@JoyceCarolOates Apparently, both T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden had time to do a daily crossword puzzle. Vladimir Nabokov even enjoyed creating his own crossword puzzles.
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Utopian Incrementalist
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Utopian Incrementalist
@ThePopular_Vote
Liberal, pragmatist, humanist, democrat, reformist, meliorist, American, cosmopolite. "To be ignorant of the past is to remain forever a child." -- Cicero
The Land of Cockaigne Katılım Kasım 2016
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truly I don't mean to be annoying but who on earth has time for crossword puzzles, & why?
I did enjoy crossword puzzles in Playmate magazine long ago as a child but since then, no.
however, it is probably flattering to be of value because of the vowels in my name; trying to see that perspective.
Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦@jpappone
Hey @JoyceCarolOates appears in today’s @NewYorker crossword…
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@agraybee An entire generation of readers seem to think the author needs to be like their best friend before they can enjoy a book. I blame social media.
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Look, when you're writing in this genre (and this is a genre as much as fantasy or horror is) and you release a two-page preview that features an Israeli character to your cultivated audience, you know exactly what you're doing.
Kat Rosenfield@katrosenfield
People don’t really read fiction anymore and that is a problem; another problem, however, is that among the dwindling population of people who do read, there is a sizeable contingent who seem not to understand what books are for
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@agraybee Romanticizing self-destructive behavior is a pretty good warning sign that a writer should not be trustecd
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It's actually because nicotine is profoundly addictive.
sarah hagi@KindaHagi
re: smoking discourse… tweeted this before, but this passage from nickel and dimed where barbara ehrenreich realizes why her coworkers at a diner smoke so much really made sense to me…
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@agraybee Probably really good at getting rid of fraud, waste, and abuse.
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I hope Steyer wins because he's a businessman and the government should be run like a business.
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@agraybee Everything is theft except actual theft, which is cool; everything is violence except actual violence, which is cool.
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Man this really is so much discourse on here.
mallarduck@moldbugchaser
@Noahpinion the move here is to expand the definition of "theft"
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The center of our country, roughly the Midwest, used to produce a lot of literary culture. Some of the greatest writers of the earliest twentieth century were born within 15 years in roughly the same geographic region.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: born 1896, St. Paul, MN
John Dos Passos: born 1896, Chicago, IL
Thornton Wilder: born 1897, Madison, WI
Ernest Hemingway: born 1899, Oak Park, IL
Hart Crane: born 1899, Garrettsville, OH
Langston Hughes: born 1901, Joplin, MO
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Not quite the same (a much broader range of time), but consider the following American writers.
Sinclair Lewis: born 1885, Sauk Centre, MN
Ring Lardner: born 1885, Niles, MI
Marianne Moore: born 1887, Kirkwood, MO
T.S. Eliot: born 1888, St. Louis, MO
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
Prince: born June 7th 1958, Minneapolis MN. Madonna: born August 16th 1958, Bay City MI. Michael Jackson: born August 29th 1958, Gary IN.
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@agraybee I don't watch TV either. Am I disqualified from running for office?
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Porter's got the ladygooner vote locked up.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
The candidates for California governor were asked "what was the last streaming show you watched" 🟦Xavier Becerra: Didn't answer 🟥Chad Bianco: Didn't answer, says he doesn't watch TV 🟦Matt Mahan: The Diplomat 🟥Steve Hilton: Reacher 🟦Katie Porter: Heated Rivalry 🟦Tom Steyer: Marshals
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@agraybee I used to notice this sort of thing all the time with G.W. Bush. His speeches sounded nothing like the way he spoke during debates or off the cuff. His speeches sounded like a high school student reciting something in speech class.
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Isn't the first rule of political speechwriting to know the candidate's voice? Like are we really supposed to believe Nazi tattoo man who said he loves killing people actually talks about being emotionally broken and the dying empire's periphery.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
I think the vast majority of Americans would agree
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What is "engaging" and "embracing" even mean, in practice? Like what actions does this entail. Because it's not as if Republicans treat Joe Rogan like the center of the universe. They don't even go on his show that much. What, specifically, are Ro et al asking Democrats to do.
The Hill@thehill
Khanna: Those saying ‘don’t engage’ with personalities like Hasan Piker ‘will cost us future elections’ thehill.com/homenews/campa…
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@Timodc @NickAPappas @Lauren_V_Egan The thing people strangely never bring up in this debate is that he constantly tells people not to vote for Democrats. He says Democrats want to shoot trans people in the head. What would "alienating" him even do, make him tell people to not vote harder?
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Literally no idea how anyone looks at 2024 results and thinks, "To win future elections, Democrats must associate more with terminally online communists."
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The Phaedrus is perhaps the most misused Platonic dialogue. I wish people who cite it would actually read it and try to understand it.
Utopian Incrementalist@ThePopular_Vote
@agraybee Any time you suggest that our communication technologies might have harmful effects, someone is sure to trot out the Phaedrus to inform you that you are engaging in a moral panic.
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@agraybee Any time you suggest that our communication technologies might have harmful effects, someone is sure to trot out the Phaedrus to inform you that you are engaging in a moral panic.
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@agraybee No, see, it's just a moral panic because 2,500 years ago Plato wrote a dialogue in which the Socrates character relates a myth about how the pharaoh of Egypt worried that the invention of writing might have negative consequences. It's exactly the same.
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I fully believe that study showing short form video causes physical brain atrophy, because what the fuck do you mean young people are struggling with different narrative perspectives.
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My favorite Robert Mueller story was when he released a comprehensive report concluding that Russia helped Trump win the election but Bill Barr said "nuh uh" and the media used that as proof the libs were hysterical.
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@agraybee A lot of online people seem to think that "Abolish ICE" means no longer enforcing any immigration laws.
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I'm to the left of 95% of the country on immigration and these activists floored me. They wanted to stop literally all deportations, even the convicted felons.
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He's right, one of the biggest ways the Groups have led Democrats astray is that they convinced them the median Hispanic voter is an open borders single issue voter.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur
James Talarico calls out “the groups” in the Democratic Party on immigration. “In recent years there’ve been a series of advocacy groups that claim to represent the interests of different communities like here in Texas, but actually have no real connection to the actual people on the ground. And those groups convinced the [Biden] administration that it was racist to support border security.” x.com/ElectTheBench/…
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@agraybee All movies are either communist allegories or copaganda adjacent.
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Enjoy Project Hail Mary now before everyone decides its overrated slop and lowkey fascist.
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