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Steve Gordon

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Hates the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 a possibly excessive amount

created July 3, 2023

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It is going to be a rough 2026 for solar installers in the states. Expensive inventory and the end of the 30% federal credit will suppress demand AND incentivized some buyers to buy early. They’re working beyond capacity now but will have a very quiet 2026

22/9/2025, 11:42:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You must construct additional mutalisks

22/9/2025, 1:11:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like that the later books have the quippy Wilson instead of the pretty generic Perry as the main character

21/9/2025, 11:50:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes! You too can build the blazing sword.

21/9/2025, 4:05:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Lego voltron is even better

21/9/2025, 3:10:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Lego Optimus Prime is great

21/9/2025, 2:54:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a Disney cruise planned for February that I would absolutely cancel if I could get my deposit back

20/9/2025, 5:57:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/9/2025, 12:03:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Considering my first hard drive was 100 MB, it feels very weird to just casually slap a 2 TB drive into my PS5 as a _second drive_

15/9/2025, 12:17:42 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A musical version of The God Engines performed in the streets of LA?

14/9/2025, 12:10:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know why we're avoiding the simplest solution. Spin the moon fast enough that you can live on moon cave ceilings at 1G.

13/9/2025, 7:17:05 PM | 58 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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I also was picked last in sports but I have enough introspection to go “yeah that’s fair I’m really awful at this stuff”

13/9/2025, 1:54:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it’s more like there are sizable pockets of Democrats who sincerely prefer to be the majority faction in the minority party than be a minority faction in the majority party.

13/9/2025, 2:38:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah but then they can get Musk to pay for their lawyer because they were fired for what they said on Twitter /s

13/9/2025, 12:33:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The answer is clearly Hudson Hawk

13/9/2025, 12:05:24 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely my favorite Homeworld. Not the most efficient but I loved the lightshow a wing of multibeam frigates would make

12/9/2025, 11:43:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did you buy both cats? Only 11 EUR for both it looks like

12/9/2025, 11:41:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/9/2025, 2:19:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Scalzi: "no offense but after this I just want to nom a burrito and chill in a quiet room" Scalzi fans: "I have the same plans"

9/9/2025, 9:13:48 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Barriers to entry are great once you're on the other side of the barrier

9/9/2025, 4:42:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t get me started on having to have my new electric car get a safety and emissions check within 7 days of purchase here in MA

6/9/2025, 3:54:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Miss Piggy is completely unchanged

6/9/2025, 2:04:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol whut you're mixing up Axis and Allied powers here

6/9/2025, 12:36:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/9/2025, 9:26:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can’t wait for their next bestseller: The Pragmatist’s Guide To Milking Your Trust Fund

5/9/2025, 7:48:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Conjurer no conjuring!

4/9/2025, 9:54:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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…polling on the three fifths compromise is going to be a mess

4/9/2025, 8:52:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sorry your blanket immunity was revoked

4/9/2025, 7:52:51 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hear good things about that Scott Jennings guy

2/9/2025, 11:04:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I liked listening to Rich Lowry until he leaned super heavy into “Trump is against almost everything I believe in but it turns out his opponent is a Democrat so vote for Trump”

2/9/2025, 10:56:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My kid starts college next year and I am very much looking forward to going to my local state fair on a quiet Tuesday.

2/9/2025, 9:46:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What’s the point of having a foundation if you don’t have interns to create cat videos for you

2/9/2025, 1:35:29 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where is the draft day style intro video

2/9/2025, 1:32:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The one the dogs wrote for him was really great. My tail was waggin the whole time.

1/9/2025, 8:41:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s completely fine with police unions. But only them.

1/9/2025, 1:04:44 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why don’t you take a train to get there

1/9/2025, 1:05:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The ultimate YOLO

31/8/2025, 1:33:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why are you showing Europe poor Americans. That’s only a one bay garage!

30/8/2025, 11:28:48 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All of that stuff can’t be done by the house alone, though. I personally don’t want to see a glut of dead on arrival showmanship bills

30/8/2025, 4:58:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Perrylous Love” A tale of falling in love with your sort of resurrected wife.

30/8/2025, 3:16:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess I qualify as a “never trump republican” if you had to put a label on it and if you told 2015 Steve that 2025 Steve would be 100% OK with an openly socialist NYC mayor, 2015 me’s head would explode

30/8/2025, 3:08:41 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I could never get TS/SCI Poly because I’d spend the entire Poly session mocking the fake science

30/8/2025, 1:30:31 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Having lived through the satanic panic around RPGs in the 80s it's really shocking that now we have D&D selling out Madison square Garden and stuff

29/8/2025, 7:31:30 PM | 23 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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@vicmmic.bsky.social birds of a feather raft together

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29/8/2025, 6:31:23 PM | 70 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unexpected "hey Willy" content

29/8/2025, 3:36:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Her tut will be so stern

28/8/2025, 8:59:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am really struck by how different the treatment of the Trump Administration is by Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, both part of the Murdoch empire.

28/8/2025, 4:36:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They haven’t even had one temper tantrum after they were given what they asked for so they’re not even like real kids

28/8/2025, 12:16:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would greatly prefer it if the kids weren’t so annoying

27/8/2025, 11:38:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m shocked this hasn’t made it to PS Plus by now

27/8/2025, 6:28:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really want a blog post doing a deep dive into the reality of refurbing a church. Sounds like a great first post by your President!

