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Noah Frank
@noahafrank.bsky.social
Writer. Days doing comms at Virginia Tech, evenings teaching at Loyola Maryland. Musing on baseball and other maddening pastimes.

https://pretty-good.ghost.io
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I really enjoyed and learned a lot from the summer program I attended there as a high schooler, but it also led me to not apply to go to college there, a decision I have never regretted
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Also, I’m not winning any presentation awards for this banana phyllo pie, but both my daughter and I are digging it, which is all that matters
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The sumac was an improv move to give the chicken some brightness in lieu of citrus, which definitely worked. But it did give it a reddish tint in places that might visually register to some as raw (I promise it’s not)
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I really thought he was gonna stumble over the right play and dust himself off like nothing ever happened and punt
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Do it
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s very stilted and unnatural. Just not something anybody wanted or needed
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Too shiny and glossy, uncanny in some nightmarish way. And, as I’ve seen pointed out elsewhere, the only human part of it — the music — is the only decent thing about it
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’ll understand if you don’t want to read a dark story on Thanksgiving, but suffice it to say you’re preaching to the choir on that front pretty-good.ghost.io/seeing-people/
Seeing people
A few words, then a short story
pretty-good.ghost.io
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Sure, but that’s really often disinformation. This wasn’t even in service of any motive, it was just someone deciding that posting was more important than double-checking, or notifying families, or anything else bsky.app/profile/noah...
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Annnnnnd now the West Virginia governor says he's not sure about the condition of the National Guardsmen.

Maybe best to not tweet out that they are both dead until, you know, you KNOW that is absolutely the case...
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Whether he got bad info from someone else or not, he decided to run to Twitter first to post it. That’s his fault bsky.app/profile/noah...
And completely self-defeating, with no upside. A country where our leaders care more about being the first to post information to social media — without care for fact, without contacting the families first — is a truly broken one
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Gonzaga is literally KenPom’s top-ranked team
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM