roses are red, sour cream goes with chives

My favorite part of the screening was overhearing a discussion between two Gen-X lesbians on the way out. "I enjoyed its raucous explicit spirit but he no longer has the je ne sais quoi that he did in the 90s" "susan, none of us have the je ne sais quoi of the 90s anymore"

Willow Catelyn Maclay@willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 5h ago

I enjoyed Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX primarily because it was amusing to go to the mall & see Olivia Wilde lube up a big pink dildo and stick it in Cooper Hoffman's ass.

Big "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" energy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Okay this is a rare PR announcement that I'm suddenly very interested in. UTRGV has their own new gatorade like this...which other schools used to do? I want to know everything about the Rutgers knockoff Gatorade

Nearly 1,500 properties bought using Australia’s first home buyers' 5% deposit scheme converted into investments

Nearly 1,500 properties bought using Australia’s first home buyers' 5% deposit scheme converted into investments

New data shows the federal government scheme has been used by high-income borrowers, including one couple earning an annual $674,000 * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers has enabled the purchase of nearly 1,500 properties that were turned into investments, new data shows. The scheme is also helping hundreds of Australians earning more than $300,000 a year, after Labor stopped excluding high-income borrowers. Continue reading...

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El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Wonderful, this is all going so well

I don't visit Instragram very often but I just went for a look and ... my feed has gone very weird. Lots of young women in very short skirts taking off their very skimpy undies. In a tasteful way. Why?

bluesky is never beating the nerd allegations i fear. no other place you could find this many people who feel nostalgia for compactus shelving

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 21h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Where is the lie.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 7h ago

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

I deeply identify with this. I never loved marking but in the last 1.5 years I have gone from 'net positive love of teaching with some serious caveats' to ... some new normal that is barely tolerable.

AI causing ‘moral injury’ to lecturers trying to police its use, Trent University research shows

Some in writing faculty are overwhelmed by task of spotting AI in students’ work, paper says

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“The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion” blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Is publication, not truth, now the driving pursuit of science? - LSE Review of Books

The Credibility Crisis in Science by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer explores how researcher incentives and publication bias distort scientific knowledge

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

The Wikimedia Foundation is acing the test. Unfortunately it's for doing the wrong thing every step of the way. medium.com/regarding-wi... @wikipedia.org #Wikipedia

How the Wikimedia Foundation’s Union Busting Is Textbook

The word “textbook” usually gets used loosely. Here it applies literally. There is an actual scholarly literature on how American employers…

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Cat Power is antivax

Not a single Israel defender has ever been able to defend this. They just pretend it doesn't exist, even though it defies any of their supposed 'arguments'.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 10h ago

Israeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops

Probably the most idiotic take I've seen in my time on the line is that the 15 Minute City concept is prep for a one world government.

"I work in physics research and the AI situation makes me feel insane." www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/c...

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a little discourse w @pulpcurry.bsky.social has me recalling my time working weekends in the (presumably) flagship ABC Shop Melbourne CBD in the 90s. We were technically on the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth but hidden in a weird mall on the first floor. 95% of the phone calls were 'where are you?'

I've seen enough Bond films to know that if the follically challenged head of a corrupt organisation invites you to a meeting in an exotic location, you do not go. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Gianni Infantino latest: Fifa chief calls executive meeting as criticism mounts

Gianni Infantino summons senior leaders to a meeting on Wednesday, after facing more fierce criticism of his plan to sell off Fifa's commercial and event operations.

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I’m in Hobart and it’s cold but it’s not terrible. People keep saying it’s terrible and you shouldn’t come here, but honestly, it seems quite nice. If somewhat cold.

Libraries are good. Nice work Seattle.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17h ago

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

Listen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check

What a surprise, the alleged abuser was jacking himself up on testosterone.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Went to a fancy restaurant while on my Sydney book tour on the weekend and they were using AI illustrations for the menu and all of the advertising in the bathroom. Disgoostin'.

Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel Fierceland

Omar Musa wins Miles Franklin literary award for ‘tour de force’ novel Fierceland

The novelist, poet and rapper won $60,000 for his novel about two siblings who reckon with the legacy of their late father, a palm oil baron in Malaysian Borneo * Fierceland by Omar Musa review – poet and rapper’s second novel pulses with life When Omar Musa found out he had won Australia’s most prestigious prize for fiction, the $60,000 Miles Franklin literary award, he was already on a high. The 42-year-old was on his honeymoon, carefully dodging motorcycles in the Philippines when he got the call. “I just couldn’t believe it,” he told the Guardian, jetlagged and elated after arriving back in Australia three hours earlier. “I’m floating along. Life does lifey things.” Continue reading...

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Omar Musa wins 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for Heart of Darkness 'critique', Fierceland

Novel taking on controversial palm oil industry wins $60,000 literary prize

Malaysian Australian author Omar Musa has taken out the Miles Franklin Literary Award with his second novel, Fierceland, set between Malaysian Borneo and Sydney.

abc.net.au

Delightful description of the TLS offices circa 1980 in Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child"