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Me: I’m a writer Them: so you write? Me: let’s not get carried away

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me, a native Floridian: oh my god an earthquake oh my god my fiancé, a native Californian: [asleep]

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Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

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presyncope! at the hair salon

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gavin newsom: thanks for joining us on the pod today…now childcare is obviously difficult, do you have any suggestions? casey anthony: so many

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today I learned the word “bailiwick” and I suppose that’s got to count for something

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men will literally hire an acting troupe to stage a reenactment of their father’s murder in order to catch the conscience of the king instead of go to therapy

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a photo you’d use as an album cover

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new saddest six word story just dropped

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Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

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DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-digital-...

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Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

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What's that, you say? A charming children's book about cats that's also an anticapitalist fable? In the public domain???

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Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life, @dauntbooks.bsky.social

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be the monkey wrench you want to see in the works

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ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around. THE NEWS:

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“The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now.” Katherine Rundell on why we need children’s books | London Review of Books

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There was no answer.

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nothing like a hot cuppa fresh new hells to start my day

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I wonder if the techies in this Palo Alto coffee shop sense that I’m an imposter

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In 1969, newly elected president Richard Nixon resolved to defund PBS and use the money to wage war in Vietnam. Fred Rogers was summoned to testify before Congress, and what he said that day changed the course of history. A thread:

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thinking about when I was passed over for a job responding to children’s letters at Highlights Magazine and how that was truly the biggest small heartbreak of my life

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Photo by @mk.marykatherine on IG.

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“In the delirium of a felt life is the made thing and making a thing worth feeling for.” —Bettina Judd

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third round of orthodontics in my mid-thirties 🤝 inner child work

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