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Frank Lynch
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OK, you found me. Ex-marketing researcher. Editor in chief, samueljohnson.com

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IF you're in Budapest... IF you are and go to the Hungarian National Gallery (you might), see if they have this on display. It's called the Dragon Slayer, by Sandor Molnar. It's huge.
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Did Elon have no idea where the lies on X come from? A lot of persuasion on US issues is emanating from outside the US.
A tweet on X from an account called "Insider Wire" says "BREAKING: X just paused the account location feature for an unknown reason."
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Roth Bar, inside the Hauser & Wirth Gallery (NYC); designed with Dieter Roth in mind and named after him. #photography
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Where to begin? It's a bar, and you can see mugs and coffee machinery, beer taps, but after that everything is a pretty chaotic assembly of diverse and colorful items. There are all sorts of colorful cables wrapped and hanging, with no apparent purpose; there are racks and shelves of odd figurines; there are many circular elements, such as lamp shades, desk fans, and flash bulb reflectors; there are canvases with painted circles; there are lights here and there... It's quite a hodgepodge.
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Leroy, boy, is that you?
I thought your post hanging days were through
Sunken eyes and full of sighs
Tell no lies, you get wise
I tell you now, we're gonna pull you through
There's only one thing left that we can do
We gotta get you a woman
It’s like nothing else to make you feel sure you’re alive
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Prospect Park, Brooklyn. #photography
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Trees in a variety of fall colors near a lake, and a small platform with white wooden railings. Godzilla approaches. I'm kidding about the last part.
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Halligan complains that a suggestion she might be a puppet erodes perceptions of judicial impartiality ... but if you ARE a puppet it's accurate, though, right?
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“The Judicial Canons require judges to be ‘patient, dignified, respectful, and courteous to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, and others with whom the judge deals in an official capacity’ … and to ‘act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary,’” she continued.
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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This collection of New Yorker pieces by @jelaniya.bsky.social is quite the time capsule; I’m barely into it (and won’t read it straight through — I wouldn’t do that with any collection like this) but I can already tell it’s going to be worthwhile.
The cover of Jelani Cobb’s book “Three Or More Is A Riot — notes on how we got here: 2012-2025”
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I think I saw this kind of panel mural in a Nemo… but I doubt it’s done often.
A page from Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” shows a broader drawing of his father, Vladek, sitting sadly slumped over on his couch, talking about family lost in the Holocaust, with the sequence of his recollections broken into panels on the page, but still parts of the broader picture.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Oh.
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Stan Kenton Innovative but polarizing pianist and big-band leader beloved on college campuses and in bachelor's apartments.
November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I'm a pour-over guy. I'm very happy with my results, and can think fast to overcome hurdles like an interruption. A machine that has a bloom cycle? This paragraph from a review doesn't entice me.
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Making coffee on the xBloom Studio doesn't simplify the process of pour-over, enabling its own level of nerding out via the comprehensive app. Every imaginable element of the process can be fine-tuned. The level of detail most definitely isn't for the faint of heart. It's also a sleek-looking appliance to have on your kitchen counter, though there are certainly cheaper coffee machines that still emphasize tech and style. But for the right person, the xBloom Studio Coffee Machine is a coffee nerd dream come true.
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Balboa Park, San Diego, 1992. Setting aside all the family shots, this is my favorite shot by my Dad from all the negatives passed on to me. #photography
The photo shows several people near a tree, doing different things. Two people talk to each other on a bench; a man looks at his coffee cup; another man walks by; a mother on the bench hold her toddler; and a child plays near a sprinkler.
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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ICE is indiscriminate too.
A panel from Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus” shows Jews being beaten by Nazis, with the narrator saying “I had to pass near— and they were grabbing Jews, if they had papers or no!”
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Fine by us, said SCOTUS.
A New York Times headline reads, "At Trump's Urging, Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Examine Epstein Ties to Democrats."
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Homage to Posada.
A shelf of Trader Joe’s taco sauce; the labels have drawings of skeletons wearing sombreros.
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Teffa, the sweetest runt tuxedo... loving and so adept at keeping her claws withdrawn during play. A curious one, fascinated by all other animals (the guinea pigs probably feared her, but she only watched in fascination). Gone about ten years.
Photo shows a black tuxedo cat in loaf position.
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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You need a Dutch friend.
Photo shows a bag of Dutch licorice.
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Get off that platform. #photography #nyc #bronx #thebronx
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Two cranes in the background cross, forming an "X". The scene is near a small bridge and a pretty empty industrial street.
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Coney Island. #photography
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The old Parachute Drop on Coney Island (Brooklyn) stands out against a blue sky, dominating the right third of the picture. There is nothing else in the photo.
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Pay for journalism. Support and subscribe. (From “On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder.)
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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There are more Republicans up in 2026 than Democrats. There should be billboards/advertising against every one them saying "____ ______ not only wanted insurance premiums to explode but also wanted X-thousand in [Insert State] to starve."
A skeet from David M Perry (@lollardfish.bsky.social) reads, :instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: 'the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters.'"
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I wonder if this new follower of mine is honest.
A skeet from eleven days ago in which the account "Milan Brooks" writes, "I'm not a Democrat, but Trump is truly disgusting, and I hate him too." Another skeet from the same account, also eleven days ago, reads "You are right, we are both democrats, maybe we can be friends. Please follow me."
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A really great exhibit of #photography by Sir Don McCullin at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in NYC closed today, and I wish I'd gone sooner so that I could have cajoled everyone I know into going. In an accompanying film, McCullin says he doesn't think of himself as an artist but a photographer. Yet
A black and white photo showing a man walking down a road. To his right is a fallen picket fence, and beyond him there are smokestacks filling the air with plumes of pollution. The shot, from 1963, is titled "Early morning, Steel Foundry, West Hartlepool, County Durham."
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM