love to spend 18 hours a day defending a billionaire’s honor online for free. this is the sacred duty that the founding fathers died on omaha beach to protect
the CAPTCHA industry thinks theyre so smart making me identify traffic lights. coward shit. let me post my rambling 4000 word manifesto about CHEMTRAILS. thats the real human test
increasingly disturbed by revelations that while i was posting “this aint it chief” at random celebrities, powerful men were using social media to plot the downfall of democracy
how elon went from “im going to save humanity” to “actually what if i did treason with the funny invasion war crime man” in like 18 months. really inspiring demonstration of the grindset
New on The Index: the Link Blog feed.
External news stories, all presented as Gift / Friend links, with added commentary.
Today - covering the WSJ’s report on Musk’s bff back channel with Putin.
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The thing about the white power movement is that white people were in power for 95% of modern history and that’s how we got World War 1, World War 2 and Cats (2019) like this shit hasn’t been great
the economists are at it again. graph line go up? jail. graph line go down? also jail. sideways graph? believe it or not, straight to jail. im selling my stocks to invest in a jumbo jar of unvaccinated sperm
if the algorithm shows me a post from someone I don’t follow, I only reply to it if I agree with it.
Not because I’m a nice person, because I just don’t give a fuck about the wrong opinions of strangers on the internet
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just raised $500M in venture capital for my app that lets you summon a guy named keith to fix your toilet. he arrives in a cybertruck. this is the future
Call me delusional if you want, but I’m 100% convinced Harris wins in November. Defeatists can have their doom scrolls—I’ll take hope, thanks. If I’m wrong, feel free to roast me, but it’s still better than hiding an ‘everything-is-fucked’ bunker. ✌️
the mainstream media keeps telling me ‘2+2=4’ but my uncle terry says it’s 5 and he’s never even been to college. this is why im voting for the brave trump man
just found out about lobbying. so you’re telling me you can just walk into congress with a big bag with a dollar sign on it? and this is legal?? im getting my wallet
the beauty of crypto is that instead of getting robbed by a bank, you can get robbed by a 15 year old in latvia who named his smart contract “SafeMoonCumRocket”
social media activists will spend 9 hours crafting the perfect quote tweet to ratio a stranger with 12 followers but cant muster the strength to say “hey thats not cool” when uncle steve starts ranking ethnicities at dinner
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the founding fathers didnt have twitter and that makes me absolutely fucking sick. imagine george washington having to communicate through pamphlets like a peasant
extremely proud to announce that i remain UNVERIFIED. im so unverified that when i look in the mirror my reflection is just a bunch of question marks. cant even verify my own existence. no blue tick. powerful
“Trump gave the assholes a voice” as if your uncle randy hasn’t been getting hammered & ranting about lizard people and gays at every thanksgiving since 1985. the posting never stopped
experiencing what the experts call a “rugpull.” turns out DragonBallZCumRocketCoin was not a legitimate investment vehicle. the white paper was just the script of paul blart mall cop
wow. cannot BELIEVE you would dare to argue with me on the internet. im currently printing out every single thing youve said since 2007, binding it into a leather tome called “The Complete Works of Dipshit” & mailing it to your entire extended family
rewatched that video of celebrities singing ‘we’re all in this together’ from their gold-plated bunkers and i’m convinced it was a satanic ritual to summon a second wave of covid
Good people: “doing this worked for me, it might work for you!”
Bad people: “doing this worked for me, if it doesn’t work for you, you’re the problem”
Shitheads: “doing this worked for me, buy my $500 course to find out it more”
if you ever judge me for wearing pajamas to the store, just know: i have already judged you 10 times harder, for being a Fed who puts on pants before 12
As the leader of the Rohan First party I say let Gondor make a deal with Mordor on their own. Sauron has given me his word that his forces will stop at the Anduin and I have no reason to doubt him. Stop sending our horses into foreign wars. Make Rohan Great Again
If your centrism moves with the Overton window instead of anchoring in an actual belief system you’re not actually a centrist you’re just pissing your pants in the middle and pretending it’s a point of view
Is anyone else genuinely concerned about what cross-platform browser they’re going to be using if Mozilla carks it post-Google deal fallout? Like, what are the options here for a good iPad/iPhone/Android/Mac/Windows browser?
URGENT: need 1000 people to join my “EXCLUSIVE WEALTH NETWORK” (pyramid scheme) before my mom kicks me out of the basement. this is not a grift (it is a grift)
Netflix: here’s 8 new shows. pick your favorite. great choice, we’re canceling it. that’ll be $19.99 please. see you next month for a price hike. And by the way go fuck yourself.
I left the Australian startup “ecosystem” when one of their most prominent investors publicly called me a “man pretending to be a woman” and all the folks who loved pretending to be progressive acted like nothing happened because they’re shit scared of losing access to money.
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Excited about this.
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🇺🇸 Early voting has begun in North Carolina, a key battleground state for the upcoming U.S. presidential election, despite the devastation left by Hurricane Helene. The storm claimed over 200 lives and left parts of the state without power and running water.
🇦🇷 Former One Direction star Liam Payne tragically died after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, suffering multiple traumas and internal bleeding. Authorities are investigating the death, with early findings suggesting substance abuse may have played a role. Payne, 31, was alone at t... joanwestenberg.micro.blog https://joanwestenberg.micro.blog/2024/10/18/former-one-direction.html
🇻🇪 Venezuela has detained three Americans and two other foreign nationals on terrorism charges, accusing them of conspiring with U.S. entities like the CIA. This brings the number of foreign detainees in Venezuela to at least 12.
🇷🇺 Russia’s parliament has passed the first reading of a law banning content that promotes a child-free lifestyle, part of a push to boost the nation’s birth rate amid demographic decline.
🇷🇼 Rwanda is seeing a significant decline in Marburg virus cases following vaccinations of vulnerable groups, including healthcare workers, with new infections dropping by over 50%. Meanwhile, the mpox virus continues to spread across Africa, now affecting 18 countries.
🇹🇿 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff-level agreement with Tanzania, unlocking $265.8 million in financial support. This deal follows a review of the country’s economic performance, aimed at bolstering Tanzania’s fiscal stability and development efforts.
🇺🇸 California’s dairy farms are grappling with an unprecedented rise in cow deaths due to bird flu, with mortality rates reaching 15-20%, far higher than the 2% seen in other states. Extreme heat in the Central Valley exacerbates the crisis, slowing rendering plant operations.
🇺🇸 An independent review finds the U.S. Secret Service has become bureaucratic and complacent, citing systemic failures and a lack of cohesion in security planning. The review follows the July assassination attempt on Donald Trump, exposing serious security gaps.
🇪🇺 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy presented his “victory plan” to EU and NATO leaders in Brussels, seeking more military aid and a formal NATO membership invitation. While NATO pledged continued support for Ukraine, it stopped short of endorsing immediate membership.
another day spent trying to make chatGPT say random slurs so I can screenshot it for The Socials™️ my children haven’t seen me in months. wife’s boyfriend is teaching my son to ride a bike. success is near
Let me see if I’ve got this straight, tech bloggers are mad that Apple products have planned obsolescence, but they’re also mad that Apple hasn’t released new monitors in five years?
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