and my uncle still would have taken it as evidence for one or both of us being CIA (never true, not in that universe or this one)

that's the universe where I ended up in military intelligence and you ended up a war correspondent

not without a boombox, no

hello you should immediately traumatize your child via Sondheim

personally I like 'Assassins' but there's plenty of other methodologies

... these are fantastic.

I've had it many times (including in Vienna!) but never made it! Time to change that~

I've never made a Linzer torte! I want to now. :)

OOOH

... that looks amazing

ooh.

I absolutely did.

This is incredible!

(I spent a bit staring at it, like, 'this is Armenian but those are not Armenian words, wtf', but ... Turkish! Yes!)

Absolutely can recommend the Herman, that book underlies a whole lot of my approach to historiography of empire

Okay that is EXTREMELY cool 😄

during the NYC mayoral primary, Brad Lander or someone on his team wrote a generally competent sonnet on how much Cuomo sucks, and stuck it in a fundraising email: for this I gave him ten dollars, despite being already decided on Mamdani.

thanks :D