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Also good to say “I take the bacon off but I don’t take it off”. You designed the sandwich dude

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The reusable silicone water balloon is one of the most impressive inventions of the century. modern warfare has arrived

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eventually they're going to present us with a groundbreaking humanoid robot workforce that's just migrant labor at slave wages painted silver

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Yes!!! And this is what was so great about 2nd ed AD&D. They took that premise seriously!

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Folks if you’re buying a gift for someone who likes to cook don’t give them random ass “spice mixes”

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I think it's very bad that at what is probably the most dangerous time for American Jews in at least a century, our most prominent spokespeople are obsessed with (a) providing PR to a foreign apartheid state and (b) completely myopic about anything beyond the bounds of their own ivory towers

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The next Democratic administration must nationalize Chili’s

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The problem with making delicious salsa is that you eventually run out of other people’s tortillas.

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Whether you use it instead of writing yourself or allow its tendencies to limit your own vocabulary, generative AI only impoverishes your creative life

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What are ye, O pallid phantoms! That haunt my troubled brain? That vanish when day approaches, And at night return again? What are ye, O pallid phantoms! But the statues without breath, That stand on the bridge overarching The silent river of death? Longfellow, “The Haunted Chamber”

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This right here. Kids are extremely stupid

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That it Otto Richter. He was an activist in Germany and fled after the Reichstag fire. He got into the US by deserting his ship. His wife, Clara, was a U.S. citizen.

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This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation

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カレーライス

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My kids took the jenga set and decided they’d rather use it to build stuff so now the blocks wander my house like ronin

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New clipse good

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A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s mandatory palestine would be interesting. Mythos-touched kabbalists and yiddish forest-cults coming off the boats. Not just Arabic and Hebrew texts to translate but also Armenian, Greek, Syriac.

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All the chili dogs on my camera roll

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Starting my Sunday with some gospel music, and stumbled upon an utterly amazing group that is not only new to me but from New Jersey! The Gospel Clefs (who recorded for Herman Lubinsky's Savoy Records in Newark) are knocking me out--an especially funky version of Go Down Moses!

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A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s mandatory palestine would be interesting. Mythos-touched kabbalists and yiddish forest-cults coming off the boats. Not just Arabic and Hebrew texts to translate but also Armenian, Greek, Syriac.

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Fun thing about being a left-wing Jew is having to fight transparently bad-faith accusations about antisemitism in the anti-genocide movement. Made more fun by the random "sympathizers" with said movement who keep posting visibly, gleefully antisemitic shit

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The Italian referendum ballot papers are so cute I kinda want to keep them

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feeling kind of stupid lately.

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today's newsletter is about "s.e.z. noir"--arty 00s globalization thrillers like "demonlover" and "blackhat" maxread.substack.com/p/sez-noir

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a very Wolfeian thing for the Pringles Guy to have prefigured his later appearance, just as the Claw of the Concilator reached back in time from Severian's apotheosis to empower him in his youth

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Oh what I would do with you

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not the terrazzo christian mezuzah

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The hotel was like an enormous resonating chamber; the sound of each footstep, magnified, echoed in all directions. The building had the kind of intense and pure shabbiness attained only by cheap new constructions. Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down

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This Memorial Day I taught my kids about party mix etiquette. You can’t just snipe the pieces you like.

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Menswear sci fi novel “A Pattern In The Marl”

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