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Leah Reich
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Is there an episode of television that is more perfectly 1990s than The X-Files' "D.P.O."? It's both stand-alone episode and time capsule: Video game arcade, "Ring The Bells" by James, young Giovanni Ribisi (clad in a Vandals t-shirt, listening to Filter) and Jack Black
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Leah Reich
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Hey I know the world is terrible and everything seems to be imploding, but maybe that means we need art more than ever. So if you live in NYC and have not yet been to the Paula Modersohn-Becker exhibit at the Neue Galerie you 100% should.
www.neuegalerie.org/modersohnbec...
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Sure. I just don't think modern tech bros invented the Easifier 3000, they only made it work faster
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ohhh gotcha. Ok that makes sense, and also those I probably would have loved (I probably still would, as a child raised primarily on Monty Python and Adrian Mole). But yes the comic books were like... dumb
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this one is making me laugh even tho it really should not
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I wonder if those were the ones we had? But it did not feel like a lampooning, more like an extraordinary dumbing down
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I like how you think there's a difference between these groups.
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Leah Reich
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1. exactly, thank you and 2. whoa I wanna see
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Leah Reich
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love 2 post moderate opinions that will in no way be polarizing or viral
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@mckelvie.bsky.social thank u for liking this, I fear it is not tech blame-y enough for everyone else
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Leah Reich
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I'm as much freaked the fuck out by GenAI being everywhere (and ruining everything I love) as the next person but let's not fool ourselves, this bullshit is not new, it's only easier now
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Before we all hang crepe and blame AI: Books have been treated like this for DECADES. In the 80s my mom got comic books of Shakespeare thinking my brother would like them. Instead we found they'd rewritten everything. "Lay on Macduff" became "Let's fight! The first one to say stop is the loser."
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Jamie McKelvie
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I'm not in any starter packs because I'm more of an advanced user follow. You have to work your way up to me.
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Leah Reich
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In my last apartment I had a neighbor who practiced his saxophone in the building. In my new apartment I have a neighbor who practices his French horn. If I may offer you any advice in life, it is this: Always choose the French horn neighbor.
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Leah Reich
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in fact, as I like to say, only an idiot would subject themselves to that experience
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As someone with only one PhD, I'd also like to remind folks you don't even have to be smart to get a PhD!!
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Leah Reich
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I actually agree with you
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Leah Reich
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HOT TAKE
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correct! it is a cactus kicky toy filled with catnip and silvervine
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YES SAME. Intense staring. whyyyyy
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Leah Reich
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it's free! And if your cat doesn't like it, there's always someone else's cat in a Buy Nothing group :)
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yes he does! He is very weird about toys and playing, because he is a cat, but he does really like it. The other morning I woke up around 5am to the sound of him playing with it in the other room and it was pretty cute. He's 9 so you know, big baby boy
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*whispers* put him on a diet
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he says "meep"
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Leah Reich
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that is a fair point
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Leah Reich
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he bows to you, O Darth of the Round Table
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Leah Reich
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disappointed in me as usual
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Seth D. Michaels
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“What and who do you see when you and your biases are not the focus, but instead the person or people outside of your own little self?” this is very lovely
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hello, sharing this one more time. I do really love this one and would love for you to read it.
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Holly Anderson 🍇
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Hey pals, we're raising money tonight to help Pearl, a new addition to ABTCR's foster system. She was clinging to life when she was picked up and is going to need a lot of medical care to get better. If you can't donate but can share, much appreciated:
www.facebook.com/groups/90624...
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Leah Reich
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how very dare you, Lumpy is 100% a person
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Leah Reich
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Thanks, me too! I sometimes wish Sweden had worked out but I also know NYC was the right choice.
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Totally. And I was struggling my first year for a number of other reasons – the chronic health issue that still had no diagnosis (does now!), work was shit, I was alone, etc. So I kinda gave up.
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Yeah I bet. I took actual Swedish classes my first summer but since everyone spoke English at work and strangers were absolute DICKS when I tentatively tried to say things to them, I never made progress. It made me so sad.
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Leah Reich
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I'm really glad!! I think having kids probably helps enormously.
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Also that. I think all the immigrants actually make Swedish culture better because they reduce the bad weird bits by making it less remote and bubble-y and "we don't impose on one another," but they keep all the fun weird bits like the frog song and that fucking Disney hour at Christmas
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I just love having neighbors I can talk to and ask for favors and help out and be neighborly to. I'm not a big NEIGHBORHOOD TASK FORCE kinda gal but I really, really love building local community in my own way.
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As someone who: - is working on a book proposal - just wrote a separate piece yesterday and published it - wrote BASIC programs in like 1983 about The Ramones that looked exactly like this I feel seen
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Lauren
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Leah Reich
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I want to say "my pleasure" but it is not, and I'm sorry you have them! solidarity and love
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I found it especially challenging as a middle-aged single woman!
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yes. My scintillating scotomas were pretty big loops that were dead in the center of my vision. It was like looking through a 1980s idea of a broken kaleidoscope from hell. Can't recommend!
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Not being confident I'd find this sort of thing as an outsider was one of the main reasons I left Sweden tbh
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Joshua Keep
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The world's on fire, we're being told to roast to death to save electricity, but our overlords are just pissing away gobs of power on their new pet project that offers nothing to humanity. Why? Because they want to cripple worker power via automation and they'll risk destroying everything to do so.
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it's so fucking weird, isn't it
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oof I hope you feel better soon. They're so destabilizing. Did you get the scintillating scotoma or no? I hope not!
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yeah the first one fucked me up good. Once I got one hanging out in a sunny backyard with my 9-year-old niece while holding a chicken, bad timing.
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the woman next to me, whom I did not know, kept leaning over and saying "how much longer to intermission"
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if you want to know my review of the whole revival it is: "Bushwick Burlesque emceed by a swole golem, and then suddenly there's a Nazi"
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it was bad and I will hear no argument otherwise
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