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Dan Kois

1 year

“I remember my own childhood vividly. I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn’t let adults 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 I knew. It would scare them.” –Maurice Sendak

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2 years

Delighted to announce that my plane was showing THE LAST DUEL but the closed-captioning was from KNIVES OUT

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1 year

starting a thread of horrible things people are doing to koroks

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my roommate crucified a korok

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3 years

this interview absolutely delivers

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4 years

I wrote about something that has been driving me crazy this week

America Is a Sham

The coronavirus is exposing the arbitrary, cruel realities of business as usual.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the Korok Rotisserie machine. #ZeldaTearsOfKingdom

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5 years

Incredible fortune for the Raptors, to win a championship and also not have to get invited to the white house

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1 year

Exalted @ Road to Recovery

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1 year

Hope you don’t mind being used as a front bumper lil Korok HAHAHAHA

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2 years

most of Ben Affleck's lines seemed fine

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1 year

very sad

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Dan Kois

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5 years

If you ever read something and love it and wonder, "should I email the person who wrote it and tell them?" the answer is always yes

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1 year

folks finally treating koroks like minions

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Korok Space Program day 2: After adopting a more typical rocket shaped structure I had high hopes for this brave korok, however the extra weight had some unexpected effects of todays launch.

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5 years

congrats 2 all DADS: you're nailing it

Not all parents are following safe sleep practices for their babies: What to know

A study found up to 2/3 of moms are not following recommended safe infant sleep practices.

abcnews.go.com

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1 year

publishing this is malpractice

I'm an NYU student who studied abroad in Florence. I hated every aspect of my semester abroad.

The writer hated the pressure to travel every weekend, found Italians to be very rude, and wished she was in New York while studying in Florence.

www.businessinsider.com

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1 year

Everyone knows the story of TÁR, right? She gets swept up in "cancel culture," and down she falls. But I think there's something spooky going on. My possibly crackpot super close read of this remarkable ghost story:

It’s the Most Acclaimed Movie of the Year. So Why Are Critics Talking About It All Wrong?

Everyone is taking Tár at face value, but the final act suggests that nothing is as it seems.

slate.com

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1 year

EXCLUSIVE: MUST CREDIT SLATE

A Totally Normal Interview With Writer Emily St. John Mandel

This is just a news story in a reputable outlet about a prominent author, that's all.

slate.com

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Dan Kois

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3 years

every year one movie must be Too Good for the Oscars. this year it's First Cow

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1 year

don't ask

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1 year

snowmobilin'

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3 years

this beautiful, frightening, funny record is 20 years old. sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday, or 100 years from now

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2 years

@lizzieohreally how did poor josh get wrapped up in this

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3 years

in 2021, may we all find the wisdom of bernie's mitten lady

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4 years

Happy 20th birthday to “Hush,” one of the scariest, funniest, most ingenious episodes of TV ever

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1 year

From the tearsofthekingdom community on Reddit: Korok Space Program

Explore this post and more from the tearsofthekingdom community

www.reddit.com

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4 years

@publicroad @thatlukeperson everything's working in there, it seems

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3 years

I haven't been able to stop thinking about the zip-tie guys. Not everyone in the Capitol was in it for the gram:

They Were Out for Blood

Just how close did the Capitol riots come to a massacre?

slate.com

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I wrote for @NewYorker about Lorraine Louie, an underappreciated graphic design pioneer who designed the iconic Vintage Contemporaries covers that I love so much. Thanks to Paula Scher, Peter Mendelsund, and Louie's family for talking to me

The Artist Whose Book Covers Distilled the Nineteen-Eighties

The covers that Lorraine Louie designed for the Vintage Contemporaries series were surreal, stylish, and like nothing else on the market.

www.newyorker.com

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4 years

Joker is dumb as a box of rocks

Joker’s Oscar Nominations Are a Joke

Stop the madness. This movie is dumb as hell.

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5 years

I interviewed my new hero, the Philly realtor who's selling the sex mansion in the face of some very angry neighbors

A Q&A With the Realtor Selling the Suburban House With a Sex Room in the Basement

An interview, interrupted by angry neighbors.

slate.com

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From the tearsofthekingdom community on Reddit: The game should win game of the year just for...

