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prompt-skeeter manqué
stolen Jersey valor
stolen Jersey valor
Pinned
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Here's a cat!
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Here's a cat!
I should make my sister-in-law put her store on here but until then if you are into board games or LARP supplies and can make it to North Hollywood you should absolutely stop in
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I should make my sister-in-law put her store on here but until then if you are into board games or LARP supplies and can make it to North Hollywood you should absolutely stop in
honestly my Bluesky feed is sorely lacking in most of these things
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
honestly my Bluesky feed is sorely lacking in most of these things
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Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.
haven't gotten super into Geese so every time I think about them I'm like, "the lead singer is some kind of nepo baby... but who's he related to?" and then I look it up and it's hilarious all over again
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
haven't gotten super into Geese so every time I think about them I'm like, "the lead singer is some kind of nepo baby... but who's he related to?" and then I look it up and it's hilarious all over again
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I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
what did ruth mean when she said her steakhouse was "chris"
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
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making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us
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I successfully nerd-sniped myself into making a precinct-level dot-density map of the NYC mayoral election. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
Mamdani vs Sliwa and Cuomo
Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election gave me the opportunity to draw a few maps, and also to learn a bit about incorporating additional spatial data into maps drawn in R. R is not a...
kieranhealy.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I successfully nerd-sniped myself into making a precinct-level dot-density map of the NYC mayoral election. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
Live thread of the judge's ruling on the federal assault on Chicago
Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Live thread of the judge's ruling on the federal assault on Chicago
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“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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"WE WILL STAND ALONGSIDE UNIONS AND EXPAND LABOR PROTECTIONS" THAT'S THE FUCKING TALKING POINT. EXPAND, NOT JUST PROTECT!
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
"WE WILL STAND ALONGSIDE UNIONS AND EXPAND LABOR PROTECTIONS" THAT'S THE FUCKING TALKING POINT. EXPAND, NOT JUST PROTECT!
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Philip K. Dick gets it right again.
Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Philip K. Dick gets it right again.
Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
Let's hear it for the vague blurs!
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It's really not that hard.
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It's really not that hard.
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Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.
I knew Ulysses was, like, masterfully polyphonic or glossolalic but I was not expecting my man to drop a few bars of Chad Gadya
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I knew Ulysses was, like, masterfully polyphonic or glossolalic but I was not expecting my man to drop a few bars of Chad Gadya
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Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑
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If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
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In honor of Halloween, I just read a horror novel and wanted to write up a quick micro-review thread here. Presenting: @mcmanlypants.bsky.social's Children of Solitude. Thread: 1/ www.skylightbooks.com/book/9798992...
www.skylightbooks.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In honor of Halloween, I just read a horror novel and wanted to write up a quick micro-review thread here. Presenting: @mcmanlypants.bsky.social's Children of Solitude. Thread: 1/ www.skylightbooks.com/book/9798992...
it's not an arc, it's a multigenerational sine wave. in five years you're going to find this guy stalking the CCNY cafeterias, eating tater tots with the campus Trots.
If I told 14 year old me this had happened hed say "time to cut back on the beer old man."
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
it's not an arc, it's a multigenerational sine wave. in five years you're going to find this guy stalking the CCNY cafeterias, eating tater tots with the campus Trots.
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Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
October 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
“But we can open the box,” said Toad.
“That is true,” said Frog.
My “NyQuil wears off after four hours“ assumption is about to turn four hours optimistic
October 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My “NyQuil wears off after four hours“ assumption is about to turn four hours optimistic
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Accusing Jordan Silverman. Radley Balko charts a demoralizing case of use of the criminal justice system for personal destruction. This is an essential read.
Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Accusing Jordan Silverman. Radley Balko charts a demoralizing case of use of the criminal justice system for personal destruction. This is an essential read.
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The ideal Chotiner interview subject is an expert who cares deeply about their expertise but feels it isn't understood properly to the general populace and Chotiner acts as an intermediary.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The ideal Chotiner interview subject is an expert who cares deeply about their expertise but feels it isn't understood properly to the general populace and Chotiner acts as an intermediary.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.
The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.