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I think in general, the “don’t use these words” stuff is best understood as “don’t work with or listen to the groups of people who typically use these words.” That’s the real concern.

25.08.2025 00:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Impoverished” is just flat wrong, unless the movie significantly alters the plot.

17.07.2025 02:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When I got one in 2015, everyone thought that it was setting me up so well, and I think that's right about when it permanently stopped being a stepping stone for all but some very specific cases and institutions.

27.05.2025 19:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I think I’ve figured it out: Twitter is full of incredibly ignorant jerks who all think they’re the world’s greatest genius. Whereas Bluesky is mostly smart, well-informed people who all think they’re the world’s greatest genius.

21.05.2025 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like Rocky Balboa has been completely forgotten by everyone, which is fair enough.

01.05.2025 03:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You def know more about this than me, but I recently had the realization that a lot of disagreements we have about what the Revolution meant were already disagreements while it was going on, among the participants in it. Which helps me, at least, not to be too dogmatic about it.

30.04.2025 03:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A friend who works at a grocery store told me they got a large shipment of matzah during Hanukkah…and then an email from higher-ups saying “please don’t put out matzah, that’s a different holiday”.

12.04.2025 13:14 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Necessary but not sufficient

09.04.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Strongly recommend South Side in this category

04.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know it sounds funny in English, but this is just a normal Italian term meaning “pizza dance”.

23.02.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wait, there’s a Philly Hallmark movie?

24.11.2024 00:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Always remembering my favorite political-debate-bingo-card, from @daisyletourneur.bsky.social on Twitter way back when:

11.09.2024 01:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read this as a youth, and yes, it is.

30.06.2024 19:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tbf, the no bagels, no coffee, etc probably just means “we have already been given as much of this obvious stuff as we need,” right?

01.05.2024 20:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My entirely original creation, the Remarkable DaddyLonglegsfella

15.04.2024 02:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

* Indiana Jones, dans la chambre du Graal, extrêmement concentré, reposant une coupe en or massif sur l'étagère *
— Non, c'est la coupe d'un charpentier !
* Ramasse un mug humoristique tout moche sur lequel est imprimé un dessin "les charpentiers sont bien montés ;)" *
— Celui-ci !

02.04.2024 18:23 — 👍 56    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

Just learned what Blue Sky posts are called in French, 5 stars.

17.03.2024 05:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper (1908)
Cecil Hepworth's Rescued by Rover (1905) was the international blockbuster of its day, a gripping tale of a kidnapped baby saved by an intrepid canine hero -... The Dog Outwits the Kidnapper (1908)

Your regular reminder that the peak of cinema was reached in 1908 and everything since has just been playing catchup

youtu.be/qApoxM41NGQ

09.01.2024 22:25 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Evidence of Philadelphia’s vibrant Scottish bardic culture:

27.12.2023 21:06 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sometimes the universe calls you to waste your time on really asinine things

19.11.2023 03:38 — 👍 64    🔁 16    💬 7    📌 0

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