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Mastodon Is Idiot-Proofed at the Top

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It's not the friendliest interface yet, but the chance to connect on your own terms is real.

From Popula
On November 28, 2022
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STEM Can’t Give You a Reason to Live

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the "science of happiness"??

From Popula
On February 23, 2022
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What Kind of Writer Accuses Libraries of Stealing?

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a wrangle on the topic of Controlled Digital Lending

From Popula
On January 22, 2022
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The Genius of Retreat

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In the inevitable hierarchies that would arise, maybe the rich would still have access to real broccoli.

From Popula
On December 14, 2021
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MR. WRONG: Standard Deviation

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Do you even have a clock? Don’t you just look at your phone? Your microwave oven, maybe?

From Hmm Weekly
On November 12, 2021
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David, Goliath stereotype

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Independence Day, you’ll remember, is a pre-9/11 film chock-full -of oblivious patriotic bravado that captures peak-1990’s chauvinistic sentiment. It is also, to me, a Jewish film.

From Preachy
On November 2, 2021
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Documentary ‘The Accidental President’ Intentionally Forgets Trump Presidency

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The Accidental President recycles the same tired messages that media pundits have been repeating since 2015.

From Tasteful Rude
On June 23, 2021
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Buy Two Pies

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WHEN TIMES ARE good, buy two pies. The first pie will be your primary pie. Maybe pumpkin at Thanksgiving, or apple for the summer barbecue. There’s nothing wrong with satisfying expectations. The second pie is your change of pace. Maybe a cream pie to balance out a fruit pie, or a custard pie to offset […]

From Hmm Weekly
On December 11, 2020
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DIAGNOSIS IS MURDER DEP’T.

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BACK IN LATE November and early December of 2019 (the Before Times), I came down with what I thought was a bad cold. I had a maddeningly parched and scratchy throat that kept me awake in bed, plus an intermittently uncontrollable dry, hacky, non-productive cough along with an odd heaviness in my lungs.

From Hmm Weekly
On March 24, 2020
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