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mk2 reflecting pool

How many hot tops could a top ten hot top in hot ten tops if a ten top could top tens?

oh my god

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I say, let's give it a try

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A low-stakes and probably pedantic craft post on POV countercraft.substack.com/p/there-are-...

best kind of pedantry (opens things up and adds depth for both writers & readers):

Refreshing, generous post on POV, with lots of good examples to read or reread

Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

While I agree, I've also always wanted to write a novel that was 100% prologues. You never get to the main story.

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A low-stakes and probably pedantic craft post on POV countercraft.substack.com/p/there-are-...

Claude Monet by Thomas Bossard

Yep

[Guy tapping head meme dot jpg] Can't prove the reflecting pool doesn't reflect if no one can get close enough to see the lack of reflection

“Labour MPs are idiots, not like me, a genius who thinks that it is a good idea for Labour to persist to an administratively dysfunctional and scandal-ridden PM who has led his party to two successive extinction-level defeats.”

This really is a poorly written review that stumbles into mumbling incoherence in second half. Marche's problem in general seems to be he wants to have Big Things to say about AI yet is afraid of committing to any claims since he fears being proved wrong as tech changes so every essay is just mush.

[Watching clowns rob a bank] "the director's great theme is *time.*"

Anton Chigurh has seen better days damn.

I wish I could tell you the responses thrummed with defiance. Instead, some read like substance abuse testimonies. A student whose use of AI grew until AI "wrote" all assignments sophomore fall. Got caught. Crushed by shame. Swore it off. But it's creeping back, & they don't know how to stop. 3/

Good example of ring bias and/or how underrated the Knicks players were before the playoffs: all the main Knicks jump way up on The Ringer's top 100 players rankings. Went from 1 Knick in top 25 (Brunson at 11) to 3 (Brunson 5, KAT 12, OG 21) nbarankings.theringer.com

This may be the only man alive to tame the madness rune contained within the mayoral sash.

Antifa Super Algae Soldiers strike again!

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Two Bluesky authors: I liked “Yellow Blue Tibia” by @adamroberts.bsky.social, cool aliens and Soviet science fiction references. And if you enjoy sportsball, as I do, you might well like “The Body Scout” by @thelincoln.bsky.social. Sports overrun by drugs and implants.

I expect these Spurs will become a dynasty. Harper and Wemby are just too good. And/or OKC could easily come back. But for now, gotta say I'm loving this stretch of NBA finals where it is a new winning team each year.

I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us

This is a wild stat. I'd feel very bad for Spurs fans if they didn't have so many insane young players and a seemingly great future. But wow.

Given how many little "big animals on wheels" we've had from all over the world, I think the prehistoric equivalent of "Truck Kid" might be "Ox Kid." (Ukraine, Crete, Maharashtra, Anatolia)

Why did Brunson's dad just say unprompted that Ewing was a better player lol?

Brunson basically scored 25% of all points for both teams lol wow

OG following the sitcom rule that you always need one straight man

Pretty good when the stats are "first since Jordan"

Trump curse confirmed. He shouldn't be allowed into any stadium ever again.

I'm biased but that really is the best NBA finals I've ever seen with every game feeling like it could go either way and going back and forth the whole time

HISTORY.

Well, the city of San Antonio knows what it has to do if it wants to win: first, get yourself a Muslim democratic socialist mayor

Fireworks going off instantly here in Brooklyn

Has any series been this lopsided half to half between which team plays well ?

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These games are something

Complete flagrant

Octopuses could kill Medusa

Spurs have been playing so well and then go back to trying to injure the other team...

id love to see ol new york knicks wriggle their way out of THIS jam

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