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English Language Arts video-maker at @KhanAcademy.org.
Author, bean evangelist, wife guy, once and future podcaster. He/him
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It's a syncretic intellectual property—not unlike Catholicism itself, tbh!
And it's spawned other branching properties in return; I remember being so disheartened when I first learned about the Tyranids after being obsessed with the Zerg as a teen
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American McGee's Nancy Mace
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And who could forget his companion, the physician-detective Wong Fei-Chaim?
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Maybe, Mamdani is saying, in some other contexts the word can be useful, even valuable!
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It's being asked to denounce the word "Resistance" because of its association with Massive Resistance to the Civil Rights Act!
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This is my recent favorite Ari stream selection: www.youtube.com/shorts/0bCZG...
Two senegalese strangers—one singing in Fulani, the other rapping in Wolof, Ari providing everything else off his rig. It's so much fun!
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The fish market at the Wharf is fun. Easy walk from the waterfront green line stop. Get a bunch of shrimp or a steamed crab, sit and watch the water.
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Will you have a car?
If it's not raining all weekend, the Arboretum is fabulous, depending on what your kid is into! But it's not accessible via metro. Car or bus only to get there.
Natural history museum at the Smithsonian is my favorite, the gems and minerals exhibit in particular.
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WILDLY disproportionate. He's gonna try, like, one in each borough. And if it doesn't work, he said he'd abandon it. Critics seem to be taking this experiment way more seriously and scarily than Mamdani ever intended.
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Aw nuts
Well i wish you a wellspring of good fortune DESPITE THE ILL TIDINGS YOU BRING UPON YOURSELF BY CLINKING WEIRD
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Hmmm maybe i occupy a middle position between you and your inlaws, because we do an in the middle clink but then Bat Clean-Up on whichever glasses didn't touch
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Oooo i think they're right, sorry! UNLESS it's a very long table. Passover seder, Thanksgiving dinner? Everyone's filled up your largest table and your sister brought a card table to add more seats? Yes, transitive property of glass clink applies.
Just four to six at the table? Gotta clink.
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Careful. If you host Vance on Power and Flour he'll demand that you and John only make recipes that pass the Bruen "History and Tradition" test
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but hey at least you reminded us you've got a book! Checking it out from the library now
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Swin is brat 😔
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I'm in Capitol Hill now, but my sister used to live near 14th street—and sometimes I'd pop in to that TJ's before going to her place for dinner, which was *always a mistake*.
Nevertheless, howdy, neighbor! Saw that Seven Part Pact post and thought, "oh damn I should find a game group here."
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bozhe moi, tovarisch! And the agony of the queue at the 14th Street Trader Joe's. Friends I am just trying to buy some doktorskaya and joe-joe's here; please I beg of you, young pioneers, let an old man through
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Yeah I'd be pretty irritated if I had to go from manhattan to like rockville, maryland just to grocery shop
(although the groceries in rockville are chef's-kiss top-notch)
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Folks: he's running
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O ya.
Peony or purple hyssop
Just the thing for brainy glissup
Twine it twice around your pons
Beat it smooth with fennel fronds
Scrub and scour and wipe it dry
Then commence thy revelry
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Looks like wegmans even has a store brand
But WIL WATCH OUT
it is free and clear, this store brand rinse aid, so you will need to perfume your brains some other way
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Well remember if you get the fabric softener it makes your brain less absorbent
But if you get the rinse aid it makes your brain slick and water resistant
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That depends
Do you have rinse aid
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*polite and approving clapter*
Kit the society of Dead Horse Beaters welcomes you as one of our own. Please accept this pin.
Oh. Oh darn it. Dang it sorry one second it's not sharp yet, the pin
There we are. Had to belabor the point, as is tradition
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You could really get away with naming the human kingdom Lordaeron in 1994 in a way that I think you can't now
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Oh, gotcha. Less "we are destined to be evil because we're orcs and trolls and minotaur guys" and more "we have a historic beef with lordaeron" or whatever
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I never played WoW, although I did play the games through Warcraft III. How did they thread that needle?
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A bummer! Yeah, I agree that the racial-destiny-of-evil/vermin physiognomy aspect of Redwall is something to fix in an adaptation, but the bones of the thing are solid.
also:
www.mouseguard.net/rpg
I think this might be out of print but I've seen it around!
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Also try to catch JKR out here writing her own companion cookbook for her series; couldn't be done
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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I bet you could skirt it/complicate like you say by having a good-guy rat character or two, some turncoats whose hearts are melted by the essential goodness of the abbey and its multicultural ethos
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this is very dweeby but I keep my house keys on a little retractable keychain that I attach to a beltloop. In this way is the phone protected; in this way is the wallet, too, protected
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News! I can use!! Thanks, Lauren 🫡
Your commitment to sandwichkind in these sweltering days does not go unnoticed
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I've been struggling with that, too—I think the answer for me has been "having people over for dinner". It forces me to whip the house into shape, it forces me to think about the next few weeks, and it forces me into community with my friends and neighbors, which is its own kind of political good
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Ay, by our lady, so they do, so they do.
Much prefer her to the churl I met on Market Day who said we'd invent a thousand new kinds of physick and then reject them all out of spite—that we'd marvel up a hundred hundred poultices that cured all sickness, and then toss em in the dungheap
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Has anyone yet recommended olivia waites's FEMININE PURSUITS series? Thoughtful wlw historical romances, the first of which is THE LADY'S GUIDE TO CELESTIAL MECHANICS
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Oh, what a bummer. When i said i wanted them to bring the automat back, i didn't mean it like this!!
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It's a ghost kitchen, right? Takeout only to the point of there almost being no storefront?
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I just feel like this is a wes anderson movie product
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Of course it's not your fault!! I just mean horrific things keep happening to the plumbing in your building. Weren't you without hot water for a week last year?
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The thing that made you say, "oh my god I almost died! Life is too short; time to make AUDIO FICTION"? 😍
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WOW yeah for real!
That's a wikipedia rabbit hole full of links that i just know will have horrifying illustrations, e.g., peritonsillar abscess.
I'm so glad you survived!
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2015 LAUREN IS INNOCENT
Every man jack of us woulda done the same!
But *holy shit* a bacterial infection gave you HEMORRHAGIC FEVER?
like micro-ebola?!
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Sure, it's 2015! we were invincible!
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sweet mother of god
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yeah sure sure standard intake for Vampire Memorial Hospital but what did they do to treat your injury?
ok ok ok I feel like we're burying the lede again; how... did you end up wounded in the jugular, if you're comfortable divulging
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Jules are you a character in a Kelly Reichardt movie
why does this keep happening to you?!
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and uh belatedly are you ok
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Holbrooke would be dead by the end of the following year, but I didn't know that!
Anyway what was on your sandwich?
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I remember the first time my friend Heather took me to Larchmont Wine and Cheese, it was the start of the Obama administration, and that sandwich was so good, so hopeful was I, that I started babbling to her about how Richard Holbrooke's diplomacy was gonna bring peace to Iraq and Afghanistan