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Breaking news: Jake from State Farm, Flo, and the Geico Gecko have been taken in for questioning after Liberty Biberty's crown was found washed up on Rockaway Beach

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 9h

Buying underwear for a grown man: just what women want out of a relationship, I'm sure. Who ends up responsible for cleaning it, I wonder?

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 11h

Early 2000s pop punk frontwoman, but her recent solo stuff is more laid back, this is one of my favorites from her most recent album

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Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 12h

I was vaguely aware of Paramore's hits but never got into them beyond that, but I stumbled upon her solo stuff this year and have become obsessed

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 12h

Great album, and that song in particular is amazing, check it out if you haven't already!

Before playing her song “True Believer” — from her latest album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party — the singer also typically makes a statement onstage that “the greatest threat to American democracy is Christian nationalism.”

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 06/10/2026

A family member asked me this summer if I'd heard of Tracey, mentioning that he liked his writing on Epstein... I'm hoping his soon to be born child isn't a girl, although I also hate to imagine the kind of boy he'd raise

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 03/10/2026

Feels appropriate given how things are right now that the Canadian contestant on Jeopardy today pulled off the win by being the only one to correctly answer an American history question!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 02/10/2026

At least in LA you're close to the San Gabriel mountains, Texas is painfully flat except for the far west side of the state, 8+ hours from any major city except El Paso

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 02/10/2026

Flat humid California's not real, it can't hurt you

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 01/10/2026

"My VR company hasn't built an immersive VR game, but we did strap some explosives to a headset"

“The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear. The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you,” Luckey said. In SAO, the NerveGear kills players with a microwave emitter. According to Luckey, the device’s creator “was able to hide from his employees, regulators, and contract manufacturing partners. I am a pretty smart guy, but I couldn’t come up with any way to make anything like this work, not without attaching the headset to gigantic pieces of equipment.”

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 30/09/2026

Lentil soup, by the way, I promise it will look better once it's done!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 30/09/2026

Should I have used a larger pot? Will this boil over and make a mess? Do I have any regrets about my choices? Yes, maybe, no. Hoping for fall weather soon, even if it was in the 90s here today!

Pumpkin shaped Dutch oven on the stove, almost completely full of lentil soup

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 30/09/2026

So you're not dropping an album so fire it takes down the internet?

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 29/09/2026

Why have we been arguing about Choosin' Texas for days instead of discussing the fact that Taco Bell for some reason currently has an Olivia Rodrigo branded Baja Blast flavor?

Picture of Olivia Rodrigo drinking a bright pink drink and sitting on a Taco Bell counter

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 28/09/2026

Big Florida's not real, it can't hurt you

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 28/09/2026

Bobbie Wills and The Texas Players

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 28/09/2026

Gender-neutralize a band name: Monarch

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 28/09/2026

On the other hand, it would have been very funny, and not really much dumber than reviving the emperor, if they'd confirmed that elaborate fan theory about Jar-Jar being a sith lord and the real mastermind behind the empire

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 26/09/2026

It's our god-given right to be obliterated by a suburbanite driving his truck to the mall

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 26/09/2026

"Democrats disagreed with me about the best strategy to help them win: that's why I now want them to lose"

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 26/09/2026

I recommend they read Old Yeller, in that case, a children's book about a boy and his big yellow dog, where absolutely nothing sad happens

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 26/09/2026

Got a similar one for free because the plastic gear inside broke and my mom had opted to get a new one instead of fixing it. Replaced the gear and it's still going strong a decade later!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 26/09/2026

Local public radio station has been playing an ad that starts with a clip of Barbie asking "Do you ever think about dying?", followed by a suggestion that listeners create a will and name the station as a beneficiary. Can't decide if it's creative or tasteless!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 25/09/2026

It does feel weird to me to exclude kids TV but group scripted and reality shows together

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 24/09/2026

If she leaves her husband for a student here, it'll be a lot darker than it was last time...

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 24/09/2026

Disparaging the humble accordion, and right as we're coming up on Oktoberfest?!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 24/09/2026

He survived, but James K. Polk famously had surgery to remove a bladder stone...with no anesthesia, since it hadn't been invented yet! I'd personally prefer that we didn't go back to that!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 24/09/2026

I recently bought a chocolate peanut butter seltzer water for science, and it was just as bad as it sounds. This sounds even worse!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 17/09/2026

Nobody: Jace: "Would you still love me if I was a token?"

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 17/09/2026

As much as the Sankey diagram and lack of showering are funny to joke about, the race science stuff should probably get more attention...although, I wouldn't want to discuss any of it with a child!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 16/09/2026

I misread this as hydrox and wondered what was controversial about running and weird vintage oreos; having googled it, I caught my error and also can confirm you probably don't want to know

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 15/09/2026

If you don't need a fresh pair every year, I've started going right before my insurance policy renews, and then timing the purchase so both regular glasses and sunglasses are covered

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 14/09/2026

I'm not sure if that's better or worse!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 14/09/2026

Can't beat the WuShock for a mascot, lol

Wichita state mascot--a anthropomorphic bundle of wheat

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 14/09/2026

That's why he's perfect for this, the bad posts bounce right off of him without doing any damage!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 13/09/2026

And yet, it's somehow less ridiculous than the previous version

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 13/09/2026

The amber waves of grain are looking unusually blue there!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 12/09/2026

Asking my waiter what he recommends to come into my stomach and immediately being removed from the restaurant

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 12/09/2026

I'd mostly forgotten about this band, but I'm revisiting them since their namesake is unfortunately in the news, and really enjoying it! Might have to pick up their new-ish album

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Dengue Fever - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 12/09/2026

One of my favorite math professors went off on a rant about his hate for two-column proofs, which having not grown up in America he encountered for the first time when his kids got to high school geometry! He was quite offended that they were called proofs, and I can't really disagree!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 11/09/2026

Looking back, I may have dodged a bullet by not having the patience to get through many Lesswrong posts when I first encountered them in college!

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 11/09/2026

Me, a Texas voter: I'm sick of hearing about this Platner guy [monkey's paw curls]

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 11/09/2026

I guess yoga can be relaxing and cigarettes can be relaxing (obviously not worth the health risk, but being able to go out for a smoke to calm myself down is something I miss). But, struggling to breathe during yoga, not so relaxing...

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 11/09/2026

I get that you need get some votes from people who usually vote Republican to win in Texas, but are any of the potentially winnable Republicans/Independents even watching Fox News?

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 11/09/2026

Might be a bot that's getting rate limited by whatever LLM it's running on

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Spencer @spencerjohnson.xyz · 11/09/2026

Are you suggesting Liberal Currents would not be improved by articles driven by the author's "loins, when they are functional"?

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