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Brian PJ Cronin
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Environmental Reporter for The Highlands Current: An award-winning, non-profit, independent newspaper in New York's Hudson Valley. (https://highlandscurrent.org/author/bcronin/) Also teaching journalism at Marist University. He/Him.
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Me when I turn in the 800 word piece that "might go a little long" at 2850 words with a page of charts and graphs that I made BUT it is also not my problem anymore
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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GEOLOGIST: *cracks knuckles*
Ben Smith: "Also — and I'll stop now! — the question he's trying to get at of how you cover monarchies with endless time horizons as a journalist (this is a thing people from most major publications do) is genuinely interesting."
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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CATCH ME IN THE KITCHEN WHERE THE DOPE IS

WITH AN APRON THAT’S WHITER THAN THE POPE’S IS
Pope Leo on the mic, everybody step back and give the god some room
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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It’s the “I ain’t reading all that” meme
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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ok, so it's a cartoon by lastplacecomics and in the first panel a cat is staring at an empty corner and their owners say "What's that little guy starting at over there?" "I dunno!" "What a little goof-ball!" and then you see that the cat's pupils are SUPER BIG and they're staring at a shadow ghost demon thing. scary! BUT THERE'S A TWIST because in the next panel it says "MEANWHILE" and we see things from the shadow ghost point of view and they're in the corner of a decrepit shadow world and their owners (??) who look like shadow ghost people but they have clothes on are saying "What's he staring at?" "I dunno!" "What a little goofball!" and then you see things from the shadow ghost's view and they're starting at the cat who now looks like a terrifying shadowy demon cat. This is all true.
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I AM TIRED OF EARTH. THESE PEOPLE. I AM TIRED OF BEING CAUGHT IN THE TANGLE OF THEIR LIVES..
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Also, possibly the most useful book in existence is Sam Sifton’s THANKSGIVING: HOW TO DO IT WELL, which, in addition to being filled with practical knowledge, contains cautionary tales like this one:
That time came within a year, and if someone had filmed the process, it would have made a strong infomercial on how not to fry a turkey. I cooked with a friend, the two of us amped on beer and adrenaline, standing outside on a Brooklyn sidewalk: two city-kid rednecks with a fried-turkey rig purchased from a home improvement store, the pot filled with peanut oil, a propane hob roaring below it. Fried turkeys cook at a blazingly fast 3½ minutes a pound when the oil is at 350 degrees. Our oil could have been running running near twice that temperature. Or half. Our thermometer did not work. Whichever, we burned the turkey badly and managed somehow to pierce the bottom of the pot while doing so, igniting the oil and starting a fire that nearly engulfed a woman dressed in white Daisy Dukes who would later become my wife. The cops came. We were pouring kitty litter onto the dying flames. One said, “Your technique needs work.”
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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It's from the infamous Simpsons scene from 22 Short Films About Springfield, but Superintendent Chalmers, labeled "Me," says "May I see it?" and Skinner, who is labeled "Hudson Valley Clouds" says "No" and it refers to the fact that I can't see the goddamned northern lights right now.
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Oates to David Marchese: But I think as people get older, we get more tolerant.

Oates to Elon Musk:
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE RUNNING FROM?! THE DISEASE IS INSIDE OF YOU!
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Don't act so surprised!!!
It's the infamous "Mass Deportations Now!" sign from the 2024 RNC but oh ho ho wait just a minute I have cleverly changed the sign to read "Take Away The Good Pasta Now!"
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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"Dont' Blame Me I Voted for Kodos" in the Mamdani font
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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It's "Somehow Palpatine Returned" in the Mamdani font generator
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Lost my favorite water bottle and while looking for it in my car I found a completely different water bottle that no one in my family has ever seen before so we need to get the Pope on here so that I can ask him if this counts as a miracle
Ok which one of you left this in my car
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Its the Bugs Bunny godfather meme, it says "I wish all my Andrew Cuomos a very only the best in private life."
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Bilewater has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
It’s the intro screen for the Bilewater area from Silksong, the area that everyone hates the most because it absolutely sucks oh my god I hate this part of the game so much
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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It’s the Anakin / Padme meme and Anakin says TRUMP DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE'S PARDONING and Padme says SO NO MORE BAD-FAITH STORIES ABOUT BIDEN'S AUTO-PEN RIGHT? and then Anakin just stares at her and she repeats, softly, So no more bad-faith stories about Biden's auto-pen right?
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Anyway, thinking of this quote the head of the local United Way chapter gave me at the end of last year when I asked him what he thought the effects of the next incoming Trump administration would be on food insecurity non-profits:

highlandscurrent.org/2024/11/29/h...
“There will be people on the street starving,” Gabriel warned. “That’s a fact. And they won’t have a place to go because nonprofits will not have the resources to provide for them.”
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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“You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke.”
Peter Boyle in "Young Frankenstein," during the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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It's the astronauts moon meme, but the first one says "Wait, so it's all just about aesthetics?" and the one with the gun says "Always has been."
October 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Incredible that we’re literally doing this in real time
Its Sideshow Bob with his “Die Bart, Die” tattoo, which he convinces people is just German for “The Bart, the.”
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
It’s Redd the art thief / art dealer / sketchy mofo from Animal Crossing.
October 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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tfw your diaper absolutely explodes but you remember that it’s not your problem
My five month old son, ecstatic. There’s poop off camera but you don’t need to know about that.
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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UPDATE The baby looks like Tim Walz again.
It’s my five month old son and he looks like Tim Walz and he’s holding a bag of Tim Hortons coffee because we’re visiting my parents in NJ and for some reason that’s the coffee they have.
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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“It’s about a beach that gives Gena Rowlands dementia.”

*publishing executive slams fist down on mahogany table*

“SOLD”
It’s the cover of “Remain,” a “supernatural love story” co-written by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shaymalan
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Look, it’s Marcella Hazan! Hells yes.
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM