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Published: January 20, 2025 19:01

it is irritating that emma navarro is not only a tennis phenomenon and the daughter of millionaires, but also that she is a profoundly beautiful person to boot. some fuckers get all the luck

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Published: January 20, 2025 17:03

will say that under biden, I could buy eggs at costco. under trump, i cant.

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Published: January 20, 2025 16:48

i am going to watch twin peaks the return in the bath today. that is all.

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Published: January 20, 2025 04:00

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Published: January 20, 2025 02:59

high parenting moment: 8 year old has decided to learn Spanish via duolingo and I found a list of Spanish words he’d scrawled out on paper - “apartamento” and “gentes,” etc. “I’m writing down the words that give me trouble,” he explained.

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Published: January 20, 2025 00:45

seems strange that Naomi Watts just kind of vanished.

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Published: January 19, 2025 23:55

if you want to talk about masculine energy, WWI had tons of it. I recall reading in GUNS OF AUGUST about a French officer LaTour who very earnestly believed that if you had enough Manly Will, one soldier could easily take a machine gun bunker with just a…

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Published: January 19, 2025 23:30

Is there any way gas fires put out as much heat as a wood fire?

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Published: January 19, 2025 19:22

Napoleon said nations often have fevers that must burn through their bodies, but what if a nation has brain damage. what if a nation, metaphorically speaking, gets kicked in the head by a fucking horse

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Published: January 19, 2025 19:06

what the fuck are we doing here [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 19, 2025 01:37

listening to Mike Duncan’s Martian Revolution stuff and while it’s fun, my gears started grinding when he talked about how FINALLY humanity had discovered a way to make energy without emissions and like… dawg, that ain’t the problem

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Published: January 18, 2025 22:13

want to see the dumbest people driving the most expensive cars? come to Austin’s Domain, a circus of puttering, hurtling idiocy

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Published: January 18, 2025 18:54

make sure you wash your glands today kids

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Published: January 18, 2025 18:38

He fucking glides down a tall ass ladder in a train yard in this. It’s amazing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 18, 2025 17:21

dislike that “prayer” comes from the French “priere,” which means to plea or ask. as if prayer is little more than stuffing the heavenly suggestion box, as opposed to a state, an invisible communion, or simply listening

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Published: January 18, 2025 06:26

you know the part that would have fucking flipped Tolkien’s lid, more than all the sieges, would have been Gandalf making a ship out of pipe smoke. dude rocking back in his chair, hand grasping for his heart

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Published: January 18, 2025 06:13

Folks, a guarantee: THE TRAIN by John Frankheimer is the best WW2 movie you’ve never seen. Watch it today.

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Published: January 18, 2025 04:37

@mrbtx.bsky.social curious if you’ve ever seen the 1964 WWII movie The Train, which appears to have been shot in the real train yards of France, and on real trains https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Train_(1964_film)

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Published: January 18, 2025 02:06

goddamn, am I sick of the faux-reasonable, condescending, falsely impartial tone of some of these fucking online conservatives, as if it’s so silly for you to get upset as they hang a noose around your neck. I would feed them into a blender if I could. …

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Published: January 18, 2025 02:03

always bleakly amusing when a “undecided” voter friend who hasn’t said shit about Trump being insane suddenly galloping to share news about the ERA horseshit

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Published: January 18, 2025 00:57

new back workout is doing good stuff here at the rats nest gym. issue is it makes all shirts tighter which inevitably makes any hint of gut less obscurable

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Published: January 17, 2025 23:15

aw fuck. Christian Slater is in Name of the Rose?

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Published: January 17, 2025 21:59

unsure what it is about andreessen- his face, his manner of speech, his entire demeanor, all three - that fills a normal human being with a desire to punch him in the stomach so hard his intestines spray out his asshole like confetti from a firecracker…

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Published: January 17, 2025 21:43

why am I laughing so hard [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 17, 2025 20:44

lolll KC Crowne is in some deeeeeep shit

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Published: January 17, 2025 20:18

any idea how to pay in America to ship cookies in one location in France to another location in France? this is proving surprisingly difficult...

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Published: January 17, 2025 17:21

when Mike Israetel talked about how it made him a much angrier, anxious person ALL THE TIME it was pretty alarming to me [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 17, 2025 17:20

oh boy, Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House. that name sure takes me back to 2007 or so, when I was querying.

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Published: January 17, 2025 17:09

Took a birthday card for a teacher to my kids lunch hour to have the kids sign it and give it to her and the staff is reacting like I’m coming in here with my dick out and a gun in my hand

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Published: January 17, 2025 16:14

So the conclusion here is that Noah Smith is definitely included on lots of the VC group chats. Including Andreessen. Right?

