Anna Kramer
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energy + enviro reporter @NOTUSreports . email me: annakramer @notus .org. words @nytimes @WIRED @washingtonpost @TheAtlantic etc. get my food emails👇
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I’ve always wanted to write about this grey and gooey blob, both delicious and an environmental miracle. very proud of this feature, on the science and politics of the oyster
#longreads
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w/ Google layoffs, a good day to remember that our immigration system is so screwed up that anyone laid off at Google on a visa (or Microsoft, or Amazon, etc) only has 60 days to get a job or get out of the US
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I wrote about the legacy of the KitchenAid stand mixer for
@TheAtlantic
. It's the only appliance that still works exactly the way it's supposed to AND lasts forever. There's something so special about that in a world full of crappy tech.
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I'm devastated.
Protocol's been my home the last two years, full of brilliant and kind humans who made great journalism and made me into the journalist I am. I really didn't want to go. Tech news will be worse off with us gone.
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it's been 24 hours since
@Protocol
got shut down and all I want to do is shout out my beloved colleagues. Their talents as journalists (and humans) are innumerable, SO here is a Google sheet with the details of everyone now looking for jobs
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my first freelance piece, for
@WIRED
: every time you buy a last minute gift on Amazon prime, Amazon workers all over the country have to touch that box. Here’s what’s happening behind your presents.
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big professional news: it's my first day as the energy and environmental policy reporter for
@NOTUSreports
. I'll be covering how the Biden admin/agencies/Congress are managing climate change, the energy transition, and deploying money from the IRA + infrastructure bill
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thrilled to be joining the rockstar team
@NOTUSreports
, where I'll be covering energy and environmental policy. more on that soon — for now, just so psyched for what's to come!
A decade long fever dream realized: I will soon be working with
@MEPFuller
(and I’m THRILLED both he and
@anna_c_kramer
are joining
@NOTUSreports
) Let’s goooooo
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i'm going to write about food, for fun! very personally, very casually, very experimentally. if you know me, you know i've got a lot of opinions, ideas, recipes. you'll soon be able to find all of that right here. first post coming today :)
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i've got a story about oysters being introduced to the Delaware Inland Bays for the first time, cleaning up the super polluted water, creating wealth, and boosting local cuisine all at once. it's the coolest, but no paper wants it because it's "too local"
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the fact that
@protocol
is actually gone finally hit deep just now and I cannot stop crying (embarrassingly, in a crowded coffee shop). Everyone who ran this place felt like family,
@jme_c
and
@karynelevy
most of all. you couldn't ask for more giving and caring editors
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getting laid off from Protocol has me reckoning with existential qs about the future of journalism. Unlike me, those laid off in tech should not be having that reckoning.
wrote about why tech jobs are still great jobs, for
@Slate
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The end of Protocol also means I'm without a job. If you've got thoughts about where I should go or want to hire me, please reach out!
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editors: I'm loving freelancing and planning to write quite a lot in 2024! If you're looking to assign, reach out at kramera97
@gmail
.com
climate, tech, food, sports, health, book reviews, profiles — i'm fascinated with anything and everything these days
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i’ve spent MONTHS obsessed with the fact that offices are SO cheap and bad and unwanted rn and yet Amazon is building millions of square feet in the middle of an economic disaster
if you can bear to turn your eyes away from election, here’s what i found
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The end of Protocol also means I'm now unemployed. If you have ideas about where I should go and what I should write about next, please do let me know.
News: Protocol, the upstart technology news website launched by Politico publisher Robert Allbritton in early 2020, will shutter later this week. The move will impact approximately 60 staffers.
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hate to say it but you do not need to buy gear to go for a walk
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🚨for student + recent grads — if you're a tech intern, waiting for a full-time offer, or had your offer rescinded, I want to talk to you for a piece for WIRED. what does the tech job market feel like to you right now? do you feel screwed by timing? DMs open.
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dying to write a story about the cult of King Arthur baking. that company is making gorgeous flour beloved by restaurants, leading a renaissance in American bread and baking, all while remaining employee-owned. would be so fun to go to that factory and learn about flour
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4 days from my new job covering energy + enviro policy, Biden admin drops new rules for power plants AND new rules to speed up power lines. Just the latest in a huge pile of environment rules rushed through to avoid potential Trump rollback. Much to dig into, question. can’t wait
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my latest for
@WIRED
: nobody can (or wants to) fix US immigration, and everyone’s losing because of it. the tech layoffs are just emphasizing how badly the system doesn’t work
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did something completely out of left field and wrote about pure math for
@QuantaMagazine
. it's technically about prime numbers but really it's about asking the purpose of research
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this is so sad... all of our work at Protocol, finally gone.
