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Pounds of butter should be packaged with 2 sticks salted and 2 sticks unsalted: cooking butter _and_ eating butter, in a single package. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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@brookeawindsor Also: I RT'd with a French translation, in case it's relevant

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RT SVP : A la recherche du père et de la fille sur cette photo, prise environ une heure avant l'incendie de Notre-Dame #NotreDame #NotreDamedeParis

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I took this photo as we were leaving #NotreDame about an hour before it caught on fire. I almost went up to the dad and asked if he wanted it. Now I wish I had. Twitter if you have any magic, help him find this 🙏🏼

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@josephacesare @elaineshen_ right?! it's pitch-perfect. Clear as to motivation, timeline, purpose. Polite. The kid could practically give request-letter-writing seminars.

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@ashleyn1cole @tressiemcphd "just go enjoy being matte somewhere" is my new favorite dismissal. also: commenting to follow

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@itsbedtime_ @lenazun wait did she want you to upgrade or downgrade its criminality?

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@brookeawindsor @Joe_Fru What a magical photo!

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@JonWhooley @tiredgenerally wait please say it was priced at what a regular spray bottle would cost

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@angiecthomas @karamcnair TIL she's still alive! It's always a shock to realize how recent this history is. The day I realized that Ruby Bridges' school integration was only 15 years before I was born, and that she was still around—and far younger than my parents—was an eye opener

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@daddydevxnne 3 of the 4 pictures are from the Ruby Bridges Disney movie

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@buttpraxis @EmilyGorcenski wow that's so early I've cancelled all plans through 2022

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@BleachedRatTail @unsettlingmist ugh why do people paint buildings black anywhere where it gets hot in the summer

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cruzr, obvs

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Grindr, but it lets you know when ted cruz is nearby so you can yell at him in public

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@jimpjorps "call my ice floe dealer" is my new favorite way to admit wrongness

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@MJB_SF @girlsreallyrule If everyone just stayed home for 4 weeks, we'd all emerge and think, "wow! we overreacted." But that's the best case scenario/as it should be. I wish that everyone else had the luxury to stay home

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@spindlypete I started reading and thought: vitamin donations; weird but whatever. and then it became terrible.

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@rokwon relevant:

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This image is how I know that Ted Hughes was a monster

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@torriangray "smoothbrain" is my new favorite insult

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I can't get enough of this hedgehog: cc @darth

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@i_zzzzzz The wikipedia entry for Pine Bluff includes, "Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in the state of Arkansas ..." and I lost it. Who counts the relative sizes of cities in Arkansas? If my memory serves me, Little Rock is around the size of a large college town.

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@SFBART $25 mil per annum/$500 mil rider revenue per annum is .5%. 1 person per 200 person train on any given route. For an enforcement officer to find that one person, they'll spend more in time than the $3.67 average fare evaded

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This remains my finest observation and I await @CloverSonoma 's marketing team contact

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Pounds of butter should be packaged with 2 sticks salted and 2 sticks unsalted: cooking butter _and_ eating butter, in a single package. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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@tlecaque Can I send that student one of these?

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@hunicke @mat week 2 was particularly rough for me, because I was doing precisely that, and also experiencing a sense of "don't they _get_ it?!" about friends/acquaintainces talking about how "in a couple of weeks when we se each other ..."

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@Dinko1234Dinko @BigBenguini @MimosasandSleep Correct. Waiters here do not make the correct salary.

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2 years

More plot twists in these 48 seconds than in three hours of a Lars von Trier film

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The circle of life… A cheetah is enjoying a fresh kill but vultures are standing by. Every time the cheetah turns around to start eating again, the vultures move-in closer. Finally the cheetah gives up but before the vultures get to eat, a lion swoops in to steal the kill.

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@Hyper_lexic @anniefryman But that's not a wrong answer!

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@realLarrySky @goldengateblond @PeteSouza That's exactly the feeling! a responsible adult up front

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. @ibexwool You keep me warm, but fascism chills to the bone. I see you're advertising on Breitbart. cc @slpng_giants

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@aarieff Even assuming that each curb takes 2 hours to prep and another 2 hours to paint, i.e. only 2 curbs could get done by a single crew in a workday, there's gotta be at least 50 available crews to do this. Assuming interruptions, etc.: it could all get done in under a month

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@rsilvie @NorCalGino @RiskyLiberal @tparti I think it's fake: the lower case "a"s and "e"s look like they're made by an adult who has no sense of what kids perceive as components

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@KevinMKruse @karamcnair Thank you so much for screenshotting rather than retweeting. This is absolutely the way.

