snark.bsky.social
“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)
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Not posh—clubbable, but middle class. (His father was a military hardware salesman, we find out in You Only Live Twice.)
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thick-coins.net
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He lost hundreds of millions of dollars shorting Herbalife, despite being essentially correct that it was a pyramid scheme!
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Seems to be forthcoming on Blu-Ray: grindhousevideo.com/products/the... (I've never heard of this but your Over the Edge comparison has me intrigued)
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Donny from Queens.
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Also "machine politics remain a factor in New York primaries".
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"Black women are a large, important part of the Democratic coalition and fairly socially conservative" doesn't strike me as bizarre at all.
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I'm enjoying the idea of Dash Sulzberger tearing his oldy-timey fedora in half.
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This is a bit like "not many people know that" becoming the go-to "bad Michael Caine impression" phrase, as in The Trip. (It was Peter Sellers doing his Michael Caine.)
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Oh snap: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ten...
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Feels like if someone knew him he'd be up for doing a table read.
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Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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The goal is for the Times' designated mark to once again hand over his wallet to the Silicon Valley wallet inspectors. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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#885 represent
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I presume this was like a Sharks/Jets scenario?
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NGL I'm going to be very excited if this email list was "Upside Down".
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I remember figuring out at 14 that Superchunk—whom I had heard about from Spin goddamn Magazine—was on Merge Records so I could send away for a catalog and just order some random tapes & LPs from bands with names I thought were cool. Also I could hitch a ride with my friend's sister to Vinyl Ink.
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If Cuomo loses the vote, can it really be said to have been free and fair? I am one of America's few remaining political reporters and also very smart.
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They shot it in November, so Lumet had to use fake sweat!
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Pete.
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The Neopets generation.
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Really? I feel like non-Internet BBSes were complete defunct by 2000, rip my TradeWars2K doors.
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“The FIDONet Generation” doesn’t have the same oomph as dying of dysentery.
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The Oregon Trail generation. (Maybe Reader Rabbit, idk.)
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Also he just died so it's top of mind (& I haven't read it since high school so I'm not sure if it's as good as I remember), but Charles Saunders' "Imaro", an African-American fantasy writer's take on Conan-but-fantasy-Africa. There are sequels but I remember it being pretty episodic, Conan-style.
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De gustibus! There were some individual set pieces that I thought were crazy good but TDW as a whole didn't gel for me as well as TBT (my favorite fantasy novel of the 2020s so far, so that's a high bar) and I haven't felt moved to reread it.
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Some luridly good gross goblin cannibal sequences, too (Buehlman's background is horror).
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Already named by @stan-fresh.bsky.social but Buehlman's "The Blacktongue Thief" is my favorite fantasy novel of the last while: morally-gray narrator & badass soldier Action Chick on a quest in the aftermath of Fantasy WWI. A Vancean picaresque, over in 1 book, though there's an inferior prequel.
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The Train is so good.
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The American version was an omnishambles that couldn’t navigate the Beltway.
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Sure has! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYLL...
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The French Open was really exciting!
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RETVRN