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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 3h

That said, I did go to a private high school that pushed writing hard, so I could use those drilled in skills to advance my slacker-ass attitude

Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 3h

In college, I took a literature class with my then girlfriend/now wife, and she worked for like 2 weeks on her final paper, I worked on it for 2 days. I ended up getting a better grade, and boy was there some strain on our relationship. Decades later she still brings it up as an annoying me story.

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 3h

Had a similar moment walking by the neighborhood comic book shop window a couple days ago!

A photo of a comic book shop window, in it is a lot of comic book memorabilia, as well as a game board box reading HUSKER DU?

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 11h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 11h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 11h

They're never hungrier than 10 minutes before bedtime tho

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 11h

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 12h

Which praise and worship band would Mike Johnson prefer to do the Super Bowl halftime show, wrong answers only

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 14h

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 14h

Chat Pile @chatpileband.bsky.social

RIYL Unwound, Pissed Jeans, Part Chimp

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 15h

A real standout in a series that is basically all standouts.

quiet details @quietdetails.bsky.social · 15h

Huge thanks for the support so far for qd40 @scannerdot.com - Forces, Reactions, Defections!

Such a wonderful album it’s a true pleasure to share with you.

Two more days of half-price digital - some CDs still available too, so if you want one, they’re there for now!

#scanner #quietdetails #music

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 15h

Isn't that basically what Lana Del Rey did?

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 15h

Her song "Maroon" from Midnights has a line about "Your roommate's cheap-ass screw-top rosé" and while I legit think that song kind of rules, that line always gives me pause, like cmon, when was the last time you even hung out with someone who has roommates, in their home?

Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 15h

That Brussels Sprouts sandwich is incredible. Also their Nashville Hot Mushroom sandwich is better than most Nashville Hot Chicken sandwiches I've eaten in this town.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 17h

"Fuck yer New Haven garbage, greasy shallow pan or gtfo"

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 17h

I'm from here and also went to college here, and fucking *everyone* in college from out of town made such a huge goddamn deal about how this pizza is garbage and only the pizza they had at home was good, that it negatively polarized me into the opinion that Greek House of Pizza is the True Pizza.

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 17h

Mixing tuna in with Annie's mac n cheese was a particular favorite of mine in college. I had a weird memory of Kraft having ads in the 80's suggesting this, but even in college I wasn't sure if it was a real memory of an ad or some weird wires-crossed invention based on Campbell's casserole ads.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

“Yes they were separated by race but that’s ok, because they were all treated equally” a Roberts Court majority opinion coming soon

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 17h

core, and we mean absolutely core curriculum

boomkat.com/artists/snd

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 19h

Quentin Tarantino wearing a black and white plaid shirt with a speech bubble

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tim d (he/him) @timdevin.bsky.social · 1d

3 of the top 3453 disturbing statements from community members at last nite's city mtg on the unhoused in davis sq:

1. "where is the compassion for business owners?"
2. "what if we removed all of the benches?"
3. A statement that unhoused ppl are lazy & add nothing to society

#SomervilleMA

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

Doing math in my head and… does civil war widow mean her husband died in the war? Or is it that some civil war veteran married a much younger her woman much later who died in her 90s or some such?

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely, ham is the culprit here, not the noble pineapple.

Pineapple/jalapeño pizza absolutely whips

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Martin P. @martinobeat.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so excited to see Ike Barinholtz play you in the movie about the AI bubble collapsing.

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