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@SFBART This seems like a waste of time/energy/resources, tbh

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@plunkert This cover is iconic; it'll be in AP US history questions

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@brianrmcguire I cannot believe that passed any sort of design review whatsoever. It's horrifying.

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@aarieff so I completely fail to comprehend the bureaucratic coefficient that multiplies the timelines

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@CatherineEFox @LibbySchaaf You're totally right. The development at North Berkeley needs to be _far more dense_ since it's so much closer to SF, downtown Berkeley, and even downtown Oakland than Coliseum Station is. cc @bryanculbertson

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@cavaticat Particularly scary is the thought that a customer would be googling taco bell employees?

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@SenKamalaHarris Thank you, Senator Harris. I'm proud to have you and @RepBarbaraLee represent me.

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Superspreader event in the making So few masks

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Where is the National Guard? Where is the pepper spray? Where are the rubber bullets?

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@ericibid @ezralevin I want to send them all coffee cake

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This image is how I know that Ted Hughes was a monster

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@MECM @doofusdan @TaylorrObvi @honeyfrybread I've never seen celery not sold in lifetime supplies

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My neighbor told me about the "21-story apartment tower" they were planning on building next to our neighboring @SFBART station. She went on for a while and I was thinking about how great it sounded. "We have to stop it!" That is the precise moment at which I was radicalized.

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We’re feeling nostalgic today, so let’s hear those stories: how did you join the pro-housing movement? 🥺

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@timeshighered I'd written an article about something early-modern Spanish; the reviewer commented that I clearly had taken only a couple years of high school Spanish. It's my native language and at that point I'd spent 2 years in Spanish archives reading early-modern stuff.

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@RyanTheBeaver @JJFromTheBronx I love long-game trolls

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This minute and thirty three seconds of pure gold has now compensated for those horrible two minutes and twenty seconds that were stolen from me the other day.

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Here’s my take on 5-over-1s Hopefully this is the last time

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My new favorite essay about the Worst Content: cc @caraesten @MJB_SF

Andrea Askowitz Invents New Level of Whiteness, Writes the Worst Essay You'll Ever Read

Eons from now, when the planet is a barren wasteland scorched by solar flares and sheathed by Amazon Hub lockers, several of our evolved descendants will leave their homes on Lunar Outpost X Æ A-12...

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@tressiemcphd I have the crown bundt pan and I love how it gives you crispy edges plus slice sizing guidelines. If I had to flee the house but could inexplicably take one awkwardly-shaped, single-purpose item that's not a necessity: this would be it

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@RonFilipkowski Did ... did she write that sign using a marker with a wiggly top, while holding the paper in her lap?

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@AmyCurses @jacobmpollock @yokatykatikate @tressiemcphd Wait I would imagine that even if the family switched, they wouldn't involve non-family in the switch. And this is ... complete plates of food? Not, like: a calamari appetizer or something? I'd be forever traumatized by something like that

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@AHAhistorians @Joe_Fru This is the beginning of a reasonable path forward. Glad to see a major org acknowledge that requiring a $1500+ buy-in for candidates to just be able to get themselves physically to a conference keeps academia inaccessible to people without independent wealth.

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@maxdubler When I moved to the Bay Area in 1998, two things that random housemates said that I initially thought were trolling: a) that BART stopped running at midnight, b) that there was no space for more people, because it was already "built out" here

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@illana_kylez Gif'd it for you cc @DwayneDavidPaul

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@itsbedtime_ @lenazun omfg I was assuming she was calling you the elitist for classifying it as a crime at all! also how many tomatoes are we talking? a snack? enough for BLT's for a family picnic? all of them?

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@michaelharriot Now I want an air fryer; I loved my EZ Bake oven as a kid (who doesn't want to bake a single miniature brownie under a lightbulb?)

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@Julephenia @rachfaywill @jduffyrice @jbouie I had no idea postpartum preeclampsia was a thing!

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@kidcharles @SJSpotlight Right?! At least the implications of that are that—at worst—the kid's a little undernourished and over-sugared for a couple of hours _at most_

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@Alyssa_Gaitan @ALEAHB1017 as soon as we got a light-up toothbrush it was a game-changer

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@3vanSutton I aspire to this level of petty

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@JuddLegum Finally!

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An infectious-disease epidemiologist's thoughts on COVID:

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The best banana duck

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@aarieff @deyoungmuseum Absolutely disappointing that a cultural institution would be so arrière-garde. The @deyoungmuseum is literally under 1000 feet from Fulton Street. Parks are for people, not cars.

