ian mccarthy

product guy. cranky old feminist. sox fan. he/him.

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@AdrienneLaF the monster at the end of this book.

only grover could demo to the reader over & over that they are behaving... monstrously, let the reader off the hook at the end out of pity by saying *grover's* been the monster all along, and then facepalm in embarrassment at having done so

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@sugarjonze they srsly went all bttf huey?

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@Holleywood87 kitsunegari! such an epic ep. #wgastrong

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@caro great great hack - years ago i found reading in IT translation stuff i've read a ton of times in EN really really helped; your hack is better

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@ibogost

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@WordologistAndy as Seven said directly to Davros in Remembrance of the Daleks. nice to see that great record-scratch of a line in the timeline on here, well played!

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@mexopolis

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@rejectnation even had the Bat symbol on the protagonist's door like 40-odd minutes in

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@Klee_FilmReview yup. including the apology to his characters under the veil of his character's apology to them.

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@seungylee14 @runolgarun that's... i mean yeah the punchline of the camus about sisyphus but uhh

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@KEBrightbill @chrisgeidner @lawdorknews well or matthew stevenson through his tenacity really not the college itself right?

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@GennHutchison Tonally Wrong & Facile would be a magnificent debut album title tho

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@rilaws even a pointer to the 4th International at the end

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@selenasjs

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@cianmaher0 read the whole thing in the voice of mike myers' stuart mackenzie (who bears shall we say more than a passing resemblance to yr man there) and it's good gas

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@kashhill @praddenkeefe colum sands' lyric from which that title prob comes remains both so timeless and so era-defining, amirite?

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@patio11 the how is def part of the what

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@nikitabier yeah the temptation (to which i myself succumbed in the past) to think it'll increase signal/noise and therefore increase signal volume is delusion. all you get is decreased everything.

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@kamilkazani local optimization problem applies to states too apparently

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@gwenckatz @SarkarRohan1 @rajkapania +1 on the unmatched dialogue. le circle rouge feels like it deserves a nod in here.

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@davewiner and they're ways for folks to show not only appreciation to the poster but also to show that they're active to everyone else, as a user once told me re the rollout of Likes in linkedin groups