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Halfway through American Notes by Dickens. Kept seeing it get referred to elsewhere. Not a fan of his novels, but I like this. Also just started Garden of Beasts by Eric Larson, my third of his so far this year. #Whatareyoureading

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I think everybody puts their hands over their reproductive elements when standing in front of the microwave to make sure they only get hand cancer.

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Re: "We need more people making more noise!" Quiet people can do a lot of good. This is the whole point of ninjas.

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From "Seized," about boat recovery in the 1980's/90's. ##Whatareyoureading

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Google doubled down on caving in on the Gulf of Mexico thing.

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Google caved in on renaming the Gulf of Mexico. You can leave the new place a review. maps.app.goo.gl/rsVk2Q2xKMwx...

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Any chance the Southpark guys will update it to "Stop Blaming Canada"?

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Did you know that when you want to look up lawsuits against Donnie, it helps to specify a time frame? www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

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#Lusitania #eriklarson #bostonhistory #weirdedits

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New ep of @alfranken.bsky.social podcast takes a detailed look at the deportation process. castbox.fm/vb/777991924

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"The Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society" sounds like an odd combination of things (not the Liverpool part).

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Day 7 of 19. Doing that thing that I seem to do every year around this time where I work every night for a month straight plus a few long shifts along the way and start to sound like I'm keeping a journal on a deserted and decidedly non-tropical island. Enjoy the storm.

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Finishing up 'Devolution' by @maxbrooks.bsky.social and about to start Erik Larson's 'Dead Wake' (about the Lusitania). #Whatareyoureading

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#SequelsWeNeed Bartleby The Monster Slayer. "Die today? I'd rather not."

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Have #DeportElon and #DeportElonMusk been trending straight through since September, or do they come and go?

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Shared from original source. Video is 4 yrs old, but still seems like good video advice in general. vimeo.com/447225087

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This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

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Lots of fun running the 15-mile version of TARC's Frozen Yeti last night. They also have a 30-hour #ultramarathon version that ends today at 2pm. #trailrunning strava.app.link/JuoKK7BJEQb

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Re: FlashApp. Would it make more sense to just increase the size of photo galleries on the main app instead? Why do microblog and AV-based social medias have to be different things?

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Stage from backstage. Dick Doherty's Beantown Comedy Vault, Nov 2008. #BostonComedy

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#LowellMa #TheresaParkingGarageHereNow youtu.be/RURV9pOL364

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"He also proposed to run submerged wires from a powerful Daniell electric battery ... at Moultrie to the main powder magazine at Fort Sumter, thereby allowing Major Anderson to blow up the latter should it be occupied by secessionist forces." ('The Demon of Unrest' by E. Larson).

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If anybody's doing a Lowell, MA starterpack, Millcityweather.bsky.social is here now.

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Subreddit of subreddits banning twitter: www.reddit.com/r/xbans/

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Yeah, I'm not gonna be doing this every day.

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#inaugurationodds Trump claims to have been good friends with The Unknown Soldier: even.

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Canal Street. Lowell, Mass. November 2004.

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I like how LA learned from The Walking Dead. "So if that thing we see in every episode where a highway is clogged with abandoned vehicles were to happen in real life..." "Yeah, let's just bulldoze right through it." "Cool. Plan in place."

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#trailrunning Musquash in Londonderry, NH.

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#Neverforget "Taser Nuts" Greeson.

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"Cunk on Life" is required viewing. Our souls depend on it.

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Finally some decent advertising for Tesla.

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Typing Day is an "international event" in Malaysia. No idea who the other nation is. That's coming up Wednesday.

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If it weren't for all of his trumpy shit, I'd think Elon's Wiki bit was just him doing the pro wrestling heel style of reverse psychology.

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