Ms. Lis

Is there a German word for "feeling both seen and attacked"

@jessnevins.bsky.social idle question, but do you know of a simple list of major Golden Age supers *with* their creators. I saw a comment elsewhere regarding which creators are Jewish or goyishe (Namor & Wonder Woman), and I wanted to see a more complete list.

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

"Reluctantly," a federal judge dismisses the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy cases. Trump DOJ "excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle." "The court cannot write a different ending," he adds. buff.ly/NvVKnaW

@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social Have you seen Wishbone's retelling of the Odyssey? It's only a half-hour, and I'd love to get your thoughts on it. youtu.be/1_ImiOm0ulI

I completed the canon! As of tonight, I've seen stage productions of all Shakespeare's plays (plus two apocrypha) Took us years to find anyone staging Henry VI, but NAATCO's production was well worth the wait.

Sam Reid as Lestat looks like @colleendoran.bsky.social 's art come to life.

Please enjoy one of my favorites: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca as percussionists performing the 1812 Overture: youtu.be/Dl3RMnJChyA

So what was the combined viewership of all the #KennedyCenter livefeeds? Advance prep to counter the narrative of his UFC ratings

@cincopaul.bsky.social the Official Tony Awards Playbill has been posted online. First time I've seen one; massive section with bios for this year's Broadway debuts (yours is on pg 62) playbill.com/article/flip...

“It’s only racial gerrymandering if Elbridge Gerry did it himself.” — #SCOTUS, one day soon.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

I'm reading this right now. The legendary Vonda McIntyre's final novel, edited by @nisishawl.bsky.social, out from Aqueduct Press. A feminist Minoan alternate history. Stunning. Sci-fi author's last novel links ancient Minoans and Pacific Northwest share.google/Q0fSTMO2U69r...

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

Massive thank you to KitKat, for giving all the other corporations the opportunity to make the same joke on April Fools Day, thus sparing us from their attempts at "original" humor.

I think people need to understand that when you're quibbling over Graham Platner, coming up with hypothetical scenarios where voting for him is a lesser evil, or worse, defending him outright, you're literally asking what level of Nazism is OK in American politics. The only answer is none.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research...

This is not funny. Courts only do this when America's in extreme duress.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

I agree, quite apart from the merits of the case. Alito could only defend the Supreme Court's authority to intervene by grievously misrepresenting the facts. The reality is that there's no plausible argument SCOTUS had the power to do what it did. Why didn't that matter to six justices?

For your viewing pleasure in these trying times: Snow groomin' the human (me). Scientifically, the behavior is called allogrooming, or (as I pronounce it) "'allo! grooming"

#Caturday

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@catbus.phd - that's my grandfather! (Nathan Kaplan, not the documentarian)

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Anthropic: we've created AI People: you fucked up a perfectly good auto-complete is what you did. look at it. it's got depression

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

The Problem with Early Warnings ~ Charles Rafferty

It was the kind of audacious idea that can make a fortune. Combine a widely loved concept with a just as widely loved item. What could go wrong? Pre-opening sign-ups filled up in minutes. In practice, though, they couldn't make the cat library work. "They won't stay on the shelves."

As @gretchenmcculloch.com often notes, your knowledge of language includes the ability to understand and create sentences you've never seen before.

@rahaeli.bsky.social - fyi, some positive news in these trying times: there *will* be a soundtrack album for the current revival of Chess. [I've been wanting to compare the timing/orchestration of this production with the previous albums since I saw it.] www.broadway.com/buzz/206612/...

"Never Again" means "never again will we allow fellow human beings to be degraded, dehumanized, displaced and brutalized", not "as long as we don't do a shot-for-shot remake of the Holocaust we're good, we'll just change it up a bit next time"

If the Holocaust taught us anything, it is that papers and passports are all temporary and arbitrary based on who holds power. It taught us that no human being is illegal. And no excuse made by a ruthless and brutal regime will change those immutable facts. Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026