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Dan McQuade

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visual editor, defector media | currently on leave

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“Her win caused a sensation in Nigeria with people trying to get themselves in the record books by doing things like crying or singing non-stop.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“The guy tried to open the door, and Merced got his leg and dragged him out. He punched the guy so hard he knocked him out. And then Merced was like, ‘Now I have to help the guy cuz I thought I killed him!’ He was trying to revive him.” defector.com/before-he-be...

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“they want to preserve the industrial nature of the current building — a partly vacant one-story warehouse” www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

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Biden goes on live TV and solves a Rubik's Cube. They bring him a 4x4 Rubik's Revenge but he makes quick work of it. Next? Rubik's Magic. He's never seen one before and is thrown, but ultimately he prevails. Now smug, he asks what else they have. A mistake. For it is the dreaded Rubik's Clock.

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“Critical tips to stay alive” is a heck of a magazine cover teaser, I have to admit

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Imagining a guy who always confuses Silly Symphony with Merrie Melodies. Surely he'd be long dead by now

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My local hardware store inexplicably has dozens of Wonder Woman travel mugs

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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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“I can say this with authority, as someone who also once went on a preplanned trip to Egypt: That sounds like a vacation.” defector.com/the-jets-are...

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Pretty sure they can all see each other’s cards

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“The ‘recorded deeds’ section of the Sheriff’s Office website, which appears to not have been updated since January 2021, repeatedly warns readers that a face mask is required for coming to the office, but provides no useful information about deeds.” www.inquirer.com/news/sheriff...

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“Though there do not appear to be any in-person workers and the location itself says that it does not provide customer service, photos on Google Reviews show that the building is occasionally decorated for holidays.” www.404media.co/car-rental-s...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly's avatar The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social
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Thinking again about how Al Pacino filmed the entirety of his Shakespeare documentary, Looking For Richard, while wearing, backwards, a baseball cap he got from the set of Scent Of A Woman.

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Nintendo can shut down emulation projects but they will never take Plumber’s Jackpot away from us

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The Magibook version of Gatsby also clears up that Doctor T. J. Eckleburg is the head of the time project in the future that Nick is using to try to change the past. The green light is someone emerging from the time stream. Most readers miss that. Also, the book was originally called NICK OF TIME.

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It’s more of a Great Lakes state

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I wanna go to see if the Cool Runnings guys can still do their signature bit, being cold

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Yeah when I learned the Boop-Doop Girl was Helen Kane I was like, “Oh, I actually know the people in this story better than any TikTok or Twitch drama”

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Love this quote from the boop-doop girl: “Maybe I’ve been more booped-against than booping.”

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Tom McAllister 's avatar Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social
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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers

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I had POG juice when I was in Hawaii! It was great.

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Maybe it’s a new branding thing to get us talking about it. And it’s working!

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I’ve been waiting 30 years for this moment

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A coffee table book explaining America based on its beer floor-displays at supermarkets. This is my retirement plan.

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Nice li’l coincidence

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Ooh, they made that little water gazebo safer to get to

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The episode about the American Idol ripoff where they secretly picked the worst singers, and got the audience to cheer by implying the contestants were Make-A-Wish kids, is one of my faves

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I wrote about one of my favorite places in New York, which is the loft apartment that Walter De Maria filled with dirt in Soho, and why I like it. (I am not pivoting to art criticism, it's just summertime.) defector.com/the-city-liv...

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I forgot that Dickie V was such a trailblazer

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When you convert them into videos and you can hear the sound it’s sometimes so fun

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Fantastic book covers with a Ross Dress for Less wall art aesthetic in the checkout aisle

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I remember researching an article I was writing in the 90s about the "Matt Pack" (Damon, LeBlanc, Lillard, McConaughey, Perry, Cameron) and being met with a lot of "Stop, this is not a thing." and "Please get off my property."

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I didn’t know this at all. Just searched. Pretty clean code.

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