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Jesse Raub
@jesseraub.bsky.social
writer and coffee professional, formerly at Serious Eats, stuff in Bon Appetit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vulture, HAD, Polygon, and other places.

I also have a newsletter: https://linktr.ee/jesseraub
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okay, here's thread of links to all my published pieces:
TREBEK: something my date asked even after i leaned over to helpfully point out who this title character is

ME: what’s chappie?

TREBEK: you’re on the board
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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*Gordon Lightfoot voice*
it was fresh on the scene
back in twenty-fifteen
when I saw a new movie called "Carol"
in the row next to me
a woman said with glee
"I think those are lesbians, Harold"
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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there’s “posted over 100 times yesterday” (laudatory) and “posted over 100 times yesterday” (derogatory)
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
“we know truck law” - gruber law offices
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
whoops got too high and now alec baldwin’s face in 30 Rock clips on youtube has been replaced with another man’s face
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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feeling good about that Bucks win, this Bucks team
October 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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bucks win
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
ryan rollins
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
good to know you can just grab Giannis by the neck and drag him to the ground and it’s only a common foul
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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10yrs old: a slam dunk is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen

15yrs old: these slow, emotional songs just “get” me

25yrs old: literature explores the human condition, but the visual storytelling in film reaches a much broader audience

35yrs old: a slam dunk is the coolest thing i’ve ever seen
July 8, 2023 at 3:36 PM
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the basketball "dunk" is named for the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk by small privately owned boats, a historic event so incredibly powerful and moving that the only modern-day equivalent is Anthony Edwards posterizing John Collins into an early grave
October 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
meanwhile giannis is literally dunking through three guys holding onto his arms
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE NBA TONIGHT?!?!?!
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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HAHAHAHAHAHA LET’S GO MIAMI FUCKING HEAT BABY
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
wiggins!!
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
donovan mitchell how did you do that
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
honest to god the officiating around giannis this year is so incredibly biased
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
bacon and spinach rigatoni with pecorino
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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render pork fat —> sauté garlic —> wilt greens —> add pasta —> butter —> hard cheese —> pasta water —> reduce and agitate —> garnish
October 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
i’ve taken to just smashing garlic open with the heel of my palm
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
bought the medium bacon. could immediately tell it wasn’t as good as the good bacon. i thought i could sneak by maybe. i’m so stupid
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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a most excellent read...
new newsletter today about the shortsightedness of political films and how we interpret them featuring One Battle After Another, Parasite, Civil War, Eddington, and a Marxist-Maoist essay from Jean-Luc Godard

goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-myopia...
The Myopia of Political Films
Looking at the message of One Battle After Another by examining Parasite, Civil War, and Eddington through Jean-Luc Godard's political film theory
goodones.beehiiv.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I set up my thermostat so that if it gets below a certain temperature, the heat turns on.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
yayyyyyyyyyy
Members of Refused have announced their debut album as Backengrillen.

"The basic idea is to take a death/doom metal, or noiserock riff and play it until it loses meaning and then break it apart like a ravenous cat would a tiny forest mouse,” they write.

Hear lead single “A Hate Inferior.”
Refused Members Announce Debut Backengrillen Album: Hear "A Hate Inferior"
Refused are still playing their last shows as Refused, but they’re also launching their new project already. Backengrillen has three out of four Refused members: vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, bassist Magnus...
stereogum.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM