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Aaron Cohen

@unlikelywords

Dad and ice cream shop owner. Books, cats, baking, punk music, running. Carly Rae Jepsen appreciator. Kottke.org contributor. Boston, USA https://linktr.ee/gracies Check out my children's book The Salty Avocado https://bookshop.org/a/3552/9781793381798

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I assume everything is going to work out with the "Boston Stadium" World Cup games in Foxboro(ugh), but it's good that the town council is not willing to front the money for security on a promise from Trump admin and now Kraft.

10.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone was slow
Getting out of bed today
Especially me.

10.03.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m tired of my employees ruining my day so today I’m gonna ruin theirs.

www.instagram.com/reel/DVqrdWW...

09.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not an economist, but we ought to look at the name slop bowl before we blame economic conditions for fading slop bowl sales.

09.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Works out pretty good for American defense manufacturers, I guess?

09.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trick question. It's always!

09.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TREBEK: Feel free to enjoy these startling signs of nice weather, but don't say "happy spring" -- it's actually still winter!

ME: What are the warm breezes of false spring?

TREBEK: Bizarre little weather occurrences. You're still in control of the board.

09.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m tired of my employees ruining my day so today I’m gonna ruin theirs.

www.instagram.com/reel/DVqrdWW...

09.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He ran all the way
Around Fresh Pond kind of as
A lark with a friend.

09.03.2026 03:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They get it.

09.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People don't really eat at ice cream shops too often over the winter here, either.

08.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Priorities.

08.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(It's not actually true, BUT! Every neighborhood in this specific part of New England does have their own homemade ice cream shop.)

08.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Funny for her to intimate β€œI would never ask someone from another country who they voted for” as if she would have any idea about other country’s elections.

08.03.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of an ice cream shop.

A picture of an ice cream shop.

Best ice cream shop: Gracie’s

Look, we can haggle about the details of the ice cream itself (I question some of the flavor choices) … but Gracie’s has -personality- and that’s what I need in this bland, commodified world.

Also Aaron’s sticker game is beyond compare.

3/?

08.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Pretty sure this area has more homemade ice cream per capita than anywhere else in the world.

08.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ice cream is joy, so there is only one true thing in the world.

08.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

which makes ice cream shops so wonderful: you can exchange a fake thing, money, for a real thing, ice cream

08.03.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Time is fake and money is fake and humming birds are fake, but joy is real and so is ice cream.

08.03.2026 05:31 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck, homie. They’re fake.

08.03.2026 05:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t believe I do.

08.03.2026 05:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They know what they did.

08.03.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They were all in your imagination.

08.03.2026 05:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Time is fake and money is fake and humming birds are fake, but joy is real and so is ice cream.

08.03.2026 05:31 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

They each chose whoopie
Pies today from different
Bake sales around town.

08.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep.

07.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I’d known the wizard behind this masterpiece was here, I would have tagged him when I posted last night. I can only hope to read more about Lloyd Planta someday.

07.03.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I spent three hours trying to google this yesterday. It’s breathtakingly genius.

07.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I would like to once again direct your attention to the Pizza Hut Oral History

07.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

FOUND THEM HELL YES

07.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1