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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 7h

On the other hand, my ex (that same ex) used to call him up (Asimov's number was publicly available) for homework help. And Asimov would give it.

Probably bc curious boys, but whatever.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 7h

He used to slap his editor on the butt - we all saw it.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 7h

It was lost. I'm not sure who lost it - could've been my ex (not that he would protect me, but perhaps it was an incursion on his "property"), could've just been a casualty of moving. But yeah. That happened.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 7h

He did. I was one of them - not at a convention, but as an editorial assistant at Doubleday. He wrote me a limerick. It wasn't great.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 8h

I remember 4 phone numbers from my childhood, two of which are still valid - I am 60.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 15h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 9h

yes but why

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

I love reading digitally

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 11h

I prefer audiobooks

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

It's like being trapped in a nightmare that you never wake up from.

As a nation - hell, as a WORLD - we are being abused and traumatized every day by these people.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

Which means maybe it's not cognitive dissonance, but that people really are this evil, right here, right now.

Because all the evidence points that way.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

That kind of cognitive dissonance is just mind-boggling to me. But as my mother used to say, "If you could understand crazy, I'd be worried about you."

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

"No, Johnny, I'm not buying you new Nazis - we have Nazis at home."

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

I mean, it's kind of scary how the evangelical Christian movement in the US mirrors this.

Or maybe it's on purpose.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

This is the part I am genuinely baffled by. The only thing I can think of is this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positiv...

Positive Christianity - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Vajra Kilgour @vajrak.bsky.social · 11h

The weird upside-down value system of the right: being awake and aware is bad. Antifa - opposing fascism - is bad. Empathy - simple human decency - is bad. & then they carry on about the Antichrist as if they couldn't so easily find it in their mirror.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 11h

now you've done it

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ashley ray @theashleyray.bsky.social · 16h

like babes if you’re trying to fundraise…let’s get on this

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 19h

Omg, that’s right!

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 1d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to work up the energy to cook. Whereas so many times it's a joy, today it just feels like a goddamn chore.

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 1d

a friend just shared this with me. ICE is waiting outside of Catholic churches in Chicago today to detain Latinos as they leave mass:

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...

From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago: Ice is going to another level and waiting for people to leave mass.

Explore this post and more from the illinois community

www.reddit.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Marital Frustrations Channeled Through Thermostat

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 1d

VF covered it back in 2011: archive.vanityfair.com/article/2011...

The Trouble with Andrew | Vanity Fair

In the royal-wedding afterglow, Buckingham Palace still has a major P.R. problem: how to handle Prince Andrew, Britain’s trade ambassador and fourth in line to the throne. The prince’s dissolute lifes...

archive.vanityfair.com

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly having a biracial princess in the family is far more scandalous than pedophilia. Charles was tight with Savile, Peter Ball (pedophile priest), Laurens Van der Post.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 1d

OMG, I love this.

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