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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 22m

Rory Gilmore wrote an article about New Yorkers waiting on lines in the Gilmore Girls sequel.

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Reposted by Jesse Lansner

James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 1h

This meeting : An e-mail :: This TV series : A movie

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 2h

TJ pretending to negotiate with a small supplier and then just copying the product is sleazy, but this claim looks incredibly weak. Smuckers is accusing TJ of copying their box design, but the two packages look nothing alike.

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 13h

This is a trick question; nobody invites JD Vance to their group chats.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

lol can you *imagine* the kind of stuff in JD Vance group chats. (i mean, yes very easily)

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 16h

I’m waiting for the one quasi-Hanukkah movie before I sign up for a free week.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 16h

Or Jews who attended a Unitarian Church because there wasn’t a synagogue nearby – though I suspect the stories I’ve heard of this are all apocryphal.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 20h

Does that make them scholar-athletes?

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 20h

I am the teacher of athletes,

Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 21h

Such a beautiful city! Are the tents set up on top of the city walls?

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 23h

I worry they’ll also learn that RCV and public financing are a threat to aging party leaders, and fight those even harder than they have in the past.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

I turned off the feature where it keeps suggesting I raise my exercise/calorie targets, but that was two years ago and I don’t remember where that setting is.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

My Jewish great-grandfather and his siblings experimented with a whole bunch of transliterations of what we think was something like “לנצר” (and who knows how the Russian govt spelled it in Cyrillic if they ever did) before settling on “Lansner”.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

My gentile great-grandfather kept his name when he moved here, but his brothers (who arrived first) adopted an “American” name that was neither a translation or a homophone of their actual name, so my ggf had to use that as an alternate name for a bit when his brothers got him a job.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Tbf, both those movies were kind of ridiculous at the time, too.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

I have eaten
the poem
that was in
the icebox

JessicaMCurrall @jessicamcurrall.bsky.social · 1d

@lollardfish.bsky.social Are you familiar with How to Eat a Poem by Eve Miriam?

Eve Miriam’s poem, How to Eat a Poem, reads:

Don’t be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.

You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth.

For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

🐋

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

A bunch of us did a group read of it on here over the summer.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Three categories: network; basic cable; premium cable/streaming.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

I started watching Wargames with my kid, and had to explain how all the tech – which seems so primitive now – was actually far more advanced than anything that existed in 1983.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

Moby Dick only has a plot by accident (complimentary)

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 1d

An interviewer once asked Joseph Heller if it bothered him that he’d never written another book as good as Catch-22 and he replied “No, because nobody else has either.”

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