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UConn news director, former reporter, occasional traveler, very occasional writer

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“No,” said Frog.

07.03.2026 08:37 👍 317 🔁 97 💬 3 📌 4
A pensive police officer, hand on chin, says to Golden Age Batman, "So many people are unhappy. They worry about rent...bills, sickness...love..."
"And their future...frustrated dreams...jobs...," says Batman.

A pensive police officer, hand on chin, says to Golden Age Batman, "So many people are unhappy. They worry about rent...bills, sickness...love..." "And their future...frustrated dreams...jobs...," says Batman.

22.04.2024 14:54 👍 430 🔁 88 💬 15 📌 15
From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: The Bat Bandit of Inferno Gulch

Mickey robbing a bank.

Mickey: Line up against the wall, and bring your guns with ya - and don't try any funny business!

From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: The Bat Bandit of Inferno Gulch Mickey robbing a bank. Mickey: Line up against the wall, and bring your guns with ya - and don't try any funny business!

02.01.2026 12:14 👍 170 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 4
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Earlier today on the streets of Hartford:

07.03.2026 23:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

but doctor,

07.03.2026 01:20 👍 140 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
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The vet visit disliker has arrived for his annual checkup

06.03.2026 21:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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78 years after it was published, Shirley Jackson’s most famous story is apparently still convincing people it’s real

06.03.2026 17:23 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pitched a magazine that requires a physical query letter, so I wrote a letter and printed it and put it in the mailbox like some kind of historical reenactor.

06.03.2026 13:40 👍 297 🔁 21 💬 14 📌 2
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⛔Hormuz Traffic Volume Dynamics by Category — BBG

06.03.2026 13:02 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Met this fine chap on my morning walk

06.03.2026 12:01 👍 762 🔁 71 💬 23 📌 3
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All the polls on the U.S. war in Iran so far According to a simple average of new high-quality surveys, 38% of Americans approve and 49% disapprove of U.S. military action in Iran. When ignoring "don't know" respondents, 56% disapprove

"The takeaway from these numbers is that the new war in Iran is very unpopular...Worst-ever-support-for-war-when-it-started unpopular. With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

06.03.2026 12:38 👍 365 🔁 99 💬 20 📌 6

When I look wistfully out the window and say, "We needed this rain," it's not because of a drought or the soil or whatever. I dropped a gallon jug of juice on the driveway when I was unloading groceries on Tuesday, it split open, and I couldn't clean it up because the hose is under two feet of snow.

06.03.2026 12:47 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve gone full Carry Nation on gambling. I think it should all be illegal

06.03.2026 09:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Man’s ‘disbelief’ after five-year quest for rare book ends in local Oxfam shop Paul Dixon had trawled bookshops and specialist sellers across the UK, and had even contacted shops on the island of Iona

This is so fun!

news.stv.tv/scotland/man...

06.03.2026 08:51 👍 78 🔁 22 💬 6 📌 8

Ah, that’s great! Small (punk rock) world

06.03.2026 01:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No way! That’s awesome. There was a weird link between Manchester and Berkeley in the early to mid 1990s, with a lot of Manchester people moving there

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Of all the periodicals that come to my house, none makes me happier than Hot Dogs Til You Die, the world’s leading NYC-based zine about Manchester, Connecticut

06.03.2026 00:28 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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Pregnant women in ERs took less Tylenol after Trump autism warning A study in The Lancet finds that pregnant women in emergency rooms used less Tylenol after President Trump said it could raise their babies' risk of autism. Scientists say there is no proven link.

A study in The Lancet finds that pregnant women in emergency rooms used less Tylenol after President Trump said it could raise their babies' risk of autism. Scientists say there is no proven link. n.pr/4s0ng1Q

06.03.2026 00:16 👍 389 🔁 94 💬 45 📌 19
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More than 200 killed in landslide at DRC coltan mine Congo's Mines Ministry said about 70 children were among the victims.

Congo’s Mines Ministry said about 70 children were among the victims.

05.03.2026 00:00 👍 131 🔁 86 💬 1 📌 9
Comes With The Mugs

They don’t need them, so it’s your win. And if you don’t need more mugs, then just leave your mugs with your current home. Let’s all just stop taking mugs with us whenever we move. That could start right here with this house.

Reference #88225

Comes With The Mugs They don’t need them, so it’s your win. And if you don’t need more mugs, then just leave your mugs with your current home. Let’s all just stop taking mugs with us whenever we move. That could start right here with this house. Reference #88225

Real Estate: Comes With The Mugs

05.03.2026 00:00 👍 968 🔁 69 💬 22 📌 5

I really don't understand why everyone is going crazy, completely abandoning every principle of safety and due diligence, and just destroying themselves and everyone they know through a series of dopamine hits and bullshit pseudoscience that would make Alex Jones blush.

04.03.2026 22:12 👍 87 🔁 14 💬 11 📌 1
A lineup of soda cans, from left to right--peach, grape, cola, and diet cola

A lineup of soda cans, from left to right--peach, grape, cola, and diet cola

Eckerd Award Sodas (1994-2006): A house-brand line of sodas from pharmacy chain, Eckerd. Flavors included standard Cola, Diet Cola, and Root Beer, as well as Grape, Orange, Strawberry, and Peach sodas. Their dupes included:
Dr. Riffic (Dr. Pepper), Eckerd Mountain (Mt. Dew), and Eckerd Up (7Up)

04.03.2026 16:26 👍 294 🔁 30 💬 24 📌 18
An absolute RAVE review of Pringles Select from the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper

An absolute RAVE review of Pringles Select from the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper

I've covered most of the flavors in the Pringles Select line already, but what I neglected to mention is that upon launch, The Louisville Courier-Journal published a review, and let me tell you, I hope someday we can all love something even a quarter as much as Vicki Bierman loved Pringles Select

04.03.2026 13:14 👍 327 🔁 30 💬 24 📌 7
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New Japan Makes, The World Takes | Defector TRENTON, N.J. — The Trenton Transit Center isn’t pretty, or even notable, and it won’t win any architectural awards, but it gets the job done if you’re coming down to see Tomohiro Ishii wrestling in…

New Japan makes, the world takes:

04.03.2026 00:57 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal, per TC

03.03.2026 14:53 👍 305 🔁 66 💬 16 📌 16

“Calling All Jestergoons”

03.03.2026 15:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You couldn’t make this up.
And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

02.03.2026 20:14 👍 10979 🔁 3038 💬 669 📌 193
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They went to the boss.

03.03.2026 02:44 👍 8790 🔁 1908 💬 297 📌 74

every time i look at instagram, i feel like im the only adult who doesn't know how to make money

03.03.2026 06:19 👍 9548 🔁 543 💬 266 📌 60

One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan

03.03.2026 07:33 👍 1976 🔁 280 💬 76 📌 82