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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

one of the most infuriating things about this entire era is how incredibly quickly buyer's remorse has set in. both times. it takes people somewhere between two weeks and two months to be like "oh, this guy fucking sucks"

A chart of Donald Trump's approval and disapproval ratings between 2/20/17 and 8/23/17 showing him almost immediately underwater.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it can only good happen! everything is fine, nothing to see here, pay no attention to him setting the bar at "keeps airing" rather than "turns into a propaganda machine"

A post from media-knower Brian Stelter: "Anchor Richard Quest was doing the math on the air today, counting how many different owners CNN has had over the years/decades. And that's the thing, I said - CNN just keeps going, no matter the owner..."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

hey @robsandia.bsky.social, is this a good comms strategy? two emails a day, with literal repeat subject lines? i unsubscribed just now because you can't be bothered to stand up for trans rights, but this would have gotten me there anyway you are getting awful advice from someone, dude

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

presenting the fuck fascism carrot cake! contains: gluten, eggs, dairy, democracy, trans rights, blood of the tyrant, nuts to be auctioned off tomorrow at a fundraiser for local democrats fighting the good fight in uphill battles we all have our talents, we must use them as we can!

A rectangular layer cake slathered in cream cheese frosting, sides covered in chopped nuts, atop a cake turntable. The turntable and the table beneath it have chopped nuts scattered about from decorating the sides.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

like this is from 2020! what part of this is artificial intelligence? this is a spreadsheet "oh, the spreadsheet says we sold the six american-flag-emblazoned thumb drives, we should get six more out of the back room" yeah you fuckin think? you think that might be a good idea for your retail store?

DES MOINES, Iowa — Kum & Go LC is turning to retail technology to make it easier for customers to shop its stores.
"Kum & Go is excited to partner with CB4 to identify sales opportunities," said Marty Roush, Kum & Go vice president of operations. "We announced this tool to our district supervisors and they can't wait to put this in the hands of their teams to improve operational execution."
According to New York-based CB4, retailers are equipping store associates with artificial intelligence (Al) powered tools to improve in-store execution. C-store managers use CB4 to find opportunities to make in-store
adjustments that drive sales of a specific product. This includes replenishing products left in the stock room, resolving out-of-stocks, correcting ticketing and pricing errors, and anything else that makes it difficult for shoppers to find and purchase what they want.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

the world if people who knew better didn't rush to give them those headlines

The high-tech city of the future, if only...

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

*world's longest sigh* 1) "focused on nutrition" like a serial killer focuses on his next victim, maybe, let's not pretend anything happening on that front is remotely good or well-intended 2) "critics say": did he explicitly stop monitoring these kinds of outbreaks or didn't he (he did)

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

the girlfriend/car seat post is correct for the rank and file, but there's only one origin story for anyone working for cato: "i did debate club, i have no morals, and now i'm being paid tons of money to say this"

A post from the Cato Institute:

"How did you become a libertarian?
We sat down with 10 scholars and staff at the Cato Institute-with different origin stories, areas of expertise, and concerns-to find out how they came to libertarianism, what gives them hope, and what they would fix first if they could."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

it is a choice (whether intentional or not) to represent "[intensive bombing]" on "multiple parts of the country" over "consecutive days" as one arrow of the same weight as those used for reprisals, also to note iran is attacking u.s. military bases but coloring in and naming the whole countries

A post by the New York Times that reads: "The U.S. military appeared to widen its targets in Iran in recent days, hitting multiple parts of the country, according to state media reports, as clashes entered a sixth straight day. Iran also fired at bases belonging to U.S. allies in the Middle East.
Here's where strikes have been reported." The graphic in the link card is a map as described in the post, including a label that says "U.S. intensively bombed Iran over consecutive days."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

remember touchstone pictures? put out a bunch of movies you might know? at what age did you learn this is disney pictures in a trenchcoat, and was it today years old? anyway nobody knows or cares who owns and publishes what except industry press and sickos

Some well-known Touchstone Pictures releases include Splash, The Color of Money, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Good Morning, Vietnam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beaches, Turner & Hooch, Dead Poets Society, Dick Tracy, Pretty Woman, Sister Act, Ed Wood, Up Close & Personal, The Waterboy, Rushmore, The Insider, Unbreakable, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sweet Home Alabama, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Prestige, The Help, War Horse, Lincoln, and Bridge of Spies. Its highest-grossing film release is Armageddon, grossing $553.7 million worldwide.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

me, every time the nyt uses "windfall" in connection with trump's thievery and corruption

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

is that a.i. slop laundered through universal images, a self-professed aggregator? seems like it might be! and that brings me back to: why on earth was this "art" chosen for the wired article? it's the fifth return on getty for pluto, the first four being new horizons images of the actual thing!

