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Night of the living D. A. Hosek

@dahosek.bsky.social
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 2h
Probably St John Cantius, which is the parish that really wishes the SSPX weren’t schismatic (the priests that run it also have another parish up in the far reaches of Lake County but Cantius is the one that if someone says that they go to Mass there, it tells you so much about them).
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 2h
Rarely if ever see other representatives outside floor debates.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 2h
more than a few representatives sleep in their offices now. And not in the way that Mitch McConnell does but rather that they do it to save money because they spend most of their time outside Washington. I’ve seen it argued that this is a contributing factor to congressional polarization since they
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 2h
Oh good heavens no. That’s an African-American parish. John Cusack’s character in Chiraq was a barely fictionalized version of the pastor.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 2h
I don’t feel like cooking. How about we just order in.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 3h
‘We're Americans. With a capital "A", huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.‘
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Definitely the pop tarts.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My #lastfourwatched
My list: 
From Time to Time (3 stars)
Damsels in Distress (4½ stars)
Digger (4½ stars)
Let Me In (3½ stars)
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A few years ago I came up with a party game of “alive or dead” where you have to guess whether someone who’s fallen out of the public eye is alive or dead.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oddly, despite living in Chicago, this is the first I’ve heard of his death.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now does it hum like the old electric typewriters did?
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Between this and the anti dei stuff, I’m done with target.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dreamt that I bought a package 0f pork and in the course of making tacos discovered two human hands and a face in it.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh man, his three films he made in the 90s are brilliant: Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco. Definitely worth looking for. Metropolitan is on HBOMax; Barcelona is on YouTube/Plex and Tubi; nobody has The Last Days of Disco at the moment.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
become part of the modern cultural zeitgeist.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Finally watching Damsels in Distress and it’s unmistakably Whit Stillman and quite fantastic in that Whit Stillman way. I can see a lesser director completely fucking up this script, but the performances here are just perfect. And every other character is the super young version of an actor who’s
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One income families because both partners can only find part-time work
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Succumb
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - MARK ZUCKERBERG PRESENTS "A.I. AND U!" - Brought to you by the heroic Inner Hive, including long-time member Casey 2 and new member Steven Titmus! (tomthedancingbug.com/the-inner-hi...) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I may post some screenshots of the under development site later today. It only exists on my laptop at the moment, but it’s looking pretty good (and the import of data from the current site seems to be mostly working). Maybe a beta launch by the end of the month?
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’ve been doing some account cleanup on rejectionwiki.com in preparation for the launch of a new version of the site. the vast majority of the account signups have been spam account signups and it turns out there are less than 100 active accounts on the site.
rejectionwiki.com
Rejection Wiki
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
24*24 rolls of paper towels/120 months = 4.8 rolls of paper towels per month, or one roll every 6.25 days. Maybe not.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s called shit talking. Maybe you’ve turd of it.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I used to have a phone number that got wrong number calls for Robinson-May all the time. I used to give people absurdist responses to their queries, my personal favorite was the time I persuaded a woman that the shoe department had been relocated to Mexico because of NAFTA.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Man I’m a type nerd. Looking at that titling font with the double-wide caps in the upper case positions and single-wide in the lower case and thinking, damn, that just looks amazing.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Although …
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
when I was watching it originally I was looking forward to a rewatch when it was done but the last season made me never want to think about it again.
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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“What sometimes irritates in T.S. Eliot is that he almost always inserts quotations from poets of the past in his verses, while he completely omits quotations from poets of the future.” -Eugenio Montego
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You used to be a dinosaur and now look at you! You should be ashamed of yourself!
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Likewise
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When Wordle came out, at hacker news, there was a lot of tech bros figuring out optimal starting words, but I always found the puzzles where I just barely solved it more satisfying than the cases where I would get it in three and I liked using random starting words to make it more fun.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Van Helsing chapters are kind of painful though.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Little did he know it’s because the computer was laughing.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Heavy metal! (Well more weighty brass but still…) Heavy metal!
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The closer analogy maybe would be expecting me, of Slovene and Czech ancestry, to feel connected to Russia or Poland. Yea, we’re Slavs and during the Olympics or World Cup, all else being equal I’ll cheer for a Slavic team (except Serbia, Russia and Belarus) over a non-Slav team but not much more.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“get it from” and “get from it” have different meanings.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Cats Go out the Door Daily” (I contrived and promptly forgot a case where the headline changes meaning based on whether the preposition is capitalized). But in this case, the verb is actually “get from” and it’s one of those weird bits where the object comes in the middle of the verb since
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In English (and I believe most/all other Germanic languages) instead the preposition lives after the verb, so rather than outgo, it’s go out, or fromget it’s get from. The place where this matters is in some up-style headline title capitalization rules where it’s “Cats Go Out Daily” but
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
to verbs, which comes after that preposition prefix so you end up having changes to the near-beginning of the verb in the conjugation. You see this pattern in Romance languages, Greek and Slavic languages, probably others, but that’s the limit of my linguistic knowledge.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What’s kind of interesting is that most Indo-European languages have classes of verbs which are derived by prefixing the verb with a preposition, for example, Latin exeo, whence we get the English “exit” is literally from-go. Classical Greek makes a big deal of these because the aorist adds a prefix
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was a parallel universe. Lucky boy didn’t have to live in it.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have a vague notion that I read an article somewhere about this, but I cannot recall where exactly.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was surprisingly good.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I agree
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well to be fair, that’s what I do whenever someone I know comes down the street singing a capella ska. I mean without the skank beat, is it even really ska?
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“no one elected you” … umm
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Graham Greene’s birthday to all who celebrate.
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Night of the living D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do high school marching bands play from memory now? Stumbled upon an event at the local high school and none of the little sheet music we used back in my day.
The local high school marching band playing. They sounded amazing.
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