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Rufus Hickok@rufus-hickok.bsky.social |
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Writer for Mashable, Bust, Ordinary Times, and others; author of "The Paris Bureau" 2020 DIO Press Inc, pathological reader, returned expat from Canada, New Yorker at the moment.
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Rufus Hickok
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Girl in the park on her phone yesterday: “I am so hungover I’m still wearing the same lashes. It’s the kind of hungover where social anxiety is afraid of me. Because I just keep yammering!”
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Rufus Hickok
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You remember that thing in college where they have older students who welcome the incoming freshmen and show them around? We should have something like that in cities for trans kids who’ve just escaped their shitty hometown. (Maybe we do.)
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Don Zeko
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You don't need very sophisticated logic to see that sometimes everyone is just mad at you because you're being a dipshit, not because you're telling hard truths
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Rufus Hickok
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"Guys, we're going to need you to sink a LOT of money into this technology. Now, I'm not saying there's going to be any return on investment.... Wait, come back!"
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Rufus Hickok
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Oh. Okay. "I, for one, remain convinced that this technology is real and will have a massive impact on how we work—and live—over the coming years. But that is not the same thing as saying that the companies at the forefront of the AI boom, or their investors, will be successful financially."
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Rufus Hickok
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I try to always mute it.
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Yes, my cat is a little scared of fireworks but you know what really terrifies him? The Netflix stinger.
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Rufus Hickok
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The only thing in my memory that I can compare it to was the mainstream media's unified insistence that we were absolutely going to invade Iraq. Having said that, the problem for liberals is we're repulsed by the Times, but, if they asked any one of us tomorrow to write for them, we all would.
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Rufus Hickok
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Kate Schellenbach- she was still playing drums on the Cookie Puss single that was their first recording.
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Rufus Hickok
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You know, his fans hold up Andrew Tate as some avatar of masculinity, and then you see him and he looks like the roofer voted Most Likely to Fall Off.
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Rufus Hickok
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Wow, that’s awesome news! Wait… you don’t think they’re going to let them out, do you?
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Rufus Hickok
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Uh, I do. Seriously, though, you need to read her books a.s.a.p.
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Joe Katz
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Rufus Hickok
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I went through 11 articles in the Times about why Biden should leave the race now before I got to this one some-people-say/other-people-say article about Presidential immunity.
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Rufus Hickok
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Frankie and Annette and Despair.
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Jesus, that picture looks like a shot from Ingmar Bergman's Beach Party Movie.
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Rufus Hickok
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Yeah, I was very tempted to say "Oh, naw, you're right. I'm just making it up to be a goof. He's fine!"
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Rufus Hickok
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One of my most regretful moments was getting back in touch with an old friend who loved Elliott Smith and did not know, or believe me, when I said it was sad that he had killed himself.
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Rufus Hickok
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Fuck to the Yeah!
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Rufus Hickok
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Sorry- *far greater numbers*.
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Rufus Hickok
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I know it's not the most popular opinion, but I really do enjoy the Lucasfilm naming scheme.
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Rufus Hickok
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Salacious B. Crumb, I believe.
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Rufus Hickok
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And it's also worth pointing out that the right winger push to close libraries has increased in direct proportion to the poor and indigent using them in much greater numbers. There's a real fear-of-the-slaves-reading vibe going on.
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Rufus Hickok
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One might say, in fact, that, in many ways, my dinner tonight was something like so-called "junk food" from the convenience store.
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Rufus Hickok
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Okay, but Stephen Miller as Bib Fortuna does kind of work.
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The city lost more than half a million people, which has, somehow, led to far fewer apartments being available and the highest rents in North America.... and it's apparently because "so many people want to live here".
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Rufus Hickok
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Look, I agree they need to build a cubic fuckton of new apartments. No doubt. I'm just trying to figure out how the NYC population declining by roughly 9.26% since 2020 has accelerated the housing crunch.
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Rufus Hickok
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Okay, but: "The vacancy rate is calculated by first totaling the number of homes “available to rent” in the city. This does not include vacant apartments that are “dilapidated” or empty because the owner uses the unit as a pied-à-terre or a short-term rental, like an Airbnb."
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Rufus Hickok
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And how cosseting your own opinions in this weaselly way is a hallmark of pseudo-intellectual writing.
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Rufus Hickok
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Okay, let's talk for a second about how calling something a "Rorschach test" is both a hideously overused cliché and a way of avoiding expressing one's own judgement. Then, let's talk about how "in many ways" and "like a" are words a milquetoast uses to further water down a non-statement.
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Rufus Hickok
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I gotta say one of my heroes of capitalism at the moment is Mark Cuban- making a fortune by selling drugs at a small markup and undercutting the motherfuckers at Walgreen's. I love to see it.
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Rufus Hickok
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This would seem to be the problem with "big donors" guiding the parties, yes.
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I saw the New Bomb Turks at that time, and would gladly do so again.
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Not to say she's a liberal, obviously. Just saying *we* tend to do that, thinking the younger generations are akin to the fans of Elvis that shocked their parents, when, ya know, it's not always that way with generational change.
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I feel like liberals often make the mistake of assuming the youth are innately more clear-eyed and just than their parents and, when that turns out not to be the case, thinking well, it's just a few misguided ones.
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I just cannot imagine going from a person of modest means to being fabulously wealthy and spending all my time being mad at people that want to change their lot in life.
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Rufus Hickok
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Make liberals laugh till they cry again.
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Public libraries remain overwhelmingly popular with the public. And liberals can quickly point out that *they* don't want to "cancel" any books, while right wingers have lists of hundreds they want removed, but haven't read.
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Rufus Hickok
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Oh, no! Idle street fighting threats from a guy who looks like a high school accounting teacher!
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Rufus Hickok
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Kristi Noem wondering why she didn't think of this.
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Sol Yurick’s is the sort of tribute site every novelist should have. Warriors, come out and play.
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Rufus Hickok
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Which sounds funny because I'm not talking about removing the conservative books. The whole point would be to stop friggin removing books!
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Rufus Hickok
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Right wingers talk all the time about "taking back" things, but I think we need to do the same, starting with taking back public libraries from the parochial loons.
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Rufus Hickok
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I mean, *no* I don't want to "rate" my doctor's performance in our appointment today; that's demeaning as hell. Yeesh!
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Rufus Hickok
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I mean, it's more my theory than a fact, but pretty much every male "rock star" schtick is just copying drag queen camping.
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Rufus Hickok
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The Popeye Defense. "Hey, look, I'm a Kennedy; of course, I sexually assaulted the nanny! Christ..."
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Bad Cop: "Vote for me and I will turn the government to the will of one man who is above the law." Good Cop: "Wow, did you hear that? Better donate to my campaign so we can slow down the collapse of democracy somewhat."
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Rufus Hickok
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Also, not to belabor this point, but I've yet to hear her say anything about trans men to equal her insane obsessive focus on trans women.
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Rufus Hickok
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Imagining a plumber being lectured by a quote-unquote feminist about the "paraphilias" in Freud.
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I feel like companies with an online component really need to understand that it's not just the AI bots making their websites difficult and annoying; it's also being asked to "rate" every single interaction you have with a live person.
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