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Copy editor (ProPublica, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN), baker, cross stitcher, cat furniture. she/her
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Portland Leather has a lot of nice stuff and there’s always a sale, plus their “almost perfect” stuff is discounted due to flaws so small you may not be able to find them even if you’re looking. (I have an “almost perfect” wallet with doubled stitching on ~1” of seam.) www.portlandleathergoods.com
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Worst case, I could always try a second affogato.
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Smart
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It was really good! And a prelude to a very nice dinner.
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No, it was a tiki-style drink with two types of rum, some cordial and a few other things. The float may have been a maraschino liqueur, I think? For reasons that are surely unrelated to the two types of rum, I don’t remember all the ingredients.
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He’s already been convicted in a court of paw and was sentenced to having his face kissed while being called a jerk.
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We’ve started keeping the fluid setup in a closet when it’s not in use to simply remove any opportunity for illicit chewing, but thanks!
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Pastor Kori bringing the good news
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Cyril honoriaplum.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/t...
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Suckfest! I hope you get some answers!
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Well that’s something anyway. I didn’t know about the new rules either until my neighbors left a mattress on the porch for like a week for the same reason.
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Not everything can have a second life, people! It’s not weird to have to throw away a worn-out mattress!
Is mattress pickup totally banned? In Somerville you can’t put it out with the regular trash anymore but I think they’ll still take it if you arrange for a special pickup.
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“Screw the goddamn passengers! What the hell did they expect for their lousy 35 cents — to live forever?”
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No.
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It’s just delightful, and my bar for things that New Yorkers love for being super New Yorky is incredibly high.
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Embroidery floss is kinda like beads — very cheap individually but it can add up if you’re making something big. In this case I’m almost done with a large project but I ran out one color I still need more of.
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Get the band-aids ready, I’m going in
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I’ve been really disappoofed this week.
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Yeah that’s what I do when I ride to the grocery store
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Supervisor’s asleep, everyone go home
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Gotta get yourself some padded bike shorts! They’re great if you haven’t been on a bike for a while or if you’re planning to do a longer-than-usual ride. You can wear them under regular clothes to avoid being The Spandex Guy.
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Homemade rolls are especially great because you can freeze any you don’t use right away and they thaw pretty quickly, so you can just pull what you need out of the freezer without needing to think of it 6 hours before dinner.
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Truly awful, I’m gonna wait till it’s all out and binge it in a weekend
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That’s still basically what AP says too.
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It can be very frustrating to see “killing” when the facts of the case seem clear, and a lot of publications do become overly cautious and wind up using weird baroque phrasings as a result. But the reluctance to say “murder” specifically is based on a legitimate concern.
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The husband is always rich and like 30% of the time he’s Patrick McGoohan.
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Ooh I am enjoying this thread already
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Ah, sorry, I misunderstood! But yeah if she’s stitching over that part it likely isn’t a huge problem as long as the stain isn’t too dark, and the dabbing could help lighten it. She’ll likely also wash the whole piece when she’s done, which will help even more.
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Is it burnt or just ashy? If it’s just ashy, I think you could try blotting the area with a barely damp paper towel and see how much comes off. Talk to your partner first though — the water will dissolve the starch that keeps the fabric stiff, so she’d had to use a hoop while stitching that area.
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Oh I’m so sorry, Emily
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Great choice.
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Not to sound excessively like Oscar Wilde (or any more than I usually aspire to), but I feel as if I spent the first half of my copyeditorial career deleting the word "that" and the second half inserting it.