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Bill@caractacus.bsky.social |
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He/him. Writer, editor, fact checker. Not a candy. ceasefiretoday.com/
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Jonathan Cohn
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Shelley Duvall in the 1980s was like "Hey, Showtime, I want to a host a series where I cast myself and my celebrity friends in productions of all the classic fairy tales," and Showtime was like, "Okay, here's our money."
RIP to a legend.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Bill
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Yeah, I'm 50 and my best friend in the 80s had a peanut allergy AND a Ritalin prescription. Multiple classmates have subsequently been diagnosed with autism. On the rare occasion when these takes are earnest, at best they're confusing memoir with history.
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John Pfaff
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Well, well, well. WELL. That whole “protests made cops feel bad so they all quit” narrative? Looks like it was mostly myth. Excited to read this paper by Ben Grunwald, who compiled a huge dataset on post-2020 police employment. Agg decline was 1%… and bigger local declines not tied to protests.
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Bill
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My wife accidentally flipped ours out of the groove a couple days ago. It can be done, Lulu!
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mike☺︎
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When I say "Like a year ago," I mean 2019
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Comics Outta Context
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Chef Gaykwon
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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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Naomi Alderman
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Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.
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Bill
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I can add Friendster and Sixdegrees, and Prodigy and a bunch of BBSes if I’m being expansive.
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Adam Serwer
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
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I hate this piece of shit.
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Brendel
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“People feel left behind!” Yes absolutely! We should have universal income or strengthen unions or have free college or increase the minimum wage or do a bunch of domestic projects “Actually instead of that let me show you this security camera footage of a migrant chasing a blonde woman”
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Brendel
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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is
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Microplastics Sommelier
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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Chris Conroy
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No headline could possibly top this for the rest of the week variety.com/2024/scene/c...
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Allison Portnow Lathrop
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For ex, SSRIs and other anti-depressants / anti-anxiety drugs are on the list. And my friend who is a counselor didn’t know. 💫
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The Ever-Upvoted Goldmask
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Serial killer on TV: - extremely smart - also, cunning like an animal - charismatic but cold ‐ troubled childhood - operatic sensibilities - can only be caught by the greatest detective Serial killer IRL: - just a cop - a regular cop - cops won't stop him because he is a cop
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Mere Smith
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a lot of finger-pointing in this one but here's the crux of it, and it makes A24 look really bad
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blaine capatch
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listen all y'all, it's a
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Brian Grubb
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logging on
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Bill
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This is great. Did you see (review?) the reunion series they did for Paramount+? I'm 2 years younger than Julie and had just gotten cable when The Real World started; definitely an influential show for me.
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journeyman folklorist
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21 years ago Joe had a simple question
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Cj
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a YouTuber just said "if you've been on the internet any time over the last several years you've probably heard about the Appalachian Mountains" and that's possibly the weirdest way to begin a video that I've ever heard
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Bill
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Yeah, I can see that. I've worked in ed pub, and when the book is for FL public schools, let's say—there's problems I can't fix by moving commas around. Outside of ed, in one case I didn't know who the author was until contracts were signed. (It worked out fine, but what if they were awful?)
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Bill
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I know you're probably right, but as a freelancer I've worked on so much stuff I don't want in my Google results. (And as a fact checker I don't know how many readers understand that something making it to print doesn't mean I didn't flag it. I'm a suggestion box, not a traffic light.)
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No Particular Dave
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this is when Josie finds out a second plane hit Laura Palmer
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Tom Ewing
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I’m hoping they get all these people to sign up and then say “Surprise! We’re scrapping the MCU, nobody cares, we’re doing The Cannonball Run instead”
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Bill
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And Bravo was called that because it showed concerts and plays (and later, Twin Peaks reruns and Dennis Potter shows).
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Bill
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I've been a fan of the show (and it hasn't suffered the same decline The Circle has), but mannnn Coelen does not come across well.
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Bill
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Between 5 and 7:30 depending on the time of year; about 10 most days, 9 if I skip the gym. (Freelancer working at home.)
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Seth D. Michaels
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Josh Hawley: i'm going to punch 100 kittens in the throat AOC: what the hell, we shouldn't be punching *any* kittens (Manchin and Romney co-sponsor the Punch 50 Kittens in the Throat Act of 2024) op-ed columnist: finally, reasonable compromise
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Bill
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For people who have the money to be choosy (though they do have a short budget-friendly list; I just always feel steered towards $$ models) this site is very thorough, and transparent about their methodology. housefresh.com/air-purifiers/
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John Bull
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In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards.
They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments
vimeo.com/293437684
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Bill
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I was so happy when it showed up on Crackle during lockdowns (though I think it is one of the shows they've since removed).
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Jonathan Cohn
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This is the normie Democrat’s version of Henry Kissinger dying, and I love that for them.
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iucounu
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huh, I wonder what the problem is-- oh
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Salty 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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Adam Serwer
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Alito lied about the reason the flag was up because he didn’t know the couple had text messages establishing the date of when the incident took place. They were supporting the insurrection. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...
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Bill
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In high school, the Secret Service asked me not to come to school as part of their securing the area for a visit by President Bush (the first one).
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Miles Grant
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Millionaire’s Tax: Polls incredibly well, wins ballot measure despite billionaires spending huge against it, now bringing in millions more than expected for education & transit Boston Globe: SHUT UP ABOUT THE MILLIONAIRE’S TAX SHUT UP NO ONE CAN POSSIBLY KNOW IF IT’S GOOD SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
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Bill
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When my wife was recruited away from freelancing and we found ourselves with an FSA, I was reading up on all the "how to spend your excess FSA funds!" articles. Then I twisted my ankle and it took the whole thing to pay for scans and PT. (And didn't cover the PT-recommended shoes etc.)
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Bill
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Oh my God, I *looked him up* when I was watching CfA and somehow failed to realize this.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
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I've skeeted this before but in 1969 *armed* students took over Cornell's student center on *parents* weekend. Not only was it settled amicably but the students won. You can't divorce what happened at Columbia from the reports about billionaires influence
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Howdoyousaythat, BBQ
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Nothing but undying hatred burns in my heart for private equity as it destroyed everything from my ER group down to Endless Shrimp
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Bill
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This is very relatable. I was definitely the "no, I get why the death penalty makes sense in a vacuum, but in practice here's the problem" guy, and now I just think empowering an irreparably flawed justice system to kill people is unambiguously wrong.
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Bill
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I think the biggest one is probably police abolition. After seeing weakass or disingenuous discussion of police reforms, I reread some of the abolitionist work that had seemed "impractical" or "too far" when I was young and dumb. Before that it was religion; too much to fit here.
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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 🌈💕📚✨ (they/iel)
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🌈 Hello, fellow queer editors! 🌈
Want to chat about connecting with your target clients? Join me for an @lgbtqeditors.bsky.social group mentoring session next Wednesday! There are just a couple of spots left.
lgbtqeditors.org
#AmEditing #Editor #Edibuddies #LGBTQEditors
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Karen K. Ho
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it is notable to see people point out the editor of The Atlantic served in the Israeli army but it is depressing to remember all the times journalists of color have had their ideas and reporting dismissed as "biased" for much less
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Gillian Branstetter
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This is what I mean when I say liberals are sacrificing values for order. The vision of free speech portrayed by the NYT ed board is built around the academy as an arbiter of what does and does not earn a platform. What they dismiss as "shunning and shaming" is in fact democratic.
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