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Woke up in a car that was Tokyo Drifting everywhere.

Essays: MASK, the Toast. Fiction: Nocturne, Fusion Fragment, Aurealis. I am NO Press. Av: Odilon Redon by way of Edith Zimmerman. My views are extremely good.

www.no-press.org for books !

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and you know what? It rules! It rules to touch ppl. And then afterward you can eat ice cream while you’re both still naked

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Like have you guys ever had sex? It’s simply silly. People all around the world are looking absolutely goofy at this very moment. Wearing out their knees

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It’s hot BECAUSE it’s weird and off-putting and awkward. Hth

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Twin Peaks: Major Garland Briggs.

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Is this the face of a seat thief, nay, a seat hog???

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I’ll thank you not to refer to Pathfinder that way

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Not really loving how the season finale is 40% quick cut flashback and 45% untrained cameos doing PBS fund drive-ass paeans to cooking. No one talks like this!

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Last season on THE BEAR everyone was having PTSD flashbacks from the Christmas episode but this season the other one w/ Jamie Lee Curtis is giving me my own flashbacks re: manic moms

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Dumbbell pullovers! Better than a machine anyway

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It's true that a lot of Biden's problems have to do with getting the words out but he also flatass didn't have the basic agility to respond to Trump bragging about his record stock market by pointing out that the stock market is much higher now

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This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.

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getting stuck in to 'Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria' and it's definitely doing what it says on the cover lol

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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!

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Twin Peaks: Cooper and Truman in a police vehicle.

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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Check out this herb who never played Magic the Gathering

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I also wasn’t sold on Marcus’s grief response which, again, should work, all the components are there to make it work, but the show’s not on the ball with these things. Also the theme of heredity is both undercooked and oversold, bc Camry (letting autocorrect have this one) isn’t on the same show

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I liked that first arty episode but in retrospect it was the wrong move, bc Camry’s on a new level of monomania but the precipitation of that shift and the new focus on a star feel more sudden than they should. It’s in a weird place where it’s neither super plotty nor particularly character focused

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I’d heard ppl claim that the all-at-once format doesn’t work for the Bear but I think it does this season. S1 and especially S2 felt fairly distinct from episode to episode but this season’s so focused on the one thing — honestly, too focused — that it blurs together

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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I don't mean to brag, but I don't need alcohol to send a message that I'll regret

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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Taylor vocally came out against Marsha Blackburn during that evil lady’s last senate race and Blackburn still won. I think we need to give up the (understandable) fantasy that pop stars can swoop in and save the day. This is very much just my opinion, I know. But I’m right.

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Okay very next episode we’re back to medium-corny MOR montage music. If this was made 30 years ago it would be set to Billy Joel

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From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

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With this generation of actors having a babyface is the sort of thing that qualifies you for character actor status

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They do good casting imo, the vagueness of her WWness actually cuts against everything else abt the character that screams that screams “girl next door” contrivance

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It’s not quite the HANNIBAL crew saying “fuck it” in their last season, and it’s not as though this a huge departure in terms of the show experimenting with format. But it’s a lot better than TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY, and for that we can be thankful

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Re: that first episode, you know what, I don’t mind a tone poem. Chose a good track to loop, at the very least

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Oh my fucking god did they get a Reznor / Ross track for this opening, smdh

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Okay check this out, are you ready? *Chicago voice* Da Bear

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Bordain used to talk abt the preponderance of overly intense, UMC fuck-ups who landed in the cheffing world, and in that respect JAW is extremely well cast.

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I have to figure he was one of those short kings you’d know in high school, the ones were extremely and inexplicably lean and who were invariably either Greco-Roman wrestlers or (the hottest and seediest of) the school dirtbags.

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He will absolutely about face whenever he feels more confident that endorsing it would be good for him. In this case it wouldn’t be surprising if he hedged solely because he has no idea what anyone’s talking abt. It’s not like his base holds him to anything. They trust him!

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i think Trump’s success in distancing himself from the policies of his own people is at least partially because there’s an authenticity to it: he really doesn’t give a shit about the right wing agenda, he’s just willing to trade it in exchange for power

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In a lot of ways it feels like THE ZONE is an iteration of the concept, though it’s almost certainly coincidental. Speaking of which — Ken, we never progressed our chat re: that Bloodbornelike thing! Tho the concept was fairly impractical, I suppose

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There’s this game GEIGER COUNTER: GAMMA, a TTRPG/board game hybrid that was designed to take the table’s concept and fit into a slasher film-type winnowing of casts by mapping archetypes. Unfortunately it never left beta, and the mechanics draw the middle out too long www.jwalton.media/geiger

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