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Matewan is on TCM.com if you have access, always a worthwhile view. Giving me the distinct impression that we’re all living in a company town.

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Page from Snowflakes: A Chapter From the Book of Nature, by Israel Perkins Warren (1863)
Image: Public Domain Image Archive

ripcorp.biz/episodes/2025-corp the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.

I have complicated feelings about TikTok but one thing that’s been a mainstay on my feed is Colorball Champions. From somewhere in Indonesia, a rotating cast of women (and a few men) are playing this game all day, every day, with usually at least a thousand people watching. I don’t understand what they are saying but I watch a game nearly every day.

YOUR CLAM YEAR IN REVIEW
- There are over ten thousand known species of clams and tens of thousands more undescribed. Please do your part and find a few species next year.
- Cultured bivalves alone help remove over 49,000 tons of nitrogen from our waterways every year, along with other pollutants (with the contribution of wild bivalves several times that). They charge us $0 for this service!
- We don't have data on how often you thanked clams, but it wouldn't hurt to do it more next year.

@1moremin it’s your two cents combined with my opposing two cents add up to five cents, ten cents, a thousand cents.

“The long term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference of opinion.” -Tarek Mansour
What would you call this? Discourse mining?

winter sports 

I’m not sure why but I’m excited about this

Train vacation phase 2: chill in Chicago for a minute 

@tripofmice weather you want it or not

@tripofmice epoxy decenal was permitted as a food flavouring in the EU until it was prohibited on 11 July 2017 on the grounds of possible genotoxicity, as observed from rat livers. (From Wikipedia)

@ranjit thanks for immortalizing the tiny skunk. I’m here for all urban skunk encounters

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.