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Posts by Cynthia Shelly

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From massive protests to a puny parade, America really let Donald Trump down | Opinion Well, Americans, I hope you’re happy with yourselves. You really let President Donald Trump down this weekend.

Donald Trump's military parade stank, and now he's madder than ever.

"Well, Americans, I hope you’re happy with yourselves. You really let President Donald Trump down."

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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The ice cream truck is playing Christmas carols

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Using a Mac M3 to print manuals for a 1966 manual typewriter

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Just watched The Trouble with Tribbles with the kid. Still one of the best episodes in the history of 📺

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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).

This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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You know you're old when it's faster to copy type than OCR and check for errors

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Tuxedo cat reclined on a flowered quilt. His eyes are mostly closed, and his front paws are crossed

Tuxedo cat reclined on a flowered quilt. His eyes are mostly closed, and his front paws are crossed

His lordship in repose #TuxedoCat

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Chicken and gnocchi in chrysanthemum kale pesto with meyer lemon and chevre #AmericanFood #Refrigetore

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Buckwheat crepes with curried chicken, spinach and cheddar #AmericanFood

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John Woo, Chow Yun-fat Classics Among 156-Film Golden Princess Library Acquired by Shout! Studios (EXCLUSIVE) Shout! Studios acquires 156 Hong Kong action classics from Golden Princess, including John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat hits like 'Hard Boiled' and 'The Killer.'

Holy shit. Someone finally bit the bullet. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Under Paris (2024) ⭐ 5.2 | Action, Drama, Horror 1h 44m | TV-MA

Under Paris - wtf did I just watch? (That's a positive review for a cheesy monster movie) 📽
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Weird fact: There's a Law and Order episode with Samuel L. Jackson and Phillip Seymore Hoffman

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Today, I used the Pythagorean theorem irl

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Fluffy grey kitten sleeping in a window bed

Fluffy grey kitten sleeping in a window bed

This guy

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Christmas movie update (maybe the last one?): "Home Alone" is still charming, no matter how much crap I talked about it when I was 20, "Red One" was meh, "Carry-On" was fun, but TSA as unironic good guys gives me the creeps 📽

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How a Scrappy New Publisher Landed 25 Books on the Best-Seller List in a Year Bloom Books took off with the help of E L James, the author of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” It broke with tradition and became the fastest-growing imprint in romance.

I love the kind of success story where a business finds a large under-served market that's been ignored because bias www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/b...

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Christmas movie update: "Muppet Christmas Carol" is still adorable. Also, Dickens feels unsettlingly timely 📽

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"Hot Frosty" - gotta love a movie that can be a parody of Christmas rom-coms and cop shows at the same time

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My Gen-Z kid had this project in middle school too

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This is awesome! I've worked at FAANG for most of the last (does math, curses) 30 years. I started like this, with Notepad, IE2, and a paper book called Teach Yourself HTML in 14 Days

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Ketchup is a vegetable
-Ronald Reagan, 1981

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Leopards. Faces. Etc.

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This rule is relic of 19th-century attitudes towards labor and human value. It's beyond time to end it

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Christmas movie update: Dear Santa is hilarious and surprisingly sweet. Also, Jack Black with a grey beard and Ray-Bans looks exactly like my dad

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The Christmas movies have begun! "There's Something in the Barn" is dumb in all the right ways. "El Camino Christmas" was, um, fine in the background while cleaning

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