27/8/2025, 1:40:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Almost all my clothing is from Amazon and Costco.

27/8/2025, 1:14:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exit polling pretty definitively points to inflation and immigration being the deciding factors.

26/8/2025, 1:02:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everybody knows The Pond is the British version of The Atlantic

26/8/2025, 12:01:44 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just asked my high schooler about the cell phone ban at their school and they said that all the kids and most of the teachers/staff hate the cell phone ban

25/8/2025, 12:39:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 9:20:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“If I rip off the number keys and grab those off the floor that’s key grabbing not dice rolling”

24/8/2025, 5:32:06 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Any form of dice rolling” makes this pretty hard, but also that term is going to mean very different things to different people.

24/8/2025, 5:28:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By the end of this decade we will install a robot toilet in my bathroom

24/8/2025, 2:21:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I half kidding joke that at a very high level I agree with a lot of Trump’s policies, he just implements everything horribly.

24/8/2025, 1:11:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the reasons my dad quit being a professor was the pressure to spend his summers doing academic writing instead of his side hustle of being a general contractor.

23/8/2025, 8:05:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely but all 1500 calories of the Sunrise Sampler are awesome

23/8/2025, 7:03:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*Creaky Friday

23/8/2025, 5:55:45 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like you’re grounded

23/8/2025, 4:23:22 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Scubble drives a Cybertruck with a rainbow flag bumper sticker

22/8/2025, 9:55:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gooners taking over EVE Online just hits different now

22/8/2025, 9:52:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ll subscribe when you go all in on cornering the parrothead market

22/8/2025, 9:49:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have seen the idyllic well manicured and landscaped farms on instagram so I think you're wrong /s

21/8/2025, 9:27:56 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am for a new pipeline (or at least repeal the Jones Act) and now I am wondering where my fossil fuel sponsorship is.

21/8/2025, 12:33:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder how bad PAX's sales are if they're doing this

20/8/2025, 7:59:58 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah if you asked 2015 Steve if he’d be completely fine with a Socialist mayor of NYC he would have been confused and concerned on multiple levels.

18/8/2025, 1:25:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was absolutely not expecting that much emotional resonance in Thunderbolts.

17/8/2025, 2:25:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why not both dot gif

16/8/2025, 12:40:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would say special sauce is relatively consistent between restaurants of a given genre but is different between restaurant genres. Fried chicken sandwich special sauce gonna be different than a burrito special sauce. Special sauce does err towards pinkness though.

15/8/2025, 8:58:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The girls are fighting over the girls are fighting?

14/8/2025, 2:18:39 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I recently rewatched Sports Night, which is turn of the century, and I was like “wow I did not remember how many deeply problematic things were in this series”

13/8/2025, 9:34:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On the gripping hand, some of those old books are bangers

11/8/2025, 3:30:28 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Old age does do a number on the knees

10/8/2025, 5:11:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How dare you besmirch Professor Dingus

7/8/2025, 12:36:33 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/8/2025, 5:30:01 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I could add one amendment to the constitution it would address gerrymandering

5/8/2025, 7:42:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd be happier with a NetJets membership, but I think past 600k a year I'd have really diminishing returns.

5/8/2025, 5:47:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of your coworkers is constantly insisting that he is 1/64th space marine so he is inherently better

5/8/2025, 1:11:53 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hyperion Cantos has a significant portion of their AIs be a sort of “future AI god worshipers slash builders”

5/8/2025, 12:32:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I also talk about false binaries. 2. What the fuck is that false binary doing?

4/8/2025, 9:12:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't sleep on GURPS Myth that book was much better than it had any reason to be

3/8/2025, 8:49:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's going to be the season opener for season 13 of Curb Your Enthusiasm

3/8/2025, 8:43:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've often thought the electric car manufacturers should push the "you can turn on the heat/AC from your smartphone" angle heavily. It's great.

30/7/2025, 4:36:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm on the fatshot and I've lost 30 pounds over the last year with basically no effort on my part. Only side effect is some heartburn, easily treated with OTC heartburn meds. All Hail The Fatshot.

30/7/2025, 3:11:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/7/2025, 12:05:13 AM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank god they’re going to invent that technology in the next month when 30 kWh of batteries are getting installed at my house

26/7/2025, 6:18:43 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Computer, divert all hair product to the captain’s ready room

25/7/2025, 1:15:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hopefully this will come to PSVR2 controllers soon after

23/7/2025, 12:55:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That dude seems to simply hate everyone

22/7/2025, 7:06:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes

21/7/2025, 6:09:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am 200% uninterested in any form of AI attempting to know me. it would be too rough for both of us.

21/7/2025, 5:24:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Discussing the theoretical biology of vampires?

20/7/2025, 5:41:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t worry, it gets worse, says the dad leaving for college prep camp in a couple hours.

20/7/2025, 4:28:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ignoring common decency and going full realpolitik: I never understood the logic of not treating people who are regularly in your house unsupervised very well.

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Regional recommendation: throw a bar pizza on the grill

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