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It's Giving Tuesday

It’s been giving Tuesday all year if you ask me.

Rusty Foster
Nov 29, 2022
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I’m reviewing the last twenty four hours of discourse and making some kind of face, but I don’t know what kind because apparently I don’t know what a frown is.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleysmorgan
…what the fuck? Is what I’m feeling reading these tweets what the Mandela Effect people feel like all the time?
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7:24 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Is this a frown?

Bert from Sesame Street frowning, with his mouth.

Is this a frown?

Kermit, who is also a Muppet, frowning with his mouth.

Is Florence Pugh a Muppet?

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Florence Pugh Daily @bestofpugh
no YOU live in a society. I live in the florence pugh frown cinematic universe
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6:58 PM ∙ Jan 7, 2022
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Much to think about. Quick: what are you doing with your face right now? I thought so. But turn that pout inside-out because BookForum just published Justin Taylor’s fantastic review of Cormac McCarthy’s new pair of novels, “Stella Maris” and “The Passenger,” as well as Cormac McCarthy’s whole career in general, hinging on the question: “Is Cormac McCarthy our most minor major novelist or is he our most major minor novelist?”

The truth is that The Passenger only fails to satisfy when it vamps as a thriller. That’s a promise that just won’t ever be made good. When the novel follows its Lynchian instincts—setting a long scene on a deserted oil rig off the coast of Pensacola, for instance, or allowing Bobby to encounter the Kid (or to dream that he did) on a stormy beach—then its power and pleasures are considerable. It is a novel of set pieces and soliloquies, images and ideas, at its best when refusing to be anything other than its moody, freaky self. Above all, it is a book of evocative surfaces, like a John Ashbery poem, where things we take at first to be windows turn out to be mirrors, and the radical alterity glimpsed in dark glass turns out to be ourselves.

WHAT IS THE RELATION of the unconscious to the conscious mind? How is it that we live with this unknowable at the very heart of the known, this biological operating system that apparently comprehends language but refuses to use it, and what should we do with these otherworldly transmissions that reach us like alien broadcasts from our own deep inner space? These are questions worth asking. The Passenger requires a reader who is patient, a proactive collaborator in the production of meaning, and willing to meet McCarthy where he is. Such a reader will be richly satisfied. As to whether anyone else will be, I truly don’t know.

Every line of this review is flawlessly correct. My only addition would be that the math-and-physics-gossip parts of ”The Passenger” are also great and I wish he’d written a whole book of that.

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matt @computer_gay
no it's not
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NBC News @NBCNews
“Gaslighting” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. https://t.co/eaXFV3T0aP
2:08 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Will Smith told Trevor Noah: “I Took My Hard and Made It Hard for Other People.“ I’m making another face but I don’t know what this one’s called either.

The Pink Sauce (previously) is back, no longer pink, still gross. New foot (previously) washed up, no longer pink, still gross.

In Hell Gate, Molly Osberg explained what to do if you encounter a person crying in public:

In extreme cases, when it’s possible someone is experiencing such a wave of preventable agitation or grief you feel moved to alleviate it in some way there is only one course of action: You ask that person, briefly and politely, if they’re good.

“You good?” That’s all you’re allowed to say, by law. Get it right.

Olivia Craighead: “Caffeine-free Diet Coke is what helicopter parents give their children when they think Sprite is too sugary and LaCroix is too spicy.”

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gender affirming kermit impression @bugcatchings
god i hate the narrative that a guy with a nightgown and sleepy elf hat and a candelstick is getting good honkshoe mimimimi sleep. that is a guy constantly woken up. thats why he has a candlestick he has noises to investigate
2:03 AM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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In The New Republic Graham Gallagher wrote a pretty comprehensive survey of how weird the top-level Republicans are getting these days.

American voters see the political parties as equally extreme in policy, ignoring evidence that Republicans have moved right much faster than Democrats have moved left. However, a party fixated on genital sunning, seed oils, Catholic integralism, European aristocracy, and occultism can alienate voters not because of its positions but because of how it presents them—and itself.

And leading the vanguard of weird Republicans is Kanye West, who yesterday flounced from the softest imaginable feather bed for his current openly Nazi worldview, an interview with far-right laundry boy Tim Pool, when Pool very nearly seemed to almost suggest that he wasn’t sure everything bad that happens to Kanye is a conspiracy by The Jews.

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Spencer🌐🦅🇺🇸🇺🇦 @crusadxr_
BREAKING: Kanye WALKS OFF @Timcast
1:30 AM ∙ Nov 29, 2022
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Heartbreaking. The smirking boy-Himmler in the blue sweatshirt is Kanye’s “campaign manager” Nick Fuentes. Fuentes has a lot of personal lore and backstory but all you really need to know is he’s the guy who said “fellas, is it gay to have sex with a woman?”

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Kat Abu @abughazalehkat
remember when nick fuentes said that having sex with women is gay
9:24 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Beaker the Muppet, looking horrified.
MimimimimimiMIMIMI!?

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has sold tunnels to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum it put them on the map.

An aide to Mr. Hogan toured a parking-lot test site at the company’s then-headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport, getting a look at a tunnel-boring machine the company purchased secondhand. Boring named it Godot, the title character in Samuel Beckett’s play about a man who never shows up…

All Boring had to do was bring its machine and start digging, former Maryland officials said. But months, and then years, passed. Maryland was waiting for Godot.

Today in Crypto:

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ayko2718 @ayko2718
So BlockFi is a creditor to FTX that lent to Alameda that lent to Emergent which is a shell company owned by SBF that bought Robinhood shares that were pledged as collateral to guarantee to BlockFi the loan to FTX that was used to bailout BlockFi itself
3:29 AM ∙ Nov 29, 2022
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Good Toot Discovered:

Mastodon toot by Greg Egan: “I want David Cronenberg to design the new USB standard, so all the ports and plugs sigh and moan and writhe before finally accommodating each other’s anatomy in a blissful, disturbing union that allows charging and data transfer to occur effortlessly between all equipment.”

Today’s Song: 100 gecs, “Doritos & Fritos” (check them out in the Spyplane today!)

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lily @lil_mermaid
i keep laughing at the email subject lines that say “it’s giving tuesday”… it really is
2:06 PM ∙ Nov 29, 2022
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