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Conceivably, one of Oregon’s top 142 Barts. Writer: Disney-Hyperion, Choose Your Own Adventure, Oregon State University Press, McSweeney’s, etc. bart.king.net 🦔 🐢 🐞
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Look at this little jackass.

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They had me at "oldest known English book on cheese." (Also, dog's milk has cur-ds.) www.popsci.com/health/oldes...

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Today, I remembered how Pete Hegseth's expert analysis led to one of the all-time great Fox News chyrons:

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Wow, what a horrific typo. Right on the cover.

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Shoutout to the Oregonians who celebrated and demonstrated on International Worker’s Day (May Day).

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Shocked to hear that the White House just leveled a 17% tariff on "all Barts." But we will fight this! BARTS RISE UP

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"Honey, did you take your multivitamin today?" "Yes, dear." "What about your friend supplement?"

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ME (clueless): Minecraft is innocent fun. It’s sort of like playing Legos online, right? REPORTER: You ignorant noob, Minecraft is a consequence-free training ground for gambling and fraud, and its servers are a cesspool for budding cybercriminals. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/m...

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As Sen. Warnock has noted, Jesus is the biggest victim of identify theft in history.

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This is hell on Earth.

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POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words ghghg, hgh hg

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"Enjoy your meal! And P.S., as much as 30% of your Caesar salad is shredded plastic."

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And the winner of my Most Unwelcome Book Title is…

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I’m telling Mom.

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It’s time to trot out Adama.

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Not in my awesome hiding place they can’t!

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I saw Simpering Timidity open for Belle and Sebastian in 2003. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...

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A neighbor kid earns money selling eggs from his family’s chickens. We told him we were interested, so he brought us by a dozen, but refused payment: “Try them first and see if they seem worth paying for.” 🤯 (I’m working to get him on the midterm ballots.)

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Obama’s presidency was the Golden Age of Graphs.

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Try bringing America back from the ashes first.

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Not only is San Jose's @hicklebees.bsky.social a fantastic bookstore, its bathroom art is pretty great as well. 📚

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There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here.

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Pulling up to the donut shop:

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“Am I paranoid, or is that tree flipping me off?”

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Show some love for your local indie today—either in person or online! 📚🎉 (And in true evil fashion, Amazon announced a book sale today. Booo! Also: hiss!)

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Yes, everything is terrible, but we have berries coming, so REJOICE

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New U.S. policy: "Look for the helpers—then arrest them."

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As the White House fire scientists and slashes science budgets, it says the regulatory work of the Environmental Protection Agency should embrace citizen-science, leaving “the public to identify scientific flaws and research misconduct.” Guess I’ll take a PB&J and benzene test kit down to the creek?

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I’m just not myself in the morning until I’ve had my caffeinated shaving cream.

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If Trump and Vance were your real estate agents, they’d sign you up to a reverse-mortgage at terrible interest rates, make a copy of the door key so that they could let their pals in to make sandwiches anytime, then run over your dog as they left. The hell with them. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/w...

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Pass it on.

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I’ve had enough of this tripe, cancel subscription.

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My sister tried to sneak this chart onto her son's "family heritage" class project.

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“The woodpecker could not be reached for comment.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/u...

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“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain. If you gaze out to the right, it’s a beautiful day to see Mount Vesuvius— HOLY MAGMA, it’s gone full Krakatoa!!!”

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Bring it, punks.

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FINE, i'll do it. www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...

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This 1934 L’Oréal ad was titled “Optimize your beard.” Maybe it can become Portland’s new city slogan: “Keep Portland Beard”

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this dog has "dangerous reoffender" written all over his face

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