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Katherine Duke

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Writer. Editor. Comedy geek. Trivia nerd. Podcast junkie. Creator of the book Kissability: People with Disabilities Talk About Sex, Love, and Relationships. (she/her)


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Archie

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Ahhhh, it’s even cooler than I dreamed it ❄️❄️❄️

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I am genuinely excited to go grocery shopping this evening, just because the supermarket will be so nice and cool inside...

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And those banner ads? They charge the people a dollar and a half NOT to see 'em.

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My mother got me a doll (Molly, the WWII one) and some books for Christmas shortly after I turned 8. We also had a subscription to American Girl magazine for a while. I played with Molly until I was 10 or 11, and I still have her in my closet.

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My flossers arrived! They sent me fewer of them than I ordered, "due to out of stock." But even so, I did the math, and I now have enough flossers to meet my needs* for MORE THAN 12 YEARS. * (if I'm honest with myself about how often I actually floss, which is not as often as dentists recommend)

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Different from the novel in significant ways, but excellent

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for those who were following along with this conversation, Amy is heroically running point on a research/writing/design project to build social media shareable graphics to educate the uninformed persuadable voter about Project 2025. sign up here if you want to share your skills!

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THE MOLE with dentists? Call that THE MOLAR.

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Yeah! I had no idea it existed until I heard it in the Season 3 finale of The Righteous Gemstones. It makes so much sense as a Dolly song.

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Which ones are you excited about?

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They Might Be Giants' cover of "Bills, Bills, Bills" (orig. Destiny's Child) Sturgill Simpson's cover of "In Bloom" (orig. Nirvana) Dolly Parton's cover of "Shine" (orig. Collective Soul) (which, I just learned, won a Grammy)

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They Might Be Giants' cover of "Bills, Bills, Bills" (orig. Destiny's Child) Sturgill Simpson's cover of "In Bloom" (orig. Nirvana) Dolly Parton's cover of "Shine" (orig. Collective Soul) (which, I just learned, won a Grammy)

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Huge U Ndergraduates, Kind and Strong

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Himbos U Need to Karry Stuff

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Okay, but what does “H.U.N.K.S.” stand for? Wrong answers only.

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(For real, though-- I actually have used this line as an analogy to explain to people why it's essentially impossible for me to find the kind of relationship I want.)

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A line from the Simpsons that describes your sex life: "I want everything in one bag. But I don't want the bag to be heavy!"

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Today I Am a Woman in STEM* * using one of my three Google Calendars to plot out the possible logistics of traveling by ADA paratransit, Amtrak, and car to and from my hometown during a period when varying combinations of my siblings and nephews will also be visiting there

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"Damn, son!" --everyone marveling at these plums

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I happened to get this fortune at dinner last night before going to see Kinds of Kindness. It… uh… does not reflect the tone or message of that film.

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(That being said, I do agree that spiderwebs are cool as hell.)

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Also, unlike the hypothetical lion behavior he made up, spiderwebs have been around for all of human history and long before. They're not news because they're not *new*.

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I’m in that same region, and I think Ware is also a pretty funny, “Who’s on first” kind of name for a town.

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Okay, I washed out the inner part of the garbage can, which I definitely needed to do anyway, but I don’t think it was the only/primary source of stink. Now I suspect the kitchen sink drain, but I’m toooooo tiiiiired to deal with it tonight.

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It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game, What Exactly Is It in My Kitchen That Smells Like Death?

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The EC would be IMMEDIATELY abolished.

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Talk about "Here's your sign"!

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you ever just think about vada sultenfuss

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The "Yes, and..." principle of improv comedy is highly applicable to playing with kids.

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🎵 My chair is upholstered in real Naugahyde; When they killed that nauga, I sat down and cried (He moved to Chicaga when that nauga died!) 🎵

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I would even go so far as to say (and not for the first time): The Sucreamed Corn

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Pita, Paul and Mary Challah & Oats 4 Naan Blondes

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Of the list of 30 things I hoped to do during my two weeks off from work, I have completed about 25.75. That's almost 86%. I'm going to get a good grade on my staycation, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

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If you see this, post a photo without explanation

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Of the list of 30 things I hoped to do during my two weeks off from work, I have completed about 25.75. That's almost 86%. I'm going to get a good grade on my staycation, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

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“So many flavors to choose from”—wouldst thou like the taste of butter?

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In a way that is perhaps counterintuitive but that I hope proves true for a lot of left-leaning people, the debate debacle has galvanized my 71-year-old father to volunteer for the Biden campaign. I'm so relieved and proud that he's never been a Trump supporter (as several of his siblings are 😖).

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The school censored a student, and now everything they tried to stop her from saying about them has become national news. How, in the year of our Lord 2024, do people still not know about the Streisand Effect?

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Oh, cool! Thanks for the tip.

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Ordinarily I'm not a bulk-buyer, but this is a disability issue! My cerebral palsy affects my manual dexterity enough that using regular dental floss is really difficult for me. This flossing system with the handle is so much easier, and it distresses me that it might be recently/soon discontinued.

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My favorite little dental floss thingies (the kind that attach to a reusable handle) have lately become surprisingly hard to find. I just tracked them down online and ordered the MAXIMUM PERMITTED QUANTITY of them, so I can hoard them like Elaine Benes with the birth-control sponges. #flossworthy

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Oh, I forgot about the weird-talking aliens. And one of them is played by a young Rainn Wilson!

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When I first saw this movie, I was at the height of my fandom of The Kids in the Hall, so my strongest memory of it is that Kevin McDonald has a small part in which he says, "Give him a hand-- he's British!"

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I'm about to watch Galaxy Quest, a movie that I haven't seen since it first came out in 1999 but that I gather has aged well.

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Every Supreme Court decision is summarized like a logic puzzle involving quintuple negatives: “The Court ruled that states do not have the power to overturn the veto on the limits of the reversal of the challenge to the previous ban…”

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