Paul Ford

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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.

“Not even Doug.” Italicized. The craft.

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Nathan Lynch

We love it too!

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Tonight, we drove past the cemetery in my tiny home town to try to spot the wild turkeys that lurk there and my son said “Turkeys in the cemetery? Don’t you mean the Gravy-yard?” Our work here is complete.

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Michael Hoffman

I mean I'm truly sorry I'm trying to delete it.

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tweety fish

lol

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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Today's the last day to sign up for my online opinion writing workshop!

I'm trying to do op-ed writing workshops once a quarter, and the summer session will be Wednesday, July 10th, from 3pm - 6pm ET. More info here if you're interested: www.elizabethspiers.com/writingworks...

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AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

Ah thank god

Oh right thank god

Man this feels exactly like being in the waiting room as a family member goes in for surgery.

No newsletter has a better subject line style than IT Brew.

It’s wild that these are my choices.

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.

Quite a Freudian typo on the checkout at the big and tall man store.

I emailed customer service. “NGL as a big man I found this deeply hilarious but you should probably clean that up.”

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Shannon Mattern

I loved going there today. Made me so happy!

They were printing this cat.

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.

Alas no!

Under the Schuylkill!

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Kieran Healy

I mean the real MVP in such a pipeline is poppler, the pandoc of PDF rasterizing.

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Kieran Healy

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My LinkedIn account is finally old enough to legally develop a dangerous alcohol dependency.

I guess getting Queen Bee means you have an ovipositor that lays word-eggs.

Workshopping new cow jokes at dinner tonight. What does a cow like to listen to? (Wait for them to say “Moo-sic?”) No, actually podcasts. Do you know what genre? Moo crime.

A farmhand started milking a cow. No matter what he did the milk sprayed everywhere. So he told the farmer. “Well,” said the farmer, “we need to call a psychiatrist.” “Don’t you mean a veterinarian?” asked the first man. “Usually, yes,” said the farmer. “But this is a case of udder insanity.”