what i learned from moby dick is that all great writing should have long digressions about the details of whaling

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otoh you missed many posts about the edmund fitzgerald

i am regularly dragging home thrifted music-playing devices (not only do i have multiple CD players i also have a minidisc bookshelf system)

our new one doesn't have a CD player (we only recently got rid of one with a tape player)

I'm told Sen. Ted Cruz led this effort. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats weren't consulted on the addition of this language, per a source familiar. Committee's top Dem, Dick Durbin, was among the 8 Ds who voted to advance the spending measure last night.

one of my favorite threads on twitter was a response by a physicist to people dunking on ICP about what magnets are at a slightly more than elementary level, in order to make the point that magnets are, in fact, really fucking weird