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Jenny Holzer was right.

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Oh, well. At least we had enjoyable social media for a while.

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The story that QAnon told was nothing original. It was merely a reworking of shopworn, if sinister, Blood Libel themes. But the ways that the story was told, partially by the anonymous authors, partly by eager acolytes, through the dynamic media of posts, threads, tangent riffs by their many minions, listicles compiled by otaku lickspittles; this was something novel and innovative. The stewards of QAnon created a lush rookery in which teeming fever dreams could find compatible ligatures and organize themselves into vibrant, responsive organisms. Curatorial agency was less authorial than it was nimble and responsive to what was igniting spontaneously. Things I Learned While Building a Conspiracy Theory

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“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye. ” ― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

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Day after day, I dream of driving my head through a wall and watching the small pieces of plaster and dust gather at my feet while the pain slowly builds in my forehead and spreads behind my eyes. Is this an Omicron thing?

Questions for the CDC in Light of the Omicron Variant From Concerned Parents, for the Love of Christ

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“Only Donald Trump could get cornered in the Oval Office.”

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“Love isn’t gonna save us. It’s what we have to save.”

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“Like me, the female Avengers exist in a state of perpetual frustration and toe-tapping, as the men lay waste to the cosmos. The women Avengers are all Hillary.“

— Libby Gelman-Waxner

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I believe after some soul searching you’ll agree that the bubonic plague is going to take this country to some very exciting and unexpected places over the next four years. I believe that our greatest and most hallucination-filled days are yet to come.

We Owe the Bubonic Plague an Open Mind and a Chance to Lead

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"It’s fun to watch computers sabotage themselves."

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♫ There was a time / That time is gone

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Well, it's official: There are too many GIFs.

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I guess the thing I like the most about tumblr is how they seem to be doing all they can to make me leave.

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We know: it’s hard to leave home. Your showerhead gets great water pressure; the guy at your bodega saves you the last copy of the Post; the coffee people remember your name. Why skip town? Indeed, we’re so irredeemably tethered to Manhattan that we haven’t bothered to have a foreign office in forty years. And we’re The Paris Review.

Our New Year’s Resolution: Travel More

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"There’s a lot of character and plot material at stake, but Russell seems more interested in backlit slo-mo shots of Amy Adams being all open-mouthed luscious as Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ plays really loud."

— Glenn Kenny