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The groundhog really nailed the weather prediction, shout out to that guy

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ohhhh my god is neo-tokyo about to explode? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite tetsuo?

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I would like it noted in the grand karmic ledger that I just opted against pointing out to someone who was attempting to correct another someone's "grammar" that they were actually correcting that person's diction.

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Did no one raise their hand at the vesper martini brainstorming meeting and say “actually maybe the message of the show is that you DON’T want to escape to The White Lotus?”

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"Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same" "The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. " www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/s... a blast from the past, some reporting war stories in this 'un

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Just encountered the modern Manhattan parent version of "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn" which was two near mint condition SHSAT test prep books sitting on the "up for grabs" table in the children's room of my local library.

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Marco Inaros is up to his old tricks www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/s...

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Flower mites, found throughout blooms in the tropics, can sense modulated electric fields emanating from hummingbirds, which they employ to hitchhike to other flowers. Very fun story to write! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/s...

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More yellow journalism by The New York Times

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Wordle streak massacre today according to the bot! Don’t think I ever seen that many misses on the 6th turn

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Who says a humanities degree will get you nowhere?? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/s...

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You, politely talking about how you want to visit Scandinavia Me, spending way too much time on Wikipedia: YOU MEAN FENNOSCANDIA

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It has to be said

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Not the parent coordinator at my daughter’s middle school writing “at least we didn’t have any fires” in an email marking the end of a busy week

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Does anyone else think it was totally weird that for years we were just like "cell phones are called BlackBerries now, we're all just going to say the word 'blackberry' all the time"

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How many halo numbers do you think Elton John owns

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Every so often I like to throw a reference to Battletech Clan combat into conversations with my wife to remind her that I used to be a 13yo tabletop gamer

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When you’re 15 listening to “Broken” on repeat put you outside of the mainstream and led to parents worrying about you and then in your mid-40s you see a woman carrying a Gucci bag wearing a NIN dress on the street and Trent Reznor co-composed a great soundtrack for a movie about tennis

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seasons greasons everyone

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Some of them say they like visiting but can't understand why anyone would choose to live here. Fool you enjoy visiting because we choose to live here www.natesilver.net/p/nobody-goe...

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Health insurance co-pays are so weird. “Hey we’re going to pay your doctor $2800 for these routine exams and tests but would you mind giving his secretary $25 in walking around money first?”

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The cases of High Noon wielded on the streets before noon are the first omens of Santacon

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I've seen some tweets in the past 48 hours about using LLMs to enhance book reading and I'm like "what you really want is a book club"

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My child annotated my junk mail

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Just thinking about how in a few years there will be some new users of X who will have no idea it was ever called Twitter

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When you put me in the assisted living they better have ramen night

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Pondering Chinas orb

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An incredible story about the mpox epidemic by @stephanienolen.bsky.social from a remarkable reporting trip www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...

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Just thinking back to earlier in the week when I misunderstood what a reporter said to me and thought for a moment that Elon Musk’s biographer was set to be nominated as the head of NASA

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When the PR person sends you a Nature link and you open it and it's Scientific Reports 😑

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Personally I hope he also nominates people named Jobs and Hope

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Makes sense.

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Little treat culture has spread to wolves www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/s...

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I remember when I first made my Bluesky account. I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.

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Uranus is all wet inside, scientists say. Also, Neptune. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/s...

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I know a @michaelroston.bsky.social headline when I see one www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/s...

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MILF Messenger before there was internet:

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There needs to be a frowning old man emoji for when someone makes you feel old and it doesn’t feel good, the old man emoji now is smiling

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It’s October 4 and I’m wearing linen shirts and my kids need the AC to fall asleep

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The House of Representatives is the only job where you get to fire your boss on Tuesday afternoon then take the rest of the week off so you can fly home and see your people

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Enjoying a blue-check X account’s feed and wondering how long it’ll take me to get to a tweet that will make me regret enjoying it

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Wait, wait a minute: Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE

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Love NYC where else can you go out for the night and hear about how diverse the families are at a for-profit private school that charges 56k/year for tuition