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Paul Ford

@ftrain.bsky.social

I check this maybe twice a week.
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This is such next level fundraising. It’s just a whole other world. The subject line is “A giant bag of Doritos.” I’ve never seen anyone nail it at this level.
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To settle my brain I've been writing little easy-to-memorize iambic trimeter ABAB poems that contain essential lore, to print in case the Internet goes out. If I get enough of them I'll share them! Write one, it'll make you feel better.
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No newsletter has a better subject line style than IT Brew.
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It’s wild that these are my choices.
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I had the robots tell me how a circuit makes a sine wave from the point of view of a band of happy-go-lucky electrons.
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Quite a Freudian typo on the checkout at the big and tall man store.
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They were printing this cat.
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My decades-long tendency to save weird Internet cruft plus Google’s desire to show me old photos with context creates some of the best content in my life.
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My LinkedIn account is finally old enough to legally develop a dangerous alcohol dependency.
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The coworking space has Middlemarch.
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Economy going through it right now.
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At the Peabody museum for the first time since I was ten. I missed this guy.
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when the copyright hits
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Baby I just went to the state store, come on over and I’ll outen the lights so we can try out my new candle.
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Feeling scoot, might delete later.
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Learning piano means I hear something and go “that sounds nice, I wonder how hard it would be if…” only to be repeatedly met with yet another document demonstrating unbelievable levels of Romantic perversion.
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Just from this headline I learned something new about Bloomberg readers: That they want to help Ecuador.
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It was all here for those who chose to look.
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I wonder if this works.
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Apple Music copywriter swinging for the fences here.
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this one would be perfect from a different angle
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you guys like to party
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Sometimes I get fed up with how self-absorbed NYC can be but then I remember how absolutely random Brooklyn is and feel a fundamental happiness.
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This is a Havre de Grace Bluesky.