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wow spoilers much?

Okay this rules

Babe, are you okay? You barely touched your anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experiences and has come to confuse this empty, hedonistic quest with being cultured

Going to planning school at UCLA in 2020 was great because I can use my fluency in social justice rhetoric to completely flummox left anti-YIMBY grad students.

if you explained the central limit theorem you'd be having a standard normal one

🔮🔮🔮 Question for a brilliant undergrad thesis writer: Who are the contemporary American writers thinking about religion and faith in interesting ways? Who are the 21st c. descendants of James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, and Marilynne Robinson (who's still doing it!)?

It’s not too late to have a good Meltdown May

Anon reviewer told us to cite more of my work:

I am in this tweet, and I don't like it.

NOT NOW, RADIOACTIVE MUTANT SUPER PIGS.

If we have to do doordash discourse again I will curse you with the knowledge that the perfect cheap, filling, low-calorie, balanced, immediately available with zero prep meal exists and it's Owyn Balanced Nutrition Shakes.

We sidewalk counsel most Saturday mornings outside Family Planning Associates on Washington St. Come say hi!

They are coming for the last enjoyable hobby on earth 😤

"mostly just a repeated rehashing of something we all already know is true," The ENTIRE ECONOMICS DISCIPLINE is under attack!!!

i finally figured it out,,, the problem is too much “a-i” and not enough “a-WE”

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Mom can you come pick me up people are talking about medieval peasants’ workloads again

Not often you see campaign comms translated from the original Akkadian

if you hear too much of the catholic psycho quiverfull discourse or trad nonsense in real life let me suggest, get different friends and go to a different parish

I wish

imagine, you are a tardigrade under his holiness’s benevolent gaze

I don't pay attention to the British monarchy because we won the war.

who told this mf about pivot tables?

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I am sympathetic to basically all the early Christian heretics in the sense that over the years in college I deduced basically each view they held. Them being wrong is understandable since they were so early. It is better to view them as misfired early attempts than evil enemies of the true faith

product presentation for tomorrow is going to go great.

I’m tired of visits, modes and forms,

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contemplating getting really into some toxic form of asceticism

Question to fellow religion nerds: I dropped mention of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy in an interview yesterday and the person responded with deep fascination. They wanted to know if there are easy-read books or podcasts on the subject, and I couldn't quickly name one. Any suggestions?

guitarcinazation has happened five times over the course of evolutionary history

Sometimes ppl maliciously use my pl org's public email up for another pl org's newsletter to spam me and downrank the newsletter. I'm like "Jokes on them! I think this newsletter is great and I'm keeping the sub!" but I do take a slight psychic hit every time I open it and it says, "Hey, Alfredo..."

zirp was seriously so cool. everybody should get to experience cashing a million dollar investor check because they put together a 10-slide pitch deck for their garbage app idea. i’d much rather all that money get dumped into what were essentialy high tech art projects, instead of weapons like now

Please inform management if our new golf pro challenges you to a game of riddles.

I feel so seen.

I stand by it.

birbs

fighting for my life on jetpens dot com rn and nobody cares at all. Might be true that nobody cares about trans men's issues actually. I've always told those guys to shut the fuck up but maybe they were fucking right

I think the fundamental misconception here is "we do not currently organize the economy around growth." We organize it around "trading with other people for stuff they want" and 1.) this tends to produce growth 2.) GDP is a mostly useful metric for tracking whether trades are happening.

If the “royal we” refers just to me, what’s the “we” called when it refers to just you?

THREAD: Today we observe two commemorations: Nakba Day and International Conscientious Objectors' Day.

May 15 is International Conscientious Objector's Day! 🌹 #ProPeace #ProLife #conscientiousobjectorsday

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In particular, there was a lot of "Powell is deliberately destroying the labor market" takes that 1.) Didn't make much sense at the time 2.) Are clearly false after the fact. mronline.org/2022/05/26/u...