@jakebackpack

Novelist. Critic. Books about crooks.

 Extended Greater Appalachia
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Joined May 2009
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Paris vaut bien une bless your heart.
Trad West
@trad_west_Oct 18
“The situation has never been so serious; the Fifth Republic is on the verge of collapse. My family has served France for centuries, and if France calls upon me, I will be at its service. The indispensable condition is that France desires the return of the monarchy - a monarchy above parties, unifying.” - Luís de Bourbon, direct descendant of Saint Louis IX
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The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Womann
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#TexasSenate Semafor: CBS News’ Bari Weiss tasked staff with pursuing the theory that Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was in a mental health facility after he disappeared from the campaign trail for over a week in October. He was at home with the flu, journalists from The New York Times confirmed, citing images from Talarico’s home security cameras.
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I'm prejudiced (from Western Pennsylvania), but Fallingwater actually is the highest expression of human genius and the single most Lives Up To and Then Exceeds Expectations tourist attraction on the planet earth.
kate wehwalt
@mcmansionhellOct 17
i've come completely full circle on this over the last seventeen years of my life and i do think that frank lloyd wright and louis sullivan are in fact america's greatest architects
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I'm just a simple country MBA, but DJT was a Fordham kid who transferred to Penn in his junior year when it was a non-selective ivy and got an econ BS degree, not an MBA.
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Actually agree with many of the author's points but my grad business education was mostly about linear algebra and calculating the NPV of annuities. nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…

Opinion | The Case Against Business School

Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.

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How old were you when you first began to understand that you were not a press secretary?
Acyn
@AcynOct 16
FOX: Peter Doocy has just announced per a senior white house official we can characterize what's happening with Katie as her transitioning out of the press secretary job.
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LMAO, for real
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"Maybe it's not for her" is (you do gotta hand it to him) just such a funny thing to say. Truly our first gay president.
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He's so often treated as a pure vulgarian, so it's easy to forget that he's just like some slightly déclassé country swish who swoops through a single garden party somewhere deep in the bowels of Proust making cutting remarks about the ladies' dress.
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Morning mischief
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Genuinely upset that they did not title the sequel 2 Beekeeper or Not 2 Beekeeper
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Anyway, hope it's successful so that we can get The B33k33p3r
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As a connoisseur of truly incredible lies, I am genuinely tickled by this cranky ol' prof's suggestion that upperclass JHU undergrads do not know the physical location of the library, which sits exactly at the campus' main entrance and adjacent to its central quad.
Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillisOct 15
Johns Hopkins economics professor Steve Hanke writes in a WSJ letter to editor that many of his students don't know where the campus library is:
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Doug Mills
@dougmillsnytOct 14
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia and Special Assistant to the president Natalie Harp join President Donald Trump in Marine One he arrived in Wasilla, Alaska yesterday. @POTUS @KatieZacharia
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Prem Thakker@prem_thakkerOct 14
Incredible — Stephen Miller "has asked for repeated updates on what the US has done to target or investigate the activities of specific names on his lengthy roster of enemies… …Miller’s inquiries have included questions about Cuba and Hasan Piker…"zeteo.com/p/stephen-miller-t…

American ‘Psycho,’ Fascist Dork: Inside Stephen Miller’s War of Terror

The world’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat is leading Trump’s wars on immigrants, civilians, the law, and human decency. It doesn’t matter that he’s made Trump historically unpopular.

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Go woke go broke, I guess.
Brett Erickson
@BrettErickson28Oct 14
NOW: Images are circulating that corroborate the Iranian claim this morning that a container ship is sinking in the Strait of Hormuz. This appears to be the vessel GFS PRIDE. While the Iranian claims that this vessel struck a mine are unconfirmed, it DOES appear that the vessel is in fact sinking. This marks a notable escalation.
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Escaping containment
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unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesOct 13
BREAKING: Palantir, $PLTR, CTO has said that some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer
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Today's youth are just going to have to live with having depressive confabulatory parasexual relationships with concatanations of their favorite fantasy-novel tropes manually like we did when I was kid.
Reuters Legal@ReutersLegalOct 13
Character.AI said on Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney for $20 million. reuters.com/legal/litigation…

character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.

Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?

character.ai
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I wrote a sonnet about the sticky biological reality that, on blance, women will probably probably prefer reading women, and men may prefer reading men.
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jacobbacharach.com/2026/10/1…

Men, obviously

can read and enjoy books by women butthere is a sticky biological reality:Mars and Venus, baby, that’s the tea—Jane Austen doesn’t make the boyfriend cutand girls prefer online vampiric smutto Don …

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