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  Oh yeah. Her. The lady from "Florence Foster Jenkins." I think I know who that is.

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  @benroyce lol she’s really trying. How funny.

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  @tfnab wait are you THE Martin Lormes?!

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  @Odradek Oh yes I hear you. Something I struggle with a lot. And in my 1-1 human interactions I generally think it is better to trust, and be taken advantage of not and again, than to foster a local community of distrust. I'm a lot more cynical online because the scale is so out of balance. Just a few bad actors can put out SO MUCH STUFF that I worry you run the risk of burning out your empathy on things that don't deserve it, in ways that actually make the world worse.

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  @maya_b Maybe I'm just very cynical but I would dismiss this immediately as engagement bait if it popped up in my feed. The crying face. The very skilled art. The sob story. The uber-generic twitter handle. Doesn't pass the smell test.

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  Just wrapped up "Tom's Crossing" by Mark Danielewski. I'll need some time to recuperate from this. Like a mad offspring of Larry McMurtry and Charles Portis with a hint of Cormac McCarthy. The structure is bold, the voice distinct. We could quibble about the ending, but it is so earned it didn't bother me one bit. And my word, Landry Gatestone is instantly one of the great characters of the western genre. Just one beautiful, moving, thoughtful, coura...