Jeff, your friend who cares

@leffjakin
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Attorney, Michigander turned North Carolinian, LGBTQ-Affirming UCC Christian, Wilco Dad, MaxFunster, FOT. He/Him.
You think Leo ever sits around with these lady friends at a place like Don's Plum, munching on a late-night plate of fries going, "So here's another thing about life before 9/11..."?
Mastodonners, help me pick my next fountain pen? I've got some grandparent Christmas money to burn here! On the left, the eyedropper fill acrylic and ebonite Opus 88 Koloro in Teal and Beige. On the right the piston fill resin Nahvalur Schuylkill in Asfur Bronze.
@normative he does, and he hates it. he thinks he can maintain the site's stature and reach while chasing away all the media class elites and their admirers and replacing them with his people, largely discredited contrarians and reactionaries who feel similarly aggrieved. that's my take anyway.
@proactivebusybody @charliereece @rossgrady yes! my spouse and I just started coming in the pandemic era, and it very quickly became "our beach" (as opposed to our respective families beaches) ... got to take the new baby there this May to see the ocean for the first time!
@proactivebusybody @charliereece @rossgrady I cannot vouch for the pie, but if you can make it in the next 45 minutes or are there until Tuesday, the shrimp burger at Big Oak BBQ in Salter Path is truly one of God's perfect foods.

Yessssssss

RT @[email protected]

Michael Lewis' next book is about Sam Bankman-Fried. Email from CAA confirms he has been embedded with him for last 6 months; note below was first sent to potential buyers for filmed rights. Scoop @[email protected]
https://theankler.com/p/hwood-ftx-frenzy-as-michael-lewis?sd=pf

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/janicemin/status/1591827536736124928

H'wood FTX Frenzy as Michael Lewis Reveals He Spent 6 Months with Founder

Author compares Sam Bankman-Fried, Binance's CZ to 'Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader' in email sent by CAA

The Ankler.

We just sent the baby boy off to Gigi and Papa's house for two hours, and managed to get his nursery set up for sleeping (as opposed to a bedside crib in our room) and started excavating the piles of laundry that have lived in the bedroom closet.

Utterly exhilarating, I tell you. I feel like I could pull a car right now.

Maybe lost in the "haha, Boebert lost!" and "whoa, mushrooms are legal now?" news about Colorado is this extremely good piece of legislation that we should make Federal. https://www.denverpost.com/2022/11/08/colorado-prop-ff-results-free-school-lunches/
Colorado Proposition FF: Universal free meals to students is now a reality with voters largely in favor

Prop FF establishes and funds the Healthy School Meals for All Program, along with boosting taxes for households with incomes higher than $300,000 by curbing state income tax deductions

The Denver Post
@oldbie I've never felt quite so seen.
@snipy see, and I'm a lefty with a "hook hand" overwrite grip that persists in defiance of all reason and ink smudges. Am playing around with flex nibs though and refining my own weird backwards calligraphy, which is fun.