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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 9h

You'd think someone from Buffalo of all places would understand and nonsensical first half, a brief hope at intermission/halftime, only to be utterly let down by the second half and leave early

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 15h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 9h

I'm a bit of a rebel, you might say

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 9h

I can't believe I get to be smug about not being a bandwagon Blue Jays fan AND a bandwagon Bills fan at the same time. What a time to be alive

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 10h

He lives outside of London so I was like "do you have bad parts of London you don't go to but the rest is fine?" He was like "oh absolutely" and I said "same with every American city, including Philly"

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 10h

He couldn't even place it on a map (he was literally in the process of asking me to point out where some of our coworkers live cause he had no concept). I also trust he has no idea of the implications behind the word ghetto

The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 10h

I think frequently about how I did not realize how far-right propaganda about the US crosses oceans until my British boss, while asking me about American geography, asked me out of the blue "why is Philadelphia such a ghetto?"

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13h

Maybe beginning to feel news coverage that either ignores this sort of blather or balances it with a polite “Some experts disagree with the assessment that Portland is a burned-out hellscape under the rule of Antifa warlords” doesn’t really cut it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Adrian Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 11h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 12h

I did sourdough like over a decade ago but it's been so long so I will!

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 13h

I tortured myself looking at my mom's copy today and I am very tempted by their GF sourdough starter

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Lair Of The Gurt Sherm (Stoker 1911) @gurtsherm.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 19h

Unfortunately Pinterest is getting overrun by AI (according to my mom who uses it a lot). She had an absolute fail with a recipe from there and we noticed the picture didn't quite match. I reverse image searched and it was a stock image. We think the recipe may have been AI written

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 19h

🎶 I got a pocket full of hawthornes

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 21h

have you ever once gotten a satisfactory definition of what an AI agent is? because I still have no idea what that's supposed to mean lol

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 21h

I've only heard once of him rolling up to Pittsford in a super car, and I think that was an informal visit. Even he has the common sense to tone it down when visiting the plebes lol

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 21h

Love sitting through the millionth presentation about how awesome this new AI tool is but then the list of things it isn't capable of "yet" is just the all the things you would want it to be able to do

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 21h

Ooh! I've heard of Weis but not Domaine, I will check them out. And definitely dry wines! Forge is one of the few Rieslings I like

The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 21h

I do often think of the time I was trudging back to my dorm on a slushy unplowed sidewalk and the president of UR drove past me in an Audi that cost 2 years worth of tuition

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 21h

When a restaurant goes out of their way to specify their fries are beef tallow

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 22h

Why exactly do I give a shit how much the hospital makes if we both get treated

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 22h

lol we hit a lot of them! We went to Living Roots on Keuka, then Forge on Seneca, then Twisted Rail on Canandaigua

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 22h

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 22h

Having one of those days at work again

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a bit concerned you're the only one in the replies to notice any issues

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The Tweeter Formerly Known as akachela @akachela.bsky.social · 1d

You can add some grated parm to the mix too. It's so good!

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