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Gabe Hockett's avatar

Once again batting 1.000 on this newsletter! MN is finally being stable at warm temperatures, so all winter depression is gone (along with ap tests). Hopefully the Europe trip starts to get better!

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Gabe Hockett's avatar

Also, you should get Pearl a Tobacco Tabby costume (sans cigarette obviously)

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David S's avatar

My favorite short film is "Something Good - Negro Kiss" (1898), which is the oldest known film to show two Black people kissing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIKU5kncg8U

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Ilchymis's avatar

I don't care if you're a link dispenser, I love your posts!

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bec's avatar

Tabacco Tabby saved my Tuesday because "People... BORE him"

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Chris Duffy's avatar

Here's a fun follow-up fact about the pool tax in Athens: instead of just paying their taxes, after the authorities put that pool tax into place and started checking using Google earth, there was a huge boom in camouflage green pool covers "some with artificial grass on top" that made the pools look like lawns from above!! https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/world/europe/21greece.html

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Chris Duffy's avatar

PS love the newsletter! it's so good!

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