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@archibaldcrane

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I'm a TV editor who lives in La Crescenta, CA. Urbanism, YIMBY, welfare enthusiast, let's make things better. Originally from Madison, WI.

Glendale, California
Joined November 2008
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@swolecialism Posting on menswear forums for a decade makes Twitter seem like the minor leagues
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@anastasiakeeley Might have an actual existential crisis if you move to St. Louis though
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@scottblah @leyawn It's v funny to lose on a pump and dump scam before the dump lol
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@MattZeitlin And $10 in Domino's stock in Jan 2010 is worth $367 now. It's the most old-fashioned case of markets working and making sense.
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@seanbgoneill @NotABigJerk This genuinely validates me, the guy who takes 5 seconds to rip out the plastic window on my pasta box before throwing it in the recycling bin
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@NateSilver538 "Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided." So you have all this outrage because the score flipped from 6-0-2 to 5-1-2?
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@MattZeitlin @Chipotle it's ok to admit failure about your horrible queso, just say you're sorry and start over!
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@theNorthVision @mattyglesias @cbsnewsman I mean...the ACLU having an opinion on a particular civil liberty does seem to be in their wheelhouse.
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@cd_hooks "Ron DeSanctimonious" was the moment I thought DeSantis might have the juice "Meatball Ron" was when I realized how wrong I was
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@beackupburner I thought that's what the back of your medicine cabinet was for?
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@psychicautomata Clearly opinion or speculation
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@CSerpentor @HeheWaitWhut It's because she liked you and wanted to show you all the cool stuff you could do together
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@HeheWaitWhut I mean...
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@ekreps @IvyLeague @PennSwimDive Katie Ledecky in college beat this time by 13 seconds lol
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@JoshuaFechter @ByYourLogic @ExpressNews So he couldn't even lock the door and all the shit about getting a keyring from the janitor is a lie?
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@Rinston99 @kept_simple Make every team have a uniform height within the team, then we can decide what the best height is.
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@jojamDjango @Srirachachau "Calling it a kids show is like calling the entire MCU a kids series" yes
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@ToureDeTrap Sam Bowman is doing an obvious bit
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Getting a bit of "heat" here but wondering if maybe I'm buying a spicier brand of ketchup than others are used to. Do they even sell this brand in America?
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@HeheWaitWhut not the divorce rate i'd be worried about
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@drewmagary I'm a Packers shareholder, I'll say anything you want if you write an article about me. "NFL team owner thinks Tom Brady is an alien."
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@ambienvalent The grocery store has been intense the past few days, workers having to have the same "no you can only buy two packages of (insert product here)" about once a minute to irate customers the entire shift. Nightmare shit.
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@ryanlcooper "As Brandon got increasingly Dark on the homefront; abroad, a Brandon for Light"
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@theNorthVision @mattyglesias @cbsnewsman And I mean, it's a bit more of a stretch but pregnant women are much more likely to be murdered than non-pregnant women of childbearing age, so I could see a rationale for PP having a gun control position.
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@GovKathyHochul Why the hell are you REDUCING density around a major public transportation hub? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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@ettingermentum This is absolute classic Trump 360 firing squad on an issue
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@jakefm My brother got one of those letters. He makes like 13.50 an hr.
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@justinboldaji @LLW902 My wife was pretty much crowning when the labor a delivery nurses asked her to walk to another room. She did, and when she laid down having obvious contractions, screaming, I finally yelled "does anyone want to take a look at this?!" and they finally checked her to realize.
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@TheCut "After 22-year-old Brooklyn-based Sarah Kaba was ghosted by a person she had been seeing for two years" THAT'S NOT A HOOKUP
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@JeffreyASachs You're in luck, all those things are broadly tolerated by all political factions in America.
