andrewctenor.bsky.social
Trying to figure out how to combine my loves for baroque music and hiking
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Honestly it’s the least the universe can do for us
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Hmm imgflip.com/s/meme/Bike-...
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Refusing to invade allied countries would also be appreciated.
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Vaguely
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I’ve never seen anyone properly ratioed on Bluesky before, so thanks at least for that
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The 13% don’t genuinely like him. They just hear “do you like Trump” as “are you a true blue Prairie son/daughter” and they can only answer one way
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Given that Black infant mortality rates are more than double White rates, it’s probably almost impossible to talk about the subject without breaking the new regime’s newspeak rules. abcnews.go.com/Health/black....
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I’m honestly curious who gets this reference, because you are my people
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“You know, like really bucket?”
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Jon Stewart did a bit on this on TDS years ago. “I’m not SAYING your mother is a whore. I’m just ASKING… if she accepted money for sex.”
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Possibly these are folks who don’t want to be seen in public with messy hair?
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This isn’t really journalism, either. They’re not trying to inform us. They’re trying to provoke a reaction, which I don’t think deserves the same cherished space.
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Maybe they’re starved for affection
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I love the little detail of leaving out the “the” in “Employee of the Month” to make it sound more Russian
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Allies don’t threaten to annex you, period.
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They’ll have rationalized everything to a heartbreaking degree.
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“Today, we’ll be discussing leopards eating faces. Call in with your thoughts! We’ll be hearing from some leopards as well as from some faces.”
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I feel like the French are pretty stubborn when it comes to their own spellings for countries—Maroc, Tchad, etc.—but maybe every language is like that! I know the Japanese lump the UK all together as イギリス (Igirisu)
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It’s called Chili en français
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That’s what I’m wondering. What’s the next chess move here
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“The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago. The second best time is don’t bother” —Trish Purdy, probably
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Does anyone know why 338Canada’s projections are still solidly Conservative majority?
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Two master’s degrees for this
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Signed.
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He who lives by the chainsaw…
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But we still have Adele
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There are federal internal trade barriers?
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Narrator: they wuid be fooled again
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Yeah don’t let a certain orange guy find out that coal is on its way out
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Notwithstanding the “a bike nearly ran me over” anecdotes you’ll hear from some pedestrians. (They never seem to actually get hit by the cyclists though)
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“Redspurts”
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Minitrue, A Division of DOGE
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We used to mock the Soviets for deciding it wasn’t ok to believe in natural selection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenko...
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Does she really not get that old vehicles cost more to maintain? “I mean it’s one banana, Michael, what could it cost, 10 dollars?”
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Yup. If I had to guess I’d say they help for a month or two after installation, then people figure out that they mean the cops HAVEN’T put a speed trap in that location
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It says a lot that Trish Purdy wants her kids to strongly consider becoming cops
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Are historians still legal
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Yeah exactly tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
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“ideally a somewhat wacky librarian”
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It’s a struggle. I’ve been burdened with specs since I was 5 and always went for wire-rimmed/rimless/minimal since I wish they weren’t there. But the dominant vibe for the past 15 years is “glasses you would put on a Hollywood actress to temporarily make her a librarian”