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Tony Hightower

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New Yorker in Paris. I run. I dad. I won on Jeopardy & Millionaire in a previous life. He/him.

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Well, congrats!

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He didn't want to be beholden to the IFOCE, who really overplayed their hand. Competitive Eating isn't like, say, the NFL or something, where there are no other meaningful competition options. Kobayashi wanted to go compete in Japan sometimes, and they told him no. So he quit. LIKE A BOSS.

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I am 100% in this group. It me. Kobayashi is the Babe Ruth of competitive eating. He made the game what it is today. Without the Tsunami, Joey Chestnut would still be working a steam table at an Applebee's in San Ysidro.

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This is my favorite version of Sherlock

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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Hey look. I guess the president in Brazil doesn't get immunity. How can the country possibly function?

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"I Don't Reply To Skeets. Never Have, Never Will."

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Absolutely. Honestly, when he got railroaded out of the sport for not playing ball with MLE, and was immediately replaced with this Maga goober, I kind of lost my enthusiasm for the whole spectacle.

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I am 100% in this group. It me. Kobayashi is the Babe Ruth of competitive eating. He made the game what it is today. Without the Tsunami, Joey Chestnut would still be working a steam table at an Applebee's in San Ysidro.

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.

anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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You're entitled to your despair. But understand that when you catastrophize on social media, you risk spreading learned helplessness. Which is exactly what fascists want, for people to lie down and cry.

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ok but seriously nut up. nobody here loves biden. I’d rather vote for a sentient captcha machine that electrocutes my eyeballs every time I tag all the bicycles and it thinks I missed a fuckin train wheel. but that’s what we got and if you want to live in a fantasy I have no time for your ass

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You'll never be President with that attitude.

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I thought you were quoting Mojo Nixon there for a second.

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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end.

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While out on my run this morning, I got catcalled by a lady on a scooter.

THAT MEANS I WIN.

#RunSky

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(It was clearly all in fun; if it happened all the time, it would get annoying real fast, but I think this makes three times it's happened to me in the last decade (and the first time in Paris), which seems manageable.)

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While out on my run this morning, I got catcalled by a lady on a scooter.

THAT MEANS I WIN.

#RunSky

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To be fair, "Shit was mid" is a solid opening line. Not for Dickens, but for... something.

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Yeah, but at the other end of the aisle, there's "Begonia Vergogna"

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You could, sure, but the NYT would delete it unread

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Matt Seybold's avatar Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social
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On this day, 150 years ago, Mary Ann Cord told the story of her early life, conditions of enslavement, separation from her children at a human auction in 1852, & miraculous reunion with her youngest son, Henry, to a rapt audience on the porch at Quarry Farm in Elmira. 1/7

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This was a tough moment in history, but at the end of it, the world got just a little bit better.

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Glenn Miller 78s are playing at my house, my house

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I didn’t watch the debate, and most of the professional commentary I’ve seen on it has both not provided me with any new information about the race and inspired contempt for the commentators. I don’t know if I’m a typical American in this regard, but that’s where I’m at.

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It's 4am here. Just woke up out of a nightmare I don't remember, had a glass of water, and figured I'd check in on things. The water was a good idea, at least.

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WE COULD HAVE HAD ELIZABETH WARREN

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Every day, I regret not naming my kid "Beaver"

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Uriél Danā's avatar Uriél Danā @uridev.urieldana.com
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#LeonoraCarrington OBE (1917-2011)was a British-born, naturalized Mexican surrealist painter and novelist.She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City & was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. #TheGiantess aka Guardian of the Egg.(sold for $1.48 Million

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God Writing upon the Tables of the Covenant, by William Blake, 1805, 📸 by @Dave_Sandford

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It's giving Get Off My Lawn, and I don't have the spoons to fw this level of rizzlessness OWW --sorry, my four year old just hit me with a kleenex box & said to cut it out

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I think you should go ahead and say fuck it.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Human Work

"The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. This is described by Ward as “the illusion of the near.” Because of nearness we get no perspective; because of continual presence we become used to one view and fail to perceive others."

#HowBooksBegin

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Fun fact: Uroplatus Phantasticus was my stage name when I played with Gwar.

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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it

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I toured as a singer songwriter for close to 20 years, some of them successfully, but my greatest achievement will always be artfully bowdlerizing classic rock hits into kid-friendly lullabies. #myonetrueskill

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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It's been two years. This day must be avenged. Vote.

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A remake of "The Cask Of Amontillado" featuring a faulty GPS & a guy in a Cybertruck

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Days like this, when my area is under a tornado watch, I’m re-pissed off about the loss of Twitter, where dozens of local weather sites and emergency local & state sites always posted updates. It provided a real public service during emergencies that no longer exists.

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Certainly no innocent people were harmed. So, hahaha.

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GEN X never stopped mocking Gen X. If you want to mock us, be prepared for us to be all, like, "You call THAT snark? Step aside, amateur" and then riff self-loathingly on ourselves for a solid hour

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Knock on effect: no Godfather 3 = no Virgin Suicides or Lost In Translation

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