Johnny Oakville

This story was so much better than what I anticipated — and it already looks like the frickin’ feline equivalent of Airbud. Link! 🐈 📚🎓 www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

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so cover your goddamn face holes, ya filthy animals!

"COVID is not a regular flu or cold,” “It can have long-lasting effects, with long COVID symptoms, that make it very different from other viruses we encounter,” adding that people in their 30s and 40s seem to be more likely to get long COVID."

New COVID subvariants are rising: How bad will California get hit this summer?www.latimes.com Last summer's COVID wave in California was big enough to cause significant disruptions. As a new family of subvariants takes hold, how bad will this year be?

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Today is the 80th anniversary of this New Yorker cover by Rea Irvin, portraying the D-Day invasion in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry. Bayeux was the first town to be liberated (although the tapestry was, to the surprise of many, not there anymore; that story is the subject of my next novel.) 1/5

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Good morning! ✌️☕️

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“Someone shot me so it’s time to move on from the rape I did” is incredible

NEW TONE

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

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There isn’t a single full-fledged music book on that NYT 100. Here’s a choice baker’s dozen they could have included (and one that they did). 📚 open.substack.com/pub/thegig/p...

The 14 Best Music Books of the 21st Centuryopen.substack.com Following a rigorous survey (of my own bookshelf), a definitive canon

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Aileen Cannon is a good example of how Project 2025 would work. You put a barely qualified fascist in every government position that matters and BINGO. Fash times in the USA!

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In light of Aileen Cannon’s corrupt ruling based on Clarence Thomas’s corrupt concurrence, here’s a great piece about why AOC’s decision to file articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito is the right move. Call your reps and tell them to support! www.salon.com/2024/07/12/a...

Why AOC is the best messenger on Thomas and Alito's corruptionwww.salon.com The corruption of Supreme Court justices is about more than greed. It "constitutes a clear danger to our democracy"

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I’ve read that Republicans will “have to reconcile how this shooter came from within their ranks” so many times today and…. No. They won’t. They’ll lie, their people will believe them, and the media will amplify all of it. That’s how we got here.

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Bluesky absolutely needs better notification filters. Co-signed.

Update: he's saying there's a chance!

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Half way through #Mondays

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hey remember when the FCC tried to implement some really basic consumer privacy protections for telecom but AT&T convinced GOP Senators to kill those efforts before they could even take effect? good times

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

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If only we had prior experience with Trump almost dying, then we’d know for sure how much more moderate he’d become.

I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

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i am retired from people-ing.

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it's true, I know some extremely intimidating 5 foot women

Or indeed

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I'm sorry for the things I said when predictive text was turned on

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a dude asked for a picture of a headstone from the 1850s, and there's already a picture from 2017 but he wants a "more recent" picture. my dude what exactly do you think has changed since then

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Talking to people isn’t always a mistake, but why take that risk

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politicians and pundits, stop modifying the word "violence" with the word "political" before you condemn it

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a daycare for adults where instead of cookies and juice you get Xanax and vodka

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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