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One day, you’re begging your three year-old to put on her shoes. You pause and close your eyes. Two decades pass in that breath, and suddenly she’s handing you your first grandchild. The intensity of that pride and joy and the bittersweet reckoning of that time’s passage is almost too much to bear.
06:46 PM - Apr 19, 2023
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More awkward: headline typos
05:46 PM - Mar 05, 2023
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Why didn’t anyone tell me about Shake Shack? So good!

Am I laying in bed right now, barely lucid after a 3000 calorie nutritional Armageddon ? Yes, I am. But you still should’ve told me.
06:22 PM - Feb 22, 2023
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I did not have @cbouzy addressing a variety of wild user concerns over romance novels on my first month’s Spoutible bingo card.

Occasional GOP misinformation? Sure.

Pro-Russian nonsense? Maybe.

Whether or not I’ll see mention of ’Pirate Passions’ on my timeline? Didn’t see that coming.
07:05 PM - Feb 21, 2023 (Edited)
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There might be a glitch in Netflix’s algorithm. I was watching a documentary on the 2008 Olympic basketball team, and these were my suggested shows. The golf one is a bit of an outlier, but unless Dahmer was a basketball prodigy, I’m not sure what he’s doing in this list.
07:28 PM - Feb 20, 2023
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Glad to see celebs, politicians, and media personalities popping up here, increasing the visibility of this platform. But there's also a small, snobbish voice in my head saying, "Oh my, Morgan Fairchild has joined. Delightful! Though a tad late, Morgan. You see, I was here from the very beginning."
02:43 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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Me at the UPS store: I have two boxes, pre-labeled, ready to be scanned and shipped.

Guy in front of me: I have this old pillowcase full of random computer parts and just need boxes, packing tape, a marker and some help figuring out my email password so I know the 23 places I need to ship these.
09:30 PM - Feb 14, 2023
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Logging in during these first few weeks is one part checking on new online acquaintances and one part checking in on the platform itself. As an early registrant, I feel like a proud cousin, phoning from afar. "How ya doing Spoutible? Still holding up with all the new users? You can do it!"
05:13 PM - Feb 07, 2023
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I was today years old when I learned that homecoming is held for the alumni to come back to campus. For some reason - playing 4 years of HS football, going to games in college, and watching them on TV for 20 years since - I thought it was a ‘home’ game after the team had been away for a game or two.
07:21 PM - Feb 05, 2023
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I will never cease to be amazed at the vast difference between how much dread I feel when considering both exercise and housecleaning, and how much serenity and satisfaction I feel when I’ve accomplished them. You would think the latter would help mitigate the former, but in 50 years, it hasn’t yet.
10:16 PM - Feb 04, 2023
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It's a treat to scan through the bios in the 'Suggested Follows' section. There's vast and wonderful diversity in backgrounds, interests, and occupations. Plus, at least so far, there are no eye-rolling "God first; Smith & Wesson next", "My Ford ate your Prius", and other poseur grandstanding.
04:32 PM - Feb 03, 2023
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It's tougher to do now, but back in the day I'd copy all my personal files to an external drive and then wipe my laptop. It took a day or so to reinstall software and put back the personal files I really needed, but everything felt so fresh, and clean, and fast. Spoutible feels that way this week.
10:26 AM - Feb 03, 2023
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Spoutible had a few hiccups on its first day and often felt a little sluggish. On the other hand, I saw exactly zero posts claiming a recent election was rigged or that a talking chocolate candy mascot wearing glasses signaled the downfall of the republic.

So, all things considered, a good launc
11:09 PM - Feb 01, 2023
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It’s quite something to see a community come into being in real time. Terrific job by the Spoutible team. I hope this works out, because the bird site is increasingly chaotic. I do have questions about the ‘spout off’ button, though. ‘Post’ would be fine; not everything needs be whale-related.
12:30 PM - Feb 01, 2023
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