There was a time when people like him would have to buy the back page of the A section to put out nonsense like this
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So the company that swallowed (and drove a lot of people off of) Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo is buying Airtable? I can't imagine this acquisition will go any better techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/b...
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
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People rightly love the For You feed but I’ve been trying a “smart mix” from @opentrough.com and it is really good. I have it mixing from For You, Followers, Mutuals and Quiet Posters and it’s nice to get out of the For You bubble a little opentrough.com
Welcome to the Beta - Open Trough
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A dancer goes to work as her straying husband when he's jilted.
Mizuki's father worked for the American embassy, so he would bring home stacks of comics for his son the cartoonist to learn by. Mizuki's first work is pretty much straight-up copying American comics.
Reading Shigeru Mizuki early works, and one of them is just full-on an unauthorized (I assume?!) Plastic Man book and honestly that 100% tracks in retrospect with what I've read and loved in Kitaro.
If you want to feel old, the videogame 'Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey' came out in 1996.
John Franco Pitcher Debut: 1984 - Retired: 2005 HOU - CIN - NYM
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Career stats of John Franco
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Luis de la Fuente tactical masterpiece. Slipped the minds of a lot of pundits that stingy teams win international tournaments. And the teams that look the best in the group stages rarely do.
the world cup is a terrible place to be a water bottle
But let's wait until the 13TH paragraph to say it's the United Arab Emirates. (Sudan, where it is happening, is in the lede.)
I don't usually read these "how people live on x dollars a year" pieces www.nytimes.com/interactive/... but this one was about a security guard at the Met: 46, commutes an hour from Parkchester, lives with a roommate, makes $51K. The money quote, so to speak:
Plane lands early, usually a good thing but the TV feed froze in the 82nd minute 😤