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More startling still is the distinct lack of undeniable hooks and nailed-on melodies. ...There’s a fantastic chord sequence on Actually Romantic, but, alas, 37 years ago Frank Black wrote a very similar one for Where Is My Mind? by Pixies, a song you can literally sing along to Actually Romantic. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/03/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review

Happy birthday! Hoping for a fast recovery so you're able to scurry down chimneys this year.

Liked for the runs out part ----^

He's a featured character in Jon Ronson's 2001 book Them: Adventures with Extremists (whether by luck or by some insight, Ronson has been ahead of this stuff for decades) On that topic, Ronson did a podcast series exploring the origins of lots of the culture war fights. Definitely worth a listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cpr/episodes/player?page=1

That seems really unlikely. If something that wants to kill you is already inside your body, I'd think it would just burrow in further.

This existed. It's very terrible. That's Jennifer Aniston ---^

Done

It's 2006 ...

Needs one of these for completeness

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies aged 97 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/08/jim-lovell-astronaut-dies

NYT distinguishes itself. https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/

x2 I'd consider it a gamble and not put any more into it than you can afford to simply lose. Keeping in mind that if it breaks within that warranty period, the person providing the warranty is the same one who failed to fix it in the first place.

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@skullguise https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/andrea-gibson-simple-poetry/683597/?gift=VVmQ8PJvtoygs0Ru1GQletrb4jh0We6UCkEki67Hjig&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

a) this looks great, b) a serving alternative would be that once it returns to a boil, add (white) rice equal to a little less than 1/2 the liquid volume (about a cup and a half for the written recipe) and stick it (covered) into the oven (350F) for about 20 minutes. I'd probably add a touch of salt, too.