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Peter Ackroyd opens his history of England in the 19th century: “Cant was the moral cloud which covered the nineteenth century. It was part of the age of respectability.”

I think this about framing all the time.
Any teacher who has spent 10+ years acknowledging student wrong answers would be great at cold reading.
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I feel like there’s a version of Late Night with the Devil that comes out in 2007 starring Matthew Broderick
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Reposted
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you want to test a marriage disagree about a fever
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Man what do you even want from Schnoodle?
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Did we ever figure out what eyes without a face was all about?
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Bet it feels nice to be a lazing warthog and have a mob of meerkats scrambling over you, eating your parasites.
November 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Two year old is pretending her string cheese is earrings
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Sure I panicked and overreacted but does it say about what you did to allow me to?
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This is what they took from you
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sometimes you reminisce with your two month old about the cute way they used to say something when their brain was significantly less developed 6 months ago
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Lawn care renewal company called Fescue 911
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Someone should write a science fiction story where the surveillance state backfires on those who create it
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My 2 yo will watch three episodes of Bluey and somewhere in there she will say: “they are all dogs” or something like that
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It’s just nice that New York City found their Spanberger
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Haunted commute this morning as the grave markers of dead campaigns still pepper the roadside
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I can’t believe local stations at the gym are safe again.
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Spanberger should thank Dave Brat
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
people don’t yet that Hashmi’s phd dissertation was on William Carlos Williams
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Watching Bluey.

“What’s that called”
“That’s a cricket bat. It’s a game they play.“
“and that’s a dog”
“well yeah”
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My cats and dog recognize that my wife and I are larger and more powerful than them but they aren’t scared of us. The two year old absolutely terrifies them. Small, exciting, wild, invulnerable.
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We’re at the stage where 90000 votes seems like a lot but really it’s almost nothing
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Angela’s Ashes? Wow spoiler alert
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My wife who grew up middle class doesn’t quite know the smell of a cigarette thrown into a toilet in a steamy bathroom
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The H means you should pronounce it ga-host
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM