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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6h
that's right
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7h
pretty incredible we're not even two generations removed from state controlled censorship boards telling artists they're getting a little too blasphemous with it. seeing something like that and what they cut from it really contextualizes how gutless and inert the complaints about "wokescolds" are
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7h
a good movie is always worth a road trip
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7h
yep! in theaters this week
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 7h
ken russell's the devils: pretty good!
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 13h
treason
By Alexander Ward, Natalie Andrews and Josh Dawsey

(Wall Street Journal) -- WASHINGTON -- Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration, U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter said.

Both Musk and President Trump have expressed anger at Ukraine for attacking Russian diesel refineries in recent weeks, which the president blames for high energy prices. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network, the people said, rendering some offensive drones and interceptor drones virtually useless.

Musk and Trump discussed the Starlink decision in a call soon after the slowdown became public, while the president was campaigning last week, two of the people said. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision to throttle Starlink.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's public complaints -- namely that Ukrainians could die if the unrestrictive service wasn't restored -- led to widespread confusion about who ordered the slowdown, and to an informal investigation inside the White House.

During the uproar, SpaceX representatives called White House counterparts seeking a unified understanding and subsequent message that the company and Trump administration coordinated ahead of Musk's directive, the people said.

Musk himself tweeted hours after the slowdown became public, "Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS," using the acronym for president of the United States. Trump told reporters Monday that he didn't know who was responsible for the Starlink slowdown, "but I would like to find out."

Some U.S. officials say that Musk acted unilaterally and that Trump didn't specifically order any retribution against Ukraine. But a person familiar with the situation said Musk talked to multiple
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 14h
this whole thing smacks of gender www.theverge.com/policy/10146...
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Don’t forget for a second that Elizabeth Holmes is a liar
What three hours of a documentary looks like to someone who spent four months at the Holmes trial.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h
Yes. My read is also that the movie is in large part about him reflecting on the emotional reaction he has when face to face with these con artists and the conflict that puts him in with his intellectual understanding that they are con artists
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h
I lean towards the "crazy aunt" angle personally
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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 19h
Not since she married. Now she's Tammy Teepell-Steeple
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h
there's gotta be a Tammy Teepell somewhere in the mix, right
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 19h
Here is the church And here is the steeple Open the doors And see Tommy Teepell
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Josh Paige @joshlpaige.bsky.social · 19h
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h
anyway bsky.app/profile/adam...
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 19h
Timmy Teepell is a 1950s backup shooting guard for the Minneapolis Lakers, underhanded set shot and never getting even close to getting called for a carry.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h
and when it was on, his knuckle curve was unhittable. just dropped off the face of the earth
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h
names this good shouldn't be wasted on scumbag political operatives. Timmy Teepell is the name of a retired relief pitcher who threw 43 innings of 4.50 ERA ball for the '94-95 Royals and Tommy Teepell should be his 5-tool prospect son everyone else in the Orioles dugout has nicknamed "T-Dawg"
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h
When I say I don't understand the economy I'm saying I don't understand why there's always infinity dollars available to burn when rich people have a chance to do something stupid and racist
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 20h
<to my date> that's Jeff Tickets
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
This is simple. On the flanks are Raymond and DJ Kitty, and in the middle is The Night Passenger.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h
QUANTUM THEORY CALLED INTO QUESTION: The world of theoretical physics was rocked this morning when scientists announce "no possible universe" exists where Whalefall is #1 at box office
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 21h
(Bookie whispering to a whimpering Viggo Mortensen) Remember: you broke it kicking an orc or whatever
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21h
that viral movie trivia thread didn't do a lot for me because i already chose to learn most of those factoids at the expense of ever learning math or science
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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
what it feels like doing anything basically
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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 22h
I started at CPSC in early June 2016, literally a few weeks before this piece was published, and I remember reading it and thinking, "Well *my* nonsense is going to stand on its own!" theonion.com/nasa-social-...
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NASA Social Media Manager Considers Himself Part Of Team
HOUSTON—Calling it a privilege to work in such a dynamic and collaborative environment, NASA social media manager Dustin Greer, 26, told reporters Wednesday he considers himself fortunate to be a part...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h
the virgin MAGA grandpa vs the chad no kings grandma
white dems overperforming 2024 by a decent margin and white republicans underperforming similarly
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h
there's this brand of indonesian coffee flavored hard candies that go crazy hard and I would love to see the mcdonald's corporation's Flavor Labs figure out a way to inject that technology into the mcflurry contraption
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knickerbacker.bsky.social @knickerbacker.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
What the Mets did by mediating the transfer of Freddy Peralta between the two eventual pennant winners without really netting anything for him or getting even replacement level production out of him, it’s really art. It’s like a weird version of money laundering where only you go to jail.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22h
i think i am still on the brew crew bandwagon in the off chance it gives me a way to un-retire this bit no one likes but me bsky.app/profile/laur...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23h
just woke up from a strange dream where the tampa bay rays punched their world series ticket on the backs of their roster of workhorse starting pitchers and they go now to face up against the home run mashing milwaukee brewers
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/10/2026
just give yourself over to coltrane
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
I heard you like short form video content
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
league of extraordinary guinness book guys. robert wadlow smoking a pipe all tall as hell while those mega fat identical twins on the motorcycles are doing figure eights around his legs. and here comes the guy with nasty long fingernails in that velvet bag
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dennis @direbee.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
To want it is foolish; to fear it is weakness.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/10/2026
i have no desire to eat it but i can confidently say i could tank it if i had to
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
there's a lot of these, but an all timer is that the "cells interlinked" test from blade runner 2049 is an actual acting exercise called "dropping in" that actors use to learn shakespeare, which gosling suggested for the scenes. there was a great writeup on cohost, but cohost no longer interlinked
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Blade Runner 2049: How a Key Scene Differed From the Script | Den of Geek
"Within cells interlinked": Blade Runner 2049's disturbing Baseline Test scenes were originally very different, its director reveals...
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/10/2026
this is the type of shit David Byrne says directly into the camera in True Stories
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/10/2026
i got the smallest of the 3 made by Hoto, the combination blower/vacuum for keyboards and coffee stations and the like. it i wanted one more for like cleaning a car or general purpose hand vacuuming i woulda gotten the slightly larger one. areliable brand imo
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dabizomb.bsky.social @dabizomb.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
My favorite joke from the Berkeley Heuristic Squelch magazine was a top ten list of the greatest movies about arm wrestling: 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. Over The Top 3. 2. 1.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
[posting at 3pm on a Monday] You *know* Joe Camel eats pussy like crazy [noticing that a critic I respect follows me] which really I think that religious poets like Mary Karr and Dana Gioia and Emily Dickinson would vibe with
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/10/2026
Over The Top (1987) is not a good movie but it has some insane star filter visuals, an army of greasy 80's body builders, and that one scene where a guy swallows a cigar to psyche out sylvester stallone and well those things individually are all great
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
i'm reformed! i'm changed! i control the filth now, the filth doesn't control me!!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
i bought a cheap little hand vacuum recently and i'm still in the honeymoon phase where i envision a dust and grime-free future where every desk and table in my apartment is perfectly maintained forever, but deep down i know the truth. i know the little specks of crud and coffee grains will return
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
the gas heard your insults and got its feelings so hurt it went up in price again
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
that's right, Mis. I'm coming for you. you WILL wear the clown nose
my post: they should do some harrison bergeron shit to misiorowski. put some scrap metal on that boy

post label: threat
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
I will never forgive the american people for making him the main character of reality again after we were finally almost free of him
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
reading about the new Capra biography got me rewatching Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and I think we've forgotten what used to make this country great: An army of plucky youngsters eager to make the best damn newspaper this town's ever seen
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 10/06/2026
We DO NOT ACCEPT Haunted Coins! This Means: • NO Currently Haunted Coins • NO Previously Haunted Coins. Sorry—Can’t Risk It • NO Haunted Coins That ‘Your Guy’ Says Are ‘Barely Haunted’. If Your Guy Loves Them So Much, He Can Buy Them • OK To Possessed Coins, That’s Different
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
I'd rather eat buckshot 👍
youtube tv ad: come back and watch the midterm elections live
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/10/2026
www.theverge.com/tech/1013951... I would be less relieved about X getting less than 10% if I didn't frankly think Facebook is just as toxic in a less obvious way
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Pew Research: “40% of U.S. adults say they regularly get news on Facebook.”
34 percent say they regularly get news from YouTube, Pew Research says. As for other social media platforms: > Smaller shares of Americans regularly get news on Instagram (23%) and TikTok (20%). Fewer...
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