Megan Goodwin

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I had so much fun with this one big thanks to @mjcressler.bsky.social for letting me really lean into the theme here 👻

Sorry brother Arabs invented like 75% of math and culture and the rest comes from China

assuming she's still with us, if Sr. Dennis ever posted up on a street corner to publicly berate me like this I would simply walk into the sea and I'm not even Catholic anymore

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

“I cannot read or and I do not know where numbers come from” is an interesting thing to announce about yourself.

god, brazil really knows how to do it

they gonna ban him from all the krogers next

Parabéns e muito amor ao Brasil!

#CultsInc

if only

secret fifth option

started The Omen (1976) bc I realized I hadn't seen it score one for the religion isn't done with you files: Damien starts freaking out when they approach an English church my fucking brain: that's ridiculous, why would Satan's offspring care about Episcopalians

it absolutely should AND YET

Eventually, Elrond's account of the One Ring ended, overruning the meeting time by 20mins. Despite his lengthy discourse on the subject, everyone later noted that, in the minutes, Elrond had avoided giving himself any actions related to actually dealing with the One Ring problem.

oh shit, DUH

what does it say about the national party that there are candidates running on the dem ticket buying ads saying that some people are technically subhuman without reprimand or even comment. would you abide that for any other group or is this one special

unrelated but *Christ* I miss media with actual sets and outside background shots like, I get that TV in particular is never gonna be that way again but there's really no comparison in terms of depth or texture at one point they drive past ACTUAL parliament and my whole soul rejoiced

the body horror is p gnarly

Taped to the wall at Pixar:

I have started "Crystal Lake" I'm an episode and a half in whatever they're trying to do with Linda Cardellini's backstory is giving me Stranger Things (neutral/skeptical) and I resent that the most interesting character so far is the cop

Headline of the week

trying to think of a use of preemptive pardons that don't indicate deep failure of a political system. coming up short

it took me so long to realize that sure, I can spend all day trying to ignore whatever's bothering me about my clothes but it uses up a stupid amount of energy that I could be saving to deal with being able to hear the lights or remembering about other people's feelings before speaking 😂

you get 60 extra years in purgatory every time you use an ai bot

WOW

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

Our software is treating us all like unconsenting paypigs and we can't turn it off. Whee, I guess.

These motherfuckers hate women so much.

surely David Byrne

the greater good is far more magnificent than big hair

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash! Beholde: sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

nooooooooo I finished Hacks and now there's no more Hacks

The final irony. Hundreds of articles ABOUT Jason Arday - fact-free, poor data analysis, often copying other people's work. A couple of articles BY Jason Arday - a few corrections, and still supported by academic publishers and peer review. Just tragic bias by our media

The reason why this woman did not know where she was born is familiar to every adopted person: We are given fake (“amended”) birth certificates that legally certify falsehoods about where and by whom we were born. So many of us have died, and will die, never having seen the originals. 🥚

Yes, it challenged me with problems like fording the river vs paying for a ferry, dysentery, and having to leave behind 90% of the buffalo I'd shot. It helped me learn important lessons like "your life will be full of problems you do not understand and can't solve."

this is so heartbreaking on top of the heartbreak

Loved the @sarahebond.bsky.social podcast visit to Byzantinist Anthony Kaldellis on strikes and labor (and thus labor history and the history of labor history) regarding what armchair historians might call "Back in Olden Times." byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/129-labor-...