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LOTR reader: "Wow, I really like this new character you introduced a couple chapters ago. I can't wait to see what he does next!" Tolkien: "Great! Here's a 60-line poem about his grandfather's great-grandfather, who will never be mentioned again."

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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre.

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It's going to be like the fisheries shutting down in Newfoundland or other huge, sudden sector-wide collapses only all over the country.

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“Why don’t they play popular music at the Super Bowl anymore.” — Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.

submitted 21 days ago • 1058 comments

This, only instead of physicists it's techbros, and instead of another scientific field, it's the U.S. Government.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Saruman announces that the Gap of Rohan shall henceforth be referred to as the Gap of Isengard

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

At the movie theatre today, and six of the seven movies playing are either sequels or spinoffs of previous movies. Is film culture dead? Back in the pandemic, people were saying that 2023-25 would be a golden age for cinema, because so many writers were going to isolate and write masterpieces.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 💙📚 #booksky #books The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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PARTICULARLY in light of the recent news of the targeted killing of a health insurance executive. Sometimes life imitates art.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 💙📚 #booksky #books Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

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Listening to the most recent Advisory Opinions with @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social and Sarah Isgur, a couple of thoughts: 1. Regarding the "discrimination against Zionists, not Jews" case, I think a better analogy might be "We aren't discriminating against Christians, just against pacifists." 1/

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 💙📚 #booksky #books The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16 💙📚 #booksky #books Rhythms of Grace by @mikecosper.bsky.social

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15 💙📚 #booksky #books The Coddling of the American Mind by @glukianoff.bsky.social and @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14 💙📚 #booksky #books On Getting Out of Bed by @oalannoble.bsky.social

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13 💙📚 #booksky #books The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 12 💙📚 #booksky #books The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

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So I still have my account at the other place, and I just poked my head in there. Despite not having tweeted in over a year, and not having replied to anybody in weeks, I've recently been followed by 7 accounts that are obvious bots. Is the bot problem getting worse?

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New, from me: Elon Musk, a man who runs an imaginary government department, accused a real government employee of having a fake job. He is wrong about this, and other claims about what he can do to eliminate regulations and cut spending. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

submitted 98 days ago • 66 comments

A federal judge in Texas sanctioned an attorney for submitting a court filing with AI generated nonexistent cases and quotations. The judge said Brandon Monk must pay a $2,000 penalty and attend a course about generative AI in the legal field reut.rs/495KBXb

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 11 💙📚 #booksky #books Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 10 💙📚 #booksky #books Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

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Is “Christ the King” outdated, authoritarian, patriarchal theology? Nope. It’s the opposite. King Jesus undermines the authoritarian & the patriarchal. King Jesus washes his disciples’ feet & teaches us not to Lord it over others, as the Gentiles do.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 9 💙📚 #booksky #books The Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy by Elizabeth Moon

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 8 💙📚 #booksky #books Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 7 💙📚 #booksky #books Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund

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For all the concern about "virtue signaling", maybe vice signaling is actually worse.

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I wonder how many members of Congress are mentioned in the Gaetz report as people who witnessed/knew/were told.

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