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B810. The Man who Bit Himself on the Ear. A man explains to his doctor that the wound on his ear (or forehead) is where he bit himself. He explains, "I stood on a chair." Signal: oulipien.12
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what a curious selection

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A new production of Krapp's Last Tape in nyc. But will it star The Tick as Krapp, reveling in the word "spool"? No. Lamentably.

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Update on this. While my esteem for that little guy has in no way diminished, the humble nitrile exam glove may actually be the box-handling champ (and let's have no off-color jesting, please)

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I had no idea that George Crumb's favorite metal band* released a new album recently *in my imagination, anyway

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This little guy is lowkey goated when breaking down boxes is the vibe

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All I want in life is to find a supplier of the exact style of bookcase I used to be able to get from the Amish furniture store in Berkeley. Note: absolutely no decorative elements, no overhanging elements, fixed shelves in dadoes (screwed in), not plywood

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

and you know what else? the penitentiary might seem more "humane" but isn't there something to be said for an expiatory public beating that's over and done with (lingering effects to physical health to the side)?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I thought an image search for "it's lavish, but I call it home" might yield a still from Laura, in which that line is spoken. Instead it mostly yields cross stitch patterns. And also these creative suggestions for alternative searches

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

After having cleared the castle easily I, feeling a strange mental inacuity, foolishly hit the shortcut to put everything in open inventory into my bag of holding, including the / cancellation. Shortly thereafter I vaporized my t-shirt having accidentally over-enchanted it and quit in frustration

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I may be dining solo on Valentine's Day but at least I'm not being broken up with on Valentine's Day as is the gentleman at the table behind me

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder if Hochul thinks the fact that she's the governor is "very democratic"

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Since I was unable to find either a coaligned altar or a source of reflection I had to do the quest without magicbane, and the Dark One cursed all my shit (much of which was blanked because of a foolish walk into some water earlier), but you'll be glad to know my nethack game is in good shape now

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Good newsletter from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social today

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Not only is this not true, the fact that the word "internal" exists ought to arouse suspicion pretty much immediately

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

"Ross Douthat's stupidity is so monumentally vast it could only have been the creation of a divine being"

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Why is it called "MCM" when that's 1900 and not the middle of the century at all

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My copy of Solenoid has a special third epigraph

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Very canny, these traders. (The battle for "the reason is that" has been definitively lost, hasn't it? "The reason is because", feh)

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article about Severance: "(Marx’s theory of alienation has never been taken so literally.)" I would love to know what this author thinks "alienation" in Marx actually is (not least bc iirc he uses the term in multiple different ways)

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Gotta be @scumbelievable.bsky.social, right?

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Same all over, huh

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They did it

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

submitted 23 days ago • 280 comments

Democrats are getting smoked in this information environment and they keep doing the same stupid things, every cycle stancilculture.substack.com/p/volume-var...

submitted 24 days ago • 82 comments

the richest man in the world has been installed in the government and he is very clearly trying to subvert it for his own ends.

submitted 24 days ago • 140 comments

Musk became the richest man in the world through fraud and systematic law breaking, and there is no reason to expect his behavior to change now that he has access to the federal payments system.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments