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Matt Dinan

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dad, prof, writer. director @stugreatbooks (say it like "dine in")

Fredericton, NB
Joined June 2009
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Matt Dinan
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The way Lorne Michaels runs SNL reminds me of someone, but I can't say just who. Hmm.
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New York Magazine
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Lorne Michaels, the ringmaster of Saturday Night Live, is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he retires? Read here:
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@MattHar65517869 Recently the credit union made me get my own log in credentials, which was a real disruption to my innocence
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@MichaelRWear I was really proud of myself, but then I couldn’t figure out how to see the flight number in the app and had to make sure I was on the same flight as my friend, lol
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@Ryban It cost $20 more the second time 🤦
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10:45am—oh, a late lunch, ok.
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Benjamin Franklin would hate everything about this (except for the fact that a church had been turned into a house)
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Zillow Gone Wild 🏡
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this Yarmouth Port, MA goth revival church built in 1836 has one of ”New England's oldest working organs” and a Ben Franklin fireplace and BONUS: the clock works so you’ll never wonder what time it is. Currently listed for only $1,990,000
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Hard to resist the conclusion that Kendrick-Drake is proxy US aggression against Canada.
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We’re at a moment where an old school conservatism of taste and manners is becoming a left wing possession.
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Well, thank you, Whit, I'm a huge fan
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Thinking about Love in the Ruins:
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RT @PhilKlay: “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests…worrying about personal, community or national identity, apart fro…
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@freganmitts Sometimes I want to have a fifth child, who would, I assume, be another girl just so I could shut people up about this, but there’s nothing anyone could do, lol
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@tewhalen That's right.
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The word "duh" has never been more appropriate in response to anything, ever:
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Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition “atrophied and unprepared” 🔗
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"The word "friend" has no correlative other than itself. Any man who is not his friend's friend is most assuredly a cheat, for it is only in returning or feigning to return friendship that one can obtain it" -Rousseau, on friendship, in a note, Book IV, Emile
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(I mean, all of Emile more or less works for the purpose of no screen time for kids, but this is more specifically relevant)
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@Dirklandjay kids are all right
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