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@thebryanlansing

"Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue"

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Seeing a Cybertruck in Old Town Lansing is so strange. The only place I'd expect to see one less is a family reunion surrounded by loved ones.

06.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Explaining to foreigners what it's like to have Trump in the White House...

27.02.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Intelligent Owl: Whom

17.02.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

J.D Vance told reporters he agreed with "beautiful patriot" Kurt Cobain's use of force in a recent shooting. Vance claimed the man shot by Cobain was a "violent thug" who possessed a firearm.

26.01.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is how every possessed child talks in horror movies.

19.01.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Benedict Arnold 🀝 Ben Johnson

Loosing after being a traitor.

19.01.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Riley Gaines finished fifth once but Pete Hagseth finishes a fifth ever single day.

03.01.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can't wait to see grown ass men who live 10,000 miles away crying saying they're boycotting the Kennedy Center.

29.12.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

27.12.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 3255 πŸ” 1378 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 139
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28.11.2025 18:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You, annoying: Happy Holidays

Me, an intellectual: *Hasn't spoken to a real person in 17 days*

27.11.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Elon Musk hates being called a Nazi but not enough to stop doing Nazi things.

27.11.2025 00:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I stay up late when I’m very tired because suffering makes you cool and attractive

22.11.2025 06:33 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They should make a horror movie about how you get an extra hour of sleep during daylight savings time but my dogs wakes you up at 3am anyway cause shes hungry.

13.11.2025 04:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Frankenstein is a metaphor for the dangers of reanimating corpses with electricity

13.11.2025 04:11 πŸ‘ 3205 πŸ” 714 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 27
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Apparently you can bring pets into the stadium if it's a lapdog.

09.11.2025 23:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my home phone just rang, it was Dave Roberts asking me to get loose

28.10.2025 05:19 πŸ‘ 275 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

Here's an unsolicited opinion for Mr fellow book readers:

If We Were Villians is better than The Secret History.

28.10.2025 00:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jordan Love is so bad at football, he should probably be playing for the Brewers later today.

12.10.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All the states known for good bourbon are states that make it hard for young people to vote.

As a bourbon enjoys, this is upsetting.

As a democracy supporter...this is beyond upsetting.

26.09.2025 04:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning,

Sorry to anybody who woke up without a job today while Scott Harris still has one.

25.09.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm pretty sure Pete Hagseth drank so much that he retroactively gave himself fetal alcohol syndrome cause he sounds dumber every single day.

23.09.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not saying 100% that the Tigers would play better if there weren't 700 annoying lawyer commercials during their games, but I'm saying it's worth a shot.

20.09.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability - Mind & Society Though people readily claim that others fall prey to several biases, they are less likely to recognize those same biases in themselves – a tendency termed bias blind spot (Pronin et al. in Personality...

Motivated bias blind spot: people confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability

‼️Work by Francisco Cruz & AndrΓ© Mata

16.09.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Evidence of Psychological Manipulation in the Process of Violent Radicalization: An Investigation of the 17-A Cell Radicalization leading to violence is a complex social process that frequently targets young people. In this study, we examine the 17-A cell, which carried out terrorist attacks in the Spanish cities ...

"The most frequent strategies were cognitive control (control of attention, group identification, and denigration of critical thinking), environmental control (control of information), and emotional control (authoritarian leadership)"

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

14.09.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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People are more likely to support partisan violence when they think the other party does too | Weekly roundup for September 14, 2025 Also this week: Trump ties Biden low on inflation/the economy; Mamdani up big in New York City; independent redistricting is an 80-20 issue. + more!

People are more likely to support partisan violence when they think the other party does too | Weekly roundup for September 14, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

14.09.2025 13:42 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

If you see someone in MSU gear, there's a good chance they or a family member went to MSU

If you see see someone wearing UofM, there's a good chance they're as to see a manager cause their streak isn't well done enough.

02.09.2025 21:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's major announcement today is going to be MAGA themed bluttplugs.

Made of the cheapest metal imported from China and spray painted gold.

It is a beautiful metaphor for our country.

02.09.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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First Down Bitch

29.08.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NCAA sentences Jim Harbaugh to about 30 years of being the second best Harbaugh.

19.08.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0