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rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER out now. prev: THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN
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sorry to post tweets over here but i laughed for a full minute at this @tanya.bsky.social
the suicide butler is to be used for plagiarism ONLY Quote PC Gamer @pcgamer · Nov 26 OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-harm' https://pcgamer.com/software/ai/openai-says-teens-misuse-of-chatgpt-is-to-blame-for-his-suicide-because-he-broke-the-tou-users-must-comply-with-openais-usage-policies-which-prohibit-the-use-of-chatgpt-for-suicide-or-self-harm
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Lmao yeah that makes perfect sense actually
A screenshot from Ryan Lizza’s wiki, showing that he worked at the New Republic from 1998-2007
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Interesting to think about the design choices in 1939 vs 2025... in 1939, the crew and the audience both would surely have first-person experience with an axe like that held by Jack Haley - heavy, primarily for actually chopping wood. By 2025 we're long removed from such practical realities
Haley as the Tin Man in the MGM feature film The Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I will say though - since there's apparently an homage to Kubrick's Shining in Wicked: For Good, I have to appreciate that they introduced Boq in part one with a mallet, like that weilded by the book version of Jack Torrance in the climax of King's Shining
the feet of boq and glinda in part one of wicked. he has a mallet
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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IF ANYONE IS WONDERING HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE AXE IN WICKED: FOR GOOD: hilarious. enormous beard on that thing. very mall axe, viking imitation, not a woodfelling axe at all. perfect for the overembellished hyperornamental vibe of the whole movie
A cropped still from part 2 of wicked. The tin man holds a Viking axe with a long beard
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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lmao ok alphabet punishments dept well done
The gmail icon with 269,591 unread emails
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The women’s bathrooms at any Phish related shows are always empty
A cute bathroom mirror picture. I’m wearing a chartreuse dress and a denim shirt and a topknot
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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They are really covering all markets with this Wicked promotion
Trey Anastasio band under pink and green lights
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Incredibly honored that WHACK JOB was named as a staff pick for @thepitch.bsky.social Best of KC issue!!!! Feeling very fortunate to have the support of local press, and to have the Pitch at all. And I’m in some amazing company: www.thepitchkc.com/content/uplo...
The cover of the Pitch best of 2025. An illustration of a retail space with music and books but no people The illustration for the Our Picks section - a lot of people in the space from the previous illustration, excitedly discussing culture The piece on Whack Job, which I couldn’t copy but which you can read at the link
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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We got some Infinite Jest fanboys doing train graffiti now
A train graffitied with DFW
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I don’t care if it’s November I’m hitting that pool before it closes at 10
A selfie of me in a hotel pool
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Deeply amusing that this random Swiftie on my Twitter feed chose a version of the Alice in Wonderland rabbit meme which features a silhouette of Widespread Panic’s original guitarist Mikey Houser (RIP)
A screenshot Of a tweet reading day is number one on global Spotify shake it off 35 days the fate of Ophelia 33 days with the aforementioned rabbit clock meme
November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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trump's taste in decor is going to delay or blunt the return of maximalism by years. the gold groundhog saw their overembellished shadow and now we're gonna have three more years of greige
trump in the oval office, there's gold shit everywhere
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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this sounds like a company which has wayyyyy overinvested in AI, despite primarily making beverages for people to drink with their human mouths
DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm Coca-Cola’s annual Christmas advert is AI-generated again this year. The company says they used even fewer people to make it — “We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope… The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in”
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful November.
