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The atlas-eater with a jaw for news :: journalism, art and comics :: Formerly: Providence Journal, Tampa Bay Times, Boston Phoenix, Boston magazine, Bloomberg, Flaming Hydra :: EMAIL ME: si AT arrr DOT net

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 24d

Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 24d

the rules of journalistic ethics and the rules of Faerie ethics are eerily similar

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 15h

it's black like a bruise, right? related to blood and bloat?

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16h

Were we too harsh to Anita Bryant, a natural leader who wasn't afraid to take a controvertial stand

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16h

I hear Leni Reifenstalh was also a strong female artist who wasn't afraid to speak her mind

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

He'll say "are you married?" We'll say "no man"
Then we'll slowly try to edge away without looking like we're running

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

sadly actual footage of King at the height of his drinking problem

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

you can have Josie & me's Frosty the Snowman idea for free

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

nice job algo

my last skeet followed by a post of a gif of Stephen King in CREEPSHOW, trying to drink some kind of smoothie

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

He lies there year after year until snow envelops him and then he lurches up, shambles down the mountain
He goes by "Parson Brown"

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

Corpse should be played by Jack Nicholson and it's a sequel to the Shining

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

Just had a great idea for a remake of Frosty the Snowman where it turns out there's just been a dead frozon corpse inside Frosty the whole time but no one realizes until Spring

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

this is why we're married folks - to spare the rest of you

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 19h

Love you

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 19h

🎶Frosty the Snowman
Was a human after all
He was strangled dead
And they put his head
In a snowman's top snowball

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

Just had a great idea for a remake of Frosty the Snowman where it turns out there's just been a dead frozon corpse inside Frosty the whole time but no one realizes until Spring

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

As a southern European it's just tuesday

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

is this the cursed novel Borges tried to warn us about

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

we are over

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Still no idea where that roommate is

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

This is not my fault. This is European Colonialism in a single food.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

NOT AS GOOD AS I AM

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

took me a second to realize you weren't talking about obscure classical composers

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

it's pizza with pineapple dried tuna cheese and herbs fools

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 1d

you simpletons think pineapple on pizza is an abombination but that's because you've never had ton pizza with dried tuna, cheese and herbs

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Today was a GOOD DAY for Riesmanbaum Industries

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

god if only

sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2d

this is quite something considering MIT is an unofficial R&D for DOD.

Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 2d

MIT President Kornbluth announced on Friday the university “cannot support” Trump’s compact, saying the university disagreed with a number of the principles laid out in the document, including policies that would limit freedom of expression and institutional independence.

MIT President Says ‘We Cannot Support’ Trump’s Compact

The institution’s president, Sally Kornbluth, wrote: The proposal “is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

chroni.cl

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