“Are you okay, ma’am?” “I think I swallowed my router.” “Here, take my seat.”
looking forward to the centrists declaring a massive victory if Stevens lands anywhere from +.01% to -10% and immediately pivoting to Khive nonsense. looking forward to the left declaring they have received the mandate of heaven if they maintain a 3% edge. no one's happy and everyone's mad
Love Actually is one of the most overrated movies of my lifetime and actively terrible in places but emma thompson saying "nobody's ever going to shag you if you go around feeling sorry for yourself all the time" might be the most important PSA in any film this century
Time to offer this seminar again I see.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d agothere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV, and says "Hi" https://abc7chicago.com/post/patti-smith-meets-fellow-chicago-legend-pope-leo-xiv-says-vatican/19607402/
A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV, and says "Hi"
Rock legend Patti Smith has met with Pope Leo XIV. She was giddy and almost at a loss for words when she greeted her fellow Chicagoan.
abc7chicago.com
During a surprise visit to the WNBA All-Star weekend, Barack Obama delivered a personal message to Caitlin Clark, picked up on a hot mic. The encounter was a “heartening reminder of what ‘presidential’ can look like,” @sallyjenx.bsky.social argues.
A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama
This is what a president sounds like.
bit.ly
Great moments in the history of philosophy: In 1972 John Rawls reaches out to Lou Rawls to see if he'd be interested in translating John's recently published "Theory of Justice" into a "sexy R&B concept album" entitled "Original Position." Lou Rawls politely declines the request.
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
Calling the mass of Odyssey haters "The Whine Dork sea"
This is the Odyssey we're talking about! Stop wandering!
Amber Sparks@ambersparks.bsky.social · 2w agoAll these armchair classicists on social yelling about how you shouldn’t stray from the text of an ancient epic poem that’s been so strayed from it’s become the basis for 80 percent of western storytelling
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
In fairness, it is true that one senator from Alabama doesn’t even live there and is ineligible to serve
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3w agoSo Lindsey Graham is really dead?
My wife says I remind her of James Bond. I’m not good at following orders, I’m emotionally dead, and she’d like to see the role go to Idris Elba.
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
"What do you think happens after death?" "I don't know. I still haven't figured out what happens before death."
Wow! I'm here in the Criterion Closet! Don't know why they asked me but it's an honor to-... Is it supposed to be filling with water?
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
“The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X” would make a hell of a Wes Anderson movie. I’m thinking Willem Dafoe as the renegade priest with Tilda Swinton as the mother superior.
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
My domestic policy preferences are closer to those of Democratic centrists than they are to Mamdani and the DSA. But my sympathy is pretty low for complaining centrists who decided to support Andrew Fricking Cuomo as their alternative to Mamdani.
Kermit and Piggy are central casting for Leopold and Molly Bloom. Stephen is the one human character, played by Timothée Chalamet. Link Hogthrobb is Boylan; Rizzo is Buck Mulligan. Sam is A.E. Gonzo is Simon Daedalus. His chickens are Misses Douce & Kennedy. Statler & Waldorf are the Citizen.
Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · last mo.Muppet Ulysses.
Saint Luke kneels in reverence as he carefully draws the Virgin & child, who have graced him w/ a life sitting. Undistracted by the mundane world beyond. By Rogier van der Weyden, d. OTD 1464.
Watching New York struggle to organize a championship parade is hilarious. Real small city energy. Just no recent experience with these things unlike, say, Boston.
the idea that there is a latent far-left socialist majority that refuses to vote is legitimately just the political equivalent of a cargo cult
"What happens if you run a political campaign promising to hunt down Glonzo to lower people’s power bills and win? Everyone’s power bills will stay the same and in four years you’re gonna lose to the guy who accuses you of being on GPAC’s payroll." gonna be reposting this constantly now i think
Everything Is Glonzo Now
Populism and conspiracism are not quite synonymous but they are inextricably linked. Yet liberals must become populist again.
liberalcurrents.com
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs an aside, it's striking to me that they're still going on about RealPage, even though San Francisco's ban on such algorithms has had no discernible effect on housing costs whatsoever.