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Jonathan E Cowperthwait
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as formerly on the bird site (@cowperthwait) and the elephant site (@[email protected]). Slow runner, fast talker, good writer.
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Screencap of Mad Men. Interlocutor and Pete in an elevator: “How are you?” “Not great, Bob”
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Touring my new book, “Running Is Like Owning A Tesla”
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below: IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD? What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean: brb = bell rang bro rofl = rang out for lost (crew) bff = big freakin' freigher lol = Load of Ore on the Lake smh = shift minutes to hours glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter tbh = taconite be haulin' stfu = steer the freighter upwind tfw = that freakin' witch (of November) asl = a ship lost gg = Gitche Gumee idc = immoderate deadweight capacity btw = beneath the waves afk = a freighter kaput hbd = hauler's beacon down ily = iron load yonder jk = just [24] kilometers lmao = lost my abyssal ore nbd = north bound draft glhf = good lord, hold flooding omg = obliteratingly massive gales tmi = too much iron wtf = White Fish (Bay)
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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To the extent possible given your responsibility to that family, can you shed any add’l light on what happened? This deserves way more attention.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Barack Obama had a whole thing in one of his books about optimizing his wardrobe to reduce decision fatigue, so I’ll just claim that I, too, have been running a whole country or something, and it’s not just that I can’t be arsed to figure out how to dress myself.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Ugh ok fine
Closeup of Jon’s hand holding a hardback copy of Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification”, the title of which is largely and Helveticanly (?) emblazoned on a black background, along with a poop emoji whose mouth (??) is obscured by a string of characters implying profanity.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The meme with the guy pointing at the butterfly, but the butterfly is DHL, and it’s, “Is this enshittification”
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Home of Arbor Day
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Both are bad! Like, really, really bad!
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM