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Jeff Smith
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Trained linguist, medieval history nerd, classical piano amateur, Python programming cheerleader, red ale enthusiast, Chinese martial arts disciple.
Your reaction is funny and I totally get it but I do resent the cultural narrowness of that list. I've seen French comedies ten times funnier than many of those movies.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You can read it in his _Letters_ as well. More than once.
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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There's a great Substack piece by Adam Rutherford debunking all this nonsense.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Dire wolves remain very extinct
Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.
arutherford.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The folding screens make that look like my martial arts school. What about a few kungfu routines to warm yourself up?
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The American flag used as an equivalent of the Confederate one appearing side-by-side with the Drapeau des Patriotes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot... was in fact an absolutely stunning conflagration of historically mythologized narratives.
September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Truckers wore MAGA hats when they blocked Ottawa in 2022, and I did see a couple of American flags on pick-up trucks at a much milder copycat convoy event in my town, Quebec City.
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM