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Going to do a Thurber lesson this year where, like Amy Krause Rosenthal, we make an encyclopedia of our ordinary lives -- or as I'll put it, as an apology for doing a lesson on AI Dungeon Years ago -- "the big book of things A.I. will never know". Here's one of my entries.

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On the evening of his 32nd birthday, Zohran Mamdani returned home, pleasantly drunk, to find a single levitating rose floating in the entryway of his apartment. “You will die in 52 years, 10 months, and one day,” the rose said in a somber baritone. “Before that eventuality you must become mayor.”

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this whole thread about the number of 'playsets' a superhero's premise has is one of the most genius things I've ever read about the genre, and explains the struggles of everyone from Kate Kane, Jon Kent and Kamala Khan to actually grow legs and last. Nothing to do with diversity, all with premise.

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gosh i love DMing while I do it and then I always feel like curling up into a ball after.

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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

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“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

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COLLINS: Have you called Tim Walz yet? TRUMP: I don't really call him. He appointed this guy to a position. I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I'm not calling him ... he's a mess.

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

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Hear me out: what if we rounded up all of the authoritarian world leaders and put them onto a Survivor style reality show, promising that the winner would get to be king of the world But right before the final episode, production just leaves and we get to watch them all eat each other on livestream

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depressing as hell to have almost 50k set aside, be told by your casework "things aren't moving faster because you're not doing xyz", finally get your parents to agree to both xyz and abc, then get ghosted, no closer to aides or housing feels like I do everything right except "be able bodied"

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My favorite thing about really good newspaper comics is you see people pushing what's done within the boundaries of the form and showing off the height of craft in service of gags that seem like jokes just got invented

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this tweet is so funny but also if we're keeping it one hundred DBZ has better anti-carceral politics than roughly every American superhero comic, and because I grew up with it before I came to comics, the concept and role of 'villain' has always seemed a little uninteresting to me.

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A dazzling ocean of tulips stretching endlessly in Hokkaido, Japan...

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I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.

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I just figured out that @columbuslibrary.bsky.social offers this and that's....so exciting? Libraries are so cool, y'all. People using their single lives to connect people with books, personalized, for free. Fund these things out the wazoo. Best idea humans have ever had.

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my dad showed me all of Lost when I was like seven and it's why I'm like this.

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Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

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a little unreal that “lost” is the right word here but i think that’s correct

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Remember in 2020 i think it was the lapd saying they can handle a ten-thousand person protest but not ten thousand person protests

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Water Lilies - 1903 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10942

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"i got five minutes' sleep/it was an accident" adore this song. love any art that helps me feel for people. youtu.be/2OAG3R41uB4

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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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Talked to so many people who were at the first protests of their lives today. Ex-Republicans, introverts, 90-year-olds and 3-year-olds. This was at an intersection in a 60,000 person town. Haven’t felt hope like this in my life.

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man I love ONE PIECE but Oda -- at least circa Dressrosa -- has no idea how to equally serve all the Straw Hats. Robin and Franky in particular never have anything to do!!

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acquired. so excited. spent all evening with friends playing old janky N64 games and listening to Talking Heads and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.

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Let's get out there, stand together and protect each other. We are this country. That's the important thing

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if I were to ever go back into the classroom I would want to take the time now to cobble together a curriculum which, as a thinking, curious adult, genuinely delights and troubles me. So little we do in school hits this bar and kids can tell, I think.

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waking up at 545 a.m. :( to purchase david byrne tickets :)

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finally finished Buffy season one after years of trying and it's both way more and way less tolerable after you've seen I Saw The TV Glow.

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Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

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this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

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Wow I hadn't seen this hallway footage. Really bad.

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i'm about to call my senators and you should too. this is goon shit. if a sitting congressman can be cuffed they are planning to escalate.

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The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

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YOOOOOOOOOOO

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I think small-c conservatism that did what it said it does is actually super important to human civilization - conserving the environment, resisting mechanization, etc - and it's too bad that it's always been about being racist, breaking the back of the worker, laughing at queers, and caping for war

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