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Apparently parking meters in Hayes Valley are $8/hour now and this is the first appropriately-priced parking meter I've ever heard of in SF "How Shoupy," noted the spouse, about the pricing cc @DonaldShoup and wait @twitter how is he not verified?

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@RigelRobinson @SFBART This is why I remain on this hellsite

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@Aide_Macias @ProfessorIsIn I read an article somewhere recently that kept talking about "full-time" professors and it was about halfway through that I realized that the writer had misunderstood the term "full" professor and that no one in an editing function had understood it either

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@kf I've caught myself wondering several times if one of the things that shakes out as a result of this is that more companies will evolve to be much more WFH/remote-friendly

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@Freeyourmindkid One way to solve this: prohibitively high taxes on non-primary residences, and a universal downpayment assistance program so everyone who wants to own their house/apartment can

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@aspelina88 @deirdre1122 @StevePr88334026 @BreathewellPT yeah, this! ripping a mask off of someone else meets all definitions of assault

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Luckily, there's a website to explain to @JennyMcCarthy just how vaccines cause autism: http://t.co/xqg6CVZ8Qd #JennyAsks

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Time to abolish for-profit colleges

The Debt Collective 🟥

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“If the 15 of us had not gone on strike that would have not even been a possibility,” Bowers said. “They would have kept milking students for whatever they could get if we had not taken that stand.” Huge News:

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How are Darths weighed, @darth ? RT @DrScienceCat This is how owls are weighed http://t.co/JhrtroAC8S

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@LeafsCritic same. I had the but-she's-dead-already thought cycle, and then thought: but what if this is something _terrible_ about her? (sigh of relief: it wasn't)

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@EngrLeroy As a USAian, I figured it was a regional/dialect variant

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@SFBART Stations should have all of the following: a) plenty of housing b) a place to get snacks/coffee c) a library kiosk or book machine d) a place to get your bicycle fixed e) secure, safe bike parking f) bus/connected transit stops These will all make @SFBART future-proof

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East Bay: if you're looking for a small studio to rent super-close to BART and everything Temescal offers, lmk. Upstairs from us. $1250 plus PG&E. Free laundry and we promise to not raise the rent for at least 2 years (haven't raised it in 5+).

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@darth OMG RT @emergency_capy the seal of approval http://t.co/e4cdwaeW3a

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@tressiemcphd I was today old when I realized they are two different people. I thought Gosling was ... a nickname? Like: that's Ryan, the little goose!

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@ZeenaKwon @cmclymer agreed! he got it pitch-perfect

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@Austen This is for an engineering role? That's illegally low in California. Legal minimum for a salaried software engineer in CA is $94,603.25 (I love how the .25 is in there ...)

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@Eater Wait but I thought pot pies only had a top crust? (at least half of the very few pot pies I've had in my life have been this way)

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What's the term for the immediate feeling of panic experienced upon seeing a non-throwback photo of a non-socially-distanced large-scale social event? A wedding, people. I saw photos of a wedding. That occurred today, 140th March, in the year of our lord 2020.

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@TristanGrahams @calebsaysthings If I'm paying $100/day for the heated pool, I'll be keeping it at 98.6 degrees, tyvm

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Kid points to @yimbyaction @SFyimby @eb4everyone Legalize Housing sticker from pre-covid @YIMBYtown . "Can we live in that town? Can we live in the tallest building?" My work here is done.

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@StrongTowns We need the good bollards, though. Not those plastic ones that knock over in seconds.

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Hey @threadless : not sure if you realize your ads appear on Breitbart? Screenshot attached. cc @slpng_giants

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100% of the household adults are now 50% vaccinated. Filled with gratitude for science tonight

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@kalyani_saxena @radbrowndads As soon as I moved somewhere where I was in control of my own cutting board/s, I took matters into my own hands

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Glad to hear that there's a name for this feeling:

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@doctorow "and was thick as pigshit even in his prime" is my new favorite assessment of Reagan

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@rustywonder @buttpraxis @EmilyGorcenski I wish we could get a month's worth. Our limiting factor is milk: two gallons gets us _maybe_ 12 days, and then after that we add another day or so with a can of evaporated. So we end up alternating a big run with a dairy run.

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@mckinneykelsey @emmabaccellieri wait but what did you ask them last time

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@schoppik Your dissertation is just a _part_ of the requirements for the PhD. Finish the damn thing as quickly as you can.

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@mcmansionhell That looks like five houses standing together and wearing a single house as a halloween costume

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@juliacraven @kf I want to send that whole family pies and soup, tbh. They seem just absolutely lovely.

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@erinscafe this is my favorite konmari hateread: (note: I've output it as pdf in case of paywall. It sparks joy in me, so I keep it in a computer folder)