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@MattZeitlin @Chipotle lol @chipotle doesn't even own their @, shout out to the guy who keeps up his account so they can't have it anyway @chipotletweets your queso is bad fix it
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@LewisIsHereWhy @HeheWaitWhut just getting a little silly with it, it's fun
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@prolepeach Everyone's favorite English teacher at my high school (who I never liked but couldn't nail down why) got busted for child porn a few years after I graduated. He lived across the street from the school. Now he's a registered sex offender.
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@Noahpinion Your argument is basically that Israel needs to continue as an ethnostate because an attempt to become a pluralistic democracy would devolve into ethnic cleansing of Jews if they lose the majority - correct?
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@mardirooster How do they fare against, say, 30-50 wild boars?
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@dharnanoor @w000rm Who wants arms wrapped around them while cooking
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@Noahpinion 5 and 1 aren't stories - they aren't heights! They're building code designations! 5 = light wood frame construction, 1 = concrete and steel by international building code
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@Noahpinion Do you think Israel "ceases to exist" if it ceases to be an ethnostate? I could see that argument to be made but is that what you mean?
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@The_Acumen The reconciliation bill, with the $1400 stimulus checks, $400/week unemployment benefit boost and extension, and $3000+ per child allowance, will be signed before March 14th. Give it a few weeks, the reconciliation process takes time and this is going to be the fastest ever.
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@Noahpinion What am I missing?
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@AlecStapp Going full YIMBY + stapling a work permit to every foreigner who graduates college here would result in absolutely explosive economic growth, we'd be catching Japan in no time.
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@NLRG_it love to get a master's degree and immediately enter a field where they do not care whatsoever whether you have a high school diploma
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GIANNIS went for 50 tonight, on only 26 attempts in only 30 minutes played, and that's all very cool and impressive but what's more cool is that it was his 324th game scoring 25 or more. You know who else has 324 career 25+ point games? GIANNIS is only 28 years old.
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@edabny54 @jcr914 @The_RGA @EricGreitens He's not even leading the pack of prominent republicans indicted on felony charges TODAY. He can't even be good at being bad.
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My baby girl was in the NICU for 4 days, for a bill of $94k. My insurance company said the hospital didn't get proper approval and the hospital has to eat it. Which is great for me, but seems like a bad system. Should probably have Medicare for All instead.
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@Willmusic4food @paynushaver @CarlBeijer @patrick140g @ByYourLogic I was unaware that autism speaks had a logo, but in my 4 seconds of internet research I discovered this
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@ettingermentum We have to stake our claims early - serious, smirk or smile?
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@libsoftiktok My kids' pediatrician refuses to take patients who won't get vaccinated on the regular CDC schedule - for like, measles and stuff It rules.
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@not_devy @pseudocia the power of being 6'2
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@TheDailyKoko Gas tax holidays are bad policy But if you're going to do it, well...
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@realDailyWire @ByYourLogic @benshapiro Great analogy, Ben Shapiro also has a broken dick
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@ambienvalent Lol appealing to civility on Nextdoor
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@LexiAlex Just remember if you play along with a scammer til they ask you to venmo or cashapp or whatever them money, say "ok" and then send a request for that amount instead of sending it, sometimes they'll be so excited they'll pay you.
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@lib_crusher and Gen-Z has not discovered the lost dark art of torrenting
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@jdcmedlock Nah, conceive in month 4, (most pre-natal stuff is covered by ACA no deductible) switch to low deductible plan in New year right before birth, have baby, use birth of child as a qualifying event to switch back to high deductible plan.
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@MayorOfLA Going for a repeat of, uh, 18 months ago eh? Homelessness is a flow problem, not a stock problem. Legalize apartment building construction, the rent is too damn high.
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@franckhertz @MichaelTanuvasa @AOC 3) That $17k is money her campaign spent on Amtrak tickets - its a campaign expenditure, not donations to her campaign from Amtrak
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@aidachavez @JStein_WaPo But it'll reduce rents, right? "Also no."
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@karawithak91 @kept_simple @zetec McConnell wasn't Senate Majority leader in 2013.
