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Finding Masculine Halloween Costumes For Your Effeminate Son

Blood Complicated | Lauren Fadiman The Hatfield-McCoy feud has become both folktale and marketing play, as descendants and historians dispute how the story is told—and for whose benefit.

How did a blood feud between two rival clans become the stuff of roadside kitsch, literotica, and schlocky post-9/11 Americana?

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Kratz Center is proud to host Goucher alumnus and poet Lindsay Stuart Hill for a reading of her latest collection, World of Dew, winner of the Brittingham Prize.

The event is free and open to the public.

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology…

If 'The Best American Poetry' captures “the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,” we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so fucked up? defector.com/good-riddanc...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;

270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;

4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii

--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump

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An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

New/Next Film Festival Returns to The Charles Theater this Week - BmoreArt This year’s New/Next Film Festival packs more than 30 feature-length movies, and over three times that many short films across … Continued

For @bmoreart.bsky.social: A preview of the New/Next Film Festival @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social which begins tomorrow night and reviewed some must-see movies, including @albertbirney.bsky.social's touching/disturbing "Obex" and crypto caper comedy "$POSITIONS" bmoreart.com/2025/10/new-...

Issue 130 arrives on newsstands September 2, and we’re previewing it with a feature from Lora Eli Smith. “Gobsmacked!” delves into the mysterious wave of goblin-like creature sightings that emerged following the 2022 Eastern Kentucky floods.

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rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

They’re gonna turn people over to ICE.

Just don’t use their trash at all. It’s bad for your brain and they’re an evil company.

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

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In Real Life | Aiden Arata The problem came on slowly, like delayed-onset tinnitus: one day I notice the whole world’s pitch is off, and in the moment of noticing I realize it’s been like that for a long time. Every opinion I h...

“It takes some effort to disentangle what I know of cloistered women from what I think I know of cloistered women, which is tinged with group singalongs and lesbianism and the occasional bout of Satanism.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

And why does this matter? ⤵️
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Baltimore nurses to hold historic strike for patient safety RNs at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., will hold a one-day strike from July 24, 7 a.m. to July 25, 6:59 a.m., to protest Ascension management’s refusal to address their urgent concer...

Learn more about St. Agnes Nurse's historic strike for patient safety: www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/baltim...

Podcast: Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists Spotify is publishing AI-generated tracks of dead artists; a company is selling hacked data to debt collectors; and the Astronomer CEO episode shows the surveillance dystopia we live in.

Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists

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This is a call from Camp Bryan Federal Prison from *deep voice* Elizabeth Press one to accept the charges. *BEEP*

ELIZABETH HOLMES: I have another blood idea.

how's this for a slogan: "baby carrots: they're always so fucking wet"

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So, asking 30k Coal Miners to take advantage of free job training to help their communities transition from a faltering model is a deadly insult, but demanding 275k federal employees to drop their secure, decently playing jobs to work the factory line is totes okay. Cool, yeah that’ll go smoothly.

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Showcasing stories from Julia Webster Ayuso, Abe Beame, Tracy Thompson, Will Boast, and Gary Grimes.

In our Weekly Top 5:

* Propagate language, preserve culture @noemamag.com
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost @salvationsouth.com
* A gutsy take on indigestion @vqr.bsky.social
* All the feels for the forums @thefence.bsky.social

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My Six-Point Plan To Help You Stop Living Mindfully And Enter A Constant State of "Living Sleep" Most people live their lives in a state of highly realized consciousness and profound watchful detachment, often without even realizing it — it’s simply the default option in our society.

STOP living mindfully. Follow my SIX-POINT PLAN to enter a state of LIVING SLEEP.

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I’ve assembled a rag tag team of rivals composed of rough around the edges misfits for a vital mission. It’s going horribly, they can’t work together well and professionalism is sorely lacking, what the hell was I thinking

GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat—beautiful and terrible to behold!
DELI GUY: #3 on wheat.
G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely.
DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this

The whole Ralston Purina origin story has real Severance vibes that I honestly think they should start leaning into.

Reading this sent me down a whole Wikipedia rabbit hole about pet food history.