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Fiction and essays that pair well with exotic cocktails served in haunted hotel bars by the sexiest ghosts one could survive beholding directly. #HorrorSky #BookSky #FilmSky

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Get your life together. Add goat cheese to everything.

28.02.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ain’t no vacation package like Director of the FBI vacation package.

23.02.2026 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How I use AI in my fiction writing:

1. I fucking don’t, because I’m not lame.

#writingcommunity

22.02.2026 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My id and superego as I deploy a total gamble of a joke in the team Slack.

19.02.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truer words! Pastaβ€”a medical necessityβ€”should occupy its own tier of the food pyramid.

18.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œRemember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
(Genesis 3:19)

18.02.2026 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” β€” Anthony Trollope

#writing

17.02.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œYes, Lonesome Dove, yes, The Godfather, yes, Apocalypse Nowβ€”but nobody talks about the heart and gravity he brought to the role of Sergeant Martin Prendergast in Falling Down, and in this house, we celebrate THAT as one of the finest performances in an action thriller of the 90s. End of story!”

16.02.2026 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The following digital technologies are better than books end of list.

16.02.2026 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can actually use the terms β€œlooksmaxxing” and β€œmental illness maxxing” interchangeably.

15.02.2026 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My 4yo acts like being a big sister to the 1yo is a rare and profound honor that she merited herself through work and strength of character.

15.02.2026 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was! If I can’t have alcohol, then I’ll just take all the sugar. No regrets.

15.02.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s fancy-boy drink.

β€œThe Epic Cold Brew Spectacular” at Hollywood Studios, Disney World, Orlando.

I chose wisely.

#mocktails

15.02.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My kid trying to introduce me to Gushers like I wasn’t an 8yo American in 1991.

14.02.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s fancy-boy drink.

Sherbery Punch: Orange Sherbet, Sprite, house-made Grenadine.

Steakhouse 71, Disney’s Contemporary Resort. Orlando.

14.02.2026 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

PSA: The tooth fairy requires NOTICE.

12.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The New York Times Spelling Bee How many words can you make with 7 letters?

I love and hate this game so much.

www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

12.02.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWoah, woah, woah. You guys thought I was serious?”—the inventor of curling.

#olympics

10.02.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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two men are sitting in a car with nbc written on the bottom ALT: two men are sitting in a car with nbc written on the bottom

Me right now.

Except I’m driving a minivan, wearing a lion costume, and driving through the suburbs to my kid’s school trivia night.

31.01.2026 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bears Coach Drops F-Bomb On Packers In Electric Locker-Room Speech After Cold Shoulder To Matt LaFleur Emotions were running high in Chi-town.

As much as I love the #Bears, I love the palpable animosity between Johnson and LeFleur more.

www.outkick.com/sports/bears...

11.01.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dads will see any picture of 80s Kurt Russell and say, "Hell yeah."

20.12.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dec 19, 2001.

The first LOTR poster I saw was (for some reason) hanging on the wall inside a Medieval Times I was (for some reason) visiting on a high school field trip.

Is this film really 24 years old?

No, it's eternal, ageless, burning beyond our understanding of time.

19.12.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My first instinct is to be pleased he’s panicking.

My second is more complex.

18.12.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œNo one say another word! I don’t want any hearing in my ears right now!” β€” a definitely not overtired 4yo I know.

18.12.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What are the capitalization rules for geographic directions?

β€œI love the American Southwest.”

β€œDrive southwest from here.”

Regions should be capitalized.

General directions, like driving southwest from here, should not be capitalized.

Proper nouns = caps.

General directions, no.

16.12.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Work against the misery.

15.12.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Word of the day: Specious

Something that seems like it could be true but is false or misleading.

Deceptively attractive, as in β€œpromises that these new allegations will finally bring Trump down seem specious.”

15.12.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s Monday. Bring the vibe.

15.12.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not that no one has ever thrown out a battery correctly, it’s that no one has ever been CERTAIN they were throwing out a battery correctly.

15.12.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Learned that my 1st grader’s been consuming chocolate milk daily at his school lunch.

According to him, it’s free.

According to his school, he’s run up β€œquite the tab.”

13.12.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0