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Eric Roston@eroston.bsky.social |
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Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.
"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.
Bloomberg Green journalist.
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Eric Roston
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Will check this out! Thought of you the other day bc I read The Dechronization of Sam Magruder. Imagine you have thoughts one way or another about it?
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Eric Roston
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As I walked down into the subway an hour ago, I was struck by how consistently the temperature rose 3° with. every. step. down. It was a lot of steps.
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Eric Roston
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I included the a gift link so that anyone can read it
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Eric Roston
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At Mar-a-Lago, Extremism Is Good for Business
How Trump's famous Florida property went from socialite gathering up to right-wing extremist HQ
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Eric Roston
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I can tell if a kitchen sink sponge still needs to be wrung out all the way by eyeballing it from 10 feet (3 meters) away.
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Eric Roston
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Look. Try to see it my way. Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
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Eric Roston
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Data investigation:
How Mar-a-Lago Became the Center of Gravity for the Hard Right
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Eric Roston
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You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right.
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Eric Roston
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Today's East and West Coast temperatures made 2x-5x more likely by carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases.
csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
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Eric Roston
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The one uncontested victory for AI is auto-transcription, so no interviewer ever ever ever needs to hear their own voice again.
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Eric Roston
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😂 Just came across the phrase "Be Kind. Rewind" for the first time since the 14th century.
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Eric Roston
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miss you already!
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Eric Roston
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yes
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Eric Roston
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When were the good old days?
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Eric Roston
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Your honor, with all due respect, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are.
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Eric Roston
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well, enough of that, let's see what's going on in today's seventh-tier also-ran stories... 😳
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Eric Roston
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Amazing quote! I love it so much I tried to source it.
After spending [looks at watch] too much time on it, I can't. The closest thing is Louis Menand in a 2001 essay paraphrasing Beckett saying something like this, but there are no quotes around it:
archives.acls.org/op/49_Market...
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Eric Roston
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would it kill the internet to source something?
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Eric Roston
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I'm beyond the help of the medical sciences. My jaw is sore from stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out.
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Eric Roston
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I've had Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" in my head continuously for two weeks. Help
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Eric Roston
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I just mask everywhere so I don't have to figure out which kind of filter every last gd thing needs. it's worse than device charger adapter plugs.
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Eric Roston
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i got a guy
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Eric Roston
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Turn "hard" books into "easy" books by reading more.
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Eric Roston
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Except for an anomaly in the 1920s, people generally thought everything was real until Sgt. Pepper's seeped deeper into the English-speaking cultural mainstream.
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Eric Roston
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wasn't aware there was any other option
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Eric Roston
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This tainted meat you've given I give you all a boy could give you Take my tears and that's not nearly all Tainted meat (whoa, oh, oh, oh)
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[Vomiting from unregulated tainted meat while unregulated airplane is in free fall] haha supreme court you said N2O when it's actually NOx, send post
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Eric Roston
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I am working on a story that I've been working on for a long time. It'll come out soon, but not imminently. Just want to let you know.
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Eric Roston
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OPEC
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Eric Roston
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Not gonna lie. I didn't watch the debate because I went to bed early, but here are my thoughts:
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Eric Roston
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maybe we should just apply to join
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Eric Roston
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Normalize "presumptive" in contexts other than presumptive presidential nominees, ie: - ...the presumptive adulterer Firstname Lastname - ...in a shocking new article by the presumptive plagiarist TK TK. - XYZ, the presumptive entree I ordered...
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Eric Roston
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Cloud City meets Endor.
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Eric Roston
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Write a newspaper headline for last night's debate as if it had happened in 1986.
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Eric Roston
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[Consults daily planner] "Oh, nice, it's Read Quietly With a Beer and Go to Bed Super-Early Night."
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Eric Roston
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Could also be that the all carbon-fiber cybertruck just implodes under lunar pressures.
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The big American political TV show starts at 9 pm Eastern time and runs 90m. What will you be doing during that time? (Wrong answers only 🙏)
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Costa Samaras
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Do Something About Climate Change Starter Pack go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ
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Eric Roston
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Psyched about these new matte black Teslas that must have been designed to look just like early 90s stereo components
#ThrowbackThursday
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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"
2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."
latenighter.com/news/paramou...
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Eric Roston
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Finally, somebody noticed us, thank you
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Eric Roston
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There's potential there, too, but I'm on deadline and can't take 10m to do it. Over to you.
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[To "Me and Julio Down by the School Yard"] Whoa-oa, in a couple of days they'd opine away But the court let the story leak When the radical word Was posted online by some nerd They was all on the cover of Bloomberg
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Eric Roston
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😳
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This to me is the height of human ambition and accomplishment. Sure, she’s won gold medals. Others do all the time. But how many can do this? At least as good as the bottle dance in Fiddler on the Roof.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzh...
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Eric Roston
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The two best subtweeters on the internet are @shakespeare.bsky.social and @mobydickatsea.bsky.social
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Eric Roston
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😂
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After the CJ sent his note back to the Senate recently I haven't stopped thinking: The founding fathers: checks and balances The Supreme Court: separation of powers
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Eric Roston
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Worst-ever wildfire.
Cyclone-strength winds on land.
Hail the size of softballs.
Flooding.
Heat.
Sound like global warming?
Nope! It's just Texas. Our latest feature (🎁🔗): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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groovy
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