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J. Robert Lennon
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Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
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REBOOT by @justintaylor.bsky.social is one of the best books I've read this year, and it's out in paperback soon, and here's the absolutely killer opening chapter up on Brooklyn Rail (especially recommended to people who are way too online, i.e everyone here)
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Cold Open | The Brooklyn Rail
Why not close out the year with the interiority of an incel heated to a rolling boil and transformed into an active shooter? If you like, think of it as someone putting Tom Waits’s “Little Drop of Poi...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The board members who ousted sam altman from openai in 2023 get my vote as the most correct people of the 21st century so far
December 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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As always, my position on emdashes is use them they are wonderful. I even made a tool to get em. emdash.fan
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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my take on fonts is that using either Times New Roman or Calibri as the official font for government documents is insane. you should have a government font that the government commissions and thus places in the public domain. it's like if every government memo was stamped with a Microsoft watermark.
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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If i could go back in time and see one musical performance, i might pick Just Ducky ruining a prom in Hot Springs MT over Hendrix at Cafe Wha
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I dislike TNR for things that aren’t a newspaper column, and especially in letters or manuscripts. A typographer I like a lot, Matthew Butterick, has a fun riff on it in his book about typography that you can read for free online practicaltypography.com/times-new-ro...
As a work of design, it's hard to complain about Times New Roman. It was created for a newspaper, so it's a bit narrower than most text fonts-especially the bold style. (Newspapers prefer narrow fonts because they fit more text per line.) The italic is mediocre. But those aren't fatal flaws. Times New Roman is a workhorse font that's been successful for a reason. Yet it's an open question whether its longevity is attributable to its quality or merely to its ubiquity. Hel-vetica still inspires enough affection to have been the subject of a 2007 documentary feature. Times New Roman, meanwhile, has not attracted similar acts of homage. Why not? Fame has a dark side. When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertise-ment, it connotes apathy. It says, "I submitted to the font of least resistance." Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Hello, my wife and I recorded a Hanukkah song! Enjoy! youtu.be/6aLhQqryWYY
Inverse Room feat. Stephanie Meissner, "Eight Little Candles"
YouTube video by Bright Small Songs
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December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?

Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
December 3, 2023 at 1:13 AM
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My son was on the train platform and noticed this and decided to wait for the train
Festive subway sign reading “New York Transit Museum Holiday train”
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Texte: le calendrier de l’avent interdit Image 1: un pied de biche Image 2: un ensemble de casiers automatiques type « Amazon » situé en extérieur
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Regarding the hand percussion, is it ok for jews to deploy jingle bells? I asked my rabbi and he said sure. We’re even allowed to own a one-horse open sleigh
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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It is a lie when you do it
December 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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FACEBEAR.BMF
Two simple, symmetrical line drawings of a bear face, comprised mostly of circles. Having completed her temp duties in the first 45 minutes of the morning, Samantha spends the rest of her work day at Totem Graphics doodling such things on a sketchpad at her desk. While she is away from her cubicle during a particularly long coffee break, Phil sneaks into the cubicle, tears off the top page of the sketchpad, and returns to his own cubicle. Perfect, he thinks, eyeing the drawing, for the next task in his queue, something called FACEBEAR.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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What I’ve been up to! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos
A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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do not want computer to cheerfully remind me how I have been spending my time
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Dan Wineman @dwineman@xoxo.zone You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure. Nevertheless, comedy is a powerful healing force. My recommendation is to seek out live entertainment. For example, great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up. 🔗 Sponsored Reply (Great Clown Productions, Ltd.) Dec 02, 2025, 03:10 PM · · Mona for Mac https://xoxo.zone/@dwineman/115651788702895997
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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What…what in god’s name happened when I was at work
Disturbing mermaid hourglass hybrid in the kitchen sink
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I do not need another camera but look how chic she is in all black
A Pentax MX in black with the f/1.7 lens
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Hello, my wife and I recorded a Hanukkah song! Enjoy! youtu.be/6aLhQqryWYY
Inverse Room feat. Stephanie Meissner, "Eight Little Candles"
YouTube video by Bright Small Songs
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December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
Nathan Fielder tweet “Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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We are so happy to announce that despelote, our incredible and transportive story game by Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena, has just won an Apple App Store Award for Cultural Impact!

Thank you Apple! Great work despelote! And if you haven't played it, this is your sign… despelote.game
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Once again, I mourn the loss of Billy Fatzinger’s twitter account, which had my all-time favorite Christmas tweet:

🎵Now the jingle horse has my gun 🎵
December 14, 2024 at 7:03 PM