Sometimes when we borrow words from other languages, English can become delightfully redundant. ‘Scampi’ means “shrimp” so ‘shrimp scampi’ is basically “shrimp shrimp.” Sahara Desert = Desert Desert chai tea = tea tea naan bread = bread bread ahi tuna = tuna tuna

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Did you grow up in a competitive household? Then you might be entitled to overcompensation

I wasn't mean enough yesterday so let me correct that: If you're using AI to "create", you're a lazy, pathetic piece of shit. Art IS work. Saying that's UNFAIR (?!) is like me saying it's unfair I can't be a pro athlete with no training, no effort, and no drive to change that

If they want to bring their Trump Bible into our schools, let’s bring the IRS into their churches.

We don’t talk enough about the illegal immigrants who got here in the 1600s and almost immediately started human trafficking

I think that as Lowell George and Little Feat are not in that building, nor J. Geils or Chuck Brown and the Searchers, it should be burned to the Lake Erie waterline and the ruins then salted to prevent anything from growing there ever again. That is what I think.

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When you misspell both words, it's apparent what you haven't read.

In the 1800s, Irish farmers asked their estate manager, Charles Boycott, for a rent reduction. He said no. So, they refused to pay him. Boycott brought in new workers and won the battle. But he lost the war to history: his name became used for this kind of organized protest.

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Comet seen passing by Earth from the space station …wait for if 🤩

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If your god “saved” Donald Trump from a shooter but not the children of Apalachee High School, then you’re worshiping the wrong god.

Is it time yet to revisit all the early heralding of the internet's pure democracy, of the idea of "citizen journalists," of each and every voice being able to be heard being a good thing for our ability to find truth and govern ourselves? Because having spent a previous career in newsrooms, as part of the cold, organized monolith that was our gatekeeping mainstream media, I know that we were often too herd-like and centrist, sometimes misled and sometimes capable of publishing horseshit on incomplete or contradictory data. Sometimes we got it dead wrong. But every day, I remember that the editors read the copy and tried to verify what they could and avoid what they could not. And no one could pay us a fucking dime to say what we didn't think was the story we thought we had. Fact is, I once tried to sneak a piece of celery through some ranch dip at some politician's fundraiser because the guy was late showing up to make a speech and I was starving. Another reporter smacked it out of my hand: "That's Harry McGuirk's celery." We had an ethic. We believed in our role, however flawed and vulnerable to error our work product might at times be. So fuck the influencers, fuck the pimps who bought them, fuck their rancid whoredom, and fuck a media culture that has bypassed the gatekeepers at least trying to hold to a core ethos. The marginalization and eventual death of old-fashioned journalism and what has ensued is going to be what ends our republic. And everyone who championed some purist vision of a post-mainstream media future is now and forever, officially, a rube.

For truly it is our ability to recognize crosswalks in a grid of 16 pictures that makes us human. — Immanuel Kant

i haven't had a bad take since 1977 and that involved a quick first impression of The Clash. But I fixed that. Now fuck off, Bennie.

Lauryn Hill just showed up to perform at the DNC