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writing and editing things. now:
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Arab poets in the 8th century were dropping some of the hardest bars of all time
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Money has a way of attracting fair-weather friends. Tell the people about it, Abū al-ʿAtāhiya [meter: ṭawīl] Some folks esteem you only when you hit the big time In their eyes, anyone with money looks sublime twitter.com/AmericanMaghre…
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Is the UN General Assembly the world's largest example of a meeting that could've been an email?
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Huge missed opportunity here. The Space Force anthem shouldn't sound like some Napoleonic battle song. It should be composed by Grimes, all synths and dolphin calls and Bjork shrieks.
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The moment you've all been waiting for: The Space Force has unveiled its official song
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This is what I’m taking about here, don’t make me have to check if this is true, I don’t want a Google history that gets me fired 8 years from now
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tucker carlson said "those tiddies make me horny" i cannot believe it. (he also said exploding milk porn) twitter.com/abughazalehkat…
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I propose that for as long as the teacher with giant prosthetic breasts story remains in the news, tweeters must live by a code of honor to only share genuine screenshots, the potential for fakes is too powerful
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idc how bad things are rn, this timeline rules
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The major beneficiary of cameras on all subway cars will be the New York Post
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Andy Grewal
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NY will install “two security cameras on every subway car to lure back people frightened of crime and bolster a system whose finances were teetering.” nytimes.com/2022/09/20/nyr
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This is the rare screenshot where I really wanted to figure out if it's a hoax but also had to pause to consider the search term that I'm comfortable having in my Google history
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Tucker is gonna get a Pulitzer for this
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Will pay an extra $10 a month to HBO Max for access to Rishi: Origins
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Danny Gold
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If you’re not watching Industry with subtitles on so you pick up what Rishi is saying off camera, you’re missing half the show.
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kilgore trout, death to putiner
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my plan to own the libs by dropping my kidnap victims off on cutthroat lawyer island is going exactly as planned
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Gabriel Malor
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Three Venezuelans who were flown to Martha's Vineyard have sued Gov. DeSantis. Asking to proceed pseudonymously, they want to bring a class action on behalf of those they say were lured by "Perla" with false promises of assistance and employment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
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Ben Walsh
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Senior US national security advisors would literally rather invent a scientifically infeasible ray gun wielded by a geopolitical adversary than go to therapy
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Josh Barro
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This was always the craziest of the “Havana Syndrome” stories. If it felt like a panic attack, that’s probably what it was! Lord knows Troye and Miles Taylor were under a lot of stress. news.yahoo.com/top-us-officia
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Once again Fauci and his gang want to impose their absurd rules on the rest of us, on your children, and they think you're powerless to stop them
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New York Post
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FDA warns against potentially deadly 'NyQuil Chicken Challenge' trib.al/acTTZui
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I get this stuff is always more complicated than it seems but a newly created account having the same profile pic and name as another well established account, especially a verified one, seems like such a low hanging fruit for automated nuking of spam accounts
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David Marcus
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Same profile photo, same display name, starts following same accounts. C’mon @Twitter! Identifying and removing these obvious fake accounts isn’t that hard. Seriously, what’s the rational explanation for why you’re not doing it? Asking seriously.
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Absolutely everywhere, NYC declared war on the Spotted Lanternfly and the Spotted Lanternfly handed us our asses
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Alyson Shontell
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Red lanternflys have taken over nyc and appear to be winning. Had never seen one before this week but have seen 5 in the last 48 hours!
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My personal experience of the YouTube recommendations system is it was once very annoyingly interested in constantly showing me Jordan Peterson owning feminists, but has now settled on constantly showing me the climactic boardroom scene from Margin Call
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Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another just like it.
New research from Mozilla shows that user controls have little effect on which videos YouTube’s influential AI recommends.
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You can tell which US junk food is garbage by its adoption overseas - the world loves good American junk and even average junk. If it's rejected by the rest of the world, that's a strong negative signal. Examples: liquid cheese, pop tarts, everything made by The Hershey Company
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The decision to elevate him from minor gag in S1 to major character in S2 is like when The Simpsons realized the show is actually about Homer
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Matthew Zeitlin
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Rishi’s running commentary on industry is the greatest innovation in drama since the Greek chorus
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Was stunned by how beautiful the music was for this, has been in my head all day so I looked it up and a) it's called Beethoven's Funeral March but amazingly b) It's not written by Beethoven, it was written like, for Beethoven's funeral or something???
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Funeral procession for Queen Elizabeth II makes way past Buckingham Palace following funeral at Westminster Abbey bbc.in/3xxPUgg
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We should just preemptively begin a criminal investigation into whoever buys this and figure out what specific crimes they did later
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Zillow Gone Wild 🏡
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Sooooo here’s a $250,000,000 penthouse that was just listed in NYC. At 1,416 ft above ground, the 17,545 sq ft home has a 1500 sq ft salon and almost 2k sq ft ballroom, along with 7 bd, 8.555 ba and 1,433 sq ft of outdoor space. Common charges and taxes are $74,638/mo lol.
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It's such an incredible own, like those stories about a rural Egyptian policeman arresting migratory birds for being Israeli spies, except it was the CIA
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Maggie Levine
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thought it was a masshole escalation, turns out its a national trend!
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It's really noticeable in Brooklyn - when you're stopped at a red now, people will just swerve around you and run the red light. Would've been a really wild thing to see a few years ago, is pretty common now! twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/…
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Evan Hill
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NYPD has been on a 2+ year unofficial work slowdown directly contributing to lethally dangerous conditions on the roads and sidewalks
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Second Ave. Sagas
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A 50% drop in Vision Zero related moving violations summons as NYC experiences a dramatic spike in pedestrian deaths. twitter.com/danarubinstein…
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It's really noticeable in Brooklyn - when you're stopped at a red now, people will just swerve around you and run the red light. Would've been a really wild thing to see a few years ago, is pretty common now!
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Alec MacGillis
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The driving has gotten so crazy in Baltimore (and elsewhere, I imagine) that it's at the point now where if you slow to a stop at a yellow light, you may well have the guy behind you honk in fury and swing around you to run the red. That's happened three times in past two weeks.
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Quest goes down Ancient Egyptian style, entombed with the Queen to serve her in the afterlife
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Alex Heard
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At the conclusion of this somber day, Richard Quest will be carefully nestled inside a cryonic catafalque until he is needed again.
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Tova Herskovitz
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Why has there been no history of the Holocaust recorded or shared? Museums? Books? Docs? Interviews? He has a point and I think we need to get on this
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60 Minutes
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When asked if he believed the Holocaust happened, Iranian President Raisi told Lesley Stahl, “There are some signs that it happened. If so, they should allow it to be investigated and researched.” cbsn.ws/3RZpXyv
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