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Rob Boone
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once described as "the weirdest guy i know" by a reliable source. he/him
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line length or height, maybe? this is the november (left) vs december (right) issue
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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i can’t quite put my finger on it but the newest edition of the new york review feels a bit cleaner? i don’t think the font’s changed but everything feels like it has more room to breathe (doesn’t really come across in the pic)
snapshot of a page from the 2025 new york review of books
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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lol leave it to the folks at orion to do liquid glass in the browser on mac better than apple
orion on mac with a liquid glass interface, following apple's new design conventions better than safari
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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i never want to get to a place where all this is normalized, so i'm grateful when writers sum up how goddamn stupid this all is heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...
We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one. That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices’ questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back “in excess of $2 Trillion Dollars” if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that “would be a National Security catastrophe.” He blamed “Anarchists and Thugs” for putting the U.S. into a “terrible situation” by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion—the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion. Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October’s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are “beginning to drop,” citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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them: you get more conservative as you get older

me:
meme: me whistling at anarchism while still technically in a relationship with communism
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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ooooh speaking of bangers
ad for emily hauser’s new book “penelope’s bones”
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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really hoping o’toole makes good on his promise to answer this one, should be a banger
fintan o’toole article headline: what is wrong with the democrats?
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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me during brainstorming meetings
a five-panel comic: bird 1: i have so many ideas bird 2: let's hear one bird 1: okay let me just... bird 1: ... bird 1: okay i can't do it in front of people
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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work tweet: props to canva/affinity for this copy 🤌
landing page copy for canva's new free product with the headline "zero bucks given"
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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pretty remarkable and telling stat from the latest harper’s
Percentage of Republicans who said last year that immigration levels should be reduced : 88 Who say so now: 48
October 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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never made a better decision in my life than prepending a tree emoji to my name on linkedin to instantly see if the messages i receive are just a human writing to me or a mailing list or bot
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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there are some weird visual artifacts here and there but i can live with 'em, this is so much better
apple mail on macos tahoe without liquid glass safari on macos tahoe without liquid glass
October 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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me before playoff baseball: ahh i'm so excited i love playoff baseball

me during playoff baseball:
that meme where the guy's forehead veins look like they're about to pop out of his face and eat people
September 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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live shot of my macos desktop
a dizzying amount of colorful circles crammed together looking like a fifth grade art project (no disrespect to the original artist; massive disrespect to apple)
September 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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hard agree
jeff goldblum meme: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🙂
September 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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now turning to vauhini vara’s “the immortal king rao” and i’m intrigued before i even start the first chapter
“Once the choice has been made to organize economic, commercial, and property relations at the transnational level, it seems obvious that the only way to transcend capitalism and ownership society is to work out some way of transcending the nation-state. But exactly how can this be done?” —THOMAS PIKETTY, Capital and Ideology, 2019
September 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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watched 1981's dinner with andre last night and i'm still reeling a bit
"See, I think it's quite possible that the 1960s represented the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished, and that this is the beginning of the rest of the future now, and that from now on, there'll simply be all these robots walking around, feeling nothing, thinking nothing, and there'll be nobody left almost to remind them that there once was a species called a human being with feelings and thoughts, and that history and memory are right now being erased, and soon, nobody will really remember that life existed on the planet."
September 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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preach, tennessee
"We have one life, one shot at all the glorious things of life, and we walk about constricted, apologetic, afraid. We have so little time; we have so little space upon which to spread our love and our talents and our kindness. Run toward life fulsomely and freely." — Tennessee Williams
September 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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aye-aye, captain
"Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don’t intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images... Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode." — Ray Bradbury
September 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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oh man zen browser just got folders. the arc browser replacement process is now complete
release notes for zen browser 1.15b, which includes the ability to create folders in the tab sidebar
August 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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i mean... the absurdity is off the charts
a snippet of today's absurd headlines from themorningnews.org, including trump preparing to steal the 2026 midterms, texas democrats imprisoning a legislator because they don't like the way she votes, and a "whites-only" community in arkansas
August 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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chewing on this
“When people think about traveling to the past, they do it with this wild sense of self-importance. Like, 'gosh, I better not step on that flower or my grandfather will never be born. But in the present we mow our lawns and poison ants and skip parties and miss birthdays all the time. We never think about the effects of that stuff." Roya was working herself up. "Nobody thinks of now as the future past." from the novel “Martyr” by Kaveh Akbar
August 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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best ai work tip i've seen
social media update: I've started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early. When you join early, everyone's virtual note takers join early too. I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I'm on the Titanic, we've just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance. I then do the rest of the meeting normally. When the meeting ends, everyone gets an emailed transcript where the Al summary is: "Chris hit an iceberg, is trapped on a sinking ship, and general Q2 pricing updates"
July 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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"Does free time now equal availability?"
dr. evil with the caption "how about no"
July 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM