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Look Where You Aren't | Chronically Online Magazine

Look Where You Aren't | Chronically Online Magazine

Manychat — I was in Spain and Portugal recently. I sat at cafes, had long conversations, and drank a lot of coffee. We had tapas. We saw Guernica in Madrid. I watched the boats sail past the hills of Lisbon and loved every moment. And yet, I still checked social media.
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Many children will lose out without public media access

Many children will lose out without public media access

Chicago Sun-Times — For a lot of kids who don't have access to cable or cellphones, public is a godsend, especially as an educational tool. Also, politics and mental health, pardoning of a former Honduran president and Trump's name-calling.
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'It Smells But I Feel Free': Why This Guy Left His Tech Job to Scoop Dog Shit

'It Smells But I Feel Free': Why This Guy Left His Tech Job to Scoop Dog Shit

VICE — Ryan Lund quit his $200,000 a year corporate sales gig to pick up pet poop-and he would recommend it to anyone.
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Angela White's Nostalgic New Porno Is Inspired by 2000s Skate Culture

Angela White's Nostalgic New Porno Is Inspired by 2000s Skate Culture

VICE — The actress and director on her pop punk past, and the similarities between skate films and adult 'gonzo' cinema.
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The job market, anxiety, and a dumpster fire of an economy

The job market, anxiety, and a dumpster fire of an economy

cartercountytimes.com — By Robert Dean For the Carter County Times When the doctor told me my blood pressure was through the roof, I wasn't shocked. My face had tinged recently, my head swam with fog, and I would break out with hot flashes daily. I knew something was wrong.
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Knocked Loose Knocks Jimmy Kimmel's Audience For a Loop - Book and Film Globe

Knocked Loose Knocks Jimmy Kimmel's Audience For a Loop - Book and Film Globe

Book and Film Globe — Hardcore band Knocked Loose performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this past Tuesday (November 26), and people on Facebook took offense. The scandal!
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The Age of 'Terrifier' - Book and Film Globe

The Age of 'Terrifier' - Book and Film Globe

Book and Film Globe — This grotesque villain is the star of Terrifier, a low-budget slasher franchise whose latest edition way outearned Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious epic Megalopolis, and most other movies this year as well.
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America is Austin Now - Book and Film Globe

America is Austin Now - Book and Film Globe

Book and Film Globe — This is Austin, a city that prides itself on "keeping it weird," now agonizing over the 2024 presidential race-a spectacle feeling more like a grim punchline than a hopeful future.
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HOUSE OF VLAD PRESS

HOUSE OF VLAD PRESS

houseofvladpress.com — THE IMPERMANENCE OF BEING ALIVE - the latest essay on the consideration of the afterlife from someone not sold on it.
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Houston native changing how Texans see and experience food

Houston native changing how Texans see and experience food

Chron — The Cook's Nook has fed more than 10,000 people with growth plans in sight. Meals help fight off diseases found in vulnerable populations.
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How the Underworld in middle America deals with recession

How the Underworld in middle America deals with recession

chvoid.com — A look into how the economy is affecting the lives of those on the fringes of America: escorts, strippers, drug-dealers and bartenders.
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Try To Remember the Weird Sh*t Your Kids Say - Dad Fixes Everything

Try To Remember the Weird Sh*t Your Kids Say - Dad Fixes Everything

dadfixeseverything.com — One of the biggest challenges of being a parent is keeping your shit together around your kids. Sure, When they're little, they do little kid stuff like drawing on themselves, ... Read more
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Commentary: I'm new to the state, but I can vouch for Texas grit

Commentary: I'm new to the state, but I can vouch for Texas grit

Austin American-Statesman — I'm not a Texan. I don't adore the Lone Star State. I'm a transplant who's lived in Austin for the last four years. I can't name the state fish, I don't understand the thing with mums at Homecoming, ...
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Commentary: I'm new to the state, but I can vouch for Texas grit

Commentary: I'm new to the state, but I can vouch for Texas grit

Austin American-Statesman — I'm not a Texan. I don't adore the Lone Star State. I'm a transplant who's lived in Austin for the last four years. I can't name the state fish, I don't understand the thing with mums at Homecoming, ...
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The War Machine Keeps Turning: Lost Lives in the Middle East - Rebel Noise

The War Machine Keeps Turning: Lost Lives in the Middle East - Rebel Noise

rebelnoise.com — Collapse Wrapped in a Flag{/exp:html_attribute_content}
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Austin artist profile: Filmmaker Issac French Embraces his Dark Half

Austin artist profile: Filmmaker Issac French Embraces his Dark Half

The Cosmic Clash — while the city's musical history is alive and well due to the musicians holding down the kitchens or wrenching on your car. But when you hit Red River Street for a night of service industry mayhem,...
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Think You Hate a Lot of Stuff? Read This.

Think You Hate a Lot of Stuff? Read This.

blcomedy.com — Article by: Robert Dean When Game of Thrones was the show every human on earth was obsessed with, I just... did not give a fuck. Every week, people would invite me to a watch party, and my ex-wife would devour it - super wizards all tits out with dragons flying high above nuking towns and shit.
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Sometimes, Laughter is The Best Medicine

Sometimes, Laughter is The Best Medicine

blcomedy.com — Article by: Robert Dean There used to be a concept within the scientific community that only humans could laugh. But guess what? It's not just us and the hyenas that are cackling; other animals laugh, too. According to an article published by UCLA, at least 65 species vocalize something relatable to a giggle, but here's the wild thing: none of them is the hyena.
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I Let My Kids Meet My Girlfriend Too Soon. I Won't Do It Again.

I Let My Kids Meet My Girlfriend Too Soon. I Won't Do It Again.

dadfixeseverything.com — There's a podcast I listen to called One Life, One Chance , hosted by hardcore singer Toby Morse, an explicitly positive person who's a straight-edge vegan who sees the best in people.
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How a special burrito became the unofficial food of Galveston

How a special burrito became the unofficial food of Galveston

Chron — While most of Texas is obsessed with breakfast tacos, Galveston Island is a burrito town, but not just any: The surprise burrito is king here.
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How a special burrito became the unofficial food of Galveston

How a special burrito became the unofficial food of Galveston

Chron — While most of Texas is obsessed with breakfast tacos, Galveston Island is a burrito town, but not just any: The surprise burrito is king here.
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Trump's border wall cuts through sacred land. One tribal leader is determined to stop him

Trump's border wall cuts through sacred land. One tribal leader is determined to stop him

Mic — When President Trump announced plans to build a wall along the Rio Grande River, Juan Mancias smelled a rat. Mancias is the Carrizo/Comecrudo tribal leader and a founding member of the Texas chapter of the American Indian Movement - not to mention...
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Don't F*** Someone if They Can't Use Chopsticks

Don't F*** Someone if They Can't Use Chopsticks

blcomedy.com — There's one pop culture reference a lot of dudes use to justify a date, and ultimately the person he's seeing is bad or good - it's called the "door test." It's from a gangster movie from back in the early 90s called A Bronx Tale . (It's got Deniro in it, and it's excellent.)
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Biden's migrant child detention center has turned a small Texas town into a surveillance state

Biden's migrant child detention center has turned a small Texas town into a surveillance state

Mic — CARRIZO SPRINGS, Tex.-The first thing you'll notice when you're cruising along First Street in Carrizo Springs, Texas, is that cop cars pop up everywhere. They're in the Sonic or McDonald's drive-thru, or they're weaving through the downtown. The town has always had a Border Patrol presence and police outpost, but lately, there's been an onslaught of law enforcement.
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