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Freelance journalist, PDX native, and the leading expert on the Dunning-Kruger effect. DMs open, or BenMaras@protonmail.com. Contact for Signal / Telegram.

Portland, OR
Joined September 2009
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… the Aristocrats!
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A purely coincidental number, obviously. (Trigger warning: that face)
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Conservatives when they don’t want to bake a gay wedding cake: “It’s our right to refuse service for any reason.” Conservatives when a business doesn’t want to handle their ass pennies: “This is literally fascism.”
Man at dystopian cashless store demands they take his money. And he is absolutely right.
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All snark aside: it’s kind of sad the way culture wars ruin everything, because I actually think there’s a very interesting and useful conversation to he had about monetary policy and the nature of currency as a storer of value vs accounting mechanism and the fact that … 1/2
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… all legal currency should actually just have images of this guy. 2/2
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This is hands down the most sane and reasonable hot take I’ve seen on Twitter this morning.
Most squirrel bites originate at the front, or “bitey end,” of the squirrel.
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To anyone who works at the Pentagon: I’ll pay you like, $5 to use this as the bumper music for the press conference about whatever was just shot down over Lake Huron. youtu.be/ViN2bRGrBx8
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I just want to point out that if you scrub to the exact right point around 1:05, the audio clearly says “anus attack yesterday.” I can’t wait to hear what the QAnon people read into it.
Wow these outtakes didn’t disappoint
PDX dog owners get self-righteous about banning fireworks b/c sparklers hurt their dogs ears, but don’t bother to clean up after their dog when it shits in the middle of the sidewalk. Even worse: people who bag up said poop, but then leave the bag lying there.
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Suck it, Worlde Twitter. Wordle 242 3/6 🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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P.J. O’Rourke, the satirist, political commentator and best-selling author, died on Tuesday. He was 74. nyti.ms/3GVQ7f8
Look, all I’m saying is that Horse Paste’s first album was good, but I find their later stuff rather derivative.
Being told that it’s my fault the Taliban took over Afghanistan because I didn’t sufficiently support the previous president who recognized the Taliban and signed a treaty to surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban (even though I opposed that policy at the time). Big, if true.
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I just spent 25 minutes reading everyone’s awful Afghanistan hot takes, and now I have nothing to add except: THE ARISTOCRATS!
For anyone who doesn’t believe: Yes, it’s true that a ton of houses in Portland don’t have AC. I’ve lived in PDX my whole life except for college at UO, and I’ve never had AC with the exception of one place with an ancient “swamp cooler” window unit in the attic bedroom. 1/2
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I didn’t even realize this was considered weird until I was driving Lyft a couple years ago during a heat wave. I lost count of how many times I gave rides to people from out of town who couldn’t fathom it. 2/2
Who wants to tell her that keys don’t stick to magnets to begin with? Maybe the rules of physics don’t apply to 5G magnets.
WATCH: Woman fails to prove the COVID-19 vaccine made her magnetic during Ohio House hearing hill.cm/qna38L2