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@mekosoff

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Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2009
Born August 18
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 25

    my first feature for and it’s about graphing calculators!

    New from . It's almost 2020, and students are STILL using TI graphing calculators in the classroom—the same ones I used back in 1996. digs into the economic inequality that this $100 calculator has wrought on math class everywhere.
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    2 hours ago

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    5 hours ago

    Hi guys, I heard we're talking about Peloton today. If you'd like to know why a lot of regular people are sort of fanatical about it in spite of its weird marketing, I spent six months reporting this story about it.

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    11 hours ago

    cast iron skillets can have little a soap

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    11 hours ago

    SCOOP: Ring threw a racist party for employees in 2017, which featured company shirts that say "FUCK CRIME" and Native American dress. These are the people designing and moderating one of the most important private/police surveillance tools out there

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  6. 11 hours ago

    please note that enemies are different from nemeses. enemies are people who have wronged you, nemeses are made up antagonists people on twitter say they have for some reason

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  7. 11 hours ago

    an important factor in all close friendships/relationships is updating your enemies list with the enemies of the people you care about

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  8. 12 hours ago

    i could have probably done without three days of peleton adgate but now i must know: who are these definitely-real people writing to peleton in support of The Ad

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    13 hours ago

    No one can tell me my nabe’s new French bakery isn’t pronounced “bein’ cute”

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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 3

    Stop making excuses for tourists. Midtown is the easiest place in the world to navigate. It's a grid system with numbered streets and avenues. Get on the subway, get off at a stop with a number close to 33.

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  11. 14 hours ago

    griefbacon was my favorite newsletter i read this year. every essay, including this one about maps by the yeah yeah yeahs, was a gem, albeit a gem that would casually commit an act of emotional terrorism on me

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    Dec 2

    Kuma No Kumaru, a Japanese cartoon character, is an anxious, troubled bear.

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    Dec 3

    That *ICE itself* thought McKinsey was recommending detention changes that were too harsh to immigrants is really something

    "Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find 'detention savings opportunities' — including measures the agency’s staff sometimes viewed as too harsh on immigrants."
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    Dec 2

    This is basically private equity's local-journalism strategy.

    Blackbeard the pirate didn’t know how to pay his crew so he sunk half of his ships, told the men to recover them, and ran away while they were doing it.
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    Dec 3

    Amazon Ring now has 677 police partnerships, up nearly 100 from the beginning of last month

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    Dec 3

    wow, why haven't poor people thought of this before

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  17. Dec 3

    something i personally love doing is picking out a new health insurance plan during open enrollment that is somehow both prohibitively expensive and also covers basically nothing

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    Dec 2

    Still looking for justice for Lil Yachty after people came for him for repeatedly saying he didn’t know/care much about Biggie and TuPac and his real inspirations were Soulja Boy and Coldplay

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    Dec 3

    been thinking about Dave Matthews on Monday Night Football for about 14 hours now

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    Dec 3

    twitter sucks cause you'll say something, and maybe it will blow up, and suddenly everyone is angry at you for not considering all possible exceptions to the thing you wrote when you were probably on the toilet

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  21. Dec 2

    turned on netflix, saw that the next episode of the office was scott’s tots, said “oh no” out loud to literally nobody, and turned off the tv again

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