normcorerockwell.bsky.social
You might know me from:
old Deadspin comments | Defector comments | pre-crash BigSoccer
Interests:
not getting hit by cars | rock climbing/bouldering | soccer/Liverpool F.C. | bad music | MoCo/DMV | cheap Japanese food | copywriting
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Advertisers were already spending less on Twitter back when it was Twitter. Things obviously haven’t gotten better.
Say what you will about Meta, at least they take their ad platforms seriously.
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Today, I can finally call myself a resistance dad. Thank you.
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I honestly can’t tell if *you* are doing a bit or not
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Also, AAA had mapping services for members, so yeah, people were getting paid to optimize routes.
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I mean, AAA had routing service for members, so yes, some people did pay to have their route optimized.
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Not to be too controversial here, but I think it was a bad idea to design roads so they were too dangerous for kids to play on and develop a culture of driving kids everywhere
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And before Mapquest, you went to your local AAA office and they’d give you maps with your route highlighted.
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2023 writers strike, plus some massive rewriting, also bloated special effects mean more post-production work
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TIL. Still, I think it’s easier to hold the hyphen until it gives you the option to choose between a hyphen, en-dash, em-dash, or dot.
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Also, they’re super easy to use on Mac keyboards — it’s just option-shift-hyphen — though on PCs, I find it easier to Google “em-dash” and copy-paste it into text.
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As a copywriter, I’ve always used generous amounts of em-dashes in long ad copy because it’s a good way to make the writing more conversational — you know, how people shift into tangents and asides when they talk — and to optically break up large blocks of text.
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Not defending Netflix/Duffers here but COVID and writer strikes kinda threw things off.
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Is “volume” a way of putting out like 3 hours of content in one go because the damn kids are getting like $1 million an episode
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I don’t know about you but I’d pay good money to watch a Neville Chamberlain biopic
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Entirely possible the dude’s staff confused this year’s Club World Cup with the big one next year, as the relatively small Audi Field is hosting three prelim matches. No one cares about the CWC though.
The NFL Draft as a global event is also a little LOL.
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An earlier version of the press release listed the FIFA World Cup as one of the global events DC will be hosting and, uh, no one’s taking the Metro to Philadelphia or Atlanta
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I only hope that we have an opportunity to test my hypothesis in 2028.
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Back in the old days, before we lost ourselves in smartphones, we would’ve gotten off our asses and typed out a 200-word Craigslist Missed Connections post.
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Anyway, if a Tom Cotton or Josh Hawley ran with Trump’s message, that’s not going to win the election. The messaging only resonates because it’s Trump.
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Though it probably didn’t help that Harris couldn’t really tout Biden’s success with the IRA because of the particular circumstances
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See, I’d argue that Trump has credibility because he’s famous for being a successful businessman on TV. Dems are bad at messaging, but it’s not like they didn’t talk about the economic issues - it was ignored/not pushed enough.
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Anyway, this is worth your time: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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No, using “driver” instead of “car” is correct, and there’s an (albeit slow) trend towards not removing agency in crash reporting.
You wouldn’t say “knife penetrated multiple victims” or “bullets flew into bystanders”. You’d say, “Man stabbed multiple victims” or “Assailant shot into the crowd”.
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Do you spend any time people who aren’t extremely online, aren’t engaged with the news, and don’t live in the DC area? Because this pretty much tracks.
If your media consumption amounts to clips of candidates on the evening news, you’ll absolutely go for the more famous guy promising nice things.
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Yes, that’s a big part of his appeal. He’s very appealing to people who have been convinced woke/me too have swung the pendulum too far.
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Thought he was out of contract for 2024, sorry.
Not my club though, so not my problem.
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I think the best/funniest thing for Spurs is if a Saudi club offered to buy out Ange’s contract and he can try to win the one thing missing from his coaching resume: the AFC Champions League
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Also, for whatever it’s worth, Ange is still under contract and showed in recent weeks that he could choose to play a more controlled game if he wanted to (albeit against weaker opponents). ManU chose to exercise a club option when they could’ve simply let him walk.
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Can’t put too much stock on the final day result when the team was likely hungover while Brighton theoretically had a European place to play for. And while they were terrible for the back end of the season, they’d clearly prioritized Europe ahead of the league.
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There’s more to social media than just posting
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Trust me when I say that the State Department doesn’t even know that there’s an international climbing event happening within our borders. It’s gross incompetence, not malice.
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It’s not even a visa - it’s the electronic authorization (ESTA) for a temporary visitor from a visa-exempt country! They shouldn’t need any paperwork!
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“Paying a professional performer for performing at an event is illegal” is a very Trumpian stance
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Blue MAGA gonna MAGA
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Brought to you by the creators of “Elonia”
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It’s just funny how you so casually slip into homophobia or transphobia with the “Elonia” stuff. You might as well just tell a racist joke and attribute it to Michelle Obama.
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Haha casual homophobia.
Resistance libs are the worst.
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You centrists can get fucked. I’m unhappy that dude won but I’m not unhappy your people lost.
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I’d have that picture framed in the living room
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Less AI, more AC
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Depends on whether you believe life begins at ejaculation
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You never forget the first time, those magical 45 seconds you share with the proprietor of your local UPS Store.
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They could reasonably show a “BRADY 12” jersey and pretend it’s just a number 12 with a very common last name. But those news agency photos are clearly making a connection.
I’m obviously overthinking this.
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I mean, they’re (probably illegally) using photos from the AP and Getty that clearly show Tom Brady so they’re not trying that hard not to get sued
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I know, Chelsea and ManU more than likely playing CL football next season just makes 2025 the absolute worst year
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Yeah, but they’re playing ManU who DGAF about the league and I expect them to beat Forest on the final day. And with their far superior goal difference vs Villa, I don’t think they’re finishing below 5th.
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It’s Jay Leno ass shit. Dem leadership is all, “Didja hear the one about the price of eggs? Didja hear this? Get this…” A complete misreading of the room.
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People getting disappeared is just a distraction I guess