The Stopgap

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[The Stopgap @The_Stopgap]

Wintour let Jeff stick Lauren on the cover of Vogue the way a less wealthy divorced guy might cast his second wife in the commercials for his car dealership. https://t.co/rgff9i20RL

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How small a hollow could hold the mysteries of the world?

An interview with the director and lead of Revelations of Divine Love (2026), by Chris Randle 🌰

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[Will Craven @willcraven]

I wrote about Real Genius (1985) for The Stopgap:

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Today we have a long love letter to Martha Coolidge’s 1985 REAL GENIUS and using your college work to help prevent instead of facilitating war. Baby Val Kilmer!

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[The Stopgap @The_Stopgap]

basically it's a threat to beat the pope to death

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It’s the twenty ninth Stopgap cryptic crossword, unique among em

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[sahar tavakoli @sahar_tav]

He calls it “peenk paank”.

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Our oblique obituarist Sahar Tavakoli mourns a table tennis legend and the phone lines in Iran. https://t.co/b7WgW5RsLB

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The Persian poet Ferdowsi wrote his epic poem Shahnameh in the 11th century. Drawing on pre-Islamic traditions, he described a prince who, shielded by Truth, rode horseback through fire without coming to harm. 

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The top five melting stunners of Brower Park, Brooklyn, February 25 2026 https://t.co/CbAnNZo8lP

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11. That treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag (1973)

It’s Friday Crossword XXVIII: Dynamite Charge

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“None of the provisions of the Geneva Conventions apply to our conflict with al Qaeda in Afghanistan or elsewhere throughout the world.” https://t.co/oVDNa2mIbH

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Dick Cheney, self-styled architect of the War on Terror, advocate of torture as statecraft, a man responsible for the deaths of over a million Iraqis, for the establishment of secret “black sites” and the normalisation of indefinite detention, has died.
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8 Down: Dull subject for Thom van Dooren

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[Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery]

her uncle immortalized her as a pig for an amazing reason

[sahar tavakoli @sahar_tav]

sometimes blind baked, always cooked

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The European Union Birds Directive of 1979 prohibited the trapping of E. hortulana. In France, citizens resisted enforcement, casting the practice as a matter of intangible cultural heritage more urgent than the survival of the bird itself.

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*Feeding My Pathology Report Into Claude!!!!!* is costly, containing crushed pearl and using a ton of energy and it can be misinterpreted. Wouldn’t you rather have *Real Doctor*’s silver stethoscope?

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See how it oysters in the light? “Benign” is a soft nacre fawn. Gorge! Yet it is so rarely used?!?

Hot Wall Paint Colors For The Breast Oncology Office Waiting Room, by Liz Bastos.
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[sahar tavakoli @sahar_tav]

Hooray for the USA