“The team is populated by Pittsburgh locals—“ is right where this movie loses all plausibility for me. The fakest hardos north of the Mason-Dixon are robbing banks? Please.
How to Rob a Bank review – Amazon’s anti-capitalist caper is far from a riot
Nicholas Hoult, Anna Sawai and Pete Davidson play Robin Hood in this simple-minded and unexciting attempt to mix social commentary with action
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Make it illegal to re-sell tickets over face value.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat is an unsexy policy that if passed would immediately help millions of people?
Merge the applications for all federal benefit programs in one central portal that informs you all programs you are eligible for and creates one application process.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat is an unsexy policy that if passed would immediately help millions of people?
Die Hard Advent Calendar 31-Day Edition 1. John McClane 2. Fellow Passenger 3. Flight Attendant 4. Couple embracing at baggage claim 5. Argyle 6. Nakatomi Desk Clerk 7. Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi 8. Holly Gennaro 9. Harry Ellis 10. Ginny (Holly’s Assistant) 11. Lucy McClane 12. Paulina 13. Hans Gruber
1. So I have some thoughts on Trump's ass obsession, Abraham Lincoln, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Sigmund Freud, Norman O. Brown, disinhibition, cognitive decline, sublimation, Freudo-Marxism, Norman Podhoretz, Christopher Hitchens and a few other things.
there’s a trenchant joke about shopping wholesale in a 1988 episode of CHEERS. also: Diane had Coach killed.
The Guardian’s photo editor has been doing the lord’s work of late. Each choice has import.
(You can often change what the recipient knows; you may sometimes change what the recipient believes, but that is not something to depend on.)
But this is a problem that happens in life and in law: you can’t communicate so well and so precisely it changes what the recipient wants, and if you are dealing in the world of voluntary acts, there is no message that likely to change what has or will happen.
There is a house — I want to say in Brookline — which was purpose-built with a room where the suspected-deceased owner could be stashed, to await decomposition long enough for his family to be sure, before his burial.
I think the same anti-burial alive legislation was introduced annually for ten years or something in 19th century Massachusetts. Supporters included anti-embalming folks, the spiritualists who weren’t sure death was ever real at all, and opportunist grifters funded by rich true believers.
I am not a historian, nobody will even tell me what history is made of, or where it lives, but I often find it reassuring to think of how people feared being buried alive, formed political and social movements around that fear, and even demanded legislation to prevent it. Then it all stopped.
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 2mo agoI know I ask for this at least once a year, but can some nice historian reassure me that the world has ALWAYS been this stupid?
a message in the blind, after seeing YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING: the title GRIEF IN 60 SECONDS was right there for us.
I approached April with one project left to accomplish for work that pays me, and three projects left before I could start doing work ENTIRELY for myself. It’s October, and of the four additional projects I’ve been dragooned into, two are done, and I’m holding the product of one in my hand.
![Comic. [Person sitting behind table with elbows on table and hands clasped.] Breaking: Mathematicians have announced a critical vulnerability in the number line affecting the integer between 2 and 4. Until the patch is applied, if you must count small numbers of objects, please use the alternatives “half six” or “baker’s two.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwnd72dkqwl5poowakikeiqiwfdqxlpz5nzn6xyf5b6rcfwtip7a)
John Denver with Mushroom Muppets on The Muppet Show
Alt: Mushroom Muppets devouring John Denver as he performs on The Muppet Show.
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omniality@omniality.bsky.social · 4w agoa player from west virginia, playing for a team based in ohio, with a name that sounds a lot like “dilaudid.” makes sense to me.
a player from west virginia, playing for a team based in ohio, with a name that sounds a lot like “dilaudid.” makes sense to me.
