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programming director at the atlantic | swang@theatlantic.com

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Who’s Afraid of Being Middlebrow? Virginia Woolf.

I fear nobody will ever live up to virginia woolf's standards I am as middlebrow as the rest of them www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

10.07.2025 19:07 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

👀 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

06.06.2025 12:13 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 2
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The People Who Clean the Ears of Lincoln (And Other Statues) A collection of images of the varied workers and techniques used to maintain some of the world’s largest and most prominent statues and monuments.

ever wonder who cleans michelangelo's david's butt? www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

28.05.2025 18:04 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

it's possible our anthologized print copies from 1860 are not 100 percent faithful ... still I do wonder where Holt could've gotten this! hmmmm

20.05.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this got me curious and I looked in the January, February, and March 1860 print issues that we have at our offices, and I can't find anything that's ad-coded!

20.05.2025 14:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
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im in

28.02.2025 02:22 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

nvm you found! ha

19.12.2024 20:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
x.com

the tweet (gone now) you are looking for was by our very own mr @dgraham.bsky.social!

19.12.2024 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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100 Notable Books of 2024 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

(ofc its about all fours www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

03.12.2024 16:16 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
a screenshot of a label on a website that reads in all capital letters "Sexy Perimenopause Fiction"

a screenshot of a label on a website that reads in all capital letters "Sexy Perimenopause Fiction"

"sexy perimenopause fiction"

03.12.2024 16:15 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
a photograph of a floppy ear short hair brown tricolor dog with white chest and paw markings and a green collar, looking up at the camera expectantly

a photograph of a floppy ear short hair brown tricolor dog with white chest and paw markings and a green collar, looking up at the camera expectantly

good (boy) 4 u

22.11.2024 15:10 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I still haven't thrown mine out either 🫠

22.11.2024 15:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

:(

22.11.2024 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
a photo of two black plastic kitchen utensils side by side, on the left a pasta fork on the right a ladle

a photo of two black plastic kitchen utensils side by side, on the left a pasta fork on the right a ladle

iykyk ???

21.11.2024 12:51 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 8    📌 2

omg. wtf ???????

20.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

its horrible! HORRIBLE

18.11.2024 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo credits: Money Sharma / AFP / Getty; Sajjad Hussain / AFP / Getty

18.11.2024 20:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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so the AQI is > 1100 rn where some of these photos were taken in India .... (>300 is "hazardous")

www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

18.11.2024 19:59 — 👍 34    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 2

woah

14.11.2024 14:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

came to my senses!

13.11.2024 02:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
photo of a blurry tricolor brown dog with an orange harness running through a field

photo of a blurry tricolor brown dog with an orange harness running through a field

freebie of my blurry son

12.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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