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NEW: Amazon is now laying off 10,000 people (high-paying corporate and tech jobs!!). But they're still building 50 million square feet of space for 25,000 of the same jobs in Arlington?
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my darling friend and the best writer I’ve ever edited wrote this review!!!
@elise_ryan1
💖
Review: Taylor Swift takes listeners to darker, more experimental places on her tenth studio album “Midnights” about 13 sleepless nights.
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hello from Santiago, where I just wrote the latest edition of Bite into this, about feeling SO dumb and trusting strangers to find you transcendent food. w/
@LizzyLaw_
, the best travel companion a girl could ask for
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look this GPT stuff is interesting but if crypto/metaverse/web3 didn't teach y'all that you need to wait at least one year before buying into the hype...
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harassing everyone i know with this totally brilliant pod episode from
@TamarHaspel
@MikeGrunwald
bc it’s like a beautiful philosophy for eating and the climate in a short totally funny package
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got to write a very local story for
@techreview
and have had people all over the country emailing me with questions for their homes and their towns. THAT is the potential power of local reporting, mostly lost at this point.
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@TamarHaspel
totally cheering on the drug, but 2 key criticisms you’re missing
1) seems to induce significant loss of muscle mass, a problem with dieting also
2) totally wrecking the work to change norms around body image + exercise
neither disqualifying at all imo, but worth addressing
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in the last week i have interviewed people about oysters, bread, brain-computer interfaces, combinatorics, beer, and the democratic party. sometimes the freelancing life absolutely rocks.
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freelancing is so fun, today i'm switching between writing about oysters to quantum cryptography to small modular nuclear reactors and then back to the beginning again
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for the first edition of Bite into this, I wrote about the transcendent experience of eating melty brie on the street with total abandon
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who did the manischewitz rebrand, i must know
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badly want to write a profile on the rise of
@TonyChocolonely
and how it is addictive and affordable and ~cool~
all while actually doing something about the chocolate slave trade, unlike other pricey and tbh boring fair trade chocolate
hmu if you might wanna commission this
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i'm reporting a truly depressing story about climate change killing beautiful trees. story coming soon, but for now am reminded that we all should savor the natural world we have, bc we will lose some of the most beautiful parts of that world, no matter what.
go be outside!!
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bird flu update, after talking to folks current + former at USDA this weekend: Farmers are scared people are going to buy less milk bc they're afraid of the virus, even tho pasteurized milk is safe. CDC is scared of messing up post-COVID, but USDA wants to keep it an ag issue
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freelancing doesn’t pay enough for this kind of investigation, but the number of falling apart lime bikes + scooters that litter DC, plus the number of times ive heard stories of tragic or near tragic accidents when this stuff doesn’t work right… there’s a story there
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spent yesterday at oyster farms up and down the coast of Delaware, more to come soon on how oysters are incredible creatures cleaning our water and restoring our shorelines and providing bounteous deliciousness but for now… eat all the oysters! and recycle all the shells!
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Planes might be running on corn + soy someday, thanks to new Biden tax credits. Airlines + farmers are pleased and want even more, leaving enviro groups + free-market types in the cold.
They say it’s a big waste to use valuable farmland for plane fuel
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been obvious for a long time that the big tech companies no longer need super elite CS students to do most of the little iterative work they're doing these days. imploding your intern pipeline just proves it to the students, too.
my latest for
@WIRED
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took years, but it finally happened. Amazon got hit with its first big federal safety investigation + fine, a measly $60,000 ish.
(clearly this matters bc I decided to write it from the Santiago airport while awaiting my flight. or clearly I'm nuts)
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Biden has cranked out 35 big regulations related to climate/environment in the last 3 months. That's a staggering amount at a crazy speed.
Deadline is looming, lawsuits are threatening, activists are cheering. Broke down the rush for
@NOTUSreports
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Biden admin were super "yay teamwork!" today re/ bird flu.
