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calendar prompt: call about stolen id

calendar prompt: call about stolen id

uh no?

14.03.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Police Academy 5: Mission: Miami Beach
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
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14.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Given AI techbros' penchant for unironically naming their products after evil devices in Tolkien's mythology, I don't understand why there isn't an LLM chatbot app called Wormtongue

14.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Palantir's seemingly weakest spot is their engineers who (and i kind of can't believe it at this point) play the whole I Just Build Things card. constantly confronting them with the consequences of their actions is necesarry

14.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh is your film not a perfect recreation of my distorted autobiography which has led to bourgeoise normality? then it's politics are null and actually toxic

14.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Severance and Sub-Creation In what would have been called in an earlier period of TV development β€œthe pilot” of Apple TV+’s series Severance, Mark (Adam Scott) attends a dinner party populated by the most obnoxious people in…

over here (now i wanna listen to the Tolkein pod) filmmakermagazine.com/115366-sever...

14.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

did you ever read my annoying piece on this

14.03.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

weeping to the single worst version of "Wild Mountain Thyme" i've ever heard being played by an octogenarian at the indoor farmer's market

14.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeats really didn't like weasels huh?

13.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the stupidest possible future, the stupidest possible present

13.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

am beginning to wonder if the novella @lifewinning.com and i wrote together should have been "can a LLM stand trail for war crimes?"

13.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

PJ Harvey

13.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This list of questions that agent Paul Bogarde asks potential clients formalizes for me something I have been thinking for awhile now

13.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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shark one. oil painting on linen art board. 6x8 inches

11.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 569 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread
wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

13.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 4826 πŸ” 924 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 87

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19.11.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 1736 πŸ” 421 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

Pee-Wee Herman could survive a Hannibal/Red Dragon/ Silence of the Lambs situation but Will Graham wouldn't make it past breakfast in Pee-Wee's world.

15.09.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

*Mr Bean piloting an oil tanker through the strait of Hormuz*

13.03.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Robot Escorted Away By Cops After Terrorizing Old Woman Footage shows a humanoid robot being escorted away by police officers after it reportedly frightened an elderly pedestrian.

My most genuine conspiracy theory is that science fiction writers of the past somehow got access to the actual future, but all that access afforded them is the ability to read headlines.

13.03.2026 04:12 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Killing Anna - CPH:DOX A Syrian woman creates a fake identity on Facebook to trap war criminals in a gripping psychological thriller sparked by a shocking video.

Bellingcat's latest documentary, Killing Anna, a tale of catfishing Syrian war criminals and exposing their roles in a massacre, will be shown at CPH:DOX in March. The ultimate Doxxing at DOX.
cphdox.dk/film/killing...

21.02.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 308 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Wow

12.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

Not sure if the degree to which many, many synagogues have daycares in them is widely known. For a lot of people involved in the institutional community, "gunman attacks synagogue on a Thursday" reads as basically "gunman attacks preschool," if you're wondering why i almost threw up this afternoon

12.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

sampling wines at a diner is something i could never previously have imagined

12.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In love with the frisson of transgression (underlining key passages in print books with a pen)

12.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shame Psalm | Rust & Moth 1. Maybe mandolin means knife because of how I feel when I hear β€œEast Virginia Blues.” Maybe fear is someone I keep fucking because they don’t care how I like it. Maybe clementine instead of orange. M...

this was one of the first poems (2019) where i really saw them operating in full gear. i'm deeply gratified to see how their work advanced in the last seven years rustandmoth.com/work/shame-p...

12.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Poem: β€œInheritance” by Theo Legro ”I wanted to explore how grief tethers us together and makes us alone,β€œ LeGro says.

now.fordham.edu/fordham-maga...

12.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Desire Corners Me in the Quiet - Plume DESIRE CORNERS ME IN THE QUIET Β  On the beach, I take self portraits with my eyes closed, standing in water that rises from ankle to neck in less than a second. In the darkroom’s red glow, I mix fixer...

i hadn't kept up with the last few years of Teddy's work, and am only catching up on it now. their work gained depth and precision, keeping its vehemence, in their final years. plumepoetry.com/desire-corne...

12.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Today I learned that when William Whewell coined the term β€œscientist,” in 1833, he offered an alternative term that, sadly, wasn’t adopted by the culture: β€œNature peeper.”

12.03.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when i try to back conservatives into rhetorical corners they just shrug and admit it now. i miss the old hand waving sophistry bullshit

12.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0