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YESSSSSSSS THANK YOU FREDDIE FOR BEING THE MAN AND ALSO LETTING ME GO TO BED

You know, at 10:15pm I felt like eating some cheese and then thought, no, it’s too close to bedtime, better not. I have regrets and that’s one of them.

“I love pineapple. It’s a great, great fruit.” At this point Smoltz and Davis are basically Anthony Michael Hall in Breakfast Club sticking pencils up his nose.

WP Kinsella wrote a novel called The Iowa Baseball Confederacy about a lost-to-time baseball game (against the Cubs!) that went on for 40 days and nights. Thinking of it now for no reason at all.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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We're launching a portal to review federal immigration enforcement in New York after yesterday’s ICE raid on Canal Street. New Yorkers who were present should submit videos or photos, and we will review and investigate any violations of the law.

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Federal Action Reporting Form

Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I just watched Sneakers for the first time. They don't make movies like this anymore, do they? Taut, funny, well-paced, ... a dream heist movie. The casting is brilliant enough as it is, and then boom, James Earl Jones! Also, is this the funniest Sidney Poitier and David Strathairn have ever been?

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Just saw One Battle After Another and it is electrifying. Propulsive, expertly shot and acted, and — surprisingly — often laugh-out-loud funny. It's PTA's best work yet, in my opinion. The trailers (which I found hard to follow) didn't do it justice.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Can someone sit the producers of the Emmys down and explain that we watch for the speeches? And why are they producing the Emmys if they don't know it?

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I’m rewatching The Good Place, and the urge to yell “Bortles!” in every single situation is overwhelming.

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I've been looking up state mottos, and they're often surprising and delightful. - Washington: "Al-ki," a Chinook Jargon word meaning "by and by" - North Carolina: "Esse Quam Videri," Latin for "to be rather than to seem" - Texas: "Friendship," because "Tejas" is a Caddo Indian word meaning "friend"

Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Best drama series, Andor, let's goooooo

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Freelancing writers, this is gold: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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FWT Publication Freelance Rates Database

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/07/2025

Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X. Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.

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Monkeytime @tmorman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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Text screenshot: Homicides and nonfatal shootings dipped slightly from 2021 to 2022, but then fell off precipitously after that. In 2023, homicides fell nearly 24 percent compared with 2022, then fell another 23 percent in 2024, according to city data. In 2021, there were 726 nonfatal shootings in the city. In 2024, there were 412.

Beyond those trends, carjackings are down 15 percent so far this year, robberies are down 22 percent, and auto thefts are down 34 percent.

Scott, who recalled that “people laughed at me” when he first advocated for a community-based approach, doesn’t see it as unusual.

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This is a truly stunning list that includes Where the Sidewalk Ends, my favorite book when I was a kid. As for Calvin and Hobbes… it is because Hobbes is naked? Stumped otherwise.

ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

PSA: If you’re going to watch the excellent Dept Q on Netflix (and you should), do NOT check IMDB at any point mid-show. You’ll be spoiled for a major plot point. I’ll answer your question instead: The woman who plays the caretaker Claire is one of the friends in the Bridget Jones movies.

Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Hear me out: Any recipe that calls for a stand mixer is elitist.

Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Just throwing this out there: I’d like to see a Top Chef challenge where they have to cook in an NYC apartment kitchen and wash dishes as they go, since they’ll only have a foot of counter space.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A sign that you are perhaps too online: Four letters for this NY Times crossword clue, and I immediately entered “duck.” (Reader, it was not “duck.”)

The phrase “Relative of a milkshake” in blue under a crossword puzzle

Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If I could have a superpower, it would be to scroll back in my memory to the exact moment I lost something so I could remember where in the hell I put it.

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you loved Aimee Lou Wood (Chelsea) on White Lotus, I urge you to start watching Sex Education immediately. Toot suite! (I know actors don't want to be typecast, but if she ever gets cast as a villain figure, I'm afraid my life will lose all meaning.)

Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Favorite Real Genius quotes off the top of my head: “So, we’ll hammer later?” “I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, ‘I drank what?’” “Dr. Hathaway? Are you wearing makeup?” (OK, that one wasn’t Kilmer.) RIP Val Kilmer. You were our moral imperative.

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I love how inner monologues in movies and TV shows are so thoughtful and articulate. My inner monologue sounds like, "No. Don't do it. If you BUY the cheese, you'll EAT the cheese."

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Patricia Chui @patriciaj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I am so glad Soderbergh never actually retired (after declaring he would, in 2013). Black Bag is great fun, and I’ll admit I couldn’t quite follow the plot, but it truly didn’t matter. Think Ocean’s 11 meets Duplicity, with some Out of Sight thrown in.