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Nancy Friedman
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Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. “Queen of retail rabbit holes.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/
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Everything is terrible, but I have the top score (so far) in today's Slate Pears game.
489 - top score 672 max
February 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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“Whose"-avoidance
where are you from, what language are you using, and what do you call a large motorised vehicle that's [sic] primary purpose is to extinguish fires (and respond to other emergencies etc)
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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"Criteria" is the plural. "Criterion" is the singular. (From the @nytimes.com "Open Thread" style newsletter, 2/6/26) messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
The first criteria [sic] for amateurs should simply be what feels good and what you can afford.
February 6, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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"Twenty-eight of which"? Edit: "twenty-eight million of which."
New Yorker: Certainly, one would expect the film to offer a Melania-friendly take, given that Melania, an executive producer, had creative control, and that Amazon paid a record-breaking forty million dollars—twenty-eight of which Melania reportedly pocketed—in a rights deal that might have been brokered by Boss Tweed. (The second-highest bid, from Disney, came in about twenty-six million dollars lower.)
February 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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This makes it sound as though she's wearing nothing other than heels, which is even ickier than it's meant to be. Edit: "Melania in heels watching television; Melania in heels meeting a former hostage . . ."
New Yorker: Throughout the hundred-and-four-minute run time, the shoe motif continues: Melania watching television in heels alone; Melania meeting a former hostage in heels alone; Melania sitting on a couch alone and, at the end of a long day, removing her heels.
February 2, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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Tatiana has her revenge or redress, not her comeuppance (which means punishment or just deserts).
@sfchronicle.com #EugeneOnegin
The story to come is in large part about spurned love, with a quartet of lives at play. Tatiana, a country girl, falls for our titular misanthrope and makes the foolish decision to write him a letter, only to be coldly rejected. Meanwhile, her sensuous younger sister Olga and Olga’s fiancé, Lensky, are soon caught in the crosshairs of Eugene and Tatiana’s tension, with murderous results. Years later, Tatiana will have her comeuppance, a development that will vicariously satisfy any woman who has seen a man underestimate her worth.
February 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Amphifa, Oakland.
Sticker with cartoon image of a frog and the legend DON'T OBEY
January 30, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Again with the Central Casting.
NY Times: In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Warsh, saying, “He will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best.” “On top of everything else, he is ‘central casting’ and will never let you down,” the president wrote.
January 30, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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“The slop stops here.”
The slop stops here: SF Muni bus ad for Gazetteer, a new local publication.
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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“Chaos” — my pick* for 2025 word of the year — continues to dominate the news.

* and no one else’s
Rolling Stone, January 27: ‘Chaos’: Behind the Scenes of Amazon’s Melania Trump Doc
January 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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All "in wake of" headlines are bad, but this one is especially bad.
Golden Gate Bridge suicides plummet in wake of barrier
January 23, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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New from me: On "Praxis," a trite name for a sinister project.

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@motherjones.com
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January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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None are so blind as those who will not see.
GOP voters on Trump's second term: Hopeful, great, appreciative, OK, great, amazing, decent, excellent, going well.
January 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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New to me: "compère," a fancy (BrE) way of saying "host."
From the Guardian: Fashion elder compères his own celebration of designs revived from his archive by design director Sam Cotton
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Annals of bowdlerization.

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Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who once served as cardiologist to the late Vice President **** Cheney,
January 15, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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An actual billboard for an actual AI company, spotted today in San Francisco. The text reads "Customer Support That Actually Cares."
Billboard depicting a metal robot embracing a woman whose eyes are closed and lips are slightly parted. Her auburn hair wafts in a breeze. A white horse is dimly visible in the background. The italic text reads "Customer Support That Actually Cares." The advertiser is BLAND [sic]; the slogan is "Never Wait On Hold Again."
January 8, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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More "chaos," my choice for word of the year for 2025. #woty25
Full-page ad for OKTA, "the world's identity company," in NY Times, Sunday Jan 4 2026. Headline reads: "AI agents on the rise? Put chaos on the decline."
January 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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My final -- and absolute worst -- #tistheseason for this season:
A social-media post from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dated 12/18/25. It reads TIS THE SEASON FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS. I see they've already deported the apostrophe in 'tis.
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Diåcritics göne wïld!

(At IT'SUGAR, a name that has always set my teeth on edge.)
Sandwich board outside It’sugar: Swedish cåndy! | Fröm TikTök fåvës to cult clåssics – all in one place
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Together we joy.

#anthimeria
#VerbAllTheWords
Sign on back of delivery truck: Aperol Spritz Together we joy
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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'Tis the season for holiday scams, warns Discover.

#tistheseason
'Tis the season for holiday scams--three to watch out for
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I liked “Jay Kelly,” but I did catch a branding goof: When Jim Broadbent is making a sandwich in George Clooney's Los Angeles kitchen he uses Hellmann's mayonnaise, which is sold only east of the Mississippi. The brand is called Best Foods here. | @bcdreyer.social
Jim Broadbent scoops some mayo out of a Hellmann's jar in "Jay Kelly"
December 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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’Tis the season to get it all done faster, says Dell Technologies.

#tistheseason
Dell Technologies: ’Tis the season to get it all done faster. Dark-haired woman smiles vaguely as she gazes into a laptop screen.
December 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Is terminal lengthening showing up in languages other than English (whyyyy) and Spanish (quéee)?

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Ad for Covered California healthcare plans on the side of an AC Transit bus in Oakland: Cuidado de salud sin el ¿quéee? ("Healthcare without the whaaat?" or maybe "whatttt")
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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'Tis the season to save BIG, says HerRoom, an online lingerie retailer.

#tistheseason
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM