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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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It sounds like you're looking for a verb, and not an adjective? Languish?

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Untapped is a fine adjective but not a verb. Unless you can tell me you've successfully put beer back into a keg, and if so, hat's off.

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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I want a Phoenix. I want Biden to drive a steamroller over this NYT narrative. With or without the aviators, "I'm comin' to getcha, mother****s"

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*but this guy didn't seem to be acting.

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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was very grateful and quickly devoured it. Hunger is real. Make the judgement calls as you will, but this guy seemed didn't seem to be acting. 2/2

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Yesterday we were on the Q heading home just after a visit to the H-Mart at Herald Square, and a young guy asked me if I had any food for him. I brushed him off but then remembered a packaged omelet wrap we'd bought (something I always make a point of picking up) and handed it to him; he 1/2

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The astonishing thing about Gilbert Bécaud isn't just that he sings in French, but that he sings those words so fast, so naturally, as if he'd been doing it all his life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Sn...

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Schmooze, maybe. Maybe he should schmooze more. And then give in to everything the GOP wants, that might help. And make sure the Sulzbergers taxes don't go up.

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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Sometimes I wonder about the viability of moving sidewalks, like the ones in airports. Would store owners miss the spontaneous visits from passersby?

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Yes, but by seeing this you know you just saved $25-45

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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wait you mean the TVs in this sports bar don't go both ways like in 1984

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I have no idea what the standings are, having given up on baseball, but if I start with a guess of how the Mets are doing I can imagine.

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Was someone double parked?

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I hate the new rules (time clock on pitches among them).

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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Ever thought of taking up the cello? Give a listen to Anner Bylsma's Bach Suites (the 1979 recordings) and you'll see there's a reason for everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTG...

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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We revisited Edinburgh in '19 and when we went into a restaurant on the mile I immediately amused the hostess, first words outa my mouth, in a broad midwest accent, "we're from America do you have any O**lander specials?" They laughed hard, they must get a lot of American silliness

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Maybe if he gets arrested buying pot like the dude you're getting a Dell guy

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Soon he will tell them to stand down and stand by

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Unless I misunderstand you, I think it's against the law for cabinet secretaries to campaign for the President.

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There ain't no other ship. People talking about replacing Biden are like the people who went to the roofs of the WTC on 9/11, thinking big airplanes and helicopters would save them. No; this is it and we need to make sure this horse wins.

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Thanks, Mom.

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"I don't want to be a normal person anymore, Mr. Wizard, I want to be a celebrity again." www.theguardian.com/film/article...

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל's avatar Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל @yechiel.me
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IMO the biggest problem with Biden's age is the fact that Trump wants to be a dictator on day one and it doesn't look like there's anything or anyone in our institutions that are willing or able to stop him.

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Angus Johnston's avatar Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social
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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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The party controllers will not coalesce around them, the voters will not coalesce around them, and Republicans will seek to keep them off the ballot.

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There ain't no other ship. People talking about replacing Biden are like the people who went to the roofs of the WTC on 9/11, thinking big airplanes and helicopters would save them. No; this is it and we need to make sure this horse wins.

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I'm so old I remember GOP hopes in 2022 for a Red "Wave." The UK is showing what a tsunami is.

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If Joe Piscopo really loved America -- I mean, >really< loved America -- he'd resurrect his Blue Eyes impersonation and do a cover of Creep.

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15 minutes and all that

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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IMO better to just say it, then make it something people can personally relate to so people see the intersection of SCOTUS and Trump as POTUS. "First they came for the" and the rest.

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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This is a very good book. After a museum exhibit in Antwerp on life in Belgium on life under Hitler, I decided to look for something like this. It's not as filled with domestic details as I want, but it's still very rich.

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soo much better. The suits must have been scored on "takes criticism well" as "below expectations" (ha! as if Sulzberger would have subjected himself to an annual review)

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Knepherbird's avatar Knepherbird @knepherbird.com
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Also, has everyone forgotten Trump's schedule with those huge blocks of "executive time" every day?

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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I already canceled WaPo and don't know what I'd have left. Admittedly I still smart from what they did with Dan Goldman two years ago.

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Frank Lynch's avatar Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social
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Yeah, I've seen all that. What an awful decision to run this without due diligence.

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And perfoming civic duty is the FIRST refuge of the scoundrel? Is this clown serious? Is this the Onion?

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Because the margin in Florida in 2000 was not in the single digits, this clown thinks voting isn't worthwhile. His parents never used the line "if everyone did that..." on him? It's true.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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