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Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!
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I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period.
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Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
My friends, they have lost the flag.
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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
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“The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love & support
She loved animals & she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her”
She loved animals & she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her”
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love & support
She loved animals & she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her”
She loved animals & she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her”
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Today's #SpacetoberChallenge: Spacecraft.
So here are a few Astronaut Vessels. Each one shows an astronaut traveling in a well-worn craft. I started painting these after a health scare, but they evolved to reflect the marks life makes on our physical and mental state over time.
So here are a few Astronaut Vessels. Each one shows an astronaut traveling in a well-worn craft. I started painting these after a health scare, but they evolved to reflect the marks life makes on our physical and mental state over time.
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Today's #SpacetoberChallenge: Spacecraft.
So here are a few Astronaut Vessels. Each one shows an astronaut traveling in a well-worn craft. I started painting these after a health scare, but they evolved to reflect the marks life makes on our physical and mental state over time.
So here are a few Astronaut Vessels. Each one shows an astronaut traveling in a well-worn craft. I started painting these after a health scare, but they evolved to reflect the marks life makes on our physical and mental state over time.
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Dorothy Parker's Cat on her Bed, 1937.
September 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Dorothy Parker's Cat on her Bed, 1937.
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Taking nothing away from her work on Orphan Black, Tatiana Maslany's performance on Perry Mason is one of the greatest sustained pieces of acting I've ever seen in any medium.
September 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Taking nothing away from her work on Orphan Black, Tatiana Maslany's performance on Perry Mason is one of the greatest sustained pieces of acting I've ever seen in any medium.
The showrunners changed from S1 to S2 . . . but S1 is truly some of the best television I’ve ever seen. Looked forward to the new episode every week.
I have watched the first season of the HBO Perry Mason reboot four times. So far. (The second season was fine, but it didn't climb the heights of operatic grotesquerie of season 1, and it lacked Tatiana Maslany.)
And of course @danielg17.bsky.social's Julia is a treasure.
And of course @danielg17.bsky.social's Julia is a treasure.
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The showrunners changed from S1 to S2 . . . but S1 is truly some of the best television I’ve ever seen. Looked forward to the new episode every week.
Pat Moore, a Model Turned Institution at P.J. Clarke’s, Dies at 89
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Angela Lansbury's curtain call for Mame was absolutely extraordinary: she swept onstage in one last new costume as the ensemble sang the title song, then she kissed each principal—even the antagonists—like old friends, and then curtsied to her company *before* bowing to the audience.
August 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Angela Lansbury's curtain call for Mame was absolutely extraordinary: she swept onstage in one last new costume as the ensemble sang the title song, then she kissed each principal—even the antagonists—like old friends, and then curtsied to her company *before* bowing to the audience.
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Theatrical dates included.
Frankenstein poster art just released with the perfect tagline Only Monsters Play God! @realgdt.bsky.social 's gorgeous film will open in select theaters on October 17. My book on the film is available for pre-order: Getting close!! www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9798886...
August 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Theatrical dates included.
I suffer perpetually from not being able to use to the right words to describe the haircut I want. And my hair is so specific photos don’t help.
August 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I suffer perpetually from not being able to use to the right words to describe the haircut I want. And my hair is so specific photos don’t help.
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Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
May 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
Another actor called Botox “female emotional castration” this week and I can’t get it out of my head.
July 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Another actor called Botox “female emotional castration” this week and I can’t get it out of my head.
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There are various estimates by researchers and scientists regarding the cost of eliminating world hunger. According to an estimate shared by Oxfam, around $23 billion is needed to fight extreme hunger. To fight chronic hunger, another $14 billion is required.
Exclusive: Stargate, an effort to supercharge the U.S.’s artificial-intelligence ambitions, has sharply scaled back its near-term plans.
SoftBank and Open AI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
The Stargate venture, introduced at a White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
on.wsj.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
There are various estimates by researchers and scientists regarding the cost of eliminating world hunger. According to an estimate shared by Oxfam, around $23 billion is needed to fight extreme hunger. To fight chronic hunger, another $14 billion is required.
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"You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step." ❤️
July 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step." ❤️
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this makes me so incandescently, humorlessly furious, LLMs know how to do things like parallel structure and em-dashes bc they trained on real writers’ work without those writers’ knowledge or consent, and now those same writers are being told not to write that way bc “it makes you sound like AI”
July 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
this makes me so incandescently, humorlessly furious, LLMs know how to do things like parallel structure and em-dashes bc they trained on real writers’ work without those writers’ knowledge or consent, and now those same writers are being told not to write that way bc “it makes you sound like AI”
So . . . the old subway map wasn’t to scale/proportion either, but this is ridiculous.
July 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So . . . the old subway map wasn’t to scale/proportion either, but this is ridiculous.
I am just now realizing that the new subway map doesn’t have streets on it. You have to read the stations to have any sense of the geographical reality, and that only works if the street where you’re going has a station on it.
What the actual fuck. What a completely useless design.
What the actual fuck. What a completely useless design.
July 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am just now realizing that the new subway map doesn’t have streets on it. You have to read the stations to have any sense of the geographical reality, and that only works if the street where you’re going has a station on it.
What the actual fuck. What a completely useless design.
What the actual fuck. What a completely useless design.
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Don’t forget to breathe.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
June 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Don’t forget to breathe.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre.
No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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I just want the Democrats, as a whole, to stop trotting out guys who look like they're about to meet in a back room to discuss how to take out the Batman.
June 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I just want the Democrats, as a whole, to stop trotting out guys who look like they're about to meet in a back room to discuss how to take out the Batman.
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THE VIBES HAVE SHIFTED.
June 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
THE VIBES HAVE SHIFTED.