Universal Images Group, founded by George Sinclair in 2002, sources, edits, aggregates, and distributes professional content for the global editorial and educational marketplaces. UIG manages distribution for many specialist agencies worldwide and is an important source of content for many of the world's leading licensing companies.
VIG is always interested in working with new contributors. If you are a photographer, agency or collection interested in learning more about UIG's distribution network and how we can help market your work, please contact us at info@universalimagesgroup.com

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

to getty! ... huh, i expected more quality control from them. this is wrong in so many ways: ❌ not labeled as illustration ❌ pluto quite famously not a planet ❌ only 1/3 the size of the moon ❌ not thought of as an asteroid or comet, especially if moon-sized! ❌ visited by a probe

gettyimages
Pluto, Discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto is the only planet that has not been visited by a space probe.
It is a strange planet, different from the other eight. Because it is about the same size as the Moon, some scientists think of it as an asteroid or a comet.
(Photo by: QAI Publishing/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

like that might be an illustration but it's not a photograph! what two celestial bodies would be lined up and that close in size, much less have their backsides totally illuminated (as that has to be the sun off in the distance, facing the camera)? that's one hell of a flash!

A screenshot of the Wired article with the image in question, captioned "PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY IMAGES."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

hey, uh, @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social: quick reminder that the last democrat to hold the seat you're running for was tom harkin, whose dad was a COAL MINER no one has said this. no one is saying this. not sure where you're getting this cookie-cutter paint-by-numbers campaign garbage, but it sucks

It's Josh Turek. When I got into this race, people said I couldn't win. A working-class son of lowa becoming a U.S. Senator?
No shot.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

i know it's npr so i shouldn't expect too much, but it's so tiring watching people constantly undersell what's actually going on the gop does not want this rule "reinterpreted" -- a completely undisputed thing courts do now i guess -- they want it nullified. they want it on the books but toothless

A post from Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) ® @hansilowang.bsky.social:
My latest @npr.org story: There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day.
Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters
06:03 • 1 Jul 2026

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

we all understand it would be quite the choice to describe him as "the candidate jizzed out of a kennedy" (or into, don't know/don't care) it's just as much of a choice to describe him as a "kennedy scion" and the others as "rival a.i. giants"

A post from the New York Times that reads:

New Yorkers headed to the polls on Tuesday to decide a packed slate of congressional primaries that feature ascendant democratic socialists, rival A.l. giants and a Kennedy scion. Follow live updates.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

but really, why should i care about your deadline? not that it would be better to spend time explaining that to me, because the average voter doesn't need to know what FEC stands for even, but then why are you mentioning it at all?

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

1) if your text is longer than one phone screen i'm either happy that happened or real sorry for you but i ain't reading all that 2) "i didn't think i'd have to ask for money so much but i'm not as popular as i thought" are thoughts you could not even torture out of me if i was running for office

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

the amy vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living, revised and expanded by Letitia baldridge, 1978, presented without comment

Division of Household Tasks: The woman who stays at home is the traditional keeper of the house, with her husband and children helping her as much as their schedules permit. Today it is sometimes the man who stays at home (an artist or a writer, perhaps) while his wife goes off to an office all day. The roles reverse here, and he should assume the management of the home, with his wife and children helping him, whenever possible, and with the family working as a group on weekends to keep the home clean and well maintained.
When both husband and wife work, the division of labor quite logically splits into who does what best. Sometimes the man is a better cook than his wife; sometimes she is a better cleaner than he. He may enjoy cleaning the kitchen but despise cleaning the bathrooms; she máy enjoy cooking but adamantly dislike cleaning up afterward. Somehow, in a good marriage, the division of labor is made on an equitable basis, so that cleaning, marketing, cooking, and maintenance chores are divided efficiently.
One has not fulfilled one's parental responsibilities if one has not taught the children-boys as well as girls-how to become good housekeepers. Any...

