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Feb 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wartching Desperately Seeking Susan with the kid, and am overcome by a vertiginous wave of longing for the shitty downtown magic club. If that place existed, I’d be there twice a week.
It’s like Marie’s Crisis, Spain, and the Coney Island freak show had a baby.
This is our second or third time watching it, and was the outcome of a 20-minute “what to watch tonight” negotiation.
I’d pay serious serious money for That Jacket in a 48 Long.

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Feb 6
Weird how you don't use the word in this tweet.
"We need to use the n word while quoting racists so people will know how anti-racist we are, and I don't care if you think that's racist" is a seriously strange take.
Like, yes, I understand that there are arguments to be made that articulating that word is sometimes an antiracist practice. I find them far less compelling than I used to, but I understand them. But this ... isn't that.
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Feb 3
Lots of people confused by this claim, and with good reason—the data Yglesias used came from a study that estimated population once a century. His chart, and particularly his tweet, doesn't reflect that.
Here's the source for Yglesias's claim—it's the left hand column. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l…
So yes, London was probably the biggest city in the world in 1900, but no, that doesn't mean it was the biggest from 1900 to 2000, or that Tokyo "suddenly" took over that year.
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Feb 1
Everything sucks, nothing's getting better, and it increasingly feels to many people like nothing CAN get better. So OF COURSE if you ask people "how are you doing?" questions they're going to respond in tones of despair.
(To put it another way, if you click through to @Nate_Cohn's thread, I think he's got it mostly right, though I'd underscore existential despair more than he does.)
I also think Cohn is 100% right to say that how people respond to questions about the economy aren't solely, or in many cases even primarily, about how they feel about the economy right now.
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Jan 30
This question is grounded in pretended ignorance of the obvious reality that Biden had a list of potential justices available to him well before he won the nomination, and that his people have been refining and tweaking that list on an onging basis over the last year.
The Biden administration is considering all possible nominees. They've been considering all possible nominees since months before he won. Biden's longstanding commitment to putting a Black woman on the Court is not mutually exclusive with a consideration of all possible nominees.
It's just a profundly silly, disingenous, and destructive way of framing the question.
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Jan 29
I was just looking up how many times humans have landed craft on the moon since Apollo, and stumbled across this—the first image ever made of the far side. Image
It literally is, old man.
Someone in replies to Candace Owens' moon-landing-is-a-hoax thread was asking why we'd never gone back since Apollo, and I was curious about the number.
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Jan 28
The best, most enduring children's literature often has an anarchic, befuddling formal quality. It appears to embrace the structures of the lesser works that kids are immersed in, and then smashes them for no obvious reason.
Goodnight Moon is my favorite example of this. On its surface, it's a narrator listing the stuff that's in a room, then saying good night to each thing. The soil from which a zillion anodyne board books have sprung.
But hold the lists in Goodnight Moon up against each other, and you discover that they're not parallel at all. They clang and slip and bounce around in ways no modern editor would ever allow.
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