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Todd Babiak

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A Christmas Story One night, when I was fourteen, my mom caught me reading the New Testament and scolded me as though it were an issue of Hustler. My aunt, a euphoric recent convert to evangelical Christianity, had dro...

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05.12.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not Like Us How stories destroy

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30.09.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beautiful!

23.08.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What makes you so hot? The foundation of the attention economy (or lack thereof)

Stories and the opposite of stories in the attention economy open.substack.com/pub/toddbabi...

19.08.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, Vladimir, the International Criminal Court said we HAD to arrest you. Thanks for coming though. So nice to see you. Great, great. Again: sorry, dude.

15.08.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love Platonic so much and see it as a secret non-marriage of Canadian and Australian sensibilities infiltrating the USA.

13.08.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada’s Measles Outbreak Exceeds Cases in the U.S.

It’s always heartwarming to see my home province making international news for having oil and… this sort of thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

30.07.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I forgot my BlueSky password and then somehow remembered it. This is surely fabulous news for… nobody? Cricket sounds?

30.07.2025 05:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes* a book is all you need.

*all times

14.03.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 932    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 6

Monday - Roll back tariffs
Tuesday - Reinstate tariffs
Wednesday - Roll back tariffs
Thursday - Reinstate tariffs
Friday - Roll back tariffs
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf

06.03.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10362    πŸ” 2456    πŸ’¬ 441    πŸ“Œ 169

starting to think podcasts are the problem

06.03.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3724    πŸ” 226    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 42

This is NOT what I had in mind when I voted for the man who pretended to work at McDonald's for a day and then drove around in a dump truck. I thought he would continue doing those things, thereby providing valuable services in my community

06.03.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 24827    πŸ” 2259    πŸ’¬ 299    πŸ“Œ 113
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The Kingfisher Secret _______________________________ THIS SHOCKING CONSPIRACY THRILLER IS A WORK OF FICTION. MOSTLY. _______________________________ What if the President of the United States is a foreign intelligence as...

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01.03.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am sad to report it is difficult to escape, even here

23.02.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Kingfisher Secret _______________________________ THIS SHOCKING CONSPIRACY THRILLER IS A WORK OF FICTION. MOSTLY. _______________________________ What if the President of the United States is a foreign intelligence as...

www.penguin.co.uk/books/439329...

21.02.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Kingfisher Secret _______________________________ THIS SHOCKING CONSPIRACY THRILLER IS A WORK OF FICTION. MOSTLY. _______________________________ What if the President of the United States is a foreign intelligence as...

www.penguin.co.uk/books/439329...

21.02.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Department insists each employee spend three hours per day scrolling through X*.

*FOR YOU thread only

19.02.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New job new city…. Gold Coast.

17.02.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I get my US passport I’m going to speak English in French restaurants SO LOUDLY

17.02.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Homesickness hits in strange ways.

07.02.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Confusing Australian H&M CanCon

07.02.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Proud to announce I’ve been appointed hummus czar

05.02.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I was a young newspaper columnist there were many others around me. But it was already an industry in decline. Those who are STILL newspaper columnists 20 years later are almost all completely crazy.

31.01.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I admire the freedom of a man who uses a public washroom and walks away without washing his hands. And there are so many of these men! Fascinating!

The e.coli… less admirable.

28.01.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Greenoline!

23.01.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever I feel lonely and misunderstood I read r/Detroiters

29.12.2024 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In most ways, we chose Pottersville over Bedford Falls.

23.12.2024 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wait…

14.12.2024 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?

It feels a tad self-serving to share this but…
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

07.12.2024 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mullets, giant brand names and deliberately ill-fitting clothes. It’s an unfortunate fashion moment for young men.

06.12.2024 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0