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Andrew Nahem

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I had two houses. But I drove a bus through one of them. They were just too alike in dignity. You know? The Manhattan of top hats, endless rounds of martinis, and lorgnettes ⌈⁰⁰

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Sounds like the evil “motion smoothing” which is wrongly the default on all TVs now for no known reason.

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D.N. Schmidt, Space Opera Author 🛸's avatar D.N. Schmidt, Space Opera Author 🛸 @writepop.bsky.social
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Robot romance novel tropes: * Destroy All Humans to Lovers * Forced Bluetooth * Only One Charger * Human Falls First * Welded Together * Love Dodecahedron * Good Engineer / Bad Bot * Beta Testing * General Availability * Error - Love Forbidden - Contact System Admin * Multiple USB Ports

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I mean no disrespect to the Brooklyn Lab Charter School, a fine institution I'm sure. I just think they might want to have a quiet word with their PR people about that headline.

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I'm glad this ad admits that excellence was, if we're honest, pretty much gone from the Lab fairly recently. The Lab was, not to put too fine a point on it, trash. Absolute ass. The data was rife with what can only be (charitably) described as hot gibberish. But hey—they've clawed their way back!

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Perhaps you were a butterfly dreaming he was a (trans) man?

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Andrew Nahem's avatar Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social
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But yeah, there is a larger conversation about art that is salutary to their moment, a slap in the face to what came before. Some of it stands the test of time as being great in its own right (TS) and some of it, well, you said your thing, we're over that now.

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You have to admit the black page gag still hits.

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Not sure I agree with “lovely,” but intriguing, I’ll allow.

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Are you sure you’re not really three trans owls in a raincoat?

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Andrew Nahem's avatar Andrew Nahem @lowdudgeon.bsky.social
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I'm glad this ad admits that excellence was, if we're honest, pretty much gone from the Lab fairly recently. The Lab was, not to put too fine a point on it, trash. Absolute ass. The data was rife with what can only be (charitably) described as hot gibberish. But hey—they've clawed their way back!

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One thing that has been pure Maddening lately is that I do a lot of copying and pasting and suddenly all my (Apple) devices have decided to ignore and eliminate all my spaces. so If I want to paste, say, “Done,” it would come outDone even if I'd typed a fucking space before “out.”

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For the record, I also hate pistachios. Not that kind of male at all. (Mrs. Dudgeon can't get enough of the vile things.)

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Yeah, I also encounter this all the time for some reason, even while not being a medieval scholar (as far as I can tell).

Anyway, Pistachop is my new band.

#Pistachop

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That's another aspect which is wild to me: it flags all these things which may or may not be correct but “Pistachop”? That seems like a real word to you? THAT'S ok with you, you smirking monstrosity??

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I mean, I find it equal parts helpful/maddening/hilarious. Not unlike everything fucking else, I suppose.

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I mean, getting warmer? We could go through all the, er, nuts and, well, perhaps we should just leave this whole topic to autocorrect, or autotrainwreck, as my brother calls it.

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Dammit, Martyn! I was enjoying that phrase. Now, as an atheist, I’m not sure I can think my way around your logic. I guess I was imagining that THEY think they’re talking to God, but that it would just be annoying to . . . shit . . .

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Rogs 🤖's avatar Rogs 🤖 @stev.bsky.social
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Cultural Landmarks of the Planet of the Apes

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Nope. Stuff is still coming through. Shifting to Bathysphere Mode

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I'm not sure what you're saying here. A) Why do you have access to all photos of Midwestern delivery photos? and B) Do you mean they DO NOT show people saying “thank you” to each other?

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I ever tell you that an anagram of my name is He Warned Man?

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It makes each particular hair to stand on end! At least no one said “No worries!”? But this is a ghastly tale. I worry that this kind of eldritch overpoliteness is spreading east! It haunts my every waking moment and makes my two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres!

#IBlameSociety

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I’m thinking of writing a novel with this title, based on the warnings on a red-band trailer I saw at the movies last night: *Language Throughout, Plus Some Drug Use*

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I'm in! I have never thrown a discus or a javelin, but as a cishet male, I feel certain that I could, you know, kill a grizzly bear with one of them, while beating Serena Williams at tennis (which I have never played).

#PhalanxLife!

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Nope. Stuff is still coming through. Shifting to Bathysphere Mode

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Jumping in, uh, 7 hours later, to mildly remark that PE trauma and the bully teacher is a thing in the US as well. I don’t remember bullies myself, but I had some struggles, mostly due to, well, hating it, and being asthmatic.

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Well, let’s face it, it was inevitable. Was it your insistence on working in a banjo session into every episode, or was it your “centrist” politics?

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Marie Phillips's avatar Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social
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Off to work! I’ll pick up some milk on the way home

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I’m thinking of writing a novel with this title, based on the warnings on a red-band trailer I saw at the movies last night: *Language Throughout, Plus Some Drug Use*

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It's hot, I'm told. I'm a cold mortal, one of the advantages of which—OK the only advantage—is that heat doesn't vex me as much as the rest of you saps. Nevertheless, I'm considering putting on the A/C in my home office, not for my sake, fan is fine for me, but for my computer, which is took poorly.

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What I look like scrolling social media

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The Cramps - FEVER [I consider this version definitive.] Tom Verlaine - Dylan’s COLD IRON’S BOUND (I'm Not There ST) John Parish & PJ Harvey - IS THAT ALL THERE IS? Devo - SATISFACTION [I don’t love it, but it does what a good cover should do: deconstruct, make something new.] Pharmakon - BANG BANG

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Perfect, sir! as every waiter says. There's also the giants, Ada, or Ardor; and Despair. The Luzhin Defense is another fun short early one. The only one (I think) I haven't read is The Gift. I have a copy I bought in London ages ago moldering on my shelf. It may have gone stale.

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enough is enough. just went over them both letter by letter. exact same word

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I’m a great one for Pnin. King, Queen, Knave is an early favorite. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.

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It’s at times like these that I often think of these lovely lines from Harold Pinter: He’s sweating. The bastard sweatpig is sweating.

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Ow, I'm guessing? Don't want to assume.

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From the sidewalk, they beckon me into a dark spirit world. Goodbye!

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Dammit. Okay, putting it on Dirigible Mode.

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Yes, give children random chemicals and edge-weapons! What could go wrong?

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I landed wrong and broke my foot. THE END

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