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thinking about which numbers are funny and why. not the numbers that are funny signifiers like 69 or 420 but like why is 22 funny and 20 isn't funny. is it a prime number adjacency thing or something else

today's dumbest embarrassment was probably me explaining the character actor Richard Kind to a stranger at the dog park

I'm having a lot of fun with the new newsletter but wow, Buttondown sure is buggy huh

Incredible 40-minute archive documentary about manufacture for Operation PLUTO - rapid-deployment undersea fuel pipelines to support the liberation of Europe in WW2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYS_9EI5j0

This week's perfect sentences are from @kissane, a 2013 undergraduate thesis, Leslie Marmon Silko, The Mountain Goats, and a World War II veteran: buttondown.email/perfectsenten

unpopular take: clifford the big red dog is a kaiju

birdsite discoursing 

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20 reminded of the blog post I saw early in twitter exodus cautioning that mastodon lacked a trust and safety team as a reason it was Not The Thing and like...at this point, pretty soon Twitter won't have one either

I'm so excited about the sentences I get to send out tomorrow for the newsletter!!

I'm finally going through my National Archives materials from my first trip so I did a little blog about a particularly prickly letter that I found: rocks.guide/quartz-part-1/

another yoga shitpost 

I also had to explain what Howl's castle looked like so that probably didn't help as the teacher also had no reference for baba yaga??

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another yoga shitpost 

today the yoga teacher told us to envision ourselves as "a castle" and I immediately visualized uh Howl's moving one. got a very "I love that for you" response when I told the teacher this after class

Is there an application process, how do I become Dad destroyer of worlds

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also while I'm pretty sure I don't want to have children and I didn't land in a situation where I'm financially stable even though no one is entirely sure what I do, I feel like I should be allowed to be an Internet Dad at this point?

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was talking to a friend today about being at a point in his career where he no longer has to be "shiny" (ie constantly hustling) and I now wonder if I should be referring to this current time in my life as my matte era

at the end of the meditation we were supposed to become one with the angel self so I'm feeling pretty spooky today

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today in yoga class the teacher had us do a guided meditation where we envisioned our "angel self" and I immediately went with a Biblically accurate glowing creature covered in eyes

sent out my first newsletter of best sentences I read last week: buttondown.email/perfectsenten featuring Gramsci, Claire Vaye Watkins, horse_ebooks, Malcolm Harris, and Robert Caro

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Horsin' Around

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