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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 20h

Very bad news. Teen Vogue was doing work other journalists were not.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 22h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 1d

OP is also reminding me of John Hodgman, but I don't think Hodgman has gone that grey yet.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 1d

I coincidentally just finished re-listening to the Stephen Briggs-read audiobook of this yesterday. Three cheers for the Enoch Pratt Free Library (and therefore @prattworkers.bsky.social) and the Libby app.

Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 1d

I see the resemblance, but I don't think so. Here's how he looked just a few years ago (playing She-Hulk's dad).

Mark Linn-Baker ca. 2022 in the role of Morris Walters (She-Hulk's dad) on the Disney+ series. An older white man with grey hair and mustache, the hair showing standard male pattern baldness. He's facing the camera in a bust-style image wearing a blue polo-style shirt covered by a grey cardigan.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 1d

“Everything is magic when you don’t know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people.”

- Moist von Lipwig to Dick Simnel, from Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 1d

My 11 year-old declared that he's going AImish (eschewing AI in the way that the Amish avoid certain technolgies). He was frustrated that some kids don't know how to use a calculator, even, because they're over-reliant on AI. To course correct, he's been teaching himself to use a slide rule.

My son in a Detroit Tigers hoodie leaning back in gray chair and studying his yellow slide rule.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF
THE PRESIDENCY???

#WITAOTP

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social · 3d

“I consider my business settled with the people I wronged” belongs in the @theradr.bsky.social museum of bad apologies

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 3d

Go fuck yourself

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 2d

I said to my cat a few weeks back: "Why are you so suspicious? Just eat the drugged food!"

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 2d

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 3d

Those sisters were doin' it for themselves.

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 3d

I am dying laughing as one kid, who took a little longer to pick bc he didn’t want candy (braces), saw the Declaration of Independence and then had to run to catch up w/ his friends, unsuccessfully yelling over their howls and hoots “Guys - guys, guys - GUYS! I GOT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!!”

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

So I have a Friday story for you. It’s one I promised to tell before. The themes are “seek help when you need it” and “communicating with family is important” but also “pay attention to how your coms work.”

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 3d

And by 7:30 I had gone through 845 pieces of candy and 2 gallons of apple cider.

'Twas a good night.

Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 3d

First trick-or-treaters arrived around 4:45, though there isn't really anyone else yet. But I'm out on the front steps with the bowl of candy, a crockpot full of warm apple cider, and a bunch of little cups (and a mug, for me).

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 3d

Oh for...

Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, some more just came by (5:05), but your time projections are largely applicable here, too.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 3d

First trick-or-treaters arrived around 4:45, though there isn't really anyone else yet. But I'm out on the front steps with the bowl of candy, a crockpot full of warm apple cider, and a bunch of little cups (and a mug, for me).

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent point.

Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 4d

Or your local branch of the Pratt likely has a scanner you can use for that and any other old photos.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 4d

I've been picking up one bag during each weekly grocery trip for roughly the past two months. Didn't want to have to get a whole bunch at once.

Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 4d

I'm fairly certain I'll make it through much of the evening.

7 bags of candy (totaling 845 individual pieces) sitting on a sofa.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4d

This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!

KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 4d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh, I need to remember this. Alas, everything I bought for today has chocolate.

Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 4d

New innovation: chocolate/no chocolate bowls.

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Elliott Vanskike @twonnet.bsky.social · 5d

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5d

"A.i." is controlled by right wing billionaires who are channeling bullshit into your brains. Do not use it.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

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