... child who grows up without having had to master any of the daily tasks of living will have a difficult time at college and in marriage.
It is a happy development that work in the home is no longer classified as
"woman's work" or work that is sissified for a man to do. The objective for everyone should be to get the work done, as easily and as quickly as possi-ble. One of the things I wish I had learned as a girl was how to be an electrician and a plumber, too. It would have saved me a fortune through the years.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

if i worked for google search i would have to quit (probably true some time ago) like this is just embarrassing! bet y'all carpenters out there don't know these clutch lego techniques lolol

An AI overview from Google that says the following:

Using Legos inside a crown molding joint is a clever carpentry and drywall hack used to create a strong anchor or backer block for mitered joints. Because Legos are incredibly rigid, perfectly square, and easily stacked, they provide a stable, hollow-proof corner to nail or glue trim pieces together.
Reddit-r/woodworking +3
How the Lego Hack Works
1. Create an Anchor: When an inside or outside miter joint doesn't have a ceiling joist or wall stud directly behind the corner, the joint is left floating, making it weak and prone to separating.
2. Glue in Place: Builders glue standard plastic Lego bricks onto the wall and ceiling right behind where the molding joint will meet.
3. Pin the Joint: Once the glue dries, you bring the two pieces of crown molding together in the corner. You can now confidently nail or pin-nail the fragile corners directly into the sturdy plastic Lego block, securing the joint perfectly.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

ok but the kids are right, it's a good joke 😂

A three-panel strip of the manga Crayon Shinchan Vol. 1 (to be read right to left).

In the first panel, Shin says, "I'll carry the key!" and his mother, Mitzi, replies, "No way! You'll only lose it."

In the second panel, Shin appears to be tugging at the crotch of Mitzi's one-piece swimsuit, though this is mostly hidden behind his head, which we see the back of. Shin says, "Then I'll stow it in your crotch..." A smiling Mitzi replies, "Good idea. Anything will fit in th--"

In the third panel, Mitzi has a RARRR noise above her head; she is blindingly angry and being restrained by two other people, one of whom is saying, "Please calm down!" Shin seems to be squatting in the corner of the panel, clutching his head, which has two lump-atop-lumps indicating he took some blows.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"ai iS iNeViTaBLe" then at least PUT IT BACK IN THE OVEN UNTIL IT'S DONE and then get back to me you know, finish the product before you sell it, like 99% of previous products in human history

Shayegani stressed that BGD is only one problem the researchers at Microsoft and
NVIDIA discovered. Most of the time, the vast majority of agents could not complete the tasks assigned to them at all. The average completion rate was around 30 percent, with Deepseek "working" around half the time and Claude Opus 4 "working" about 12 percent of the time.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

nine straight paragraphs of attacks on talarico, lovingly curated and presented without pushback, with a story about politics appended somewhere further down

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

bottoms without the bubble looking in the mirror like

A screenshot of Yoshi's Haunted Storybook or whatever it's called for Switch 2. Beneath a photo of a newly discovered creature (not pictured), there is text written by the book itself: "Why is it so flat? Did it evolve to be ridden?"

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

what the fuck. what the fucking fuck. obviously didn't click on this but if pacs are presumably out here fundraising using texts that look like messages from suicidal loved ones, then i would like it to be flatly illegal for pacs to ask for money

A screenshot of a text message that reads:
goodbye forever (major problem). Rachel Maddow just sounded the alarm. please read immediately: r.turnoutpac.org/
JAEFeUvv
PTP26
Stop2End

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

sure, trump has played a role here, but american automakers have agency too and i don't know that i've seen them pushing back or partnering with environmental groups to get charging infrastructure, etc. in fact, the opposite!