Explore this post and more from the tearsofthekingdom community

www.reddit.com

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11 months

I, and a bunch of other 48-year-olds, tried to explain what going out and staying in was like in the pre-smartphone, pre-Netflix era

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3 years

WONDER WOMAN 84 has many missed opportunities but the worst one is, finally a movie that would have benefited from nonstop '80s pop needle drops and instead they gave it a loud-ass hans zimmer score

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11 months

When I interviewed Lorrie Moore, I knew I had to ask her an important question that would surely never end up in the profile. Here was her answer.

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11 months

incredible dedication to making sure guests have something to read on the toilet

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1 year

People in the New York Times say no babies should fly in first class. I say actually,

Ban Babies From First Class on Planes? I Have a Better Idea.

America's miserable traveling parents deserve no less.

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8 years

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Dan Kois

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7 years

This is the only good tweet thread

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4 years

Stay safe: boil your phone for 25 minutes

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1 year

@SamuelAshworth I'm absolutely telling my kids not to publish anything without checking with me first

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Dan Kois

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7 years

[loses a baseball game] WE'LL SETTLE THIS ON THE FIELD

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Dan Kois

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6 years

Proud to announce that in the year of our Lord 2018, at the age of 43, I have finally paid off my student loans. With five years to spare until I have to start taking out loans for my kids!!

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7 years

Bless these high school journalists who discovered their new principal was an unaccredited consultant-shyster

New Pittsburg, Kan., High School principal resigns after student journalists question her credent...

Days after student reporters at Pittsburg High School in Kansas dug into the background of their newly hired principal and found questionable credentials, she resigned from the $93,000-a-year job.

www.kansascity.com

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1 year

read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 1,200 words u can download it on instapaper and it'll read it to you in two minutes. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.

A Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas...

The tweet appeared on Sunday. By Monday, the book was in Amazon's Top 100—and rising.

slate.com

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6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe Study Reveals: Babies Are Stupid

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2 years

as always, this makes me want to try this so bad

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Firefighters show the dangers of deep-frying turkey

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3 years

next time you think your opening might be too understated, think of the first line of this PR pitch I just got

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4 years

among Milton Glaser's bazillion iconic works were these beautiful designs for the original Broadway production of Angels in America

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6 years

Who's the one man you would bet your life on not having a horrible secret that will make you wish you'd never admired him? Mine's Jimmy Carter

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1 year

now muting this! the number of people dragging her, and not Insider, is disappointing

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7 years

There is literally no one who uses PBS more than a single parent

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OMB Director: We can't ask coal miners or single moms to pay for PBS

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6 years

The four humours -- blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile -- wax and wane in the body and make one choleric, melancholic, &cetera

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6 years

L: Cleve Jones on Roy Cohn's square on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. R: The square. (Credit: Tony Kushner)

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6 years

Happy five-year anniversary to this correction, which I had to write in my first month editing at @Slate

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6 years

There is no more rewarding expression to see on your child's face than the look of horror when she walks into her classroom and realizes you're there for Career Day

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5 years

I think of this issue as a perfect piece of art of the sort I've experienced maybe 5, 6 times in my life

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The Onion gets a lot of well deserved credit for its first post-9/11 issue. I think a lot in particular about the article "Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake" which was just so beautiful in the way it captured the mood.

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1 year

What I'm really asking is: What the hell happened down in that basement???

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1 year

"Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you’re on better drugs than me."

An Interview With the School Board Chair Who Forced Out a Principal After Michelangelo’s David Was...

"Well, we’re Florida, OK?"

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7 years

Hi! Reminder that everyone who cheered Gawker's demise cheered for a future in which impt stories don't get pubbed

That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that.

After Gawker was sued and went bankrupt, self-censorship permeates the media.

www.washingtonpost.com

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5 years

@brandonetc @NedRaggett well, slate's minimum salary is $51K in great measure because of our union

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@samthielman

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11 months

scholars agree that this is what the outside of the mona lisa looks like

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5 years

I wrote about the most rubbery face on TV, Saoirse-Monica Jackson's in DERRY GIRLS

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6 years

This Lee Pace story is particularly moving in light of the long, hard road actors who play Joe have walked in the past 25+ years

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5 years

I'm sure all the other geniuses are great but for many, many years no one has deserved a MacArthur more than Lynda Barry. I wrote about her late-life shift into teaching "nonwriters" to "write the unthinkable" in 2011

Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe In Yourself (Published 2011)

A renegade cartoonist discovers her inner creativity guru.

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1 year

I don't think I've ever read an essay that more clearly explains why we all feel so deranged all the time!

The Internet Thinks We Don’t Know Its Secret. But I Do.

