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Johannes Jakob

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editor at Penguin Random House Australia

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when you're constantly faster than the minute and the hour, that can cause second-hand embarrassment

24.02.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

is there RAM in pistachios? why are my boys so expensive? are we redirecting pistachio water to data centres

23.02.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Seymour Guado Awarded Blitzball Peace Prize - Hard Drive LUCA, Spira β€” This week, Maester of Yevon and Minister of Temple Affairs Seymour Guado was awarded a special Blitzball Peace Prize... Continue reading this gem

Seymour Guado Awarded Blitzball Peace Prize

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18.12.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 1326 πŸ” 506 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 12

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

29.10.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 14172 πŸ” 4033 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 219

Overdoing β€œon the other hand” alternatives for dinner to impress my octopus date

14.08.2025 18:51 πŸ‘ 192 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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it was viral enough. here's my copy that I downloaded September 14 2009 at 7 PM.

29.09.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 613 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 23

It's great! Pynchon remains undiminished.

28.09.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A hand holding Thomas Pynchon’s novel Shadow Ticket in front of a plant and a green wall

A hand holding Thomas Pynchon’s novel Shadow Ticket in front of a plant and a green wall

working at PRH has all just been a decade-long scam to get a new Pynchon novel slightly early

09.09.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.

ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims

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26.08.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 214 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 39

he's beautiful

22.08.2025 00:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Vampire who’s been wallowing after a bad breakup whose buddies finally convince him to get back out on the blood rave scene and he immediately gets cut vertically in half by Blade

17.04.2024 02:27 πŸ‘ 1874 πŸ” 318 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 8
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my new book YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE is out now. it has 45 short stories, including some of my favourites from the last four years of INFINITE GOSSIP, and unreleased ones. buy it from maxlavergne.square.site

05.08.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
Image of a phone running the pokemon sleep app, with a headline that reads: the app that rewards users for sleeping with collectible pokemon

Image of a phone running the pokemon sleep app, with a headline that reads: the app that rewards users for sleeping with collectible pokemon

you MUST hire editors

22.07.2025 06:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

10.07.2025 00:46 πŸ‘ 11579 πŸ” 3407 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 72

Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "

22.06.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 984 πŸ” 340 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 29

i guess you'd say Tyrese Haliburton is the Aziz Behich of the NBA

06.06.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

no spoilers but the plot in Murder on the Orient Express is really being pulled along by a loco motive

04.06.2025 06:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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hang your machetes by the front door in solidarity with the machete wholesalers

26.05.2025 03:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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😭😭😭

24.05.2025 23:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Graph of yearly releases on Steam from 2004 to 2024 with the massive growth from 2014 onwards to 18,678 games released in 2024.

Graph of yearly releases on Steam from 2004 to 2024 with the massive growth from 2014 onwards to 18,678 games released in 2024.

This didn't happen by random chance of the market or some neutral development of technology. The game industry, like many industries, figured out how to outsource all the risks and costs of production onto the aspirational while capturing their own cut as rent. Game devs are uber drivers now.

19.05.2025 01:05 πŸ‘ 1324 πŸ” 311 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 45

never closer to going Sephiroth mode than election night

03.05.2025 09:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

pretty fun to sample the sausages at each booth i’m voting at

03.05.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i don't have a parasocial relationship with the shadows projected onto the cave wall, those are really my friends!!

07.04.2025 23:49 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

probably a chicken and egg situation

02.04.2025 05:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if 'i'll remember i put this object here' was a crime, i would be doing life in prison

27.03.2025 05:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i can't believe sports broadcasting in australia has become so moronically fractured across 100 different shitty platforms, and still not a single one shows the UWCL

26.03.2025 22:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Left out guy at the party meme with caption β€œThey don’t know I’m the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.”

Left out guy at the party meme with caption β€œThey don’t know I’m the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.”

24.03.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 20673 πŸ” 3067 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 65