FOX BUSINESS
Published December 4, 2025 9:58am EST
Ford CEO hails Trump fuel standards reset as a 'victory' for affordability and common sense
Jim Farley says customers will get to choose what they want instead of being 'forced' into EVs

The CEO of Ford Motor Co. is revved up for the Trump administration's plan to make automobiles affordable, as he expressed his praise for helping to bring car prices back down.
"What you should know is that this is a victory for affordability and common sense. As the president said, we will be able to offer more affordability on our popular models, and we'll be able to launch new vehicles built in America that are more affordable because of this rule change," Ford CEO Jim Farley said on "Fox & Friends" Thursday.
"Frankly, [the Corporate Average Fuel Economy] was totally out of touch with the market reality. We were forced to sell EVs and other vehicles. We're not going back to gas-guzzlers," he continued. "We have a lot of EVs and a lot of hybrids at Ford, but now customers get a chance to choose what they want, not by what we force on them."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

the two dems who should be put on blast post-callais (pour encourager les autres) are, imo, cuck-chair-sitters mark warner and tim kaine callais was first heard in march 2025, this was a very known possibility, and yet they were arguing to weaken their own party's hand as recently as january

L. Louise Lucas
@SenLouiseLucas
I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need "coaching" on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

that one piece of mozzarella was like I'M OUT and it was an impressive tunnel job for as far as it got, tbh

The browned, cheesy surface of a white casserole dish full of baked ziti. One piece of mozzarella had sunk quite deep into the casserole, leaving a little saucy sinkhole.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

and this is why she's gonna lose the primary "data centers are bad and we should keep them out of the state... except for this one community where they're saying the magic word: jobs" lady, what are your values?

WESTBROOK, Maine - Gov. Janet Mills said Friday that she hasn't decided whether to sign a bill passed by the Legislature to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers, outlining her critique of the legislation.
"It's on my desk. I'm going to read it. Read it very carefully," Mills, a Democrat, said in a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, adding that it doesn't contain a "carveout" she wanted for a project in the struggling town of Jay in order to boost jobs.

"I have already expressed publicly concerns for the project that's proposed in Jay, Maine, which has lost actually two paper mills in that community in the last couple years," Mills said.
"It was probably one of the worst days of my tenure as governor, when in the middle of the pandemic and the George Floyd
demonstrations, protests, we saw a video of the digesters in Jay falling over," she added. "At that moment, we all thought that 300 or more people probably had died in that explosion.
Fortunately, that wasn't the case, but it brought tears to my eyes, and I was saying to people in my office, bring on the locusts. Where are the locusts?"
"And that mill obviously closed and they lost all the jobs they had, pretty much other than service jobs, and those people deserve a good look at what that data center could do for the for the community. So I have said that I would want a carveout for Jay," she continued.

"I'm also concerned about what data centers have done in other states - consumption of electricity and water usage, those kinds of things," Mills said. "This one is right on the Androscoggin River, and that paper mill once used 40-something million gallons of water each day. So I'm looking at the comparison there, and whether or not it's viable."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i don't think i've seen the giant oval office lettering since it was taped up with printer paper, which suggests that when it happened, he was already so far gone that he couldn't find the door he'd used daily four years prior and it had to be labeled asap

A delivery person stands with a large paper bag of food outside the door to the Oval Office, which is labeled by raised golden lettering on the wall next to it.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

i'm sure there's lots of interesting coverage to be had on drug policy in america but this piece is clearly not interested in being part of that coverage, it's simply using drug policy as a convenient cudgel to beat one political party that's the only reason to have that D capitalized!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
San Francisco was a model of Democratic governance gone wrong, but under a new mayor with a new approach to drug policy, it seems to have turned a corner, writes German Lopez. "The transformation is in its early stages, but what I saw in San Francisco was promising."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

what fresh hell is this ad style? love to add a thick border all around the screen that actively covers up the text i'm trying to read

An article on avclub.com where the first letter of each line of text has been covered by a thick gray border that connects to the google fiber display ad at the bottom.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

people are having trouble generating cash flow in 2026 because they may have to spend 150 bucks per unit four years from now? do i have that right?

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

i believe this statement about the number of buildings owned by small landlords but will note that is not mutually exclusive with the number being less than 10% of the total

Ann Korchak, president of the Small
Property Owners of New York, estimated that the city has 22,000 buildings consisting of six to 10 units per property. Thousands of them, she said, are owned by New Yorkers like Lee.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

the stories in the first two screenshots, of giving buildings to the bank and not being able to find buyers to cash out on the huge increase in property values, make no sense if there's also an industrywide fear of ravenous nonprofits just waiting to swoop in and *checks notes* buy the buildings

"When is the breaking point when you have to say to the bank, 'I am sorry, but I can't afford this property anymore and you have to take it back," Gojcaj said.
The landlords concede that the value of their properties has grown, in some cases substantially, since they or their parents bought the buildings decades ago. That doesn't mean it will be easy to recoup their investments at sale.

