded Age is that "gilded" does not mean "golden." It means covering something cheap with a thin layer of gold, to make the cheap thing look more valuable.

That is why they called it the Gilded Age: it was a cheap simulation of a golden age. A shiny veneer of prosperity, but scratch the glimmering surface and all you'd find underneath is base metal.

In other words, enshittification is nothing new. It's just how plutocracy works -- looting the fundamentals of the economy to gild the lives of a few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age#The_name_and_the_era

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