Why did no one ever warn me of the vast natural and architectural wasteland that lies between the Denver airport and Boulder?
David S
@dslakter.bsky.social
Community college philosophy professor. Former Oklahoman; current New Yorker. Kidney collector. There's more to life than books, you know (but not much more). https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-slakter
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Ze J . . . Israeli, ja. They like to listen to ze music of genocide, ja.
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
Hitting up Moynihan Train Hall and grabbing a pastrami on rye with Irish ale. Usually I'm here at 6am, when everything is closed.
My best friend's daughter just died. The vibes in the group chat are pretty fuckin' somber right now.
Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.
I liked the one where the troubled genius man attempts to fix a problem but in doing so unleashes forces he cannot control.
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last wk.lets keep this discourse going. rank your top 3 nolan films
the issue is really that, and it took the trump era to really internalize this, people’s beliefs only matter as much as their willingness to sacrifice them for something they want more
Jessica Tarlov@jessicatarlov.bsky.social · last wk.Your average Republican is pro-IVF, skeptical of six week heartbeat bills, against deporting productive, law-abiding immigrants, and for gay marriage.
Stancil derangement syndrome so severe that people lie on the Internet if Will Stancil said it.
I log on after a day away just to be hit with psychic damage like this?
NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · last wk.Tommy Tuberville is a US senator.
Just found out Nolan made a version of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" set in ancient Greece?
Cleaning out the closets to paint, and my wife has so many of these from her time working for Rosie's show as a teenager.
There’s a kind of guy on social media who acts like you’re a moron for believing in gradations. You say we’re teetering on fascism, they go “umm we were founded on genocide” You say Musk is having a racist breakdown they go “umm he was always racist” Truthers for the concept of things getting worse.
openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms
Too fixated on Morrissey's racism to recognize the republican message.
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2w agoJust seen that Burnham is an avid Morrissey fan and has put up a gold disc of The Smiths’ “The Queen is Dead” in No.10 North the guy who has a whole section on “racial comments” on Wikipedia Yeah this dude doesn’t care about racism in the slightest.
The racist authoritarian showing up to our party and making an ass of himself shows that we were right to invite him.
Our four-year-old loves kimchi, and she's having the time of her life at this Korean Chipotle knock-off.
if this flag offends you i'll help you pack
heaumeau e. rotacism@vashwood.bsky.social · 2w agojoining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell
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.
