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John Leavitt

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@Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. www.leavittalone.com/


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You can make yourself an Americanized Tarte Flambée for dinner. It’s not even illegal.

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its cat on the floor weather again

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learning about Deep Dish, how it started out as a kinda thick pizza and it's later that a Mississippi chef, Alice Mae Redmond, changes the crust to the modern shortcrust and increasing the height from inch high to very tall and deep
youtu.be/5BbUNIAPbK8

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I tried to kill a victorian child with a modern thing but they just chugged a pint of cheap gin stabbed me and scampered up a chimney

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Of all the things I cannot forgive Kier Starmer for, taking all of the joy out of watching the catastrophic meltdown of the Tory Party is, well, it's up there but it's not top three

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Zander🚈🔰's avatar Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social
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Transit funding = antifascist praxis

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This comes out in like a week and is a great read - I particularly liked the part using the forth Purge film to describe dual power and the idea that in the US the dual power isn’t in elections but in organized crime www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740011...

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Ken Lowery's avatar Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social
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I wasn't kidding about these little AI buttons quickly becoming vestigial before they vanish entirely. I give it a year

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The transition of oil painting on wood panel to linen might be traceable to Titan having a big international audience and venice having a lot of linen for ship sails and not so much wood

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Amanda Mull's avatar Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social
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People smoking in both the subway stop I left from AND the one I arrived at. To be fair that is sort of the national mood right now

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I'm not saying I believe that I will ascend this physical form and become the red dragon by eating the work of William Blake but it's worth a try, right?

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Phil McDuff's avatar Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social
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One thing I don't think Americans understand is just how small and incestuous the British ruling class is. There's like 7000 people across politics and the media and certain kinds of business and think tank, who all went to the same universities, who are all married to each other.

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Gregory Possum-Finder's avatar Gregory Possum-Finder @gregerskine.bsky.social
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An outdoor outlet in our Kentucky house had this going on; I reached in to plug something in, and felt a sharp shock. Reached in again and same thing; I thought oh no it's an electrical problem!! Then I squatted to look at it closely, and realized I was being repeatedly stung by wasps

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I don't think there has ever been a screenwriter that had a run like Robert Towne in the 70s: Credited: The Last Detail Chinatown Shampoo Uncredited rewrites: The Godfather The Parallax View Marathon Man

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I always think anti the extremely normie teachers on a game of thrones bar crawl who walked into the place and one then got real excited about Conquest Of Bread being on the shelf and explaining the whole thing

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The red shelf being, of course, the commie-leaning free book shelf I run out of a gay bar in midtown cause I think this is praxis

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The post l-pride books for the Red Shelf - let’s get serious after all that fun gay smut

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fuck it, lobster dinner with watermelon salad to end

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Josh Fruhlinger's avatar Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social
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~h e l l o~

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S-tier is using the leftover mango salsa and the leftover coconut rice to make a nice dessert (put in a pot with coconut milk and keep cooking til you get sweet congee)

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as I have always said, the best pork marinade is all the packets you saved from Chinese takeaway - salt, sugar and heat

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Buy the big jar of mango salsa , put yout chops in a dry brine of seasoned salt for an hour, blend half of the salsa in the blender, put it in a pot with chicken stock to reduce into a sauce, reverse sear the chops, throw the mango sauce on them when done serve over coconut rice

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Caesar salad with corn and dried cranberries, butternut squash soup with nuts and garlic bread

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I do a good version of this with mango salsa

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Weather after Thursday is gonna suck so I want to stock up on dinner stuff for a few days. Obviously Thursday the 4th I am making Burger, but Very American Dinners for after? Shallow fried Chicken and mac and cheese?

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Bunch of AI assholes keep trying to follow me not knowing I can click on their accounts and discern if they should be following me, something AI can;t do

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Ohhhh my god I shouldn't let my anger lead me to despair? I should let it radicalize me? Should we throw a party? Should we invite voting?

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I know it;'s lightly coded and just under the surface here but you can't just say "we should have national healthcare just for white people" in this country* and be taken seriously. Some rising right wing parties in Europe however... +If this does happen it'll be church based, Medicare For Mormons

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All that national conservatism shit is dead in the water cause you can’t yet be openly racist and initiated to nice parties in this country (Europe on the other hand…)

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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I can hate the sinner AND the sin at the same time. I am built different.

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Says more about me than anything else but Seth huskily beating up a bunch of cops set to queen is ….. very hot

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She’s always so effortlessly an entire character and funny as hell and she’s in like nothing

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OBSERVE AND REPORT (2009) you can really see how Righteous Gemstones came from this even if it has a ton of 90s movie tics. What if Ray Smuckles was a mall cop. As a society we have never figured out what to do with Anna Faris, which is on us.

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Greg Holkan's avatar Greg Holkan @inkbrush.bsky.social
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Facebook is not profitable. I think this is a broader issue in Silicon Vally likely, because rather than focusing on improving core business strategies these companies chase investor hype and stock valuations. Tesla isn’t a car company, Facebook is Meta, etc. The center cannot hold my dudes.

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Tom McH's avatar Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social
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Selling Horse Master video game boxes was some of the most financially successful any of my creative work has ever been. Dan's post has a pic of one!

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haus of hawktuah 's avatar haus of hawktuah @hausofholes.bsky.social
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when I have 3 tiki drinks instead of 2

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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Logging into Flumpo. Activating my Noobus profile. Resetting my Grabble password

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John Leavitt's avatar John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social
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Batman Forever had an explicit closet metaphor as a main plot point, will always defend it for that

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I listened to that one! And now I’m interested in the back catalogue

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Tom McH's avatar Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social
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just watched it again, great every time

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I’m listening to this story about a 1950 CIA heist and it’s bonkers, full on Coen Brothers movie antics - you can see the face cocksure spook George Clooney makes when he realizes the tech they stole is in metric - story starts at minute 19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFcE...

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“You merely fell out of the coconut tree”

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