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Published: January 15, 2025 05:24

stark moment to have the show THE AGENCY depict a Russian Wagnerian military group as a death metal, nihilistic, rape enthusiast, barbarian horde - and realize lots of rightwing Americans would be nodding along with it

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Published: January 15, 2025 03:20

the reacher dude playing Batman would be terrible because A. Yeah obviously the six and a half foot 250 muscle bound aristocrat is probably Batman and B. I don’t think being able to squat 800 pounds necessarily translates well into acrobatics and combat…

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Published: January 14, 2025 23:36

yeah I ain’t reading the gaiman thing

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Published: January 14, 2025 21:52

“What a tool cynicism is to the corrupt, claiming the whole of the creation is broken and fraudulent, and thus we are all excused to indulge in whatever sins we wish—for what’s a little more unfairness, in this unfair world?” [contains quote post or other…

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Published: January 14, 2025 21:25

a lot of people think eating your lunch at work is depressing, but here is my alternative: gobbling your food as fast as possible and taking a 45 minute nap in your car

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Published: January 14, 2025 20:58

take your wins where you can get em. rural constituents fucking hate the voucher bill. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 14, 2025 20:12

@swolecialism.bsky.social to me, this sucks https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/mike-miles-budget-20032062.php

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Published: January 14, 2025 20:07

I guess our job is just taking punches for the next 2 years - at least

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Published: January 14, 2025 17:11

one of the implications of Interstellar is that Anne Hathaway flew off to a barren planet to cook up 200 babies in mechanical wombs and then be the mom for them all in an alien desert, alone, which seems like a pretty fucking raw deal? and also, like,…

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Published: January 14, 2025 16:22

children are the biggest wake up call that you are not in control of anything, so I can kind of get why people's brains fall apart at the very idea of it. one dad once told me, "If I didn't like my child's personality, I would just make them change" which,…

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Published: January 14, 2025 15:54

like, if TikTok was NOT about the CCP having direct control over media that shows up in front of billions of eyeballs, and was instead about all the money they make, they would sell it. instead, they are willing to take a giant financial hit rather than do…

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Published: January 14, 2025 15:19

the historical novel I'm reading is all about NKVD officers trying desperately to survive the Stalinist purges. Russia's whole philosophy was "eh, we've got enough guys, just kill em all and replace em" and this philosophy uhhhhhhh did not work [contains…

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Published: January 14, 2025 15:11

"the law is not text, but what we say and do" is unfortunately a real thing [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 14, 2025 15:09

I don't think any California politician is going to come out of the wildfires looking good because they keep talking about climate change but consistently refuse to build anything or change anything. They not only didn't prepare, but now they just want to…

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Published: January 14, 2025 04:20

I have learned not to post about injuries because the immediate response is just You’re Doing It Wrong, Stupid

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Published: January 14, 2025 02:21

studies show cantaloupes cause cancer, also show lack of cantaloupes cause cancer [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 14, 2025 02:01

god I love muting threads

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Published: January 14, 2025 01:57

this song is kind of unbelievably gorgeous? https://youtu.be/024mHNllDeo?si=BseMRh1LEhqdAjee

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Published: January 14, 2025 00:59

my guess is that the benefits of congestion pricing are revealed immediately, whereas it would take ~20 years for carbon reductions to show up in warming (IIRC) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 14, 2025 00:38

night soldiers is good but it does feel like Furst did a lot of research and felt obliged to put it all in

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Published: January 14, 2025 00:20

still pretty stunned by the Gaiman stuff. was describing it to my wife - skipped the super gross stuff - and realized how much of it sounds like real serial killer crap

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Published: January 14, 2025 00:01

fertile blocking grounds here, just a chum storm of idiots [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 13, 2025 23:53

got to the election episode of Frasier and it scans so hard that an aging ex cop would enthusiastically vote for a belligerent, stupid fascist

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Published: January 13, 2025 23:46

Post your favorite #DoctorWho. Wrong answers only. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 13, 2025 23:37

lived through this one. would argue that it was my big climate wake up call, as it was also the year of the birth of my first child. having a baby in the smoke was… illuminating [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 13, 2025 23:05

search on this app is still tricky. I have to resort to google to find my own old posts, weirdly enough, and the quotation mark searches still bring in stuff that’s not an exact match

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Published: January 13, 2025 23:02

got a fun kirkus review and pull quote for A DROP OF CORRUPTION.

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Published: January 13, 2025 21:21

I feel like the "tiktok ban is about Israel" stuff is maybe 20% true. What happened was: 1. Lawmakers were kinda creeped out about China owning it 2. They got more concerned when Israel stuff happened, and then 3. TikTok activated every middleschooler in…

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Published: January 13, 2025 20:50

pixelfed is supposedly a substitute for instagram but it seems more like mastodon, in that it joining and navigating it is a huge pain in the ass

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Published: January 13, 2025 17:18

art vs. artist and all that, but Sandman really suffers a bit now. so much of it feels like Gaiman himself as this romantic, powerful, punk rock sorcerer who causes harm but is ultimately forgiven for it, and is also in some ways a victim

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Published: January 13, 2025 17:00

one thing I can guarantee is that if you ever meet me in person as a fan, you will not come away with a warm endearing experience. when people say "I read your book" I react as if they said "I saw you door ding my car in the parking lot, you fucking…

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Published: January 13, 2025 15:26

I did meet Gaiman once, in 2012, at the Edgars. I had just made my A Sexual Experience video, and he recognized me, and we shook hands. He had a girl with him. An older publishing dude walked up and said, "Surrounded with beautiful women as always, Neil!"…

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Published: January 13, 2025 14:55

pretty sure there are other tales of artists in the 2000s and 2010s who nurtured an unhealthy fan-creator relationship for sex and abuse!

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Published: January 13, 2025 14:27

posted this nearly half a year ago but it's still the case - just far more disturbing now that I am even peripherally aware of what was inside this guy [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 13, 2025 14:04

holy shit, the Vulture article about Neil Gaiman is not just upsetting, but genuinely, profoundly disgusting

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Published: January 11, 2025 19:55

restaurants should have a choice where they get to kill one picky eater a day, right at the table