Politico: Harvard paper to central banks: Buy Bitcoin!
Luckily, I already satirized this:

TPipp and Zipp Sell Bit Coin

• MLP Gen 5
• Comedy
• Slice of Life

Zipp is a cryptosister. This will end well, surely.

• Sex
• Hitch Trailblazer
• Sunny Starscout
• Pipp
• Zipp
• Queen Haven

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Relevant excerpt from my story (spoiler):

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The Verge: Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall

Yeah, just gonna leave this here again:

TSweetie Bot Needs an Upgrade

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy
• Slice of Life

Sweetie Bot needs fifteen bits. A month. For a subscription.

• Sex
• Alt. Universe
• Rarity
• Apple Bloom
• Scootaloo
• Sweetie Belle
• Button Mash

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Happy Thanksgiving, A.K.A. turkey day.

I will not be cooking turkey.

Several years ago, when my wife and I were newlyweds, we moved across the country from family for work. My sister flew out to visit us for Thanksgiving.

"What do you want for Thanksgiving dinner?" I asked her a few days before she flew.

"Not turkey. I hate turkey and mom always, always cooks it. Literally anything but turkey."

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And with that, the Formula 1 season is over. Let's compare the actual standings to my pre-season predictions:

Actual Standing (my prediction)

1. Red Bull Racing (My prediction: 1)
2. Scuderia Ferrari (My prediction: 2)
3. Mercedes (My prediction: 3)
4. Alpine (My prediction: 5)
5. McLaren (My prediction: 4)
6. Alfa Romeo (My prediction: 9)
7. Aston Martin (My prediction: 8)

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Spent most of the day at Children's Hospital emergency room. Ankle-sock is coming off a bad case of influenza and decided to start puking uncontrollably. We tried treating at home and going to the regular clinic, but finally had to break down and go to the hospital. With a "one-parent in the waiting area" rule, I got to spend several hours freezing my ass off in the car. (Once we were taken back to a treatment room, I was allowed to join them.)

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Five hours from publication to top of the sinbox!

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I thank everyone who read and upvoted and commented. Hope you enjoyed!

I also thank everyone who downvoted; I'm picturing your rageface at seeing me top the box and it warms me while I sit outside in my car in the parking lot in the chilly autumn weather.

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I'm writing two stories based on random Twitter threads of the genre "here's a story of something profoundly stupid I did, have a laugh."

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I just saved the threads to disk, in case Twitter burns down before I finish the stories.

this one is for all the parents out there—

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1. friend's mom broke her hip a few weeks ago, is in nursing home
2. friend visited us this weekend for two days
3. my kid began presenting flu and/or covid symptoms now laboratory confirmed as influenza-A
4. friend left
5. friend went to nursing home and visited mom, in a nursing home, full of vulnerable old people, after being near a contagious child for 48 hours
6. slow clap