Why? Bc tracking the virus in cows requires CDC, USDA, FDA, and states to work together, a task laden w/ politics. Former USDA veterinarians told me the agencies just are not good at it
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Amazon paused millions of square feet of construction on its second HQ, essentially admitting it needs to rethink what to do with office space. My latest for
@WIRED
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the journalistic definition of accuracy (correctness/truth) and the science community’s definition of accuracy (specific as possible correctness/truth) are not even close to the same thing and you wouldn’t begin to believe how much tension that causes in my daily life
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google search is almost completely useless at this point. the decline is remarkable. every day, i waste so many minutes trying to come up with the right word to make it realize what i'm looking for
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super tiny nuclear reactors could power towns in alaska, industrial mining sites, military bases — anywhere dependent on diesel generators. tried to clear up some confusion about microreactors for
@heatmap_news
The Great Potential of an Itsy-Bitsy Nuclear Reactor
Just don’t confuse them with SMRs.
heatmap.news
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here to talk about the fact that we all eat gross food. i will eat a hunk of mozz cheese for dinner or fry up some sardines and eggs and i don't care if you don't like it, you've got a weird alone-person dinner, too
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Amazon just announced it is pausing construction on HQ2. Late last year, I wrote about why the project might not make much sense in the post-pandemic world...
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new taylor new arctic monkeys new carly rae we did nothing to deserve this bounty
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it’s like the Amazon project is stuck in an alternative timeline, as if the future Amazon and Arlington imagined in 2019 (pre covid) is still the one we’re going to get
The first phase of Amazon’s HQ2 is scheduled to finish in 2023 and a second phase was greenlit in April. The campus is being built as though the pandemic never happened, and it’s become a test case for what happens when your timing couldn’t be worse.
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every year, the feds send wild horses (+ burros) to a prison in Nevada, where people who are incarcerated spend months training them
i want to write about this: how the trainers got there, what it means for the people who do it, etc. If there's an editor out there for this...?
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mysterious bursts of high energy radio waves are flashing randomly throughout the universe. we have no idea what's causing them, but they happen so often that they can basically be a CT scan for the universe. wrote about it in a big feature for
@techreview
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I wrote about the history of Jessie Taylor seafood, the big sprawling Evans family that's somehow still kept the business together over four generations, and the return of fried shrimp, scallops, crab cakes and more to the Wharf.
At long last, fried seafood returns to the Municipal Fish Market this weekend
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this is Carol Friend (running the Salty Witch oyster company in retirement) and Ed Hale (coolest professor I’ve ever met). these two are the protagonists of my story on oysters, the human heart of a tale about humble invertebrates
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wrote about the jeans of the future for the
@washingtonpost
. the visuals in this are 🔥, especially if you're curious about how jeans are designed and how they've changed over time
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today's newsletter, about one of the more magical moments I've had in recent memory, just poured out of me in a delirious haze. fitting, for a piece on wine and traveling in Chile
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🚨if you are a REGISTERED DEMOCRAT between the ages of 18-26 and have thoughts about Biden in 2024, I want to talk to you. I’m writing a big piece about the state and future of the young Dems, so hit me up if you want to share thoughts.
(If you organized in 2020, even better)
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@TamarHaspel
isn’t reducing obesity-related health risks about reducing fat + building muscle, rather than weight loss? from what i understand, weight is very crude measure
i guess im asking, without an ozempic + exercise model, are health outcomes going to improve as much as we hope...?
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amazon wants workers in office 3 days/week. amazon's new HQ, which will open this year, includes millions of square feet of space that will go unused if workers don't come back. forcing them back helps justify the cost of the space
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My first story for the
@nytimes
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But the Inland Bays are some of the most important, rare ecosystems in the US and include iconic beaches like Rehoboth. this is a story that has national implications.
Also, DE local news has been so gutted that there's no paper left with the capacity for a feature like this
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have been writing a food newsletter these last few months and loving it
in today's, the best pancakes I know, via my mom's invention — and they make great breakfast for dinner
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been told that this is the best line I’ve ever written
can’t believe
@tinasusman
let me slip this in my feature on Amazon’s HQ2 being stuck in the past (btw, go read it!!)