I think I know what's happening.

slate.com

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2 years

new rule: no one gets to make a 3-hour epic until they direct a perfect 72-minute movie like PETITE MAMAN

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5 years

I'm not fancy enough to do a Book Jacket Reveal on like Good Morning America or anything BUT here is my book jacket, which I love. Pub date September 17!

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2 years

If You Drive a Giant Truck, You Are Declaring You’re Cool With Accidentally Killing a Stranger

What do you think happens when those 4,000 pounds strike someone?

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6 years

Extremely good tote via @whoweekly

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2 years

the last paragraph of Hilary Mantel's final book of short stories is an unusually frank admission of an author's shortcomings, the kind of thing no one else would ever think to write because they're not good enough

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More than 30 years ago, an entrepreneur called a designer in the middle of the night asking him to make a gadget handle anyone could use. I wrote about OXO and the power of the Good Grips handle:

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4 years

let's fucking hear it for trees, who are really giving it their all

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1 year

@MisterRorke what a fun way to think about movies and art

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6 years

also can be easily owned by teens

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We should change the names of AR-15s to “Marco Rubio” because they are so easy to buy.

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4 years

just casually shooting a person in the face

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my older brother went to a protest in Denver last night. as the police were leaving, one of them shot him with a pepper pellet that smashed the back of his phone and exploded in his face. they were ~30 feet from each other and it looks like the officer aimed directly at his face

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3 years

[Kevin Feige at the park] Those birds look incredibly realistic

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5 years

@rebeccamakkai @emilynussbaum this is absolutely insane

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3 years

introduced the kids to A FISH CALLED WANDA last night and was reminded it contains the two greatest line readings in Cinema

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3 years

he looks like norm mcdonald

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5 years

One thing I've learned about fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is they love to tell you about stuff that happened on that show

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1 year

I tried to work out what feels different about how my teenagers think of friendship and how I did, 1,000 years ago. On smartphones, high school, Extreme, and good enough friends:

A Teenage Experience Cherished for Generations Is Disappearing. What Are We Really Losing?

On Jason and Mark, and an adolescent shift that gnaws at me.

slate.com

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7 years

Luckiest man in America

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7 years

Regret to inform that I cannot see the Trump tweets you're referring to, as I am blocked by the fucking President of the United States.

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1 year

Every day I wonder: Who are the people hiring publicists to send me emails about their new air purifier, their expert advice, their political opinions? So one day I decided to find out.

I Said “Yes” to Every PR Email for an Entire Day. If Only I Knew What I’d Done.

Maybe the publicists are on to something.

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3 years

I'm so happy that these characters who've been stuck in my head for years are finally making their way into the world. Can't wait for everyone to meet Emily, Emily, and Lucy. Thanks to @steinsarahj & @AliaHanna for making it happen.

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7 years

One thing I couldn't get into the Taika profile was a bit about the very cool tech used on the Valkyrie-Hela fight

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3 years

uh ...... and THEN what did paul bettany say???

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3 years

why the hell would you come this close to a palindrome and choke right at the end??? bamlanivinalmab, motherfuckers

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BREAKING: Eli Lilly’s Covid-19 antibody therapy gets emergency FDA clearance, widening access to a treatment that early data show can keep some patients out of hospital. The drug is called bamlanivimab.

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7 years

@rbc4l @emilynussbaum i once misgendered a stuffed snake in the New York Times

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4 years

IT'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU

The Sydney Morning Herald

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How close are we to a COVID-19 vaccine?

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4 years

this is about the sweetest, funniest duet ever written

John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves (Live From...

John Prine and Iris DeMent sing "In Spite of Ourselves" Live from the Sessions on 54th St. Tree of Forgiveness available here: https://found.ee/uuFMSOFOLLOW ...

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8 years

The Martian hummus

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1 year

I wrote about Narcan in December. Now that it is available OTC I beg you to get a dose and keep it in your home

The Drug Every Parent of a Teenager Needs at Home Right Now

It’s safe. It saves lives. Your town will probably give it to you for free. Don’t wait.

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3 years

@alexanderchee we put everyone's faces on popsicle sticks

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3 years

nothing better than sitting with someone, you're both reading, you read something interesting, you decide whether it's worth the little chuckle that will make them look up and say "what?" so you can tell it to them

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I defended my king

I Am Also Powerless Over Diet Coke, and It Rules

An ode to the world's greatest beverage and drug delivery device.

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