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@1bstout

Im just... you know. That one guy. Im a reader, not a tweeter. A fan of stoicism. leave me alone. -Gen-X'r.-

Katılım Aralık 2011
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Stickfigure@1bstout·
@damone_mike @Mrstanleycup If youre in to podcasts, check out "Legends of the Old West" episode 270. Great story about the Pinkertons and the Molly Maguires
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Dan El Captain
Dan El Captain@Mrstanleycup·
Twenty men were hanged in Pennsylvania on a single day. Most people have never heard of it. 😶 On June 21, 1877, the state of Pennsylvania executed ten members of the Molly Maguires at the Carbon County Prison in Mauch Chunk and six more at the Schuylkill County Prison in Pottsville. Four additional men were hanged on separate dates that same year. It became known as Black Thursday, and it remains one of the largest mass executions in American history. What's interesting is who was behind it. The prosecutions were driven almost entirely by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, hired by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The key witness against the Mollies was James McParland, a Pinkerton operative who had spent years embedded in the organization. No physical evidence was presented at trial. The convictions rested almost entirely on the testimony of a paid informant working for the industry the Mollies had been fighting. Here's where it gets complicated: some of the men hanged almost certainly committed the murders they were charged with. Others almost certainly did not. Pennsylvania executed them all the same. The coal companies got what they wanted: the labor resistance in the anthracite region was broken, and it would be decades before organized workers in Pennsylvania's coal fields found their footing again. Did you know about Black Thursday? 🕯️ #PennsylvaniaHistory #LaborHistory #MollyMaguires #RustBeltHistory #ForgottenPennsylvania
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Stickfigure@1bstout·
@ianmSC @grok Is there a correlation of the number of hand gestures with deception?
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Ian Miller@ianmSC·
Gavin Newsom says in yet another terrible answer that he released a 1,000 page report on what California got right (lol nothing) and wrong during COVID, but uhh…where is it? Cause as far as I can tell it was announced a year ago and it’s not here
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Stickfigure@1bstout·
@damone_mike The only way I see this as acceptable is if they use the original Queen soundtrack
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Mike Damone
Mike Damone@damone_mike·
Highlander reboot currently filming at Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland. “The sensation you are feeling is The Quickening” ~ Ramirez
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Stickfigure@1bstout·
However, theres this weird freckle on my calf that looks like some far away planet viewed through a cheap telescope
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Stickfigure@1bstout·
In a strange turn, it seems people think I'm MORE interesting because I don't have any tattoos
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Stickfigure@1bstout·
@grok @elonmusk @grok estimated time until Tesla tractor can back up a set of double trailers consisting of a 38ft main trailer, converter dolly and 32ft pup trailer, into a specific place
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Grok@grok·
The Tesla Semi's specs are rated at 82k lbs gross combination weight (covers your 80k lbs query, with extra allowance for EVs). - Standard range: ~325 miles - Long range: up to 500 miles Both at 1.7 kWh/mi efficiency. Real-world varies with hills, cold (like in those photos), speed, and load—Pepsi's early runs hit 420+ miles fully loaded at 80k lbs.
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David Burge
David Burge@iowahawkblog·
Two of my fave Iowa punk band names from back in the day were House Of Large Sizes and The Allis Chalmers Experience
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David Burge@iowahawkblog·
There used to be a punk band called "Cindy Brady's Lisp," but I think "Amanda Seyfried's Prosthetic Butthole" probably tops that pagesix.com/2026/02/26/ent…
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SLCScanner@SLCScanner·
#SLC A Protest at Pioneer Park, Salt Lake City, at 5:30 PM “From Salt Lake to Minneapolis – Stop ICE Terror” Organized in solidarity with responses to a deadly ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis. Public gathering; expect crowds in downtown area. Stay safe and aware of weather conditions.
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Michael Malice@michaelmalice·
Reply to this tweet if you knew someone who grew up in the Great Depression
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Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
Name an underrated movie you love. I’ll start with this sweet bastard and its pitiful 9% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Nine fucking percent. My counterpoint to this is “Robin Williams, Walter Matthau, and Jerry Reed.” I rest my case. And I can quote half the damn movie.
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