The Thadness (2021 film)

sitting with this piece by Andy Battle on Penda's Fen, Walter Benjamin, and an importance of the past in the work of liberation www.bostonreview.net/articles/and...

$8 six-inch bristle brush? Nooo Four $0.25 bristlechips glued together? Yesss

hilarious bait and switch here "Did you know blueskyers think that surgery is bad? When you include lobotomies, at least!"

Good on Brazil for being a country that can make fascists feel scared! I'd like to live in a country like that someday.

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Rewatched like a month ago and loved it! I do think I've seen it mentioned more on social media this past half year than any previous period, so maybe people are coming around?

My first rejection came through while watching it, weee!

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

what's killing me about the cheesecake factory discourse is that Obama didn't even say the cheesecake is bad, he said it looks crazy in there and it does. even if you like the food, it does in fact look fucking crazy in there

"pov character faints a lot" really is a handy trope, old timey authors leaned on it for a reason.

Rad as hell, although I kinda do have a grudge about Godzilla vs Kong myth they spread (and possibly originated?)

I wonder if its because we need some sort of safe outlet to feel all the terrible, life threatening daily terrors we are forced to live with? Maybe feel some kind if catharsis when the untenable evils and billionares are defeated or recieve any kind of comeuppance? Nah thats dumb its obviously satan

Dozens of blood alchemists in the Order of the Obsidian Skull have petitioned the shadowy cabal to stop the sale of its gorehounds to Lord Hellfang

Incredible vignette while walking Miga: bent-over old guy in newsboy cap unlocks his giant $70k Genesis SUV while smoking a cigar. His cell phone rings. The custom ringtone? The Godfather theme. He squints at the phone, puts it to his ear, and shouts “WHAT PART OF ‘FUCK EM’ DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND”

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

Fyi, the Loop ain't Loopin' this weekend

"I have never believed in the maxim 'those who can, do; those who can't, teach.' But I have come to believe, at least in the U.S., that those who can't, buy."

2/2 Dutch realism!

#FormerTavernFriday 3026 W. Belmont, Chicago. Built in 1898 for the Schlitz Brewing Company, so this was probably a tied house.

Guess I ought to get back to doing that

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Never seen this one before

How we gonna get an open-world Football game before an open world Pro Wrestling game??

This is neat. And, I understand *why* the headline says "before Nefertiti or Cleopatra", but predating Sobekneferu and Hatshepsut is even cooler!

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

So many comments are like, "No, no, no. Y'all got Church of Satan mixed up with The Satanic Temple. *They're* the good ones." (tbf, co-host @hoots.bsky.social does this, too) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljXv... Which is another excuse to plug the @domaindead.bsky.social vid (feat. @caelan.bsky.social)

It feels like a personal failing that I consider myself a fan of the 17th century as a setting, but haven't seen this yet. Hopefully I can get to it this weekend!

"AI Detectors", which do not work, exist not to catch people using AI but to create a climate in which so much work gets falsely flagged as AI that we all just give up and accept it as normal.

Is the Wikipedia mobile app not working? Or is it just me?

At this point, the only argument you need against AI is that the worst people in the world want you to embrace it.

Voynich update!

everyone should watch CATS (2020) exactly once

I think my favorite Mexican restaurant made their burritos bigger. I am uncomfortably full, and that doesn't happen easily. Worth it though. So tasty.

And this is after several years of nearly every politician, corporate exec, mainstream journalist and higher ed administrator doing everything they can to boost and normalize, or at least excuse, this shit.

COLUMBO (NBC, 2007 - 2009) “Breaking the Ice…” Season 2: Episode 7. A high-stakes defense attorney (Paul Giamatti) murders his pregnant mistress (Kate Winslet) and stages it to look like a kidnapping. It seems he’s committed the perfect crime… until Lieutenant Columbo stumbles across his path.