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Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/
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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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In a new era of our own.
August 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In a new era of our own.
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Richard Brody reflects on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw away their collections just yet.
What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch
Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.
www.newyorker.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Richard Brody reflects on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw away their collections just yet.
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I talked to @benjaminpercy.bsky.social about writing across mediums, working with the legendary @stephenking.bsky.social, and serializing the forthcoming novel-as-newspaper THE END TIMES
countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
Processing: Why Benjamin Percy Is Writing a Novel as a Newspaper with Stephen King
The author on writing across mediums, the appeal of physical objects, and working with the legendary Stephen King
countercraft.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I talked to @benjaminpercy.bsky.social about writing across mediums, working with the legendary @stephenking.bsky.social, and serializing the forthcoming novel-as-newspaper THE END TIMES
countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
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Love how he prepared for this journey these past months. Beautiful final show, embraced what was happening. Went out like the true searcher he was.
July 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Love how he prepared for this journey these past months. Beautiful final show, embraced what was happening. Went out like the true searcher he was.
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“There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.”
— Hunter S Thompson
— Hunter S Thompson
July 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.”
— Hunter S Thompson
— Hunter S Thompson
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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
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RIP Black Sparrow Press founder John Martin. Most famous for publishing Bukowski, but was also home to a pre-revival Lucia Berlin, something not mentioned in this obit: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/b...
John Martin, Devoted Publisher of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
RIP Black Sparrow Press founder John Martin. Most famous for publishing Bukowski, but was also home to a pre-revival Lucia Berlin, something not mentioned in this obit: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/b...
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This fever dream of a press release just hit: Larry David will star in and write an HBO sketch comedy show about American history that is exec produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.
Larry David Returning to HBO With Obamas-Produced Sketch Series
The show will cover moments in American history and reunite David and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ EP Jeff Schaffer.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This fever dream of a press release just hit: Larry David will star in and write an HBO sketch comedy show about American history that is exec produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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Fireworks Accident Blows Off Tip Of Florida
July 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Fireworks Accident Blows Off Tip Of Florida
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If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
June 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
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RFK Jr. is threatening the routine childhood immunization schedule. This is bad. We all need to be paying attention.
Get loud. Stay loud.
Get loud. Stay loud.
June 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
RFK Jr. is threatening the routine childhood immunization schedule. This is bad. We all need to be paying attention.
Get loud. Stay loud.
Get loud. Stay loud.
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Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle
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June 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle
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ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
April 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn
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Just a few days remain in our general submissions period! We close for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry subs at midnight CT on May 1.
April 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just a few days remain in our general submissions period! We close for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry subs at midnight CT on May 1.
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New Clearblue Test Comes With Flight Voucher In Case Result Positive
New Clearblue Test Comes With Flight Voucher In Case Result Positive
WASHINGTON—In an effort to help customers living in areas with little or no access to abortion care, Clearblue announced Monday that its pregnancy tests sold in the U.S. market would now come with a f...
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April 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New Clearblue Test Comes With Flight Voucher In Case Result Positive
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Today is National Library Workers Day—a day to celebrate the hardworking professionals who keep our libraries thriving. Library workers are facing tough times, and it’s more important than ever to show our support.
Show some love to the library worker in your life today!
ala-apa.org/nlwd/
#NLWD25
Show some love to the library worker in your life today!
ala-apa.org/nlwd/
#NLWD25
April 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today is National Library Workers Day—a day to celebrate the hardworking professionals who keep our libraries thriving. Library workers are facing tough times, and it’s more important than ever to show our support.
Show some love to the library worker in your life today!
ala-apa.org/nlwd/
#NLWD25
Show some love to the library worker in your life today!
ala-apa.org/nlwd/
#NLWD25
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Clem Burke, Blondie’s drummer and ‘heartbeat’, dies aged 70
Clem Burke, Blondie’s drummer and ‘heartbeat’, dies aged 70
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, founding members of the new wave hitmakers, pay tribute to their bandmate, who has died of cancer
Clem Burke, the drummer whose backbeats powered Blondie to huge chart success across multiple decades, has died aged 70.
He died following what his bandmates Debbie Harry and Chris Stein called “a private battle with cancer”, in a tribute posted to Instagram. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Clem Burke, Blondie’s drummer and ‘heartbeat’, dies aged 70