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[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

It's going to get more & more like this

All bureaucratized organs of reputation management & market-making are getting slopped into oblivion

You are going to need to Know a Guy for everything, & your success will increasingly depend on being a Guy people Know

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I mentioned that my garage door was making a sound.

An American immediately said, "I got a guy."

He did not ask what the sound was. He did not ask what kind of door. He produced a guy on the basis of the word garage.

I asked who the guy was.

He said, "Just a guy."

He did not have a company name. He had a first name and a phone number in his phone saved as "Mike Garage."

That is the contact name. Mike Garage. As though Garage is his surname. As though there is a family.

I asked how he found this guy.

"My brother-in-law used him."

I asked if the brother-in-law was satisfied.

He thought about it. Then he said, "He's still standing."

The house is still standing. That is the entire review.

Inside I said: THEY DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. THEY KEEP LOYALTIES.

I called Mike Garage. He answered from inside a vehicle. There was wind. He said he could come Tuesday between eleven and four.

Between eleven and four. A window of five hours. In my country this would be a scandal. Here it is generous. He gave me a window at all. Some guys do not give you a window. Some guys say "Tuesday" and that is the whole appointment.

He came at 1:40.

He fixed it in twenty minutes. He charged me less than I expected and he did not take a card, only cash or an app I had never heard of.

Before leaving he looked at my water heater, which I had not mentioned, and said, "That's gonna go."

I asked when.

"Couple years."

I asked what I should do.

He said, "I'll give you a guy."

He gave me a guy. Mike Garage has a guy. The guy has a guy. There is a network beneath this country made entirely of men named after their function, and none of them advertise, and all of them are busy.

Inside I said: THERE IS A SECOND NATION HERE. IT HAS NO SIGNS. IT IS ENTERED ONLY BY INTRODUCTION.

I have been given four guys since.

I have a guy for trees.

I did not know I needed a guy for trees.

I have trees now, apparently. They are my responsibility. A man named Rick told me so and then left.

[Open Source Defense @opensrcdefense]

Because of the gun-ownership-as-pathology lens, the piece lacks a model of a different reality: that gun owners are valid, want good products, and make informed, independent choices about which products are best for them. "Guns are normal and normal people use guns."

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Elon pretty obviously calling for people to murder politicians and immigrants

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Gary @MothMonsterManG]

I recommended a bunch of movies to a young guy at work a few weeks ago, and he's been watching them in like 30 minute portions, and its driving me insane. He came in today and went, "Pretty hyped on the first half hour of Seven, dude!"

So strange.

[Sola Requiem @Sola_Requiem]

In 1971, the Church of Scientology started “Operation Snow White” Its objective was simple: Infiltrate and hijack the CIA to attack anyone who went after them. This lasted for years until their spies were caught by Mormon agents who had been working in the CIA since the 1950’s.

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

Why did I have to find this gold on FB. Algo failed me.

[Two Skateboards @TwoSk8boards]

He still kinda isn’t over the fact that Nolan expected him to work for his money.

[Chris Lambert @TheChrisLambert]

Man, read the post title and the first comment

[yoshimi battles dracula @nise_yoshimi]

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

[CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak]

🧵 People in the Past were Desperately Poor 🧵
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Whenever I discuss history its shocking how much ignorance I encounter from even trained historians about the level of poverty in the past

Contrary to idiots and revisionists No. People in the past were horrifyingly impoverished

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

Kevin Sorbo was 17 in 1975. Never forget the Coaston Rule of Nostalgia.

[ProPublica @propublica]

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside.

On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors.

She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

[manic nixon dream girl @kennixonette]

I'm gonna have to delete this bc so many ppl are believing it and it's weighing on my conscience that I've accidentally tricked all these ppl into thinking the actors from amadeus are my gay uncles

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

MAGA is going through some things

[magnolia iv @nedstcnnis]

kind of the greatest meme ever

[Isley @IsleyResistance]

Costco looked at the declining birth rate and said who exactly is supposed to be buying the 48-pack of Gogurts in 2045

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

American Jews used our leverage to promote and protect the state of Israel. That was a mistake. But we did it. Now we have to accept our responsibility for fixing the situation instead of whining about antisemitism.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.

He is waving goodbye to his mother.