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basicchunnel.bsky.social

Absolutely brutal to clown on a writer for what they throw on their acknowledgments page... but it's also absolutely fair game. The rest of us get to learn that there's a Chive for jilted spouses! (from Parul Sehgal's review of Sarah Manguso's latest in the NYer)

Manguso’s secret weapon has always been the sudden, blunt moment of self-implication—her disappointment, for example, in her first memoir, when she realizes that her illness has not made her a better person but, rather, transformed her into a monster of entitlement. That book, however, was written after seven years of remission. “Liars” seems to have been written in the heat of the crisis. “The blood jet” is what Sylvia Plath called her sudden outpouring of poetry after Ted Hughes left her for another woman. But novels require different fuel; among their essential ingredients are doubt and time. This book, in its blazing assurance, tells a thin and partial tale, frayed by silences that feel more like blind spots than like the canny omissions of old. A writer, lancing and fluent on what cannot be said, founders here in her inability to reckon with what she has yet to see.
Signed and sealed, “Liars” is almost impenetrable in its self-conviction—but there is a clue to understanding it, embedded in the acknowledgments. Manguso thanks the cartoonist Tracy Schorn “and the life-saving community of Chump Nation,” an online network of people who follow Schorn’s writing on infidelity. Manguso became a daily visitor to their forums after her husband left her; it was, she said on Schorn’s podcast, her therapy. The group shares a particular vocabulary and framework for understanding infidelity. The betrayed party is “the chump,” the cheater is a “fuckwit,”
and the cheating partner is, incredibly, “the schmoopie.” A chump minimizing a fuckwit’s harm is said to be engaged in “spackling.” For the chump to compete with the schmoopie for the fuckwit’s attention is to do the “pick-me dance.” To try to understand the cheater’s motivation is to be entangled in “the skein of crazy.” Chump Nation has a mission to reframe cheating as abuse and to push back against “the reconciliation-industrial complex.” “Lose a cheater, gain a life” is the motto.
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Tthecityceleb.bsky.social

Alwen Hughes was a Welsh sculptor and jeweler best known for marrying the Australian entertainer Rolf Harris. Hughes gained attention… Read More: Rolf Harris’ wife, Alwen Hughes Biography: Net Worth, Age, Instagram, Siblings, Parents, Children, Death http://dlvr.it/TF87DG via #TheCityCeleb

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JGjgibsondem.bsky.social

On this Sunday’s episode of Stew Peters Network’s Jesus, Guns, and Babies, host Kandiss Taylor and guest Lucretia Hughes trafficked in bonkers conspiracies regarding Hurricane Helene. www.mediamatters.org/hurricanes/t...

Two pro-Trump officials pushed conspiracy theory that Hurricane Helene was done through weather “manipulation”
Two pro-Trump officials pushed conspiracy theory that Hurricane Helene was done through weather “manipulation”

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Galizehcyrusz.bsky.social

Doida pra assistir um jogo do meu marido Jack Hughes

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DJhockeyanalysis.bsky.social

It seems a lot of people are picking the NJ Devils to win the Stanley Cup, or at least get there. I am not sure this is there year yet. Teams with a significant number of players under age 25 just don't win Stanley Cups, or make it to the finals. J. Hughes 23. Mercer 22. L. Hughes 21. Nemec 20.

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XJxinjinmeng.bsky.social

ZPC, the only PC-ported game to use the "Marathon" Aleph engine, with concepts by Aidan "Brute" Hughes and music by members of Ministry. There was a computer store with an entire wall of this game box and I see it when I close my eyes.

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RNrawnhl.bsky.social

[Trevino] Coach Sheldon Keefe said neither Brett Pesce or Luke Hughes is ready to return at this point. https://www.rawchili.com/3767032/ [Trevino] Coach Sheldon Keefe said neither Brett Pesce or Luke Hughes is ready to return at this point.

Coach Sheldon Keefe said neither Brett Pesce or Luke Hughes is ready to return at this point.
Coach Sheldon Keefe said neither Brett Pesce or Luke Hughes is ready to return at this point.

Coach Sheldon Keefe said neither Brett Pesce or Luke Hughes is ready to return at this point.

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DOdanarrhea.bsky.social

God, I get so starry-eyed whenever Just Like Heaven by The Cure comes on. Tween Dana wanted so desperately for someone to be that enamored with me someday 😍 It’s embarrassing how quickly a song from my youth makes me yearn to be an MC in a John Hughes movie lmao

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Llisaparanoia.bsky.social

TE AMO QUINN HUGHES CASA COMIGO MEU BBG

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JHhadro.bsky.social

My dad taught me box scoring. The summer of 2003 I was underemployed and subletting in a high rise that had a rooftop view of Wrigley Field. I must have listened to Ron Santo & Pat Hughes announce 120-ish of 162 games that season. I did box scores for ~100 of them. Best summer of my life.

IPicpetrie.bsky.social

I don't do this, but I appreciate this appreciation!

Why keeping score is the best way to watch baseball
Why keeping score is the best way to watch baseball

Keeping score by hand is the best way to watch a baseball game and, to my eternal chagrin, hardly anyone does it anymore.

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