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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 3h

it has been one of those days when the world keeps reminding you that you have no value and you keep snarling back OH BUT I DO

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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 4h

The Spy Who Audited Me

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 9h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 9h

STUDENT: (looking at the play "Pygmalion") Pie-g-mall-ion.

ME: Pig-male-ion.

STUDENT: Is it a play about how men are pigs?

ME: Good guess, but no.

(I think about it.)

ME: Actually, great guess, and yes.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 1d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 3d

the Drake meme but it's these two photos of Hilary Jenkinson

Hilary Jenkinson looking slightly less annoyed than he did previously.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 3d

in other social media news I am really enjoying posting cringe on the library's IG for American Archives Month. just call me Hilary JANKinson

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 3d

I had a coworker who would say PLENTY OF FICHE IN THE SEA every time I reshelved the microfiche in the library. I didn't kill him but I kinda wanted to.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3d

Sympathy
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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 4d

if anyone is tempted to ask me how snakes can survive in boiling oil TAKE IT UP WITH THE BROTHERS GRIMM

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 4d

can't believe I agreed to a second date. anyway, this time I've been nailed up inside a barrel of boiling oil and snakes. I'm struggling with his mixed messages.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 4d

in retrospect I should have suspected something was wrong when my date abandoned me in the forest and I survived thanks to that mysterious gingerbread house

Teaser for a Washington Post article titled "Breadcrumbing and Three Other Dating Red Flags You Should Watch Out For."

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 4d

absolutely, they're powerless against it

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 4d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

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