Eric Linus Kaplan

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how to criticize the actions of economic elites -- e.g. owners of Cheesecake Factory - without getting dinged for being a snooty cultural elite? I think it's possible -- it's about calling out how they use certain messaging -- gold paint -- to trick you into letting them rip you off - $25 spaghetti.

I know it’s not cool to suggest he is imperfect but he jokes are sacred. Can’t front on a joke.

Levator Ani to the Gallows

I'm always red-faced with rage whenever I hear people call the small room in a multi-story building meant to move between floors an "elevator". People, if it were an "elevator" it would just take you to the top floor and leave you there. The word you are looking for is "elevator-de-elevator .

"Tear up the planks! Tear up the planks! And stop the filtering of his horrible kidney!"

@jeffreyford8.bsky.social hi it's Eric

I just learned about and lost The Game

People like you if you're likable. But people also don't like you if you have a trait that they wish they had. And everybody wants to be likable. So if you want to be liked, it is important not to be too likable.

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if you deal with people who have a lot of power but don't notice things that you notice, do you think they are stupid or do you think they just have a different way of looking at things?

what do you call a mayor facing a 1970s new york city financial crisis with a little mayor facing a 1970s new york city financial crisis inside him? Mise-en-Abe Beame!

a flock of sheep in need of herding met a flock of thoughts in need of wording if the herd was worded before it was heard did a bear herd the sheep with his grizzly beard?

The moody baby in need of burping Komodo dragon in need of herping A slippery insight, resisting wording Grebe on the wing, avoiding birding

the celebrity, the business leader, the politician are forms of insanity we license because of what they do for us

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this world of ours which is half half-crazy and the other half all

what do we know about Sonia Lovecraft?

"About desire one doesn't ask why" -- now we're starting to get somewhere!!

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is an absolutely great movie. Do people realize how great it is?

when the US does a televised execution will it be eligible for an Emmy?

“The last thing I did was the delivery of the report on Gaza naming what’s happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report was people [complimented] me for my courage … Why would you need courage to speak the truth?" - Pilay

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A hard drive with a hard drive, full of the names of gauchos. A fight was nigh, Roberto knew: a knife fight. It was wholly hard to see the hard light that lighted the Holy See. He knew he would either not be alive to see morning, one more compadrito with a headful of heresy. Or he would be Pope.

They Have Big Shells on the Seychelles

anyone who does not call my kitty "the prettiest kitty" is an enemy and will be dealt with accordingly! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

Go, Carson! Go, Carson! Go, Carson!

Pur mai non sentesi Felice appieno Chi su quel seno — non liba amore!

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"you made psycho from the perspective of the shower curtain" is a really funny line

do y'all feel the Crisis of the Third Century could have been averted by some wise statesmanship or is that just "happy talk"?

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Sucking Algae Off of Glass I Learned From My Plecostomus

This is what pissed Trump off. youtu.be/duPaIjwNHkM

Nothing forbids our pleasure except savage and sad superstition- Spinoza

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listening to Steely Dan = turning the whole earth into your hospice, making existence so close to death that the final moment won't even be noticed as a change of state?

do you guys like Monsta X? #monstax

2034. The former Groypers are getting out of the rehabilitation centers outside Fairbanks, Alaska. They take hesitant steps into a new world. A reporter asks one - in the old days you used to be a senator? A president? "None of that matters." says the man. "I'm a human being."

Tickled is a really prescient documentary as it describes how a rich bullying weirdo can keep offending with impunity by intimidating the press and employing immoral fixers.

working on a connections: term, diaper, fries, gun

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Skeeper the Dog. He's not a dog. & he's not named "Skeeper". Coming soon to a screen near you!

anybody want to do a zoom chat this evening?