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ScarJo and Colin Jost would kick us out without even looking us in the eye, absolutely

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Pretty sure Ebon Moss-Bachrach already owns his place in Brooklyn Heights but if he were in the market I bet he'd be charmed by our setup enough to let us stay

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Ranking movie stars by probability they'll kick me out of my apartment when they buy out the building

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in my mind the only potential buyers for my landlord's building were basically sentient hedge funds because who has 4.3 million dollars but I just remembered movie stars live in my neighborhood and honestly if I get forced out of my home by Margot Robbie or something during a strike that would at least be fucking hilarious

@jonhendry I saw! it is a huge relief, though still annoyed by the principle of the situation with my insurer

Me: I will continue to be a graduate student because health insurance

University Health Insurance: why would we pay for a covid booster, it's not like a college campus is a perfect place for a virus to multiply lol

well the good news is Kitty might not be in renal failure but instead she might have spleen cancer? more tests to follow. would love if things weren't constantly happening at once over here.

(belatedly bc the instance crashed yesterday)

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: grasping, a $500 minivan, larvae, a debauched ghost, the kind of academic, actually existing, mutually contradictory

@pettter while I respect the guy and like a lot of his work I've been burned enough by high profile tech critic types who are lowkey much more interested in ripping people off for their own gain than building stuff up that I'm wary

I'm so annoyed that I used this term in an article on a now-shuittered publication before him (which he probably didn't see, to be fair, bc he'd have a better analysis if he had) and he's more famous than me so everyone is gonna run with his framing, lol

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respectfully: Cory Doctorow's definition of "means of computation" is too focused on software and thereby an incomplete approach to addressing the challenges he outlines

Inspired by @pnorman’s animation, here’s a year of daily OpenStreetMap tile traffic. One frame per UTC day, from the start of September 2022 through end of August 2023. It’s from the public log aggregates, so some low-traffic tiles are left out for (I assume) efficiency and privacy.

"Like from Call Me By Your Name?" I ask the owner of a pug named Elio

@quaad yeah more of a five-year plan than a get-out-of-this-building plan, but still a worthy thing to pursue imo!

(my landlord is selling our building, I am heartbroken, and my denial stage is basically pursuing an unhinged collective organizing project)

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vacillating between "it's delulu to be trying to start a housing co-op with your friends" and "this is literally the only way any of us will be able to stay in this stupid town we love until we die"

ripcorp.biz/episodes/rip-docs- new spicy little RIP Corp! in which Katie Way (of the much-loved Hell Gate) and i talked about some of the weird details and unsolved mysteries within Vice's bankruptcy documents.

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: treating fences, backwards baseball cap, a number of people, the situation, but mostly, the hardest thing she'd ever do

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Horsin' Around

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