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Former remedial English student | Current copy editor | πŸ‘Ÿ | he/him/his

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Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV - Catholic Review Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the name Pope Leo XIV.

Mildly disappointed we don’t have β€œMalort I”

08.05.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I see what you did there

28.04.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apple juice!

12.04.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Does the latter beget the former?

10.04.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cast a real-time readout of your heart rate next time, maybe

08.04.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some other strong cast members, too. A then little-known Billy Bob Thornton, John Cusack, Ethan Hawke and a totally rando moment with Dave Navarro from Jane’s Addiction

10.03.2025 13:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His performance in β€œFloundering” is criminally unknown.

10.03.2025 04:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s a great topic I’d like to see on #MasterClass: How to help MasterClass appreciate the exploitative vibes of its no-refund auto-renew policy. Unlike all the others, I’d actually watch this one.

10.12.2024 06:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Met someone today who defied my theory that every Nebraskan of a certain age knows who Conor Oberst is.

03.12.2024 18:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trail Blazers vs. Pacers (Nov 27, 2024) Live Score - ESPN Live coverage of the Portland Trail Blazers vs. Indiana Pacers NBA game on ESPN, including live score, highlights and updated stats.

May the less-worse team win @phil123.bsky.social
www.espn.com/nba/game/_/g...

27.11.2024 22:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is not at all a commentary on you or your experiences, but that song was popular during my childhood and I grew deeply sad every time it came on the radio. Not since have I experienced such discordance between words and music.

26.11.2024 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Detroit Lions are no longer a holiday turkey For generations, this football team helped ruin my family’s Thanksgiving. And we aren’t even fans.

Happy Thanksgiving @jamesebriggs.bsky.social

26.11.2024 16:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NYT Reporters Look Back on the Lady Jaguars Basketball Team When we met them a dozen years ago, they were teenagers in trouble, playing for a basketball team that always lost. Did they find a way to win at life?

Everything about this deep dive of a story β€” the reporting, writing, photography and presentation β€” is gripping, empathetic and accessible. The care for craft and the lives involved just glows. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

24.11.2024 22:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No sophomore slump detected

24.11.2024 19:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alice Brock, namesake of Arlo Guthrie’s β€˜Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83 Guthrie’s 1967 antiwar anthem with the refrain β€œYou can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant” begins with an eventful Thanksgiving hosted by Ms. Brock.

Her life was inspiring. Her death is heartrending. Its timing, though . . . www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

24.11.2024 15:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s my presidential transition strategy. Meet the newly adopted Theo Henry James

17.11.2024 21:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As an Indiana expat, asking: Where is this?

16.11.2024 23:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Three chapters in and am fully engaged. So crisp and urgent in its prose

15.11.2024 18:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Update: We think he's more a Theo than a Buckaroo

13.11.2024 17:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am subscribed to a couple of good topics: science and news, for instance. What are some others folks might recommend?

13.11.2024 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Beard as hypeman is the frosting

12.11.2024 18:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Buckaroo? BlueSky. BlueSky? Buckaroo. #gotchaday

11.11.2024 20:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

A question I’ve been wrestling with: What foundational presumptions of mine will I have to reconcile with political reality? I don’t have a clear answer yet.

08.11.2024 12:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Insomnia cookies are better, no?

08.11.2024 04:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a journalist who tried texting a colleague tonight and got a β€œwrong number” response β€” from a journalist at a rival newsroom.

Put another way, I’m in D.C.

28.04.2024 05:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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All history should be this deftly written: β€œOn the other side was this invasive weed of a man, D.C. Stephenson, no Hoosier at all, a thug in a fancy suit. β€˜He was born in the state of Texas,’ said Cox, letting the word linger, like gas passed at a church.”

21.02.2024 06:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To all who exert, happy Worksgiving

23.11.2023 20:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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(judgmentally clears throat)

12.11.2023 21:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Peak X/Twitter experience is reading a post about Tracy Chapman’s β€œTalkin’ β€˜bout a Revolution,” a song that (among other things) was in heavy rotation during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, and seeing in the comments an ad for BetMGM.

12.11.2023 21:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My first post here πŸ™‚ Up on the top floor laboring for my employer while my wife enjoys the company of our cat and the new book by one of my colleagues

11.11.2023 22:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0