Sharon Redhead owns five rent-stabilized buildings in Brooklyn, each containing between six and 39 units. They are the legacy of her parents, Caribbean immigrants who purchased them in the 1970s. Their value peaked in the late 2010s, she said.
"I don't know anyone who wants to buy a business that is running in the red and has no prospects of being profitable," Redhead said. "So I am going to try to hold on as long as I can and hope eventually common sense prevails."

Landlords with small portfolios say city assistance programs are difficult to navigate and slow to reimburse. Throughout the industry, there is also broad concern that city leaders want properties sold so they can be acquired by nonprofits.

A bill approved last year by the city council would have required the owners of some distressed apartment buildings to first give nonprofits an opportunity to buy them.
Mayor Eric Adams vetoed it, but landlords fear Mamdani would sign such legislation if it's brought back.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

i'm sorry that you and your successful partner are not getting a good return on your side hustle right now, that is just really crushing

In the Bronx, Gojcaj said the problems are only magnified for small property owners like herself.
She moved to the United States as a child when her parents, ethnic Albanians, fled Yugoslavia in the early 1970s. She and her husband got into real estate "as a side thing" and purchased their two properties.

"Our expectation was you acquire the assets, you put in some upgrades and provide housing while making a decent return," she said. "But right now we are barely breaking even, and that is just operating costs. Never mind improvements."
Gojcaj said the 50 units in her buildings rent from $700 to $2,000 monthly - with operating costs averaging $1,500 per unit.
And at one location, she added, tenants owed her $229,000 in overdue rent as of mid-January.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

starting off strong: all they wanted was a little extra cash! the housing market only ever went up! such sympathy i have for them! the real meat here though is "for decades, the investments appeared to pay off" appeared to? but didn't actually? did the profit they generated just vanish?

NEW YORK - In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.
They bought or inherited aging apartment buildings, hoping to bring home a little extra cash as property values grew and they fulfilled the dreams of their immigrant parents. For decades, the investments appeared to pay off, despite stringent rules restricting rental increases for apartment buildings constructed before 1974.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

the museum statement, at least the part excerpted in the article, is incredibly weak too. the people in minnesota are also being attacked because of their identities? that's the reason he made the analogy? this is netanyahu's version of "never again": never again for us, but maybe not for you

"Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish," the museum said in a Jan. 26 statement posted on X. "Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

ok but the frog suit has clearly turned luigi french

A screenshot from the upcoming Super Mario movie showing Luigi in a frog suit. The way his mustache is angled up, due to his mouth being open as if he is saying "bleeeeh," makes him look like an angry Frenchman.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

ah yes, two masters of framing one framed a victim for his own murder and the other, well...

Big Gretch hides behind her folders. Framed her Oval Office visit just beautifully, really.

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

see, the good folks at @startribune.com have object permanence, unlike the times

White House posted altered photo of activist
By SARAH NELSON
The Minnesota Star Tribune
The White House posted a digitally altered photo of Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong that depicts her crying as she's arrested by federal agents in connection with the demonstration at a church service on Jan. 18.
In a previous version of the Image posted by Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Kristi Noem, Levy Armstrong is composed, with a calm face as she's led away by a law enforcement officer.
Asked about the altered photo, the White House directed the Minnesota Star Tribune to a post on X from Kaelan Dorr, deputy communications direc tor, that says "Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

the new york times, apparently, without the aid of an "a.i. detection system"

A screenshot of an article featuring two photos of the same woman being arrested that are otherwise identical except she's crying in one and stoic in the other (real, unaltered) one.

The Office meme captioned "They're the same picture."

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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

three employees suddenly rolled up in the frozen section and i hear "it just chips away, i can't get it off ... there are like three more" bless whoever's been busy this afternoon at target. maybe if you didn't let bovino piss in your stores and abduct your employees...

A sticker that says FUCK ICE on a glass door in the frozen foods section at Target.

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