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@drakemotel.bsky.social
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Oh boy were there other duds
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Doing an archive crossword; what the hell does this answer mean?
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Including some solid advice from Allen Ginsberg
Quote from the essay that reads "During the session Ginsberg advises Hujar how to warm up William S. Burroughs for a portrait (“suck his cock”) after he learns that Hujar will shoot the novelist the following day."
November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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?????
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Excerpt from the interview, which reads "What hasn’t been quantified yet are the transaction costs of dismantling each agency, which will be magnified exponentially during any future reconstruction effort. News reports have described food, medicine, and other vital forms of foreign aid expiring as they languish in overseas ports. At home, tangible costs may include the destruction or sale of office equipment, the termination of building leases, and the loss of records and other items necessary to the essential functions of a department." Excerpt from the interview, which reads "The intangible costs are even higher as expertise literally walks out the door. The costs of canceling grants and then one day (hopefully) restarting legitimate scientific research will magnify the overall expense of reaching actionable results. Intelligence failures due to the purge of intelligence employees and the hiring of loyalists may produce catastrophic losses to national security."
September 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Big night in Chicago
May 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I think my old essay about Trump's tweets and the Democrats' nerdy insistence on "correcting" them may still be relevant
February 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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An example of what simple, straightforward opposition could look like, if we had real opposition leaders
February 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Ben Tarnoff (@bentarnoff.com) on the big babies who took over the country
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Screengrab from the linked article of a quote that reads: If you have ever heard a toddler tell a story, it sounds like Trump: digressive, bizarre, filled with tonal shifts, often hilarious. His inner circle exudes a similarly infantile affect. Elon Musk is nothing if not a smirking preadolescent. J.D. Vance looks uncannily like a baby, which is presumably why he decided to grow a beard, with the result that he now looks like a bearded baby. “Let me say very simply,” he told an audience of antiabortion fanatics in his first speech as vice president: “I want more babies in the United States of America!”
February 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Any other recent examples spring to mind, you prick?
January 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I can save him....
January 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Having a great time in Ireland
January 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I mean cmon man on the right looks like if Zuckerberg were a wasp with even less blood
December 11, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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November 25, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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TV Supernova 🎶
A burst of light on a black background
November 20, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Nonetheless, great show
November 19, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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So fuckin sick of this guy
November 14, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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Reading up on Irish history
December 30, 2023 at 5:49 AM
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Here's a great interview my brilliant colleague Nawal did with @mrkocnnll.bsky.social:
www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...
December 9, 2023 at 10:47 PM
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Idk I think rfk jr. looks all right
That roided out intense freak military guy from avatar but he kind of looks like saggy-ass rfk jr
July 5, 2023 at 3:47 AM
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°☆○~𝓖𝓷𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓬 𝓝𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓶𝓼 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓓𝓻𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓵~○☆°
July 3, 2023 at 10:31 PM