Adam Ragusea @aragusea Twitter profile

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Adam Ragusea

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2 years

@binnahar85 I understand my values aren't universal. But I believe that my values, in this instance, are superior to yours. I think we should let people be who they feel they are, as long as who they are isn't particularly harmful to anyone else. I wonder if you really disagree.

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@GovMikeHuckabee You know that movie is about a brutal rape and murder that actually happened in real life, right?

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4 years

Thanks for watching, everybody! I’ll try to keep coming up with things worth your time.

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2 years

You know what’s fun and relaxing? Go to a satellite map, zoom in tight on a river and try to follow it all the way back to its source.

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@elonmusk The words “believe” and “the press” in this sentence are so broad as to mean almost nothing. Smart people know everything is way more complicated than that.

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To my former colleagues in higher ed who are upset that K-12 teachers are getting vaccine priority over professors: What the fuck is wrong with you? Did you fall and hit your head?

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4 years

Just a reminder: @realDonaldTrump hired people who believed this was an alluring steak presentation.

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2 years

@SebGorka No answers > fake answers

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@ModelsExInferis @boocatbutterbee @PhonyGiraffe @fleccas @HBO Also trademarks can absolutely cover the use of a phrase within a specific context.

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A truck hit a telephone pole and my side of town lost internet. I took my kid for a drive and he wanted curly fries. Arby’s wasn’t accepting orders because their internet was down. I feel like it’s a dangerous world where we MUST have the internet to sell fries to each other.

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3 years

I should not feel as validated by this as I do but I do.

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People are like “I don’t use canned tomatoes because they’re full of sodium” and I’m like weren’t you gonna season your sauce anyway?

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4 years

One day I’m gonna make a video about French bread pizza and people are gonna think that I’ve gotten lazy or run out of ideas but it’s really that I actually want to do a video about French bread pizza.

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2 years

5-year-old says, “I want to go to Disney World. No, wait — Nintendo World,” and that’s when I realize everything has its own world in his world.

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@TimJGraham You shame yourself with tweets like this, Tim. You're a fundamentally kind and compassionate man. Stop following around the schoolyard bullies in your church, your workplace and your political party.

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2 years

@brakktonbooker Fast food chains desperately need more meatless options. I’m all for the concept.

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6 years

@TheLaw36 @neontaster @ModelsExInferis @boocatbutterbee @PhonyGiraffe @fleccas @HBO I’m not a lawyer, but I am a journalism professor and I teach fair use. I do not see how this could qualify. Make your case.

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4 years

This is a bowl of seeds.

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2 years

The movies? The MOVIES?? Say books! YOU’RE a book! Say books!!

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@SpeakerMcCarthy When did you guys just start saying stuff whether you believe it or not?

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4 years

Forgot to make dinner.

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4 years

Legit, when the doctor or whoever asks for my occupation, I just say "uh, media," and hope they'll assume I mean something less embarrassing, like porn.

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4 years

"So, what do you do for a living?"

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4 years

Wait wait is that seriously a grilled mac & cheese sandwich? Have you no shame? And have you another for me?

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Turns out @aragusea 's foil lid was the single thing I was missing for grilled cheese success

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As ever, you reap what you sow. Don't know what else to say.

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6 years

@GovMikeHuckabee @taylorswift13 You know that Swift has been accumulating legions of 13-year-old fans since, like, 2008, right? And you know that humans age a year with every revolution around the sun? You know what 13+10 is?

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No dip in productivity attributable to remote work could compare with the economic catastrophes that will be caused by abruptly plummeting birth rates. Whenever possible, we need to let people parent and work at the same time, as humans evolved to do.

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4 years

My recent analytics suggest a strong positive correlation between the brownness of my food and the number of people who want to see it. We're all getting diabetes, you guys.

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4 years

As the Brits would say, a “scheme” is a government program. As the Americans would say, a “scheme” is an illicit plot.

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2 years

@TimJGraham Entirely possible to like my country and dislike theocratic jingoism.

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3 years

Why is "pomme puree" the fancy french name for mashed poatoes? It makes no sense, considering that pomme = apple in french, not potato. Well, I just figured it out. "Pommes de terre" = apple of the earth = a fancy french name for potatoes. Congrats if you already knew this.

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4 years

I'm sad and I have a toothache. How are y'all?

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8 years

My fellow journos: Stop calling it an "officer-involved shooting." Call it a "shooting by a police officer."

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1 year

If you want to feel great about being an adult, whip some cream with sugar and vanilla and then dip graham crackers or whatever the hell else you want into it while standing in your kitchen watching something on your phone.

