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mcubed.net : NCAA Men's Basketball : Series Records : Iowa has a record of (10-7) against Missouri

The Iowa Hawkeyes are 10-7 all time against the Mizzou Tigers, so perhaps he had just sort of put them out of mind mcubed.net/ncaab/series...

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Ambrose Bierce would have been Hall-of-Fame level

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Speaking as a professional news editor, I would say the initial reporting on the McKinsey murder left out several extremely important pieces of pertinent information. So, um, hire seasoned news editors, is what I am saying. Editors say things like "did you look up the custodial dispute paperwork?"

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Something weird is going on because the poem Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, which I don't believe I have thought about in decades, has now come up twice in two days

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 27/09/2026

I only knew the Ella Langley song because there was so much talk about it online, and I figured I'd better interrupt my constant stream of prog and jazz so I'd know what it was. Some of its chord progressions really remind me of the song Tequila Sunrise. So it goes.

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 27/09/2026

I cleaned my ceiling fans today. Not sure when I became the sort of person who dusts ceiling fan blades and scrubs down baseboards, but here we are

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Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

A photo of the cover of singer and performance artist Laurie Anderson's album Big Science

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Reading this, I learned that this moral paragon is the son of the guy who runs LesserEvil snacks, which I have tried and enjoyed, but...seriously, that company is run by the guy who raised this sentient ear wax? Thanks for the heads-up, I'll just make popcorn at home, jeez

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Man, stores that have been bought by private equity invariably have websites that are complete dumpster fires. Too bad, giant craft chain store that I rarely patronize, you won't let me check out so I guess I don't really need what I was going to buy. I suppose the biz plan was bankruptcy all along.

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 25/09/2026

The Terror season 1 and Hannibal or GTFO, NYT

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Talking a whole lot about semiotics in answer to every question. So much Barthes would be involved

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 25/09/2026

ONLY THEY CAN CLOSE THE DOOMPORTAL THEY OPENED GO CUBS

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 24/09/2026

I have just experienced the single most opaque piece of institutional writing I have ever encountered

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 24/09/2026

Did Donald Trump recently have darker hair, or did I hallucinate that?

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 24/09/2026

1) casseroles 2) cordless snowthrowers 3) "Ope, just gonna scoot right pastcha" 4) Christian Moerlein 5) decorative door wreaths 6) vaguely burnt convenience store drip coffee

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties

Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The pentagon ships sensitive military components over the ocean by UPS?

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 23/09/2026

I hereby state for the record my opposition to on-air meteorologists' use of the term "nor'easter". You are not a grizzled Maine sea captain from the 1880s. If you simply MUST say this, you need to use a thick New England accent*. See also: "fo'c'sle" *Boston Southie would be acceptable

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 22/09/2026

will they be playing a loop of "Cats" if there is a pending state funeral

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Related: people often ask "how much did you really lose when the CPB was dissolved?" and the answer is: about $375K annually. So, we have to figure out how to replace that, on top of what we normally had to raise to keep the lights on. It's a challenge.

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Coincidentally, the KPR member stations (the flagship KANU frequency was one of the first to sign on as a member station of NPR) are having a pledge drive right now. We're raising money to continue local and regional reporting, augmented by the national & international resorces of NPR.

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Archie has found The Good Spot in the reading room

A white Labrador Retriever mix dog snuggled into a bank of pillows on a couch, looking very comfortable

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 20/09/2026

Happy National Earth Wind and Fire Day #bahdeeahh

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IDK, maybe "by the way, it's going to have snipers on it" isn't the selling point they think it is

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

did the russians buy this guys ticket what the fuck

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 20/09/2026

Hold up, hold up, hold up, UK beat TAMU?

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 18/09/2026

Hmm. Let's see how that works out for him

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 17/09/2026

Every time I have to appear at a public event, I get ready and feel like I look okay and then I get to the event and catch a glimpse of myself and think "that lady looks like she got dressed in the back of the car"

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 17/09/2026

Saying all your friends hate the Mayor and then confirming all your friends are people who summer in the Vineyard or Greece ...real finger-on-the-pulse-of- The Real America stuff there, Bret

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 16/09/2026

!!!! what, is this even real?? Ugh

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 15/09/2026

I met the straight up most righteously badass person in Lawrence today. An arborist. She used ropes to climb up our trees and cut down the dead branches. I could not be more impressed with this woman if I tried.

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 13/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. The Headless Horseman 2. German Shepherds 3. The concept of infinity/eternity 4. Nuclear power 5. Dying in a nuclear war 6. The alert signal for the Emergency Broadcast System 7. being kidnapped by a cult (it was the '70s, whatever)

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Modest Mousse

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 12/09/2026

I was delivering a weather update from my home studio and suddenly it sounded like it was hailing hard, but no: it was my dog deciding to clomp up the hardwood stairs

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 12/09/2026

"The thing is, the chapter 'The Doubloon' is simulaneously a critique of the symbology of capitalism and a critique of the commodification of the natural world. The detailing of the astrological signifiers embedded in the coinstrike sets human endeavor against the unresponsive universe and the silen

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 11/09/2026

Having giant jets do a low flyover on September freaking 11th is Gen X trauma erasure. I said what I said.

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 11/09/2026

man, some people out here just earning the heck out of a block today. Blockity block block block, not taking the bait

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 11/09/2026

Teeth-grindingly furious with the AP photo editor right now

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ISTG, LOTR is fiction. It really, truly is. Product of the imagination. Makes some interesting sociological and political points. Still fiction.

When I was a kid, we attended a church with sermons routinely 90+ minutes in length. Pretty sure that's how I got so good at word games ("how many words can I make out of the letters in 'Pentateuch'?") and why Spelling Bee is my jam. I firmly believe the maximum sermon attention span is 5 minutes

I am a bear of little brain. I no longer know what staying the stay of the stay of the stay is staying

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...for all values of "fascinating" = "dystopic"

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