zoya the destroyer
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Going to start making up novel or movie titles based on words I missed in the NYT Spelling Bee
Yesterday's is "Gangland Adagio," obviously a cringe memoir by a white teacher about working in the hood
Yesterday's is "Gangland Adagio," obviously a cringe memoir by a white teacher about working in the hood
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Oooo I’m Death. I'm a mean skeleton with a fancy sword. Fuck off, bone boy
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Oooo I’m Death. I'm a mean skeleton with a fancy sword. Fuck off, bone boy
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Little Kid is at a small preschool that’s totally outdoors, all weather, except naps (which not all kids take) so I am hoping so hard we avoid a lot of the winter sickness this year
do you love SLEEP and hate HAVING COLDS ALL THE TIME
then BEING PARENT OF PRESCHOOLER may not be for you
then BEING PARENT OF PRESCHOOLER may not be for you
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Little Kid is at a small preschool that’s totally outdoors, all weather, except naps (which not all kids take) so I am hoping so hard we avoid a lot of the winter sickness this year
I must be getting old because that actually sounds about right
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I must be getting old because that actually sounds about right
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Sharing this thread in case it is helpful. I mistakenly thought that all tax credits were on the chopping block. I contacted the agent who renews my ACA application annually and was surprised to find out that's not the case. Still a disaster for those effected.
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I just emailed the insurance agent to ask what the rate will be without the tax credit. 😬
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sharing this thread in case it is helpful. I mistakenly thought that all tax credits were on the chopping block. I contacted the agent who renews my ACA application annually and was surprised to find out that's not the case. Still a disaster for those effected.
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bsky.app/profile/jene...
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Slightly related: I would pay at least a dollar extra for every Amazon order if I knew that it was going toward things like "liveable wages" and "not working warehouse workers to death." Two dollars extra. Hell, five dollars. Call it the woke tax and let people opt out of it, I don't care.
i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
Why Costco Went All in on Kirkland — and How It Paid Off | WSJ Case Study
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Slightly related: I would pay at least a dollar extra for every Amazon order if I knew that it was going toward things like "liveable wages" and "not working warehouse workers to death." Two dollars extra. Hell, five dollars. Call it the woke tax and let people opt out of it, I don't care.
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Book Cover of the Day:
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Book Cover of the Day:
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*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
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David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
David Byrne As Photographed by David LaChapelle Will Fix You. David Byrne Photographed by David LaChapelle for the New Yorker Will Solve Your Problems www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention.
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention.
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Was admiring one of those Christmas model villages watching the clockwork townsfolk going about their merry routines when my wife said to me 'What if people's souls are trapped in the figures and this is their hell?' which isn't something I've worried about before but is all I will worry about now.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Was admiring one of those Christmas model villages watching the clockwork townsfolk going about their merry routines when my wife said to me 'What if people's souls are trapped in the figures and this is their hell?' which isn't something I've worried about before but is all I will worry about now.
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This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social did a fantastic series on that reality recently.
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
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NOT NOW PREVIOUSLY BURIED 1700s OBVIOUSLY VERY CURSED AND HAUNTED STONE CRYPT UNCOVERED BY AN UNEXPECTED GRAVEYARD TOMB COLLAPSE NOT NOW
Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt
Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt
The church says it is currently unclear whether the collapse has damaged any surrounding graves.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
NOT NOW PREVIOUSLY BURIED 1700s OBVIOUSLY VERY CURSED AND HAUNTED STONE CRYPT UNCOVERED BY AN UNEXPECTED GRAVEYARD TOMB COLLAPSE NOT NOW
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On a museum trip with his mom. Perfection.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
On a museum trip with his mom. Perfection.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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“Wyoming would get run over by California!”
well, California is currently getting run over by Wyoming sometimes; the only reason to consider that a good thing is if you think people living in Wyoming are better than people in California for “some reason”
well, California is currently getting run over by Wyoming sometimes; the only reason to consider that a good thing is if you think people living in Wyoming are better than people in California for “some reason”
the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Wyoming would get run over by California!”
well, California is currently getting run over by Wyoming sometimes; the only reason to consider that a good thing is if you think people living in Wyoming are better than people in California for “some reason”
well, California is currently getting run over by Wyoming sometimes; the only reason to consider that a good thing is if you think people living in Wyoming are better than people in California for “some reason”
Current state of living with 3 boys: peeled off the yogurt lid stuck to the kitchen floor but fully walked past the dirty underwear on the stairs
November 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Current state of living with 3 boys: peeled off the yogurt lid stuck to the kitchen floor but fully walked past the dirty underwear on the stairs
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Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk
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just a small town boat
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
just a small town boat
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT
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here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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Always hated it when I was upset and my mum would say 'I'll give you something to cry about...' and then she'd make me watch The Green Mile.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Always hated it when I was upset and my mum would say 'I'll give you something to cry about...' and then she'd make me watch The Green Mile.