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Adam Labay

@adamlabay.net
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Former educator. Current engineer. Mathematics badass.

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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 22/08/2026
We're all this kid
Kid on the left, mouth agape, eyes wide. Pure astonishment. How Seth Rogen probably looked the first time he saw boobies.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 19/08/2026
Holy shit you weren't kidding
The results of an idiot following OP's pumpkin-drawing instructions in MSPaint, with predictable results.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 06/08/2026
When you turn off "Simple definition" and expand your screenshot, it's far more in line with the journalistic use. As is the sample sentence you omitted.
Merriam-Webster definition of "crack down" (v): to take positive regulatory or disciplinary actionMerriam-Webster example sentence: "crackdown" (v): a repressive government that cracked down on political demonstrations
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 09/05/2026
Teen Girl Squad still of "hey gals, let's go get ready to LOOK SO GOOD!!!" with "So good!!!" rendered in Bernhard Gothic
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 24/04/2026
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 22/04/2026
They did!
AP vote map of the Virginia Redistricting election, moments after the AP declared it for "Yes"
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 13/04/2026
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 13/04/2026
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 06/04/2026
As it happens, no. They would do the same thing.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 31/12/2025
5. Steve
Simpsons clip of Steve Sax being arrested by the Springfield Police
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 10/12/2025
don't think it'll be comic sans
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 20/11/2025
Swear to crap if someone on bluesky gets on me for not alt-texting this sumbitch... also maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 04/11/2025
(parody) Al-Qaeda social account posts; "Farewell, Dick Cheney. We could never have ruined so much of the world, including the United States, without your help."
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 26/10/2025
Definition.—Building on the workhorse definition in political science, we define
a leader as populist if he or she divides society into two artificial groups—“the
people” versus “the elites”—and then claims to be the sole representative of the
true people. Populists place the alleged struggle of the people (“us”) against the
elites (“them”) at the center of their political campaign and governing style. More
precisely, populists typically depict “the people” as a suffering, inherently good, virtuous, authentic, ordinary, and common majority, whose collective will is incarnated
in the populist leader. By contrast, “the elite” is an inherently corrupt, self-serving,
power-hoarding minority, negatively defined as all those who are not “the people.”
This definition has several advantages: it can be applied across time and regions
(e.g., in the 1940s in Latin America and in the 2010s in Europe), it does not depend
on institutional features (e.g., presidential versus parliamentary systems), and it
does not depend on the stage of economic or social development (it works for both
emerging and advanced economies).
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 26/10/2025
According to today’s
workhorse definition, populism is a political style centered on the supposed struggle
of “people versus the establishment” (Mudde 2004). Populists place the narrative
of “people versus elites” at the center of their political agenda and then claim to
be the sole representative of “the people.” This definition has become increasingly
dominant and is now also widely used by economists (see Section I and the recent
survey paper by Guriev and Papaioannou 2020). Populist leaders claim to represent the “true, common people” against the dishonest “elites,” thereby separating
society into two seemingly homogeneous and antagonistic groups.2
 However, populist leaders should not be confused with autocrats. As we discuss below, populism
and authoritarianism are distinct phenomena, with only few populists becoming
full-fledged dictators.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 07/10/2025
Good thing we can still make fun of her raccoon-eyed mugshot
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 21/09/2025
I'll accept it, but only if this artist is commissioned to make all of the statues.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 19/09/2025
x.com/LBJLibrary/s...
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 11/09/2025
Live by gun culture, die by gun culture.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 11/08/2025
Fair. LinkedIn Bad. But our poster is no hero. 3/4 of his posts have an AI angryface with the same pap that he's decrying. To wit:
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 22/07/2025
Ah my bad it was there the whole time
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 08/07/2025
just me?
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 14/06/2025
No amount of conflict can stop the cats.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 13/06/2025
These words may never have been spoken, but the votes - and their consequences - are real.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 29/05/2025
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 16/05/2025
Fixed and credited @phil-hands.bsky.social for ya
Political cartoon by Phil Hands. Donald Trump scolds a child playing with 5 dolls that "you don't need so many dolls". She responds to Trump, exiting Air Force One as his Gift from Qatar jet lands, that he doesn't need so many planes.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 17/04/2025
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 17/03/2025
White hoods stain too easily
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 11/02/2025
Mexican VPN suggests it's still properly named
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 08/02/2025
Context:
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 07/02/2025
Now Elon's double sad
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 07/02/2025
Just ripping off our boy Turd Ferguson
SNL character Turd Ferguson, captioned with his line, "See, it's funny because it's bigger than a normal hat"
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 03/02/2025
Just change Ivanka's number, that'll ruin him
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 02/02/2025
But always cheekily, which somehow makes it worse.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 01/02/2025
Please clap
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 25/01/2025
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 24/01/2025
Oh thank heavens it's not. Not that any of us would have been surprised.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 22/01/2025
Anyhoo, if you enjoy mildly-convincing photographic simulacra of TrumpWorld, consider checking out my buddy's work
An image of Elon Musk and some men in American Flag shirts giving a Nazi salute. Probably AI, but at this point that's probably irrelevant.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 18/01/2025
You know it's bad when a 4-minute AI render already looks like an improvement.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 15/01/2025
Animated gif of Sideshow Bob intoning "Touche, Cecil".
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 15/01/2025
Too late.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 07/01/2025
It's 2025 - not too late to adopt "dickety" in place of "twenty" when discussing dates.
Abe Simpson: "Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" because the KAISER had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back but gave up after dickety-six miles."
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 31/12/2024
The year is old, but there's still time to out-virtue-signal each other.
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 24/12/2024
Or like this?
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 24/12/2024
Like this?
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 14/12/2024
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 13/12/2024
Best I can do
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 05/12/2024
I got you
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Adam Labay @adamlabay.net · 17/11/2024
Womp.
A pickup truck with a Maryland licence plate that reads DIDDY
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