isthispraxis.bsky.social
writer & editor, inveterate communist, wife guy, he/him
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the vieux carré is a new orleans classic. I keep a bottle of bénédictine around specifically to make them in the summer: boozy but refreshing
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an elderflower French 75 with St-Germain and a dry champagne is a very pleasant variation
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your doctor: (mandatory reporter voice) and do you think this wrench might do this again?
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Using AI for creativity is an admission of failure. Not everyone needs to write a book.
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every book is a LitRPG if you write "level: " next to the page numbers. I'm reading Anna Karenina and she's up to level 384 now. she could one-shot a dragon
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our nation's woke youth are getting finger blasted "DEI style" after marching band practice by a member of an underserved community
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AI-assisted bimbofication is going to lead to some absolute Cronenberg type shit
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"upgrading" to the gemini-based assistant on my pixel phone instantly made it worse and more annoying. it turns out I mostly don't want to have discussions with my assistant, I just want it to do specific stuff I tell it to (assist me, if you will)
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The Iowa Writer's Workshop and its consequences
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Plain language has been a big topic in the field of rhetoric and composition for a long time. It gets a bad rap because people think "plain language" = dumbing stuff down, but it's more the idea that you can often express complex ideas without complex or hard-to-read syntax.
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my tiefling sword bard follows her paladin around like a deadly pet and enacts great violence upon her enemies. kind of an ideal playstyle for me, a person who at the best of times has maybe a 40% idea of what's going on
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she knows way more about the game than me and generally calls the shots on strategy. I optimize character builds because the math tickles my brain parts
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we're so close to an RFK jr statement about how America's sausage-fingered children used to be slim enough for domestic electronics manufacturing
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brave is pretty decent
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carrie bradshaw returns in sex U N D E R the city. tunnels, catacombs, subfloors of haunted insane asylums. mr. big will fight a mole person
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It's getting scary. I would 100% lose my job without prescription stimulants. However I guess I would have a new job working in an RFK Jr.-themed farm or camp of some kind, so that's comforting
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a bargain kukri from nepal caused six weeks of anticipation-related improved mental health before getting delivered. and now it's my primary door-answering knife. there is so much beauty on this wretched earth
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some of us prefer not to be bootlickers for aristocrats like John Montagu Earl of Sandwich but go off I guess
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it wants to purify you :(
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listen, don't blame yourself for systemic problems with the crane operator selection process
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how do I buy swaps on this
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our neighbors knocked on our door at like 11pm and offered to do jello shots with us on our porch because we have a pride flag out and these brave lesbians correctly assumed we would be chill like that. community building takes many forms
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buying a lifted dodge ram on 108-month financing to make tiktoks in. people will know I'm a real man by my wraparound shades and common sense ideas about which fast food items make you gay
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we need a slur for this
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people stopped smoking. finding out someone had nicotine-free cum was so disappointing. you'd just be kneeling there like geez thanks for wasting my lunch break buddy, I thought you were cool
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it was a mistake to change doing things on the computer into a job for normies instead of a priestly caste of technology perverts
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i stockpile exotic ramen, definitely saving it now instead of eating it. playing the long game. once global trade collapses i will get my junk honked every day by a different pasty white dude who owns a katana
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i just google hamburglar cumflation +gif and let the good lord provide
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2025's "doggy style so we can both watch x files"
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is it like gone or do they just clamp one of these guys on there until you pay up
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my mom had the score on cassette. she would turn it up and fill our house with tragic grandeur. it was like her: exhilarating and doomed. I wish I still had that.
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many of the people driving in PDX are from suburbs where pedestrianism is illegal so they're kind of unprepared. it's getting better though, in beaverton they have a progressive thing where instead of making you pay a fine for crossing the street on foot they issue you a 2007 nissan altima
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to be very clear, my comment was not meant as a defense of US pro-boat policy, especially as it extends to cases where no one has in fact even attacked a boat
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"we weren't incompetent, merely criminally negligent" is frankly an exceptional defense
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he's for sure going to identify that Signal is the problem and all future war planning should happen on X, The Everything App