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Stuart Semmel

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British history, cultural history, political thought, historical consciousness, at Yale

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The gas I like breathing most? Well, that would have to be air. Does air count as a gas?

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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

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Trump is a convicted felon who stole classified documents and tried to do a coup and the NYT never called on him to drop out. Ridiculous

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(Checking would require voluntarily reading some Thackeray again. I will do that someday, no doubt, but for a better reason, if one exists.)

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My gut tells me that Comical Initial Capitalization was clumsily employed by Thackeray and other Punch writers. But the trick is Turning Comical into Whimsical. Thackeray no doubt thought, wrongly, that he was whimsical. (I have not checked to see whether he Comic-Capped even once. Just a hunch.)

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Haven’t some anti-Trumpers been saying for years that Trump takes amphetamines before debates? (The famous sniffling.)

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I will admit that this does not explain the Galactic Federation part.

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It may simply be that she’s confused by time zones.

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Plate o’ shrimp, if memory serves? (I might be wrong.)

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🎶 It seems to have an invisible touch 🎶

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A whole generation of college students did. (Except me. I thought it was okay.)

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A new low in America's culture of consumerist throwaway culture

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.

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But you can trust Rosa De Lauro.

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We are a mystery wrapped in an enigma encased in a dust bunny.

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See, the Cybertruck hood wouldn’t even scratch. Maybe we’re finally ready for the return of the lawn dart.

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This is actually pretty terrifying. Flynn would be one of the scariest VP picks Trump could make.

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Well, ban this one particular toddler for sure.

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Mom put her kid in the car after a day at the zoo. Then the doors wouldn’t open because the battery died. Sealing the 20-month-old inside in the middle of a national Heat Dome in the Arizona desert. Because Teslas are fucking dumb death traps.