Every take about what will (1) get a Democrat elected and (2) get people back to church is really a statement of personal preferences.

I went out to see "Fantastic Mr. Fox," and Mrs. D tagged along even though she knew nothing about it. She enjoyed the film, but I don't think she was prepared to be in a theater full of Wes Anderson aficionados, some of whom were wearing fox ears.

They’re literally turning Americans into chips in Europe

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

…and they’ll know you are Christians by your love, by your love/and they’ll know you are by your love…” 🎶 🎶 religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p... Updates

'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith

(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...

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AI can’t fix a shitty partner www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post... @lyz.bsky.social links back to the Silicon Valley "an Uber for [Everything I Would Otherwise Expect a Woman to Do for Me] and put this with @katemanne.bsky.social 's on sycophant culture yesterday and I am tired

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Every year, before the school year starts, I take a full day to make sure all the sports, music, and academic calendars are properly put int

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All great families should follow this progression.

Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday

I may have to reread The Martian Chronicles.

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"The German generals of WWII were some of the best..." They lost. "The noble soldiers of the Confederacy were..." They also lost. "The Spartans..." Dude they lost so bad their city spent the rest of it's existence as a Roman tourist trap.

Enjoying a Fernandito made with Appalachian Fernet from Eda Rhyne in Asheville, NC. 🍸

Tomorrow, August 4, 2026, is the day that "There will come soft rains" takes place.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

June Foray and Bill Scott #BOTD the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle. "It was a special show for special people," said Scott, who also voiced Mr. Peabody and Dudley Do-Right and was the head writer and co-producer of the show (with Jay Ward). #TVSky #animation

Just because

You would never shut the fuck up about these little dudes, you would tell your great-grandkids about when you showed the Ernil i Pheriannath where the beer was

From "hey I can replace the cartridges in this faucet" to "well sucks that I broke the bonnet nuts but surely I can buy replacements" to "lol you've got to be kidding" to "I guess we're putting in a new faucet."

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

I may have to break down and, like, read Homer one of these days.

Allegedly Nolan had comrades tie him to a ship's mast before being read Wilson's review

We’ve got an autocratic government releasing criminals to prey on the populace, we’ve got people who don’t understand the seashells, we’ve got Taco Bell as the resistance, we’re in full on Demolition Man future now hold onto yer butts

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: James Comey has filed a motion to dismiss his seashells indictment as an unconstitutional vindictive and selective prosecution.

[July 28th, 1986] Today's Calvin and Hobbes comic

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[movie trailer voiceover] You thought March was cruel? Just wait for.... APRIL

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Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

I was explaining the entire Emily Wilson and the Nolan Film brouhaha to my very-not-online wife and her only response after my 15 minute rambling diatribe was “you academics are terrible humans” and, well

She'S Not Wrong

ALT: She'S Not Wrong

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Was just talking with a friend about how jeans, a red checked button down shirt and a newspaper from that day is an easy dead Mitch McConnell Halloween costume and now she sends me this:

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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