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I'm planning to dive deep into the DOE, the EPA, and the department of the interior. If you work at those agencies, would love to get to know you off the record, on background, whatever works. if you're lobbying on environment or energy policy, i want to hear from you
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kicking myself because i've been wanting to do a deep dive into the controversies of Tara McGowan for ages but also delighted
@nancyscola
was the one to make it happen. this is a must-read if you're interested in the future of journalism/political information/human behavior
New from me in the Nov. issue of
@WIRED
: a dive into Courier Newsroom, a controversial network of left-leaning local news sites that says it's redeeming journalism, and democracy, by chasing unlikely voters wherever they live online.
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feels like we're not terribly far from someone creating a tool that could theoretically assess the likelihood an essay was generated by some kind of AI? the meta-ness of that ....
AI is about to kill the undergraduate essay, and the chasm between the humanities and technology means that we're totally unprepared for the moment. Wrote about it for
@TheAtlantic
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Why does Washington, D.C. have no soft serve? An investigation by me, the girl possessed by need for a vanilla swirl.
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i usually love freelancing but really wishing i had a full-time employer who would send me to this conference... the story potential here! the ideas, the sources.
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this is still true, plz recommend amazing books on anything from any era! feels like all the hyped stuff today is actually so so mid
Am having a very bad year for good book reading. Seeking book recs that suck you in and blow you away and spit you out at the end upset that it’s over, from any time, any place, any genre
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been thinking about all the research and knowledge that will never see the light of day from Twitter’s META team now that they’ve been ousted. These were people really trying to push the envelope at Twitter and make the internet a better place
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little surprising scoop from me: a new quantum algorithm might bring the end of RSA encryption a little closer. truly new ideas in quantum computing are very rare!
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Starbucks is where consumer culture is, it’s just endless bad options. None of them are what I — or anyone — actually wants
going to need a quantum computer to figure out my starbucks order tbh
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spoke to leading researchers on 3D printing organs — the science for this is better than you think, and the need is unimaginably vast. here's a rundown on where the field sits today and the money and investment needed to advance it
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tell me about unlikely alliances, fights about where $$$ should go and how it should be spent. I want to know: How are federal climate decisions affecting companies, local communities, state politics, utilities? (email in bio)
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apparently my take on cooking in relationships is causing some fights for all my friends in relationships
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this bread maybe takes 10 minutes of your time to make the night before you want to eat it, and it's what i'm doing with the last ten minutes of my long weekend
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he’s got a big hole to fill after the surprise and departure of Gilles Epié, whose puff-pastry-topped bouillabaisse and foie gras beignets blew my mind when I ate there a few months ago
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microsoft is letting one of the last massive tracts of land in Atlanta go undeveloped bc it doesn't want to build more office rn. the neighborhoods around the land are historically Black and have been ignored by investors for decades. my latest for
@WIRED
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if you tear down an old building and replace it with a very green, high-tech new one, it takes 50-80 years to offset the carbon impact, no matter how "green" the new building is
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@issielapowsky
yea i'm with you. thinking about the sources who entrusted us with stories, and the people who continue to depend on the reporting we did to inform their ongoing work... so depressing. so much valuable information, just gone.
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going to new orleans for the first time with my fam this weekend, would love recs if you have a fave music venue or know of anyone performing that you love
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SO easy to forget how dangerous the internet is for much of the world. often, we talk about how the internet makes it easy to be a shit human
It also makes it very hard to be a good one. speaking honestly in public online can require more courage than most of us have
The Saudi government recruited Wikipedia administrators to make it look good online - & it jailed some local Wikipedia administrators who did edits the Kingdom didn't like.
My colleague
@NazihOsseiran
reports:
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@meganmorrone
not infrequently i get texts from people i last actually saw in person when i was about 16
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would just like the person in charge of this twitter account to know that I see them and I love them
I chirped to myself, “Self.” (and I knew it was me, cause I recognized my chirp) “Today is going to be a good day!”
📸 Marmot
@RockyNPS
#MondayMotivation
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I'm ranking you all based on what kinds of apples you buy, in the latest edition of Bite into this
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you have two more weeks to make strawberry rhubarb pie until the season ends, people
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burning this newsletter down before it could ever get off the ground by arguing that cookies might actually be the lowest form of a dessert. they're just not that good, guys.
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@ENBrown
and here's a review of several studies on the risks, illustrating why there's just not a lot of clarity here but also showing that the risks probably do exist
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hi
@RitasItalianIce
you have made my summer every summer and i love you and i wrote you an ode
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perfect summer peaches are juicy sticky incandescently heavenly sexy fruits
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i wrote about coming home and finding all of this in my parent's garden
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