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Rumsfeld told us that there were known-knowns and known-unknowns, and—most dangerous of all—unknown-unknowns. But as you realize that the sound the flowers make as they push themselves up through the Boddhisatva’s footsteps does NOT remind you of the breaths your mother took between lines of your

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I have TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome. I also believe invisible animalcules in the air and water can make us sick. And that the Earth, which is round like a ball, goes around the sun. I believe the holy sacrament is symbolic, and not actual cannibalism. I am ready to burn for my heretical beliefs.

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THIS time, there will be weapons of mass destruction. This is the one, guys. Hit me, dealer, I’m feeling lucky. Luck, be an unknown-unknown tonight!

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“It’s the snack that eats like a meal.” Is that some vintage ad headline? Or was there something with a similar construction? Interesting example of the absolutive case in English.

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if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s mandatory if you want to get better

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Oh, you like arguing, huh? Name every rhetorical device.

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Yesterday, I learned what Wimbledon likely is from something like “Wynn-Beald Dun”, or “Joy-Bold Hill”, where “Joy-Bold” would have been some guy’s name. They used to just jam two words they liked together to make names. “Joybold” is a pretty good name.

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I’m in danger if becoming a “reply guy.” But it’s because I feel compelled to engage with anything that’s not doom, death, and the world’s ending. If I show up in your feed with “actually, here’s this obscure trivia”, it’s because I think it’s neat and I want to share.

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It ain’t me.

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“Zootopia 2” should have been called “Zoo Fast, Zoo Furrious”.

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What if my moisturizer works too well and people think I’m AI in photos?

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I also read in my history book that a group setting out for the first crusade sacked a bunch of French towns because they didn’t know shit about geography, and they figured they had been marching long enough to have reached the Holy Lands. So, plus ça change, I guess.

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Reading « L’Histoire de France Pour les Nuls »

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Opinion of un-ascertained popularity: Brian Eno is replaceable; Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz are the Talkingest of the Heads.

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I’m reading « L’Histoire de France Pour les Nuls » and I just read the name Jeanne de Malemains as “Jeanne with Man-Hands”. Damn you, Seinfeld!

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Talking about saying the quiet part out loud! Jodi Ernst, describing the BBB: “We are all going to die!”

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What is the most unpopular format for expressing an opinion and why is it this one?

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Any day now, I’m going to read ‘Trump issues pardon to “Derek”, Ed Norton’s character in “American History X”.’

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Do you suppose, in addition to the voice of the Holy Spirit, the pope also hears, from time to time, the Howard Pontiac (Elmhurst) lady say “on GRAND Avenue”?

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What if, plot twist! China pays for the border wall?!?

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I’ve often wondered over the last months if Cheeto Benito doesn’t understand that visas are not VISA cards.

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This is Biden’s fire, not mine!

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Your attention is a currency. Make a conscious decision to spend it wisely. @henryhenryhenry.com writes: osf.io/xra56

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Suzanna Clarke’s “Piranesi” and Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary” are stories about an amnesiac, told in first person, who finds himself in a strange, austere world littered with the desiccated remains of long-dead people and one mysterious other living being.

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Steve, le: Le poisson Steve. Quand il est en colère, il est oraaaaaaaageux.

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The reflection of history, both distant and recent, in this is amazing. Rogue One and Andor do a great job of using their world to make us think differently about our own. #StarWars #Andor #SciFi #MeaningInGenre

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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

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I played around with AI for a bit. Now I feel like Callum with that lock of white hair.

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One of the lost important lessons I learned in software development. (Hire me. I’m great!)

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I have now finished reading eight novels written in French for an adult, French audience. (I DNFd one, because it was too cynical, and another is a travelogue that I am enjoying very slowly.) The latest is « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo. I’m pretty pleased about that.

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Reading « Notre Dame de Paris » (“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”). This book is so cinematic. Hugo even writes in a jump-scare!

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Your call is important to us, but not so important that we’d hire people to take it.

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My right thumb keeps trembling. Is doomscrolling giving me stress or nerve damage? If it’s nerve damage, that’s very stressful.

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At some point, I stopped saying “It’s a UNIX system! I know this!” every time I opened the terminal app. Growing old is hard.

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