Peter Merholz
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
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Miss the best game of the night? Catch all the excitement of the game, plus my live analysis with The Last 3:10 | SAS @ ORL | Dunc’d On Clutch Calls. Our last one of these got 50,000 views--Check it out! https://youtu.be/_srbhAmaL6E?si=r1l5LsEQf8rHCCqt
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Miss the best game of the night? Catch all the excitement of the game, plus my live analysis with The Last 3:10 | SAS @ ORL | Dunc’d On Clutch Calls. Our last one of these got 50,000 views--Check it out! https://youtu.be/_srbhAmaL6E?si=r1l5LsEQf8rHCCqt
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
I bought my tickets the day this was announced.
Some day I'll have a Hodgman-worthy dispute. The problem I currently have is I'm always right, and everyone around me knows it.
Some day I'll have a Hodgman-worthy dispute. The problem I currently have is I'm always right, and everyone around me knows it.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I bought my tickets the day this was announced.
Some day I'll have a Hodgman-worthy dispute. The problem I currently have is I'm always right, and everyone around me knows it.
Some day I'll have a Hodgman-worthy dispute. The problem I currently have is I'm always right, and everyone around me knows it.
Only the NBA can take something exciting (a close game) and turn it into an interminable slog (free throw battle).
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Only the NBA can take something exciting (a close game) and turn it into an interminable slog (free throw battle).
Also: insanely cheap gas is not a good thing. Gas prices should reflect their tot cost to society.
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Also: insanely cheap gas is not a good thing. Gas prices should reflect their tot cost to society.
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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
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Very excited for what just came available on my Libby app!
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Very excited for what just came available on my Libby app!
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Crab for breakfast!
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Crab for breakfast!
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Ginger Rogers for “Fifth Avenue Girl” (1939)
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Ginger Rogers for “Fifth Avenue Girl” (1939)
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At its peak, 100-200k NYC horses, 30 lbs of poop/day each. People would use these boot scrapers, that you can still see everywhere today built into the brownstone wrought iron fences, to scrape, 70%? of the poop off the bottom of their shoes before they went into the house. Horse poop everywhere.
October 16, 2024 at 12:46 AM
At its peak, 100-200k NYC horses, 30 lbs of poop/day each. People would use these boot scrapers, that you can still see everywhere today built into the brownstone wrought iron fences, to scrape, 70%? of the poop off the bottom of their shoes before they went into the house. Horse poop everywhere.
You can’t try to logic this shit. Dudes a psychopath, has been since he was a child.
Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents inhabited the Pale of Settlement (western Russia where Jews were allowed to live) and escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. All the same racist, xenophobic, ignorant things he is saying were said about his own family.
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
You can’t try to logic this shit. Dudes a psychopath, has been since he was a child.
DOWN CEMETERY ROAD is so frustrating. Starts with real promise, degrades to mediocre clumsily plotted generic crime something.
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
DOWN CEMETERY ROAD is so frustrating. Starts with real promise, degrades to mediocre clumsily plotted generic crime something.
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Sean Young and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982).
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Sean Young and Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982).
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I must not post. Posting is the mind-killer. Posting is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my post. I will permit it to pass over me and through me and not onto the keyboard. And when it has gone past I will turn my phone off. Where the post has gone there will be nothing.
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I must not post. Posting is the mind-killer. Posting is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my post. I will permit it to pass over me and through me and not onto the keyboard. And when it has gone past I will turn my phone off. Where the post has gone there will be nothing.
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Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...."
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November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...."
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I’m thankful to have adopted a dog that is so comfortable to fall asleep on me.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’m thankful to have adopted a dog that is so comfortable to fall asleep on me.
A weird point of personal pride was when the actress who played Moose emailed me in a professional capacity (this would have been about 20 years after the show was on).
I remember seeing You Can't Do That On Television as a kid and I still don't understand how any of that happened
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A weird point of personal pride was when the actress who played Moose emailed me in a professional capacity (this would have been about 20 years after the show was on).
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THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY
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perfect example of what I mean when I say "Canada is fucking weird", this pineapple taught me french
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November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
perfect example of what I mean when I say "Canada is fucking weird", this pineapple taught me french
I can't be the only one who wonders about the two 'z's variously sounding like "ts" and "zzz".
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I can't be the only one who wonders about the two 'z's variously sounding like "ts" and "zzz".
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Elizabeth Taylor getting drenched during the filming of Raintree County (1957). Photo by Bob Willoughby.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Elizabeth Taylor getting drenched during the filming of Raintree County (1957). Photo by Bob Willoughby.
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“You say ‘No Kings’ and yet you play with a deck that contains four of them.”
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
“You say ‘No Kings’ and yet you play with a deck that contains four of them.”