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Ask me to name all 88 incorporated cities in LA County off the top of my head!
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Hey, I wrote something! I'll post two for people who are really into stories about housing discrimination laws in California in the 1960s. www.lapl.org/collections-...

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Power is out at my home. And as soon as I lit a candle it came back on. Good thing I didn’t curse the darkness.

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I have reached the point in life where I have hurt my back installing printer software updates.

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I am now watching FC Twente vs Bodo/Glimt. I am having a flashback to Ricky Van Wolfswinkel beating Everton in an opening day match for Norwich.

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I have been using the word "deprecate" incorrectly my whole life. Well, I had a good run.

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Facebook picks reels that it wants me to look at or think that I want to look at. Today it was suggested that I look at a video of a Budapest school cafeteria manager showing what was being served that day (she does this every day it seems). And now the algorithm is going to think I like it.

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I am playing bird call sounds from the Cornell Lab on my computer now and the cat is both highly interested and highly confused.

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Donald Trump is trying to cross Big Zinc. He is not prepared.

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I still have never understood why a restaurant would sit a customer outside in the rain.

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My grandmother was a rapper. Although it turned out, she was actually a wrapper. She worked in a yeast factory when she was young.

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I met Dr Shoup when he gave a talk at my library’s friends group. He was amazing. And also a very humble and giving person.

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Monday was my oldest brother’s birthday. And while he has been passed away for over nine years, this Wordsworth poem always tell me how many people there are in my family. I have three older brothers and a mother and father. Some of them are elsewhere. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52298/...

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I found a container of cottage cheese in the fridge that was over seven months old. I really shouldn’t have looked inside.

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These guys are making a comeback.

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Some good news

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how come when shohei drives the firetruck it's "fun" and "supporting the hard workers of the fire department" but when I grab a truck and go for a joyride it's "theft" and "reckless endangerment" and carries a 10-20 year prison sentence

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Sometimes I wish people would realize that there are accidents. We are human. We make mistakes. It's almost never the fault of people's political beliefs.

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The NYT had a FASHION sidebar on RFK Jr's confirmation hearing. A FASHION sidebar.

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I am waiting for Trump to have his own Tariff of Abominations. Although I don’t expect Lindsey Graham to get mad about it.

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Everton has scored a goal in the first half in consecutive PL games. This is not a drill.

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One day, people on social media will realize that the governor of California spells his last name Newsom. There is no e at the end.

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The National Park Service isn’t changing its website yet. www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm I am unsure why we are fetishizing William McKinley.

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