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Just a brutal end to a chapter from @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, almost the upside down version of Jack Gilbert's "Manger of Incidentals"

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New to shooting with film but got a point-and-shoot Olympus Pen EE3 over the holidays and finally got a few rolls developed. Had to get some shots of my favorite DC monument (RFK stadium) before it's too late.

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Had a zoom call today where someone asked if the rowing machine in my background was a guillotine and, apparently, the answer HR wanted me to give wasn't "don't tempt me with a good time."

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A particularly dystopian 24 hours, even as a long time Kennedy Center hater.

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Catching up on the new episode of Severance

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Repeating "don't tweet about the bad oped" to myself this morning until it works

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Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.

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The recent scrubbing of federal datasets is a stark reminder that the internet is not as permanent as we have been made to believe. More than a third of all webpages that existed in 2013 have disappeared: www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

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His nomination hearing is next week.

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A real life version of the "so say it" clip

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One day in and we're already back to the "staring at empty podiums for an hour and listening to camera operators chatting over the live mics while waiting to see if the policy area you work on will dramatically change" portion of the administration.

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Lord please, I've seen what you've done for others

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We've been talking about the projected effect EVs will have on state gas tax revenues for years now, and the budget reality is starting to materialize - the question now is if states will respond in time. From my brilliant colleagues at Pew: www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

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No spoilers, but Silo unironically needle dropping Monster Mash into a scene is absolutely wild.

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X-ray of the average Iowan

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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

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Cord Jefferson, quitting Instagram, sums many things up: “I don’t need Instagram to be a haven for free speech for the same reason I don’t need a Jamba Juice or a Hooters to be a haven for free speech.”

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I think I've missed the window for end of the year reflections, but after trying to write short stories for the past ~12 years, I was pretty proud to have one published back in July (and then a second just a few months later!). Thanks to Vita & the Woolf for printing my first story, "Butterscotch"

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Snow dog, in his element.

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it's crazy how normal it is to put tolls on bridges and in the middle of the highway in bumfuck nowhere and people are freaking the fuck out about throwing a toll on the place you need to drive to the least. at least getting to bumfuck nowhere requires a car.

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From @dougdawsonccg.bsky.social this morning: "I have to wonder if this is what big ISPs really want. Instead of weak regulation by the FCC they are likely to see a patchwork of stronger regulations in states." potsandpansbyccg.com/2025/01/06/c...

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If you're still setting off fireworks, stop. It's over, you missed it.

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From my new story published in the Rathalla Review - Saturday Night in Trader Joe's www.rathallareview.org/post/2024-fa...

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no surprise seeing NRO take a stand against property rights because they have no real ideology other than reflexive opposition to anything coded as liberal. the image says everything. if libs want to make it easier to build homes then obviously it must be opposed. a child’s worldviews.

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A bit close to home: "to go around saying Negroni this and Negroni that, it gives them this little frisson. This was the consumerist small-talk phase of the party, and I was meant to say something nice about, for example, his Restoration hardware cocktail shaker." Chris Knapp, STATES OF EMERGENCY

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Despite the commentators' takes, I think that is an extremely harsh red for Duran - off balance from going shoulder and was avoiding a straight legged cleat up from Schar.

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Tis the season [to use the worst set of kitchen knives you've ever seen in your life]

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LinkedIn sends notifications that would have sent High School me into an anxiety coma

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this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer

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Big thanks to Rathalla Review for publishing my personal essay, "Pyromania," in their Fall 2024 issue: jmthornberry.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/p... rathallareview.org.

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New issue of the Rathalla Review is out now, just in time for your holiday reading (with a story from lil ol me) www.rathallareview.org/post/2024-fa...

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