gilmanhernandez.bsky.social
Adjunct Professor in English in St. Louis
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UNICEF, yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Xv...
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(Billy Joel voice) "Gristedes Bat! Pizza Rat! And look there's a Bodega Cat! We didn't build Manhattan..."
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Pizza rat coming in to round out the trio of New York critters.
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It's just Eileen the Crow from Bloodborne.
"A man-huunter must huunt"
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This is kind of the worst move for Iran to make because showing Trump any hint of weakness is basically the cue for him to pounce. He'll do it to his own detriment; he's completely addicted to shows of strength against someone who wants to avoid a fight.
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Gives a "A Bird Is About To Kick Your Ass" feel
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Even if you have guns, Ukraine and Gaza both have to constantly engage with questions of optics as they rely enormously on international support to either get those guns or do what their guns can't.
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It was really, really funny
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Combine it with Dick Cheney at a -32 and I think it suggests there's not a lot of love for neoconservativism or the politics of the 2000-2008 GOP, but either thanks to Trump or just the passage of time, Bush, personally, is getting judged more on his personal charisma and likability.
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NAQA's not gonna take it lying down
theonion.com/third-amendm...
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"Two intense rivals where you know it's played out to imply they're gay for each other, but you know the shipping scene is loaded."
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Before, it was gauche and uncouth for the media to allege a Republican presidential candidate might be a pedophile, but when a billionaire with a big PR team said it, now it's officially News. It has a narrative that flatters journalist egos, and that's what really matters.
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Aaron Rodgers is going to sign with the Steelers!
...other things happened too! They still count!
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Most facebook-style memes are really just a picture frame. It's no different from picking a gradient background or hearts or whatever else Facebook has as their default: it's a way to add emphasis and aesthetics that has a limited connection to the content itself.
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You can't shame Trump into sticking to his policies because he's a massive coward whose laziness and self-pity will always win. It's a good message _at_ elected Democrats, too—reiterate that Trump always chickens out and they'll stop treating him like some unstoppable force.
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In Batman and Robin, they say that Victor Fries was a scientist professionally and a bodybuilder as a hobby, which... no reason a scientist can't _also_ be a bodybuilder, I guess.
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I don't even think Mominism is an actual scammer, I think she's someone who's wrapped up in Doing Righteous Battle, doesn't know what she's talking about, and accidentally pitched a stupid plan, but no on can back down on here so people send death threats over things they don't actually believe.
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The really stupid thing about this whole debate is that they probably _are_ donating to legitimate charities, it's just that GFMs became the unnecessary battleground where no retreat can be allowed and everyone had to be maximally committed to defeat The Enemy. It's all so, so dumb.
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That seems like something that would have a lot of obvious consumer product safety issues.
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"The law will be uncharacteristically forgiving in this matter, because it's for Palestine—a cause that the financial world is so passionately in support of."
This whole thing has a weird vibe of... shouldn't the Left be the ones -less- trusting of the banks here? Much, much less trusting?
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I think they meant "optimal," and if so, I don't disagree—but the marginal difference isn't so great that it overcomes the negative externalities of AirBnB.
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Book 1 has a subtext that even a highly skilled wizard likely had deductive reasoning skills no better than an 11 year old girl, and the larger culture of Wizarding was just too silly to achieve much. I feel that was the biggest loss in the latter books.
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Never saw Episode IX, but it's striking how little Rey personally achieves in TFA or TLJ. She mostly just delivers things to the Big Names, like a character in a 90s TTRPG. She's got eight pages of backstory and unique character traits; her main role is to sit and watch GMPCs do things.
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Mitch All Together
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I feel less "Captain America" and more like "Frodo Baggins." The absolute last guy who should be the hero, a disposable stormtrooper mook, not a Jedi, not a princess, not a smuggler, but he's the hero by virtue of being the guy who says they have to save Rey and is willing to do what it takes.
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I kind of liked the dynamic I thought they were going for at the end of the first one when they revealed Finn was in sanitation. He's a guy with no special talents or skills, in contrast to Rey's bewildering supernatural talent, but he's a guy who feels he has to do something.
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Ah, I see. It's a meme you're not familiar with.
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In the crucifixion, Christ's wound pours forth both water and blood, a clear uterine image as he "births" the new life. Trans Jesus has been a thing since medieval times.
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No, this is weird. You're being weird. Log off for the day and stop trying to double down on a poorly thought out post.
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Christ, can anything just not be gender for one fucking day?
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I'd say Dinklage, but looking into it, he had a pretty solid pre-2011 career, just not "household name" like he was after Tyrion.
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The Jedi didn't reckon with their own situation going from monks to generals, but their own religious indoctrination kept them from asking the fundamental questions that could have caused them to realize just how out of their depth they were or how monstrous their situation was.
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Or the Jedi treated the clones with respect and encouraged them to think of themselves as full and valued people... and that created an inner tension where they both loved and loathed the Jedi, because they were still slave soldiers but had come to realize that reality from the Jedi's compassion.
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I fear that Eco line gets misunderstood a lot, since all enemies have strengths and weaknesses, often proportionately great to each other, but yeah, the Ur-Fascist is enslaved to the aesthetics of their stories so they just have to keep mashing the narrative onto real life.
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WIDE EYE OUGHTA
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Recently finished Shattered Sword (on your recommendation) and it really paints the picture that Japan saw the US like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain. Big and strong, but lumbering, inevitably subject to being outsmarted and humiliated by their greater unity of purpose.
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Yeah, I think he gets away with it because nobody really falls for it. If any investors/publishers felt they'd been misled on what their money was going towards, he'd have been sued out of the industry, but even the business world saw him as basically a booth babe: entertainment and nothing more.
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Incompetence and dominance are kind of intertwined in Trumpism—it's built on a sneering refusal to recognize and respect "competence" and a need to see anyone who disagrees humiliated and hurt. So there is an end goal, but it's just "fuck your feelings" with increasingly shrill laughter.
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Someone's gunning for Tom Homan or Kristi Noem's job and wants to get the idea that they're bungling Trump's signature issue before his eyes. They're hoping to make them scapegoats, then get promoted in the shakeup.
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A Connecticut Satan in Charlie Daniels's Georgia