buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: remake the world, Toronto, a concept, drinking games, how to respond, silent groups, crappy hat, revel, all we have left, a genuine reason, enough of a fool, no model, contemptible, giving birth, oscilloscope, ugly font, ass handed

Update: it appears he has been adopted which is probably for the best, glad someone has taken that sweet guy in

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[in the faculty meeting] listen, this new technology is here to stay, and it's useless to fight against it. if we want to prepare our students for the jobs of the future, we *must* teach them how to (responsibly and ethically) purchase and consume up to five Taco BellⓇ Naked Chicken Chalupas™ each day

Watching the live read of Conclave instead of actually watching Conclave feels right idk youtu.be/ZG4GyjgtSZU

@zbarocas yes!! Very much in this vein. Araki also often deploys this Kind of Guy

Is this actually a thing or did I just make up a kind of guy

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Do you have any idea how hard it is to search for "skinny guy in movie whose hair is a little too long and usually is maybe a drug dealer or a stalker but also maybe likes poetry and is sensitive???"

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Mitch from Dazed and Confused: shoulder length hair, innocent
Ziggy Sobotka from The Wire season 2: mostly in "overdue for a haircut" territory, more pitiful than villain but still kinda sucks
That guy in the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror: basically bottom of the neck, absolutely a predator

Further research is needed

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Developing a theory of the Skinny Rat Boy archetype in which there is a precise length of too-long stringy hair that shifts the character from piteous but maybe hot?? to Villainy

Went to the cfpb "informational picket" this afternoon and the chants were so wholesome ("1 2 3 4 workers are worth fighting for 5 6 7 8 Dodd Frank is pretty great")

look I know it is trivially easy to find footage of Elon Musk and Sam Altman in the same room but nevertheless it is funny to imagine that Sam is what emerges when Elon takes The Substance

Saw a rat moving real slowly and clumsily on the street outside a brownstone. I think it had been poisoned and I felt an obligation to hang out with it a little while as it died. What living thing wants to die alone? Eventually he crawled behind a trash can I guess for privacy and I started crying which is a little embarrassing.

Dispatch #2600 from Topaz 3 (L CLEARANCE)

1. Trailers of Jade Enigmas
2. House of Miasma

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.