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The official feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books. Publisher of @illustoria and @believermag.

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Is your country mentioned in a Bob Marley protest song?. A. Yes, and our people were the ones everyone was protesting on behalf of .B. Yes, and our people were the ones everyone was protesting against.
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"No streaming services, just a bunch of dusty books on crude shelves. When I complained, the owner just stared and said, 'Books are the treasured wealth of the world.' WTF? I missed the premiere of Billions. -- 1 Star".
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"If you think one guy working on a 2019 MacBook Air can’t give weather updates to the entire country, think again.".
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"We’re talking about a full ideological rebranding of all five boroughs through rent freezing, free childcare, no longer allowing police to use their exceptional skills in racial profiling, and Trump’s ICE having to move to Hoboken to bully frat boys.".
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"Even at such a young age, my kids have an instinctive appreciation for the great outdoors. They don’t pelt each other with rocks or try to feed a chipmunk their organic homemade snacks that I always find the time to make.".
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"Your GALC will be your spiritual guide and transformational guru, here to reconnect you with your divine purpose as a woman: buying products to fix yourself.".
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"Say you’re pregnant. Maybe you need some health care. But you’re low on cash. Well, look around you—you could trade a laying hen for a gestational diabetes test.".
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"Here’s the deal—MrBeast is str8 up sus. Aura is not on point. We dug into his lore and oof. Main character syndrome much? His misdeeds have been caught in 4K. Fax.".
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"We meant to take her roommate, whose name sounds a lot like Doris and is also somebody’s grandmother. Unfortunately, it’s never quite that simple, since the patient we meant to take was a middle-aged man named Valentino on a different floor.".
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"No one cared that I’m twelve feet tall, covered in razor-sharp spikes, with four prehensile tongues that taste the air to track human fear. They only speculated about what I did with those tongues in my personal life.".
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Volume I: Swann’s Way.Hold down A and B while collecting the first madeleine. Instead of being transported to a sense memory of the narrator’s boyhood in Combray, you’ll go straight to the Warp Zone, where you can skip to Volume V.
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"Using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, our path-breaking tool can diagnose your illness, come up with a treatment plan, and then tell you that you don’t deserve the treatment.".
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"You probably thought you had to do things like shower to stay smelling fresh. Wow, you are smelly and dumb. Because all you need is our new hero product, whole-body deodorant. Finally--deodorant for your entire disgusting body.".
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“We watch not because of the animals’ beauty alone, or because of what we learn from watching, but because the webcam—like a memento mori—trains our attention on the now.".
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"When I was first offered the chance to take over Murder House—back when it was still called Bellwether Manor—the property already had a reputation: historic, haunted, a little misunderstood. But where others saw rot, I saw potential.".
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"It saddens me to see how the holiday has become so cheapened. It’s all about getting the best deals, and no one stops to think about the true reason for the season: absolutely destroying independent bookstores.".
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"How is my relationship with my mom, you ask? Yeesh. Loaded question.".
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The Weeknd: “I Feel Something but It’s Not My Face”. Cyndi Lauper: “You Don’t Want to Have Fun; Therefore, You’re Not a Girl”. The Beach Boys: “An Unknowing Entity Cannot Be God”.
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It’s only right that farmers be the first relieved of the burdens of socialized medicine. They feed our great nation. Without their toil in the wheat fields, there’s no pain de campagne on the table at Chez Franz. We’d be lucky to gnaw on a pretzel stick.
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1984:."Being a Big Brother is hard. Sometimes when people don’t submit to our will, we want to torture them with rats. I’m going to sit with you until you feel calmer, and then we can figure out a way to get Winston to submit without using rats.".
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