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@Jacqueline7865 @NYCMayor They aren't your roads
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@realfakemc @bungarsargon @george_revutsky Hate when anti-semites work to make a Jewish man the most powerful person in the world.
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@sweatystartup People who own land 3 blocks from the beach in San Diego should be legally allowed to build housing for people who want to live there, and they aren't. That's the problem.
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@GeorgistSteve @jrosietighe @sam_d_1995 It appears the caucasity was coming from inside the house
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@ActNormalOrElse Is the article just "get into senior House leadership for the Democratic party"?
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@mnolangray *slaps the roof of the 21 miles between San Clemente and Oceanside x 10 miles inland* you could fit so much walkable density in this bad boy
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@kausmickey @kyrstensinema Wahhhh fewer poor children waaaahhhhhhh
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@jonathanbyn1 Why is "quiet study" more worthy of recognition than other pursuits?
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@0xAlaric Ah yes, the trust fund kid that also needs to work a low wage coffee shop job
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@wendycarrillo @BoyleHeightsNC No single plot of land can build enough to solve our housing crisis, that's a ridiculous standard to hold. But each one can help, if you don't block it.
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@katewillett Big Real Estate wants to protect their high rents from competition. Sam wants to legalize apartment construction to compete with them and bring rents down. You probably agree with him!
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Corbin Burnes now has 5 starts this season with 9+ strikeouts, 0 walks, and 0 runs allowed. That sets the MLB record for starts in a season, 3 others have ever done it 4x. There's 47 games left in the season. He's done it 7 times in his career. MLB career record is 14.
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@PatMN33 @ayewolfe Because the state of Mississippi would rather do anything with that money they have to spend than give it to the poor people it is designed for.
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@ekreps @IvyLeague @PennSwimDive Hell, she beat it when she was in high school by almost 11 seconds
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@USARice00 @jongiuffre @ClintOCoast @rosstmiller That's why it works so well - it's beaten into the ground to the point of being unfunny but then it's so funny when Splinter was right
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@Jasmyne Do you think the vaccine could make him talk a little faster? jesus christ guy get to the point
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@uhshanti @nkulw until the exclusionary zoning goes away
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@ettingermentum You don't choke someone completely on purpose and get to say "I never intended to harm him"
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@csilverandgold If you think drivers hate bikes rolling through stop signs you should see how they feel about bikes that come to a complete stop at them.
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@LandonHall @JohnJHarwood @ObsoleteDogma Or that the ACA got 60/60 Dem/independent votes.
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@marydifino It's 8 more low income units than are currently on the parking lot and hundreds of units higher income people will live in instead of out bidding existing residents for their current housing.
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@Noahpinion Our constitution is bad, there's no hope of improving it, and an ideologically coherent Republican party has only just begun exploiting its weaknesses.
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@JaymayAllDay @JoyAnnReid Killed a half million Iraqis in a dignified fashion.
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@foxalive555 @SeanRMoorhead @viperwave I cannot fathom how many views of this shot must have occurred and nobody noticed this obvious typo
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@ByYourLogic We wouldn't want other shooters to know our weaknesses, like locking the door
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@WaluigiSoap "You're gonna fuckin' meet your maker, motherfucker" is WAY beyond "arguably threatening"
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@doescomputing @sfchronicle Saying gay people are child predators (with no evidence) is homophobia 101
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@vanillaopinions That's bad But it's not "permanent gerrymandered Republican control of the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly" depressing
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@jdavey_2 I didn't know they made mayors so based
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@IDoTheThinking @chrislhayes Yeah we can't confuse "fleeing cities because COVID" with "people permanently don't want to be in cities" - remote work allows people to live where they want (in cities) more than ever before!
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@Communism_Kills Under Medicare for All you'd have vision coverage
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@beatersho @maxdubler 22 extremely low income apartments that are far cheaper to rent for LA's poor than the few single family houses that were there before.
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@stephenjudkins @ryanlcooper Joe Manchin warned us that welfare funds would just go to people buying opiates he doesn't miss
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