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Paul
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Non-practicing atheist Saint Paul and sometimes Brooklyn, occasionally Covington Sober one day at a time for 4037 days No gurus No gods What I’m reading at printedword.bsky.social https://sixnotebooks.com/nb2_poetry/metta/
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This one precious motherfucking life
#poetry
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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A gallon of whole milk can cost anywhere from $2.16 to $4.95 , but it's all coming from the same plant in north Minneapolis:
It's All the Same Milk! - Racket
A gallon of whole milk can cost anywhere from $2.16 to $4.95. Why?
racketmn.com
What the hell is a Sounder?
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In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
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God never gives you more than you can handle unless it would be funny from God's perspective to do so
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Can’t even trust newspapers
As was I but it has gotten so much worse. There used to be a limit on commercials. That has disappeared.

The amount of actual show in 30 minutes has mightily decreased since the 70s
As a person who doesn’t watch tv much, except sports, then usually premier league football, the American ability to sit through ads astounds me.

I kept hitting the mute button during the World Series. The ads are astoundingly annoying
So there’s a show on Prime that I’ve been working through slowly over a few months. Yesterday, there seemed to be 3x as many commercials as the last time I watched. Is this a thing?
This
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
Nicely played own-goal by Newcastle

Really quite pretty
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If the game hits 2am Eastern the score is reset to an hour before and everyone has to repeat exactly what they did to preserve the space time continuum, thems the rules
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Hark, the game is rous’d!⁠
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Baseball. The 9th guy in the lineup who hasnt gotten a base hit in a month hits a home run in the top of the 9th inning to tie the game in the 7th game of a best of 7.

How can you not love baseball?