Former academic (VCU, GSU & UNH) and researcher. Not that kind of psychologist. Survey geek. leosimonetta in the place with skies of blue.
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The benefits bending the knee. apnews.com/article/new-york-…
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The Post is right.
I'm sporting a mustache this "Movember" to raise awareness of men’s health issues, including prostate cancer.
But this isn’t just (upper) lip service.
This year, our administration is investing $4M toward a brand-new prostate cancer center at Kings County hospital in Brooklyn.
Mamdani raises eyebrows with new look, ditching beard and sporting surprising 'stache trib.al/qmtVh20
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really dislike a lot of menswear trend reporting. "corduroy is making a comeback." "the humble cardigan is suddenly everywhere." "this season, it's all about layering." "brown is having a moment." yea man it's called fall/ winter clothing and it's getting cold
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I can't believe I'm cheering Joe Scarborough this morning, but he said what everyone is thinking: "Pat McAfee has ruined ESPN College Gameday."
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So. Anthropic stole my books. Then it got caught. It didn't say sorry. It was ordered to pay for what it stole. Then it said, well, the writers have to tell us what we stole. – at McKenna, WA
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I'll say what a lot of people in banking won't say out loud.
Plenty of jobs out there still pay $17 to $23 an hour. Full-time, that's roughly $2,940 to $3,980 a month before taxes.
Now go find rent under $1,700. Add a car payment, insurance, gas, groceries, utilities, your phone bill.
That's before health insurance comes out of your check. Before student loans. Before a kid gets sick and you're out $350 at urgent care. Before your car needs a transmission fix you didn't budget for.
I've worked in wealth management for over a decade, so believe me, I'm not anti-savings. Savings matter.
But there's a point where telling someone making $20 an hour to "cut out coffee" stops being useful advice.
You cannot budget your way out of $3,800 in unavoidable monthly costs on a $3,000 paycheck. The math isn't a discipline problem.
Sometimes the spreadsheet isn't broken. The income is just too low to cover what it costs to be alive right now.
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russian bots keep telling me Ukraine was killing russian speakers in Donbas.
Interesting.
I was born in Donbas. In Stakhanov.
I grew up speaking both Ukrainian and russian.
Nobody persecuted me for my language.
Then russia arrived with tanks, bombs, and promises to “save” us.
I lost my home.
But please, random internet expert,
Explain my childhood to me.
I’m sure you know better.
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A Jan. 6 defendant — pardoned by Trump for threatening to "put a bullet" in Nancy Pelosi's head while driving around D.C. with guns/ammo — has been newly charged with threatening to assassinate D.C.'s federal judges.
Credit to @SeamusHughes for the find.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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Strong closing message.
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after 1 day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Paxton's office proposed that Adam Hoffman serve 1 day in jail as part of his plea deal. The judge sentenced him to 60 days instead. He was released after serving 29 days with good behavior credit. texastribune.org/2026/05/19/ken… kwtx.com/2026/05/25/for… ibtimes.co.uk/ken-paxton-hof…
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Reminder: this is how Vivek got rich. He bought a worthless drug, had HIS MOM run a bogus trial on the drug, then went on CNBC and lied about it.
The drug never worked. Investors lost all their money. But Vivek had already cashed out.
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I work in aviation so this morning I got to sit around with a bunch of pilots and discuss this horrible situation and I found it so interesting that none of the pilots thought the gender or race of the pilots were a factor at all but a bunch of fucking idiots on here do.
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Dear companies: never have I ever interacted with an AI customer service (chat bot, phone answering bot, etc) and come away feeling anything less than rage at its incompetence. They literally never help me and I usually end up begging multiple times for it to let me talk to a human. Please bring the humans back.
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I see you’re enjoying the ride in the plane that was purchased by the largest sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Weird that it doesn’t appear to bother you.
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Michigan Republican Mike Rogers repeatedly voted to block healthcare benefits for 9/11 first responders and veterans while in Congress.
