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Shared by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-31 at 12:06 (original by Accidental Fish Percolation)

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-30 at 16:48

Me: man, the Democrats are utterly useless

Also me: I would follow AOC to the very gates of hell

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-30 at 16:47

I have no financial interest in this company, but I just want to say tickets are still available for tomorrow's Chaotic Wrestling show at the Sons of Italy in Watertown. This is unquestionably Greater Boston's best live entertainment value: https://www.chaoticwrestling.com/event-details/chaotic-wrestling-on-thin-ice-watertown-1-31

[#]Boston

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-29 at 18:19

Something we can do to brighten up the English-speaking world in these dark times is to bring back using "boner" to mean misstep or error. The jokes quite literally write themselves.

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-29 at 15:23

I'm seeing a lot about how resisting fascism is like sand in the gears, aka weaponized incompetence. I remembered that I wrote a short story last year about this very phenomenon. A quick, readable, non-violent revenge tale! https://write.as/brendanhalpin/short-fiction-how-to-excel-in-college

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-28 at 19:42

But Brendan, they say, how can I load ebooks I buy on bookshop.org (or any other non-Bezos outlet) onto my Kindle? You know what, I wrote a post explaining how! https://brendanhalpin.com/how-to-load-downloaded-books-onto-your-e-reader

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-28 at 19:41

A lot of people say to me, Brendan, they say, I'd love to read ebooks of some of your backlist, but I don't want to support Amazon! Well, you're in luck! They're available on bookshop.org! https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=Brendan+Halpin

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-28 at 18:19

Why is Josh Kraft running for Mayor of Boston? I have a theory: https://write.as/brendanhalpin/why-is-josh-kraft-running

[#]boston #BosPoli #MaPoli

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-28 at 15:59

Look out, Trump! I just read that top Democrats are expressing alarm! Looks like they may even send a strongly worded letter!

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-28 at 15:46

Lotta people still in denial. We can't get past this till we face what's actually happened. There are no laws governing the executive branch because laws need someone to enforce them. They could literally order summary executions on the Mall and no one can/will prevent it. We have to stop thinking that the system they have successfully taken over can be used to save us.

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-28 at 12:56

I am 2 eps into season 2 of Severance and only just now realized it takes place some time around 1980

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Shared by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-28 at 12:49 (original by Street Art Utopia)

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 16:44

Probably won't get to say this again until May, so: I'm all caught up on my grading!

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Shared by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 16:02 (original by Patrick)

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 16:01

One of my friends once described Queens of the Stone Age as "riffs in search of songs," and I thought that was both brutal and accurate

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 15:52

When I was a kid we used to judge who was a good drummer by how flashy they were. And yeah, Keith Moon was great, but I've come to believe that the mark of a good drummer isn't fancypants fills as much as drumming in a style that suits the song. So yeah, Meg White is great. Phil Rudd is great.

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Shared by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 14:53 (original by Bridget)

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 14:39

Several years ago I wrote this piece and I'm very proud of it and also think it raises a point that folks don't talk about very much. It's about the violence that's endemic to the culture or male children and how I think that connects to the way adult men treat women. https://write.as/brendanhalpin/greatest-hit-on-boys-and-violence

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Written by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 13:40

How we got here is academic at this point. It's fun to assign blame but ultimately counterproductive. We will never get out of this until liberals and leftists stop fighting each other and start fighting fascism.

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Shared by Brendan Halpin on 2025-01-27 at 12:31 (original by donni saphire)

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