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John Leavitt

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@Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/

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What even is America

12.03.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spent all day with my "girlfriend" whom I "love" and couldn't find time to post this, but:

Dropkick Murphys: I'M A SAILOR
Beastie Boys: PEG
Dropkick Murphys: AND I LOST MY
Beastie boys: LEG

12.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

if i made some of these would some of you buy them off me to offset the cost of the stamp i need to buy to make them that's weirdly expensive

12.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s also called β€œFriendigan’s”

12.03.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I also feel like mature career Wes Anderson could tackle a decent Calvino adaptation

05.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

find someone very very gay to make a Herman Melville biopic that includes large stretches of Moby Dick and Billy Budd as feverish dream sequences

05.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Like one deal at the Essex House was it was easier to pay more home health aides to deal with it then deal with your grandmother compulsively collecting her shit and storing it in the closet

12.03.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I keep coming across wealthy families that just leave relatives to go floridly insane at home cause they have enough resources to do that

12.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We have a version of this in this building as a big penthouse occupying member of the co-op board has clearly untreated schizophrenia and keeps slipping notes under people’s doors and we all agree to ignore it and hope they die/relatives intervene

12.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The guy running a dirt cheap med bed scam about scrolling videos somehow healing you feels like a way too on the nose joke about boomers getting Facebook poisoned

12.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Neighborhood cat lady who thinks you can see Jesus via 3d Glasses: median voter

12.03.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

NEIGHBORS on HBO is a good document on how COVID completely cooked Americans in the suburbs but I do like that one older gay guy with the obvious toupee

12.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Brent Crude sounds like a gay porn guy who gets arrested

12.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

btw, full credit for this art goes to the shutterstock artist who drew a stylized picture of nyc that inspired me to think β€œthat’s obviously a final fantasy logo.” the rest, as they say, is history

12.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The aeshetics of this being like NYC needs to gather the Espers is millennial excellence

12.03.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

straights are such a fucking mess right now. also there's the Iran thing

12.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

After Bones he has only played that character on other shows

12.03.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The television show Bones made its male star the highest paid actor on TV for a few years

12.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

12.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Milk Bread At Kindred, this dough is used to make the pan of warm pull-apart bread that’s gifted to each table, in addition to the house’s burger buns, split-top rolls, and sandwich bread. It’s as versatile as i...

we made the bread ourselves earlier today, it's this one which i make so much i don't even need the recipe anymore

www.bonappetit.com/recipe/milk-...

12.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

first as tragedy, then as farce, then as baklava

12.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the best parts about the Scorsese doc is him going to Broadway when Liza Minnelli hired him & realising he didn't have a clue what he was doing. (Her new book says he wanted his own dressing room, which is when she knew she had to sack him.)

11.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...

11.03.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 658 πŸ” 117 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 63
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[Jimmy Stewart voice]

11.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

This escalated fast, in a good way.

11.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 1065 πŸ” 254 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 19
A fluffy lies on her side on a heating pad, limp and cozy

A fluffy lies on her side on a heating pad, limp and cozy

A girl and her heating pad πŸ’•

11.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Photo of "Stop Archbald Data Centers" billboard

Photo of "Stop Archbald Data Centers" billboard

Anger boiling in #Pennsylvania against AI data centers.

"A raucous crowd drowned out testimony from data center representatives Tuesday night, vocalizing their opposition to more than a dozen data centers along Business Route 6 and Route 247." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

11.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really think they don't, I think between "not knowing how food is made" and "believing that the Yeoman Farmer is the only self-sufficient man" they genuinely had no idea how the agriculture industry needs like the exact opposite of the government they want to build.

11.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

From another perspective, this entire administration has been a masterful campaign of destruction laser targeted at american agriculture, for incredibly unclear reasons

11.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

i have been muttering "inverse frisky dingo" for like three weeks now

11.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0