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5 years

While we were all making fun of @Arbys , I feel like it might have quietly become America’s best national fast food chain. #NotAnAd

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6 years

@ryangrim When did the New Yorker contact Kavanaugh for comment on the Ramirez story? If these text messages came after that contact, then Kavanaugh’s answer could be essentially true. In that scenario, he really would’ve heard about it first from the New Yorker, just prior to publication.

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3 years

Every time @LaurenEMorrill and I have wine and cheese and bread for dinner I wonder why we bother eating anything else.

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Adam Ragusea

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4 years

There are simply two epochs in the history of rock guitar: Before EVH and After EVH. 1978 (the year Van Halen I was released) was the first year of our lord, Year 1 AEVH. Now, in the Year 42 AEVH, we say goodbye to EVH, but not to the epoch. We’re still in it, make no mistake.

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Our family had a minor medical emergency today, and the efficiency, caution and professionalism of the caregivers we dealt with was so affirming. Their ability to adapt and keep taking care of us in the midst of a crisis that’s far more dangerous to them than it is to me — wow.

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2 years

@TimJGraham If you think devil imagery is new or noteworthy in art then you need to take an art history class. But I'm guessing you don't need to — you're just clutching your pearls, because it's literally your job to be angry about things.

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1 year

I don’t know why, but this may be it for me here.

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Current status of this website: the billionaire owner and a podcast host worth hundreds of millions are currently dogpiling a pediatrician who develops vaccines to give to impoverished countries.

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1 year

I like goldfish

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Adam Ragusea

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3 years

The moth joke will always be my favorite. RIP.

Norm McDonald - Moth Joke [napisy PL]

Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/Stand-upy-po-polsku-1532250233735223/

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Adam Ragusea

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4 years

Judging by the photos on which I am tagged, this damn pie is the most-actually-made-by-real-people recipe I’ve done. Glad it doesn’t suck!

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Mmmmmmm shepherd's pie!!!! Oh man was it delicious and perfect for this chilly day. Thanks for the recipe, @aragusea !

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When I started making YouTube vids for a living, I compressed the audio to make them LOUD, and sometimes viewers complained about that. I thought to myself, "Just you wait. Soon everybody here will be doing it."

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4 years

I have questions about this refrigerator.

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2 years

@TimJGraham I can't believe you just said that, Tim. And I read what you tweet almost every day. Have done so for years. This tweet is almost as factually wrong as it is morally wrong.

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4 years

This year's Christmas dinner vid is in the can and goes live tomorrow. Was a ton of work but I'm feeling good about it!

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3 years

Every day I get more and more certain that the best piece of video content I’ve ever seen is the How It’s Made episode about latex gloves.

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4 years

I’m making videos on tiktok. I just uploaded one about how to harvest potatoes. Someone commented, saying they didn’t want to do it because they’d get their hands dirty. I say, without irony: Kids these days.

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The greatest bite of food in the universe.

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4 years

Is it just me or is this slug a little adorable?

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1 year

Holy crap that mushroom pasta from the beginning of the Mario movie looked great.

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6 years

@manedmarten @TheLaw36 @neontaster @ModelsExInferis @boocatbutterbee @PhonyGiraffe @fleccas @HBO In order to qualify for the fair use exemption afforded to works of parody, satire or commentary, judges have generally held that the infringing work must be at least partially commenting on the infringed work. The president's tweet is not a comment on Game of Thrones.

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Man, @nytimes just gives anonymity to anyone, eh? @NoahRemnick

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4 years

Just found out the teenage boy three doors down has been shooting squirrels with a pellet gun and eating them and we are totally making a video about cooking squirrel — after Georgia squirrel season resumes August 15, of course.

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4 years

My computer has autocorrected "the WHO" to "The Who" 35 times this morning and I have a whole new level of sympathy for health reporters.

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Thank you for coming to my #GameStop talk. 3/3

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Well, I'm glad this wasn't one of my release days!

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4 years

So, what did you do at work today?

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@jonathansfrakes @Marina_Sirtis Stealing a stock photo of yourself is a righteous power move.

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In fall 2019, I went to Best Buy, waited a half hour for help while I tried to control my kids, and I asked the blue shirt, “How does one play Mario on their TV in 2019? Whatever it is, I’ll take it.” She seemed annoyed and told me it wasn’t possible, so I left. 1/3

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A human reviewer at YouTube demonetized my upcoming video about links between diet and testosterone because it includes a brief shot of a male bodybuilder with his shirt off. I am so grateful that I stumbled into success with content that very rarely runs afoul of such things.

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So we went to the #GameStop in the same strip mall, and a couple of dudes there immediately step me up with our Switch, and I was grateful. They did a good job. 2/3

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I thank you for watching, I thank @itsColinWest for sending me this, and I thank @Bonbonmacon for making it. Calling Colin “my agent” is insufficient. He makes the creation of quality informational content a sustainable business. As a journalist, I do not take that for granted.

