Jeremy Bartels
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Dad at swim lessons this morning was reading an NYRB classic deep cut (Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky) but I’m not threatened by him because that’s a writer I’ve heard of
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Patrick is a 34-year-old orangutan at the Metro Richmond Zoo who recently became an online sensation after a video of him tying a perfect double knot went viral. To celebrate his birthday, the zoo gifted him a royal cloak, which he tied neatly on his own 🦧
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Mitch Larkin has an uncanny knack for knowing when someone will become famous. But when he hedges his bets on a risky asset—the volatile Syd Morris—Mitch realizes he’s met his match. MEAT PUPPETS, by Hannah Smart 5.5.26 Available for preorder now: https://t.co/oOmQ5Mdq7Q
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Granta was saddened to hear of Alexander Kluge’s death. In honour of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his essay for Granta, ’Today We Just Say Germany’. https://t.co/gnxIo1Ys6n
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‘Today we just say Germany. It saves intellectual and emotional effort. Like Heiner Müller says, it is better to speak of people than of the people.’
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Sorry to hear that happened to you man. Maybe some kind of hugely expensive vertical farming scheme could help you — and revitalize our city’s downtown core
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One of those jokes that shapes your sense of humor for the rest of your life.
33 years ago today, Mr. Burns hired a group of strike-breakers — “the kind they had in the ‘30s.” “Last Exit to Springfield” first aired on March 11, 1993.
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About 8 or 9 years ago, I stopped at a White Castle for a meal. One customer was in what was clearly hunting camo and another customer thanked them for their service. Reminded me of Homer saluting the ice cream men.
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St Michael’s Church in Kreuzberg has been a fixture of the city since the 19th century; its architect August Soller died during construction and is buried inside. The Engelbecken was going to be a public pool when it was created in 1926, but the plan was stopped by Catholics.
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My pottery haul from Arizona. Stuffed all of this in my suitcase and somehow nothing broke on the plane. The fish and smaller tiles are from Cosanti, the rest were found at various antique and thrift stores.
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This can't be a recent price, that's far too cheap for 2025-2026
Currywurst & Pommes at SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim, Germany 💶 €5.50 (£4.70)
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A while back I challenged myself to write a flash fiction that feels like a whole novel, and, well, this was my attempt. ⬇️
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My favorite thing is when highly respected artists talk about their taste and it includes something that their audience views as basic or beneath them lol
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Alright I’m doing Lolita discourse on Twitter because I’m an idiot and I hate life itself. The small brain take is that it’s a pedo book for perverts. The medium brain take is an over-zealous negation of the small brain take: that it’s a deeply ethical book written to condemn
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