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I don't know any magic tricks except how to turn 1 paragraph into a 40 minute video
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Some of the recent blooms around the house
August 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Some of the recent blooms around the house
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New Philosophy Tube drops on YouTube this Friday! It’s about the early history of the US, how it got to this point, and Thomas Jefferson in particular
August 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New Philosophy Tube drops on YouTube this Friday! It’s about the early history of the US, how it got to this point, and Thomas Jefferson in particular
A necklace I picked up, a raven carved from 5000 year old oak wood dredged up from a peat bog giving it that black color. A raven made of black wood....hmmmmm
August 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A necklace I picked up, a raven carved from 5000 year old oak wood dredged up from a peat bog giving it that black color. A raven made of black wood....hmmmmm
Gee thanks HBO for two years later deciding to copyright claim a 45 minute commentary video based on 10 seconds of video. I didn't know a GIF was harming your product.
July 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Gee thanks HBO for two years later deciding to copyright claim a 45 minute commentary video based on 10 seconds of video. I didn't know a GIF was harming your product.
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Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.
May 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.
Finished my book nook, a light up scene called "The Gate of Wonderland". Wedged between A Dance with Dragons and Fire and Blood. One day I'll have to move it right?? Right????
May 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Finished my book nook, a light up scene called "The Gate of Wonderland". Wedged between A Dance with Dragons and Fire and Blood. One day I'll have to move it right?? Right????
I have never wanted a piece of home decor more than I want this stained glass raven lamp
May 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I have never wanted a piece of home decor more than I want this stained glass raven lamp
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FYI I have a filter on podcast emails for the phrase “I asked ChatGPT.” I’m not interested. Have a great weekend!
May 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
FYI I have a filter on podcast emails for the phrase “I asked ChatGPT.” I’m not interested. Have a great weekend!
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Matt Smith asking the question we were all asking. Not that HBO Max is a good name either. Everyone just calls it HBO, it's like someone got inspired by Elon Musk changing Twitter to X
May 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Matt Smith asking the question we were all asking. Not that HBO Max is a good name either. Everyone just calls it HBO, it's like someone got inspired by Elon Musk changing Twitter to X
I appreciate the self awareness from HBO that it was extremely bad to get rid of their name for "Max" and that they decided to make fun of themselves to go back. Still pretty cringe.
May 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I appreciate the self awareness from HBO that it was extremely bad to get rid of their name for "Max" and that they decided to make fun of themselves to go back. Still pretty cringe.
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Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
May 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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He is gonna accidentally kill the pope or set fire to the sistine chapel or something
JD Vance heads to Rome - could he meet Pope Francis?
JD Vance heads to Rome - could he meet Pope Francis?
The US vice-president will meet Italy's prime minister but an audience at the Vatican could also happen, the BBC learns.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
He is gonna accidentally kill the pope or set fire to the sistine chapel or something
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Larry David appears to be responding to his friend Bill Maher here with this NYT Piece “My Dinner With Adolf”
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
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April 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Larry David appears to be responding to his friend Bill Maher here with this NYT Piece “My Dinner With Adolf”
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My story, today: 10 Stanford, UC Berkeley student visas revoked — dozens more around California www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
10 Stanford, UC Berkeley student visas revoked — dozens more around California
The revocations affect six current and former Stanford University students and four at UC Berkeley, plus students at schools in San Diego, LA and Davis.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
My story, today: 10 Stanford, UC Berkeley student visas revoked — dozens more around California www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
God I hope this is a joke
April 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
God I hope this is a joke
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A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.
April 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.
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Updated just now. Six pages so far. The breadth of destruction is staggering.
I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email [email protected]
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Updated just now. Six pages so far. The breadth of destruction is staggering.
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Every day I wake up to the news
April 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Every day I wake up to the news
They did pay him a tremendous amount of money for those rights. I think HBO often pisses him off, but that's what the money is for.
It's honestly funny at this point how he inevitably winds up going through these messy creative breakups with producers and studios yet he continues to work on new adaptions and projects with them based on his books.
April 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
They did pay him a tremendous amount of money for those rights. I think HBO often pisses him off, but that's what the money is for.
I think it's close to a canned response for him. He knows it is not great for marketing to be publicly beefing with his own TV show, but this stuff also clearly bothers him. Sometimes he can't help himself. His creative side and business side in conflict within himself.
It’s weird that he’s used the “how many children does Scarlet O’Hara have?” story so often to tell viewers to not draw direct lines between the show and the books but can’t seem to do it himself. But then again, how often do we take the advice we give others?
April 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I think it's close to a canned response for him. He knows it is not great for marketing to be publicly beefing with his own TV show, but this stuff also clearly bothers him. Sometimes he can't help himself. His creative side and business side in conflict within himself.
The dance in fire and blood is not a completed story. It is an outline missing vast amounts of dialogue, scenes, connective tissue, and objective truth of events necessary to make a TV show. The dance has a beginning, middle, and end that is true. What it lacks is detail beyond summary.
I'm sure GRRM has been difficult during this process but I also think Condal managed to take a completed story and unnecessarily change it, alienating a large portion of the audience for seemingly no reason. He's not some poor little guy here.
April 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The dance in fire and blood is not a completed story. It is an outline missing vast amounts of dialogue, scenes, connective tissue, and objective truth of events necessary to make a TV show. The dance has a beginning, middle, and end that is true. What it lacks is detail beyond summary.
Also important to mention the unspoken force that lead to this: union busting by Hollywood and HBO. They slashed the budget of the show including two planned episodes, they helped force the strikes that led to a production that had to shoot through those strikes.
Ryan Condal in response to GRRM's post about the gulf between himself and Condal. Tldr, when Condal found himself between a rock and a hard place with HBO, George stopped being helpful or reasonable in how to work around those problems. And more or less quit the show and Condal.
April 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Also important to mention the unspoken force that lead to this: union busting by Hollywood and HBO. They slashed the budget of the show including two planned episodes, they helped force the strikes that led to a production that had to shoot through those strikes.
Ryan Condal in response to GRRM's post about the gulf between himself and Condal. Tldr, when Condal found himself between a rock and a hard place with HBO, George stopped being helpful or reasonable in how to work around those problems. And more or less quit the show and Condal.
April 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ryan Condal in response to GRRM's post about the gulf between himself and Condal. Tldr, when Condal found himself between a rock and a hard place with HBO, George stopped being helpful or reasonable in how to work around those problems. And more or less quit the show and Condal.