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4 years

Step one: Go get root canal. Step two: Hopefully reacquire normal-sounding speech in time to shoot Monday’s video. Step three: Profit.

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I know teaching college can sometimes feel like day-care, but it’s not. The mom who is trying to work at McDonald’s while supervising a kindergartner on virtual school really really needs her kid’s teacher to be vaccinated.

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@tedcruz It’s almost as though governments keep their intelligence and counter-intelligence activities as secret as possible. I wonder if they have some reason for doing that.

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4 years

I'm sorry, everybody. I got real mad and wanted to scream into the void. And while I'm legit mad about this, I'm also probably transferring over some other anger that I'm feeling simultaneously about an unrelated situation that I can't scream into the void about.

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If you’re a smart and informed person contemplating a “derp derp why are there so many counties in Georgia derp derp” tweet right now, you might consider googling first to see if it’s a much-written-about topic with a few well-known historical origins. (It is.)

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It has not escaped my attention, @Hersheys , that some of these contain four Milk Duds and some contain three.

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I believe that would be three periods. Arguably four.

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3 years

IMHO the @NWS “watch/warning” system is bad. The wording gives no clue as to the difference between a “tornado watch” and “tornado warning.” The difference must be explained, so the terms are useless. Shouldn’t it be “tornado possible” and “tornado spotted”? What am I missing?

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First draft of something new. They can’t all be winners, folks.

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I've had a lot of weird problems with my new M1 Macbook running Big Sur, but the weirdest has gotta be the instability of TextEdit. It crashes on me all the time. A computer struggling to run a plaintext editor is like marathoner getting winded on a stroll through the park.

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@JakeAnbinder @profmusgrave We really just say that so people in the comments don’t scold us for wasting stuff.

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8 years

@realDonaldTrump Cabinet nominees only need 51 votes and Republicans have 52 seats. What do Democrats have to do with it?

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4 years

And this, kids, is why it’s still worth it to learn how to use a real camera with a variable aperture.

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And I like Martha, but that is some out-of-touch boomer shit right there. The future of work is less work, not more work. Productivity, efficiency, humanity > hustle.

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@sosmagnolia @binnahar85 When you invite the world into your country, prepare to be exposed to other ways of thinking. Pretty simple.

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And I suppose what irks me is that college professors are exactly the kind of people who should know better. It should be obvious to them that in-person school is more important than in-person college.

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All three men of the Georgia Ragusea household represented in this @PrimeVideo search history.

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@MattWalshBlog Of course the reason why this matters is that power is exchanged over meals. Pence's prudishness shuts women out of power.

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@dapo_fuse @binnahar85 The fact that people lucky enough to access education tend to be tolerant of gender-nonconforming people. Learning makes you aware of a few facts, such as: 1) Such people have always existed; 2) Their existence and acceptance by others poses no particular danger to anyone.

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@jon_bois I will contact attorney general if you do not stop.

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My dentist’s office has changed not one bit since his father founded the practice and as a result it is now a living museum of mid-century modernism. I have to make a video about this place before he retires. Gotta start that second channel about other random shit I like.

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A golden age is upon us — unmatched abundance for most, ample abundance for many. Rejoice, if applicable.

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@TimJGraham He misread the number and immediately corrected it. Come on, Tom. Tim.

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I feel like my YouTube analytics might offer the best two-number indicator of the whole economy right now. The number of hours people spent watching my vids is up 40% this month, while revenue from ads that YouTube sells against my vids is down 10%.

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This pipe sounds good.

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@JaredDines If this is real, it may take the title for greatest piece of sponsored content ever.

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Hey I know that guy.

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1/ Hello. I think money is more valuable than speech from people like me in times like these, so let me tell you about some of the organizations @LaurenEMorrill and I are donating to at the moment. Maybe it'll inspire you to do likewise, if you have the means.

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Adam Ragusea

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Quite a thing for the @NCAA to double down on this. Remember that this kind of cannabis oil contains almost no THC, and therefore does not get you stoned in the slightest.

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A line on a form I'm filling out — "Fears: _______________"

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Am I the only one who finds "plant-based" to be a particularly suspicious food marketing term du jour? I mean, you could legitimately call a pot of collard greens "plant-based" even when it has a giant ham hock in it — it's still based on the greens!

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@bpolitics It’s completely crazy that your story doesn’t mention that this claim is not true:

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4 years

Here's an example of why I feel comfortable (eager, in fact) to accept sponsorships from legitimate direct-to-consumer health testing companies. 1/

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