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16 Apr 2025
I sorta loathe doing this—meaning an earnest thread on XDotCom—but there are some key updates/added context to my NYTs story about DOGE’s cuts over at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center: i.e. the office that’s helped NASA land safely on other planets since the Apollo era (1/26)
14 Apr 2025
There’s a lot more that I could and probably will say here about the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, but (for starters) here’s some reporting on it that I did for The New York Times.
nytimes.com/2025/04/14/scien…
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Law students with evidence of a conspiracy, get ready to be able to hide out and look inconspicuous anywhere wearing Knicks hats again.
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Jun 12
Listening to Lena Dunham’s book and she just said “I am an adulteress, I am a c*nt, my intestines are where my uterus should be, but look at me: I am alive” and before I could stop myself, I whispered, “Knicks in five.”
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Jun 12
I Love Boosters is the best work of career and if more people don't see it in theaters I might explode.
You need to see it in theaters immediately.
Jun 11
Boots Riley is the only director I’ve ever seen promote the heck out of his movie. Just shows how proud he is about his art. Rightfully so!
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Jun 12
Just surfing the internet "verifying that I am human" to every fucking website I visit — like I'm in fucking Bladerunner — because bajillion-dollar, webscraping vulture-funded AI companies have made the open web barely usable.
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Jun 12
Can you imagine walking on a giant iceberg in the middle of the ocean to do this research? That’s what’s this is a picture of. It’s crazy to imagine to me.
Scientists Tracked These Strange Arctic Icebergs and Found Something Unexpected on the Seafloor gizmodo.com/scientists-track…
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Jun 12
Pope Leo will excommunicate the Spurs fan nuns. Maybe not immediately, but one day. Mark my words.
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Hedge Funds Are Hiring Climate Scientists to Profit Off Extreme Weather Risks gizmodo.com/hedge-funds-are-…
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Jun 11
This game tonight is like “The Knicks: The Series: The Movie.” Everything Knicks fans expect and are used to seeing — only, this time, at the highest possible stakes, in IMAX, in 4D.
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Jun 11
Love seeing Larry David not know how to react to being happy over this win.
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Jun 10
I respect it
Jun 10
At the theater to see “I Love Boosters” and someone got a full on takeout order in here lmaoooooo
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let’s see the spurs nuns try and top that
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Jun 8
Frederick Douglass at the entrance to the New York Historical Society, June 8, 2016. #knicks
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Jun 8
Spike Lee with the Pope Leo jersey for NBA Finals Game 3
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Fog Is Teeming With Life—But What It Eats Is the Weird Part gizmodo.com/fog-is-teeming-w…
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Jun 6
Nope. "My Christian Dior" is already a volta after the first two lines; can't pre-empt it. And the unexpected rhyme is another volta--brings it home, just like the Knicks in the fourth quarter. That singsongy scheme of yours would ruin the whole effect.
Jun 6
objectively the best mantra but i do wish the rhyming scheme was ABCB instead of ABCC (my mayor is muslim / my christian dior / my bagel is jewish / my knicks in four)
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Jun 6
Camera crew must stop manipulating the public with all these shots of Spurs fan nuns. More Knicks fan nuns in NYC, Tri-state area, come on now.
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