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Honestly, you probably know enough already.
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This looks like a Howard-Costello graph to me.
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Evergreen.
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I've got one about Hephaestus, but it's kind of lame.
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This is an ahistorical take that pretty much is Holocaust revisionism from a magazine that once let Russell Brand guest edit
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They aren't sending their best. Or worse, these are their best.
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I'd like to think there's the principle of making life as hard as possible for the sort of people who'd back Deeming... But it's probably just hunger for authority and a fair bit of sink cost fallacy.
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Thank you for your investigation. It has the sentiment of the quote from The Second Coming, but none of the flair.
The only reason I didn't question it was the fact they're quoting Bukowski rather than Einstein or Shakespeare.
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That's not Sauron from LotR, that's ED209 from RoboCop.
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I had a feeling time is going to be managed pretty carefully this week, but damn.
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4: Any discworld book (my favorite is Hogfather, but go wild).
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Where's Kudelka and his tea towel?
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3: The Secret History, Donna Tartt
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I'm just going to start posting a book a day that I think you should read (in no particular order):
2: Maus, Art Spiegelman
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Nick Cave's (the musician) script for the sequel should be absolutely required reading.
It is batshit insane in the best way.
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Praying I'm teaching the "History of the Old Republic" class and not the "Clone Wars" class.
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Do you not understand that the only way to enjoy social media is as gladiatorial combat (where combat is defined as a contest as to who can be the biggest dickhead)?
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What are massively abridged audio versions of self help books (blinkists)?
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It's nice that there are good politicians. Not enough people willing to say the right thing.
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One thing Trump is good for is pulling the worst people into his orbit and humiliating them constantly.
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Let's just wave on in some science denial and the replacement of reality by conspiracy theory. Super good journalism.
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The US election seems to have burned Twitter to the ground. So at least we get Auspol and sports on bluesky in exchange for that whole situation.