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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 5h
I was a news-reading adult at the time, and he absolutely did. Trump has shifted the dumbassness scale significantly, but Bush appointed some real ding dongs.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 7h
A cursory check on US flight schools would have caught like 1/2 of the hijackers. I have no idea who Gore wouldve appointed for nat’l security, but certainly not the chucklefucks GWB did.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 8h
it’s a direct quote. I didn’t pick it up at first either because it’s been decades since I saw it, but @omniart.bsky.social reminded me when we spotted the sign.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 8h
He’d probably still order some kind of military action against AQ, but not the shitshows we got. And as you said, absolutely not Iraq.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 8h
A millenial lady. Which made sense for being a Mean Girls reference.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 8h
Genuinely the moment in US (and to a significant extent, world) history in my own lifetime where shit went deeply, deeply wrong. If you believe, as I do, that a Gore admin would’ve likely prevented 9/11, then even more so.
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h
[kicks in door, screaming] BUSH V GORE
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 8h
I take it you’ve tested out your strozzaprieti with local priests, with no success. btw I agree that linguine is superior to spaghetti.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 9h
it’s more of a state of mind accompanying the state of nudity.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 9h
I’ve had trenne at a restaurant in seattle. pretty good.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 9h
not the biggest fan. my top 3 are probably linguine, penne rigate, and orzo, for different sauces or preparations.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 13h
This sounds like a variant of Johnny Marzetti, but I am not an authority on inter-city Italian-Ohioan culture, so maybe not en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_...
Johnny Marzetti - Wikipedia
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 13h
Chew is important! It’s why I don’t like farfalle (I used to, for the novelty and the joy, to which you introduced me, of yelling “BOWTIES!”): undercooked center, overcooked edges.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 14h
NYPD know not to fuck with Coco Canal. Where are their wives gonna get fake designer bags??
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 14h
I’m a bucatini hater. I like short tube pasta, but long tube? The sauce can’t get in there, so what’s the point?
actioncookbook.com actioncookBOOk @actioncookbook.com · 18h
a second day of the same discourse? no. no thank you.

instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 1d
A lot of them were very clearly tweaked the fuck out in 2020. Some demonic cocktail of uppers and roids, I’m not sure. So…year 6? Year 1 mark 2?
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 1d
I once saw a poster illustrating dozens of fruits of Colombia and I about lost my mind.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 1d
Update: I just read that he’d known what it was for years, so I retract this supposition. Fuck him.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 1d
If he doesn’t get it done literally TODAY, it should be over for him.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 1d
otoh: Blackwater.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 1d
It feels like he might have a way forward if, and only if, he releases a statement *today* expressing contrition and prior ignorance, accompanied by a photo, also dated *today*, of him getting the tat lasered or covered. Tomorrow is too late.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 2d
I’m gonna have to break with the dictionary here and insist that “butt naked” is is own thing, and legit.
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d
Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 3d
“Shopgirls” by Jessica Anya Blau. Last year it was a one-two punch: “Brutes” by Dizz Tate and “Penance” by Eliza Clark. I have a soft spot for novels that lean into how weird and fucked up teen girls/very young women are.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 4d
Best sign so far today at the Seattle #NoKings.
protest sign that says “Trump is the nastiest skank bitch I’ve ever met. Do not trust that Orange Man. He is a FUGLY SLUT. 10.18.25” with a picture on the bottom right of Trump with a hitler mustache.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · Jun 14
There are no kings in America, except the several restaurants around the country named Pho King. 🍜
katiecandraw.bsky.social Katie Cook @katiecandraw.bsky.social · Jun 13
There are no kings in America except Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago.

See some of you out and about around town this weekend.
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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 5d
Bookmarked, ty! I’ve had luck with jump to recipe + print view, but one or both don’t always work on every site. I miss the golden era of blogs when I actually *did* want to read the recipe preamble. Smitten Kitchen was/is an exemplar.