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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 3d

I think more household products should be psychoanalytically scrutinized. Dawn is Jungian, but dishwashers are Oedipal, prove me wrong

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 3d

In its defense, I don't think anyone else ever thought in that particular way about soap powders and detergents

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 3d

I get over annoyed that Starbucks now advertises putting "real pumpkin" in its pumpkin spice latte because it caved to some influencer who complained about it a few years ago, apparently ignorant of the existence of pumpkin pie spice (pumpkin not included, obvi). Don't put squash in my coffee omg

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 7d

I'm not an expert but this mushroom is definitely waving a red "do not eat" flag! 🍄🚩🚩 #fungifriends

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 8d

It is a delight, in fact it's hard to imagine not liking it. She was an effervescent and clever writer.

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 8d

Wayyyyy less popular, but the discontinued cereal I still long for is Product 19, maybe the greatest cereal name of all time (or the funniest named, to me anyway!).

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 9d

This is the joke reference only I get when I say it, but every time I say "I'm on my way," it is in the cadence of Homer answering a Wheel of Fortune clue instead of listening to/ answering Marge, who has told him to pick up Bart. (Bart does not get picked up.)

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 9d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 11d

Spotted this perfect adorable little gi on my dog walk #fungifriends

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 12d

I always thought he was lame/unfunny and found it weird how many people loved him. So much misogyny disguised as "lol white women." This feels so vindicating! Now he can tell lots of funny jokes about women drivers, since Saudi women couldn't drive until a couple years ago. Perfect audience for him.

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 13d

I absolutely love "Bon Appetit, Your Majesty,' the time-traveling, cooking, royal Jeoson court K-drama. It has Game of Thrones-style brutality and scheming, but always in the back of its mind the question: "Could this be solved by a cooking competition?"

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 16d

J.P. Brammer, whose name my Swedish autocorrect keeps trying to change to Bränner, might be our best contemporary essayist. He is definitely my favorite, and this piece is superb!

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 16d

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

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Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 21d

Is she? I always think of her as the lady who tried to send back a surrogate baby like a pair of shoes that didn't fit

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 21d

T-Rex is secretly Nathan Fielder apparently!

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 28d

My god, I was not expecting SO MUCH to happen in the #Foundation season finale. Certain dramatic events have transpired, indeed! So glad there's a season 4 to come.

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 29d

My little chickadee

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Sep 11

Classic "Liquid Death" water was made to make non-drinkers feel cool when hanging out with beer drinkers. But there are some flavored versions too

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Sep 11

Time traveler came back to prevent the next Hitler

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Sep 10

Rita's Water Ice is to "Task" as Wawa was to "Mare of Easttown," and I appreciate that

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Sep 8

A unicycle hockey player? Is the first line of his bio?! Wow I had no idea

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Sep 5

Watching people practice for tomorrow's big boat docking contest from my prime waterfront property (the dog park)

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wow a Norse language joke I actually get

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Aug 31

Me when I am not allowed to roll in the fetid swamp

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Aug 30

No, a TV setting that makes everything look like a soap opera!

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Aug 30

You know nothing of motion smoothing because I would never allow it in a billion years on our TV, but it is a common, horrible setting. I will show you some time so you can share in the horror

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Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hotels, we need to talk about not inflicting motion smoothing on your guests. What kind of hospitality is that, making everything look like a soap opera?

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