Genuinely curious what recommendations you all have for shows that either have been around for a while that may have been missed and underrated or any new series or short series. Just watched The Perfect Couple and Nobody Wants This and a few too many horrors. What are some good holiday binges?!
Lots of scams already started up on Bluesky. Beware any “famous” accounts seeming to want to chat with you personally. They are either Pig Butchering Scams (see many YouTube posts to understand what this is), or other kinds of phishing scams.
Bluesky? Not so much.
An interesting fan #painting from the Qing Dynasty, titled "The Picture of Beauty("Pink Lady") & Skeletons".
One side is a maid painting, with a group of women chatting leisurely and comfortably. The other side is a skeleton perspective of them.
Yeah, I'm okay with an echo chamber. I'm sure the Allied forces chatter was an echo chamber, too. They didn't need to hear the nazis weigh in while they were planning the Normandy invasion, and we don't either.
These, too. For context. Kristeva goes beyond Lacan, who as a man at least tried to go beyond Freud, and himself. Tell me of younger women writers who have since gone beyond Kristeva. My feminist philosophy/psychology/poetry bookshelf is very dated. Yes, Judith Butler. Yes, Camille Paglia, even.
That real love can be so far removed from the sugar-coated hearts and flowers we’re so often fed but is rather something often involving challenge and heartbreaking pain, Rilke shines a light on so beautifully.
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
"To love is good, too: love being difficult."
"I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Greetings from just south of Hanoi! This lovely woman on TikTok calls herself MaiMai there. As an old man who hated what America did to Vietnam with every bone in his body, I am delighted to tell you how horribly we failed, and show you how splendidly The People there recovered.
Q: What happens when you overpay for a social media platform, drive away most of your advertisers, alienate half its users, making it worth less than a third of what you paid for it within a year?
A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.
I’ve discovered a state of mind that allows me to respond to any stress with a nap. If you try to contact me, I’m probably asleep. I will respond eventually if I am awake and feel like it.