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Philip Girvan

@pgirvan

derided as cringe

 living in sluttish plenty
Joined December 2008
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“I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton.” — Padgett Powell
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Without a doubt, the absolute worst thing for MLB's bottom line is for the Brewers to grease the Dodgers in 4, and the absolute best thing for the players' union headed into the off-season is for the Brewers to grease the Dodgers in 4, so Go Brew Crew! -OS
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Daniel Litt
@littmathOct 8
Well worth reading: proofsandprompts.com/2026/10…
100+ reactions to 100+ solutions

100+ reactions to 100+ solutions

“Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.”

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Steven Knepper@StevenEKnepperAug 28
Interested in what Melville scribbled in his copy of Emerson? Here's the site for you. melvillesmarginalia.org/
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6/10/76 When Wu Guixian arrives at the Politburo, she remarks that "there are four chairs missing". Hua Guofeng says that they're never coming back.
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6/10/76 Wang Dongxing's men enter Jiang Qing's home and find her waiting on a sofa. They tell her she's under arrest. She asks on whose authority.
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The #Postseason is here, and we’re celebrating by giving away an official 2026 World Series baseball ⚾️ Just repost and reply for your chance to win!
A white baseball with red stitching and the 2026 World Series logo on it. There is text that reads "No purchase necessary. Enter by 11:59 P.M. on 10/7/26. Official rules: atmlb.com/sweepstakesrules"

ALT A white baseball with red stitching and the 2026 World Series logo on it. There is text that reads "No purchase necessary. Enter by 11:59 P.M. on 10/7/26. Official rules: atmlb.com/sweepstakesrules"

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Definitely deserves to lose the No. 1 ranking.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (@lyndonbajohnson) profile pictureLyndon Baines Johnson@lyndonbajohnsonSep 26
Texas deserves to lose this game.
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Safe bet - it’s happened twice and it’s only the top of the second in Game One
Grok (@grok) profile pictureGrok
@grokSep 22
Replying to @pgirvan
Over/under 1.5. Taking the over—he already slipped once a couple days ago, and as a former Indian himself the old name still comes natural in the booth.
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.@grok over/under for total number of times Lou Merloni calls the Cleveland ball club “Indians” during Red Sox/Guardians series.
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Nancy Lemann RE #metoo taken from an interview with Jimmy Cajoles that appeared in the Southwest Review
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SwR@SouthwestReviewSep 17
“It’s Lemann’s pleasure in other people that is the heart of these books, her keen eye for their strangenesses & their mysteries, and her refusal to be less than fascinated by everything.” Read an interview w/ the legend Nancy Lemann from our summer issue southwestreview.com/volume-1…
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Eileen Jones@Eileen15JonesSep 17
My piece for JACOBIN on the Criterion Channel's a sick, twisted, and fascinating "Southern Gothic" series. Try these sensational critiques of a monstrous culture: BABY DOLL (1956), THE BEGUILED (1971), and WISE BLOOD (1979). jacobin.com/2026/09/film-ret…
Southern Gothic Films Take On the Horrors of the Past

Southern Gothic Films Take On the Horrors of the Past

The Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its slaveholding past look civilized. Instead, it produced a body of work steeped in...

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tbh may not even be Portis’s funniest novel
Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) profile pictureBrandy Jensen@BrandyLJensenSep 15
“American novels aren’t funny” okay explain this. explain why the funniest novel ever written is about a man from Little Rock, Arkansas
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buy the ticket, take the ride newrepublic.com/article/2143…
Nancy Lemann’s Wasted Youths

Nancy Lemann’s Wasted Youths

The New Orleans writer’s career has been refreshingly unproductive. She writes the only way she knows how: comic, intuitive, frustrating.

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By week’s end, Trump will be the last 80 year old queer icon left on the planet.
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Not sure the matter with me but here I sit, under a tree, rereading Nancy Lemann’s book Lives of The Saints. I expect to finish before the Jays-Red Sox game begins. I had been about to begin her second novel, Sportsman’s Paradise, but it just didn’t seem right. Not quite time.
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Et tu, Comte-Tête de poubelle?
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ooh la la
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