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• The Hermes Baby 1967After many years of searching, I finally found the make and model of my childhood typewriter and am beside myself with joy. Anthropic’s free-tier Claude was of tremendous help and I am much obliged. Behold, and in cursive! Source: This old e
• I accidentally committed the faux pas of hitting reply-all on a message yesterday. One of the affected participants replied-to-all starting with a “Dear Nikhil: Thank you for connecting all of us over this issue.”
• The Best Cookie Recipe I've HeardIn German so I needed a translation.
• I have spent a lot of time trying to kill a tube of toothpaste and am now convinced that the last 10% of the tube hosts 90% of its payload. The Pareto Principle in action, in defiance of physical laws.
• "Oh What Fresh Hell is This?"My personal record is nine bills for the same, minor urgentcare visit. Things I’ve learned: It’s not your provider’s job to deal with insurance, it’s yours. Don’t pay outright1. You’ll keep getting clobbered until every single service provider ha
• The Center of Our GalaxyBehold this stunning 3D model of some of the activity around the really massive Black Hole at the center of our lovely galaxy. It’s called Sagittarius A* and is some 4 million times more massive than our Sun. Humanity banded together to take a ‘pho

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  MedeaNancy Pena and Blandine Le Callet (2024)

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  V for VendettaAlan Moore and David Lloyd (1989)

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  The MysteriesBill Watterson and John Kascht (2023)

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  There Are Moms Way Worse Than YouGlenn Boozan (2022)

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  Black HoleCharles Burns (1995-2005)

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  Se7enDavid Seidman and Ralph Tedesco (2008)

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  The Strangest ManGraham Farmelo (2009)

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  Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk RoadsEvelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum (1983)

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