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A new season of LearnedLeague begins today!

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My week in music for 2-8 May 2025 according to Last.fm: Top artist: CHVRCHES (15 scrobbles) Top album: Smilewound - múm (11) Top track: "Playing Dead" - CHVRCHES (4)

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Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

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If you have a Republican representative, you should call their office each and every day demanding that either they hold Trump accountable or you will in the midterms. They want to avoid accountability. Make it clear that’s not an option.

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I just realized how unexpectedly fitting it is that my progress through watching Star Trek: Voyager reached "Once Upon a Time", in which a child's mother is missing and badly wounded during an away mission, the day before Mother's Day.

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I'm going to develop an ouzo-flavored bubble gum. Each pack will come with a small comic strip following the adventures of a guy named Bouzouki Joe.

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It's #LetterboxdFriday! Here are my #LastFourWatched.

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"About to rewatch my favorite Star Wars movie, Attack of the Clones."

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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

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you will never look back on art you've made as time wasted

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Hopefully she’s learned her lesson that, here in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, expressing an opinion in a newspaper can get you thrown in jail.

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I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.

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this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

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The pope, who just watched his baseball team lose four games to Kansas City, is hardly the first pontiff to be mad at the Royals

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No, you don't understand. The color of the smoke indicates the color of the pope.

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Now watching The Last Unicorn

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This is the most Chicago editors note ever

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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new pope hadn’t tweeted for almost two years before firing these two off back to back

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Looks like the new Holy Father isn't a fan of JD Vance.

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Leo XIV is a direct shot and they are going to have the most impotent breakdown ever.

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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

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Coming this fall to CBS

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Finished reading The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett.

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Celebrating #MayTheFourth by rewatching this version of Star Wars.

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Quite the view of Charm City...

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Now watching Quiz Lady

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"A librarian from Apex, North Carolina"? You're not fooling me, Jeopardy! contestant Scott Summers. I know you're an X-Man.

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My week in music for 18-24 April 2025 according to Last.fm: Top artist: múm (27 scrobbles) Top album: Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK - múm (24) Top track: "Final Girl" - CHVRCHES (7)

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For the Americans: White smoke = majority gov't Black smoke = minority gov't Red smoke = We gotta go penalty shootouts to see who's better at handling a puck

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I'm trying to get some reading done tonight, but it keeps getting interrupted by my brother texting me. I'm not even mad though, 'cause, on a whim, he started watching Star Trek: The Animated Series and his running commentary is funny af.

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Indiscreet Pete is laser-focused on boosting the war-making abilities of the U.S. military...

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To everyone that said Democrats like Van Hollen were making a political mistake in defending due process, you were wrong, and we shouldn’t even need a poll to tell us that.

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I somehow only became aware of @criterion.bsky.social's mobile closet this week, and words cannot express how much I want it to come to the DMV area...