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Cities | Cats | Chickpeas Back in Chicago, I missed this place.
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#okrapolitan was something I thought was a good gag when I first saw it, but am now committed to as an all-encompassing worldview

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I know there’s another nyt thing that people are justifiably more angry at, but this is such a needless and incurious pissy little comment in an interesting interview

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Even speaking of Pete Rose is a crime when the miracle of Elly de la Cruz breathes freely on this earth

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Emil Bove and Stephen Miller won’t see your tweets, but your bald friends with underbites will 😥

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Ireland's a bit of an outlier, famously overbuilt wildly a generation ago. Wonder how that contributes

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Just had a vicious flashback to my time at a startup where the CEO made us all use Open Office so he didn't have to buy extra subscriptions

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Lets hear it for James Lileks, the last decent conservative columnist

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watched the Andor trailer, it rules that Steve Earle's three big pop culture moments are: The Wire, Andor, and Talladega Nights

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"entertainment appearing where it should not" seems a fantastic summation of the present aesthetic moment

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even fire doesn't want to drive 25 minutes for a cup of coffee

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This is the most Return To Castle Wolfenstein restaurant i have ever seen

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Starting with "what do we want to do?" before asking "how do we do it?" seems to be the One Neat Trick to not getting bogged down in process

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A middlebrow series on US Grant could turn this whole country around

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Reading Alex Christie Miller’s great To The City, about Istanbul’s Byzantine walls, and didn’t expect it to end with the most lucid nonfiction I’ve read about Covid at a neighborhood level

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This is a long but absolutely beautiful read. A much needed reminder of how long time and history actually are and a reassurance that there is almost everywhere in this world something solid and beautiful; the work of human hands etched into metal and plastic aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

So is Danielle related to the Baghdadi Sassoons?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

(this joke is for one person, @kitabet.bsky.social )

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Dario in snow in Chicago

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Living in an ADU has made me a believer in courtyards: they rule, we need more of them and zero front setbacks

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I don't think I've seen the Quranic cognomen for Alexander the Great used as a name anywhere, figures the first time would be a dude from NOLA

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Via Expedite; these two stories are the same story

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I dunno if he was a bad guy, but there being another Asher freshman year who was a known drug dealer was definitely annoying

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Look a lot of stuff is bad but this horror show AI that youtube is serving me up is worth acknowledging in its own right

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Current status:

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There's an interesting (albeit loose!) connection between "history not going according to plan" in this reference to Algiers, and Americans agonizing over the lawyerization/fossilzation of the Democratic Party: freezing when putting paper to action

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Was preparing a conference panel last week on targeting investments in a low-grant environment. To be honest, I don't think the learning objectives hold in a no-grant environment

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