the cover of a magazine called Canadian Grocer. Two white guys in business shirts and black trousers stand in the produce section. Headline The Farm Boy Way
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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My dog turned three and Kansas is beautiful
Milly, a big tan and white short haired dog with a floppy tongue, stands in front of the prairie at the Baker Wetlands Milly rolls in poop at the Wetlands Barker wetlands. The landscape of Kansas. Beautiful tall grass, sparse trees, big sky, a small pond Native grasses at the Baker wetlands
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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i always love to find a paragraph on wikipedia that has clearly made it through two decades basically unchanged
Television hosting In 2003, Rodriguez became Queer Eye's resident "Culture Vulture", functioning as the show's expert on the topic of culture, and the show's success brought him increased exposure. He was a replacement host for the show's culture host who was originally cast, but has been part of Queer Eye since the third episode. This show includes five men who respectively are a grooming guru, food and wine connoisseur, fashion savant, a fashion stylist, and a culture vulture.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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For a second, I thought his costume was supposed to be Kristi Noem
Jd Vance tweeting himself wearing a wig on Halloween to make fun of one of his memes
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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KANSAS CITY!!! Heading your way for an event tonight at the Midcontinent Public Library!!!! 7 pm!! Be there!!
ad for this event
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Making up a person to get mad at, gatekeeping literacy edition. Penguin Clothbound Classics are not gentrification, the "bookish" aren't "claiming" anything, please get real.
Stop being so twee please Publishers have gladly nurtured a class of readers who think of themselves as “bookish.” The perpetual focus of the “bookish” is on a series of internet-defined “relatable” traits, none of which have anything to do with intellectual labour even though they think that’s what they’re doing: drinking tea, and hoarding books without reading them2, and enjoying the smell of old paper and of rain, and fantasising about being at Oxford in the nineteenth century. They are a world apart: books are in their blood. Non-bookish people just don’t get it, and probably only read “performatively;” the bookish are very concerned about this, to the point where they think it warrants a deluge of YouTube video essays. The effect runs close to gentrification. Penguin throws off its responsibility as a publishing house and refuses to really say anything about Lolita or Pride and Prejudice or Vanity Fair. The editions are meant to be inoffensive, but I do find considerable offence in their version of Mrs Dalloway, which is bound in pink cloth and scattered with cartoon fighter planes. The idea is probably that you can’t go wrong when you refuse to make a statement - but a confounding novel should really signify that it is confounding. The whole point of Woolf was that she broke the literary mould. I think it’s nice to manufacture “special editions” of widely-read books. This isn’t really a new thing; in a literate society there would still be lots of reverence for the book-as-object. The “bookish” shouldn’t get to claim the concept for themselves. The Folio Society’s massively expensive hardbacks are much less offensive as literary productions because they tend to commission different artists to work on each one. The issue with the Penguin Clothbound Classics is in their flattening, winking and nudging - the castration of once-threatening and shocking literary ideas into “Easter eggs”. “You’ll only get this if you know what the book’s about,” they say - “and if you know what the book’s about, you must be bookish!” The life of the mind becomes an in-joke. Sex, danger and thrill take a backseat to “Omg look it’s a book.”
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Channeled my bad mood into absolutely killing it with three new recipes
Three dishes - a Julia Child mushroom chicken dish, a risotto, and a bean salad on romaine - in silver and white plate west. Glass of red wine. Wood table.
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Dogs (I do not know the Pyrenees in photo four but what a model!)
My dog Milly, a delightful huge mixed breed dog with floppy ears wrinkles and a mask pattern face, among fall leaves Milly in leaves again Milly in leaves. She looks like she’s expecting a treat A beautiful Pyrenees dog against a field
October 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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A few photos from the last month or so because I haven’t posted them and I need the dopamine
A mirror picture of me. I am wearing a blue and white dress and my fancy doc martens. You can see my office behind me My handsome husband out to dinner. There are oyesters and cocktails on the table. He is wearing an axe shirt A selfie of me and my husband. There’s a tower in the background A picture of me and my husband outside in Tallgrass national prairie . He’s wearing sunglasses. I’m wearing a KC monarchs hat and an axe shirt
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Well run as a fucking Republican then?????
Graham Platner: “I am running as a Democrat, despite my party trying to destroy my life.”
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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look at this 1958 picture where Frank Lloyd Wright hangs out with some guy wearing 2025 business casual
a young man with dark hair in a modernish cut wearing an untucked polo shirt and khakis next to a 90-something frank lloyd wright, who has that shit on
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM