Jon Danziger
@danziger.bsky.social
OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
There’s no way to spin this. “Big yech”—actually a nice typo (slip?) in the article—was able to buy off the leadership of the nation’s second largest teacher’s union for a paltry $12.5 million.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
How does your brain get so cooked that you think this is your gotcha question
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 14h agoI have one answer.
And by "progressives," we mean AIPAC
Politico@politico.com · 13h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
convincing michiganders to get behind aes because his name is abdul THE sayed and it’ll piss off ohioans
First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
After Act I of Jesus Christ Superstar the man seated next to me said to his companion, perplexed, “I thought there would be roller skating”
Now that we will never be clean, we all can acknowledge: Donald Trump does not poop like this.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 24h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
The Constitution: is it even real? John Cornyn has thoughts!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Jason Reitman is to Walter Kirn as Ron Howard is to JD Vance, discuss
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
So DEI for conservatives, plus tone policing? 10/10, no notes
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
I am actively negotiating a deal to open the path from the kitchen to the dining room
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump's line of BS today is that he's actively negotiating a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, which is controlled by the United States
“Baseball? Bullshit.” And maybe that’s true. And that’s what *I* said. But look at this, what is this? This is a deadline trade. Listen to what I’ going to tell you now: — from ‘Glengary Gill Hill’
Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 3d agoGary Gill Hill
More and more people are saying that the sun doesn’t come up in the morning. We examine the controversy.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true
To the editor: I never thought something like this could happen to a guy like me
Just to be clear, when any of my critics say something critical, they're actually secretly evil and that means you shouldn't listen to them
