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The specific text of the email doesn’t matter, but it’s an email from the Mamdani campaign with a very hard to read combination of colors: lavender background and white tape, with links in a blue that is far too close to the background color.
Text exchange with my friend: Me: you know how I get Friend: I do Me: lol
A black brown and white hamster being held in a white person’s hand.
A screenshot from the article linked in the quoted post: And yet the aspiration to build a society where each gets their due has never gone away and persists in perhaps the most audaciously utopian vision ever conceived by human beings: meritocracy. Where earlier societies stressed faith that only the visible hand of God could possibly give to each person their due in the next life, many defenders of meritocracy imagine it is possible for the invisible hand of the market to do the same in the profane world. It is hard to imagine a more fantastic idea. Even the communists only envisioned a society where everyone's needs would be met, without imagining it was possible to conceive a society where each gives according to his character and receives according to his true worth.
a post from (twitter) announcing Elon musk’s new “America” party “from the center”
Meme image of Obama giving himself a medal
She could support a Muslim or pro-Palestinian mayor, but is troubled by the candidate’s past statements. “I certainly don’t think that somebody who has a hard time condemning terrorism against Jews,” the registered Democrat said, “should be mayor of any city in our country.”
Chuck Schumer bragging that he got the name of the big GOP bill changed. Because the name was the problem.
A cairn with a Lego labeled with Sharpie: “RIP Jill the hamster”
The late hamster Jill, a gray, brown and white Russian dwarf hamster, pictured here eating food.
A picture of an open window, with a fan in the bottom open part and tinfoil taped onto the top to reflect the sunlight away from the inside
A headline reading “giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York”
A yellow sign with red and black letters saying “no kings, no Trump, no Cuomo”
A photo of a ten year old with his face obscured, holding over his head a sign that says “ICE will melt in hell.”
No kings, no Trump, no Cuomo
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’
The bottom of Jill’s hamster cage, half with wood shavings and half with shredded paper.
Jessica Ramos holding Andrew Cuomo’s hand and looking sour
Andrew Yang proposing a political primary between three billionaires, three celebrities, and a tinfoil hat
Andrew Yang replying to Musk saying “Working on it!”
Eric Dinowitz losing my vote by inexplicably thinking Richie Torres is a good get
A dado in a piece of pine, in progress.
Notebook paper taped together into a scroll, on which is written a chart translating every integer into binary notation starting with one.
A dating profile screenshot that says “that said the word sapiosexual is icky and vaguely eugenic”
Costco price tag for coffee that says that the price is $19.79.
A brown and white hamster running in its wheel
A screenshot of the Bluesky user “stem the bleeding” accusing me of using a racist trope in my username Benjamin not Ben, and instructing me to sit down (I am laying down)
The meme of the guy standing up in the meeting from the Norman Rockwell painting
Apparently RFK Jr wrote this book about St. Francis of Assisi?
Text that reads: It has also become clear to me that this firm no longer tolerates open discourse. Ahead of Friday’s announcement the firm took preemptive action to silence critics by covertly limiting our access to firmwide distribution lists. This was a clear effort to silence criticism of the firms decision.
A display called “essential steps for bird skin preparation.”
A screenshot of a phone call to Senator Chuck Schumer’s Washington DC office, with a message that says “user busy”
Rear right view of a shave horse
A screenshot saying: Has a beard. Loves to make things out of wood. Does NOT like olives. Grew up in Washington, DC.
A screenshot which says “legitimate gripes from residents, most importantly the driving down of pay in the low-wage job market. And yet I think we can also recognize that scenario as a failure for the Haitians as well. Can it really be considered humane to airdrop 15,000 Haitian migrants into an alien culture with minimal assistance in finding housing, learning English, getting jobs, and otherwise integrating into the local community? I very much believe that it can not. Too many on the left who support more legal immigration, as I do, refuse to engage with mass immigration as a challenging effort in social engineering, rather than simply as a benevolent opening of doors.”
The Rich Man 17 As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came running up to him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly good. 19 But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. You must not cheat anyone. Honor your father and mother.’[a]” 20 “Teacher,” the man replied, “I’ve obeyed all these commandments since I was young.” 21 Looking at the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. “There is still one thing you haven’t done,” he told him. “Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” 22 At this the man’s face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
19 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. 5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. 7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” 8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
A screenshot from the New York Times email newsletter with the headline “no brown shoes with blue pants? Our fashion critic weighs in.”
A screenshot of a blue sky user named “middle rage” saying “hey one issue voters—thanks for getting this monster elected. We fucking told you.”