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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, probably? I dealt with the Silicon Valley high school thing for my kid, but NY makes that sound like amateur hour. I have no idea what the NY game theory is!

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 3h

She's white, btw.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 3h

I'm reading a WSJ story about high-priced consultants in New York that help parents get their kids into selective high schools, and I can't get over one of the consultants having having the last name "Shashou" which is the pinyin for the Chinese word for assassin.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

On Triscuits? As god intended!

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. It’s all kind of out of fashion, I think. Now everyone wants “Braunschweiger” or ($$$) pâté. I got through sophomore year of college on wurst sandwiches. But I just kind of like liver in all forms.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

5) Liverwurst. Like, Oscar Meyer, nothing fancy. I wrote a whole blog post not that long ago that was just a thinly disguised ode to liverwurst.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

LOL the NFL fined him $250,000. Maybe he should pull a Jim McMahon and write "Goodell" on his middle fingers in Sharpie and do it again in protest.

William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

4) Cottage cheese (small curd only!) with Lawry's Seasoned Salt on it - the stuff from the steak house. I don't even know where I got this habit tbh. Dates back to high school.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

3) Parmesan rinds. Fuck onion soup. I will just gnaw on that shit like a barn dog with a rawhide bone.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

2) Cheap yellow mustard. I went through so much that in grad school a friend bought me a gallon catering jar as a gag. I finished it off. Every sandwich I make is, like, 50% yellow mustard.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

So many. 1) Durian candy. At my old company I tried to sell my team on this and it's as close as I've ever come to being beaten to death with staplers.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

Probably not the PR crisis of the century tbh

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

The video is pretty conclusive. He is flicking somebody off. He'd have been better off saying it was meant playfully and adding a mild apology.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

Like, in terms of the dexterity required, the bird is more complex than the thumbs-up. (Confirmed moments ago by rigorous experimentation.)

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

Who among us hasn't confused those two gestures?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

From @theathletic.com: Jerry Jones was caught flashing his middle finger to the crowd during Sunday’s game against the Jets, but the Cowboys owner said he actually meant to signal a thumbs-up.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says middle finger was accidental: ‘The intention was thumbs-up’

Jones said his middle finger gesture was “unfortunate" and not intended during the Cowboys' win against the Jets.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

Jeopardy category: "explainers you'd rather weren't necessary"

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Explainer: Trump keeps bringing up the Insurrection Act. What is it? reut.rs/4pYsBGd

Explainer: Trump keeps bringing up the Insurrection Act. What is it?

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he might use the Insurrection Act, a law authorizing the president to deploy military forces on U.S. soil, if courts and governors continue to block his deployment of National Guard troops in Democratic-led cities.

reut.rs

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

There may be psychosexual connotations to the squid, but I don't care to dwell upon them.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 1d

idk man, seems like overthinking a Stephen Sommers movie. Also, Sommers' masterpiece remains "Deep Rising," in which Treat Williams fights terrorists AND a monster squid.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 2d

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

www.burninghou.se

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 5d

I figured you'd just finally paid it all off! But whatever gets the balance to 0. I was lucky - my grad school was dirt cheap. My mortgage, on the other hand... 😱

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 5d

Mazel tov!

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 5d

There is a time and place for corporate language, but a good PR person can also help an exec strike the balance between sounding like themselves and not saying something that will get them (figuratively) punched in the face harder than necessary.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, yeah? This probably is on balance the best way to talk about sensitive topics where people might get offended. Tone is important, and bland is a good flavor for medicine.

Eli Mallon @iame.li · 5d

“Hire a PR firm!” That’s… really what you want? You’d prefer watered-down corporate view-from-nowhere messaging?

William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, it SHOULD be a tradition.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 5d

Our best man told the guests the cupcakes were an ancient Jewish-Cantonese tradition and a fair number of people took that at face value.

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 5d

When we got married in Singapore, my wife and I punted on a wedding cake and told the hotel we wanted 300 cupcakes in a stack, so I completely endorse your kid's choices.

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