Quite Uninteresting
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Non-practicing intellectual in Oregon sharing historical oddities and contemporary jeremiads. My apologies in advance.
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Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article)
She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
www.nytimes.com
Excellent obituary of Karen Wynn Fonstad, the superlative cartographer of Middle-earth, Pern, D&D, Narnia, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
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Happy Thanksgiving, America!
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, America!
“Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest. Don’t spill a drop. I am a river. You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you.”
“Mo-om, Bobby is pretending to be the gravy boat again!”
“Mo-om, Bobby is pretending to be the gravy boat again!”
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest. Don’t spill a drop. I am a river. You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you.”
“Mo-om, Bobby is pretending to be the gravy boat again!”
“Mo-om, Bobby is pretending to be the gravy boat again!”
Want to get American? Buy Saucony. Want to really stick it to Knight? Buy Adidas. www.newsweek.com/nike-founder...
Nike founder Phil Knight makes record-breaking donation to Republicans
Phil Knight reportedly surpassed his own previous $2 million donation to the same Bring Balance to Salem PAC.
www.newsweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Want to get American? Buy Saucony. Want to really stick it to Knight? Buy Adidas. www.newsweek.com/nike-founder...
This illustration is from Eliza Smith's pithily titled 1739 book, "The Compleat Housewife: Or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion:: Being a Collection of Upwards of Six Hundred of the Most Approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams..."
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This illustration is from Eliza Smith's pithily titled 1739 book, "The Compleat Housewife: Or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion:: Being a Collection of Upwards of Six Hundred of the Most Approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams..."
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As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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shortly after a cargo plane crashed in Louisville earlier this month, someone called JWoods86 joined wikipedia to upload this very eerie pic of it!
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
shortly after a cargo plane crashed in Louisville earlier this month, someone called JWoods86 joined wikipedia to upload this very eerie pic of it!
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They should invent an email that doesn't find me at all
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They should invent an email that doesn't find me at all
“Who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?”
— Melania Trump, declaring war on Christmas in 2020. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
— Melania Trump, declaring war on Christmas in 2020. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Melania Trump tapes reveal complaints on Christmas and migrant children row
First lady takes aim at holiday decorations and criticism for family separations in tapes released by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?”
— Melania Trump, declaring war on Christmas in 2020. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
— Melania Trump, declaring war on Christmas in 2020. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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John Fogerty booking a flight: put me in coach
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
John Fogerty booking a flight: put me in coach
Ah yes, the Mnuchin-hausen Syndrome. It was a simpler, more innocent time.
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Ah yes, the Mnuchin-hausen Syndrome. It was a simpler, more innocent time.
Scott Bessent, in 1933: "There won't be a great depression, but some sectors are challenged."
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/b...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/b...
Bessent believes there won't be a recession in 2026 but says some sectors are challenged
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. was not at risk of entering a recession in 2026 and that Americans would soon benefit from Trump's policies.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Scott Bessent, in 1933: "There won't be a great depression, but some sectors are challenged."
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/b...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/b...
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2/ so many gutting moment but this was among the first, from one of the world’s leading scientists on vaccines and immunology:
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
2/ so many gutting moment but this was among the first, from one of the world’s leading scientists on vaccines and immunology:
Four-Square: The Early Years
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Four-Square: The Early Years
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You were all having a good day and I am here to ruin it:
All of the birds given as gifts in “12 days of Christmas” are edible birds, and I am not sure why so many of you believe they were all intended to be kept as pets for years after receipt.
All of the birds given as gifts in “12 days of Christmas” are edible birds, and I am not sure why so many of you believe they were all intended to be kept as pets for years after receipt.
December 6, 2024 at 1:37 PM
You were all having a good day and I am here to ruin it:
All of the birds given as gifts in “12 days of Christmas” are edible birds, and I am not sure why so many of you believe they were all intended to be kept as pets for years after receipt.
All of the birds given as gifts in “12 days of Christmas” are edible birds, and I am not sure why so many of you believe they were all intended to be kept as pets for years after receipt.
FREUD: Society has serious mummer issues.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Which old Christmas traditions should be revived?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
FREUD: Society has serious mummer issues.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
“The worst president money can buy.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon
Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in April to three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying t...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“The worst president money can buy.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fuckin rocking out
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fuckin rocking out
“Ms. Vogel worked at the Brooklyn Public Library as a reference librarian, and Mr. Vogel, a high school dropout from Harlem, did the night shift at a post office sorting mail.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“Ms. Vogel worked at the Brooklyn Public Library as a reference librarian, and Mr. Vogel, a high school dropout from Harlem, did the night shift at a post office sorting mail.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
Deez Nuzzi
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Deez Nuzzi
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just circling back on 1964 America's priorities
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
just circling back on 1964 America's priorities
Find someone to look at you the way Reagan looks at Trump looks at Mamdani.
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Find someone to look at you the way Reagan looks at Trump looks at Mamdani.