mattpb.bsky.social
He/him. Physically disabled. Canadian-American; fond of rye toast, when he can get it. Dreams a little.
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funniest shit was somebody being offended that, when asked onstage about the future of Star Wars at last night's BFI screening of an original 1977 print, she talked about some upcoming Star Wars projects
apparently the offensive part was that she's involved at all
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I am declaring Poe's Law over their decision to use Poe on this one
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an old elementary school friend got into lefty politics, and made a post with a link to an article about like, the pullman strike and the triangle shirtwaist fire, and had a caption about how they don't teach you this in schools, and literally that was 7th grade US History. I was there with you.
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My favorite is when someone’s like, “They’re not allowed to teach about this in American schools!” and it’s a topic that I, an American public school teacher, have taught every single year of my career.
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"Edgar Allen Poe was not making any metaphorical statements" lmao. Argh even. But lmao
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On the other hand... there's the title of the original story that inspired "Broken Blossoms". :-/
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Guess who learned about the fucking Tulsa massacre in high school in the late 2000s?
Me! Because my teacher incorporated James Loewen's "Sundown Towns", which had a whole section on Greenwood!
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100% this! The utter refusal to accept the possibility that actually they either weren’t listening or forgot. See also people who simultaneously complain they were never taught how to budget or do taxes whilst also insisting they didn’t do anything useful in maths.
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tbh often it is stuff i didn’t learn in history class in 1990s Poland
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I mean, fair. That's legit.
American zoomers I am less sympathetic to.
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I remember JFK being completely baffled that they fired one who was particularly flamboyant -- I believe his name was Carmel Offie? -- and he apparently said, "There would've been no point to blackmailing him! Everyone KNEW he was gay!"
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the monkey, he was drunk,
he sat on the elephant's trunk
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The majority (maybe even a supermajority) of them aren’t ideological Trumpists, just coattail riders, and know it’s all cable news kayfabe; it’s starting to sink in just what a hole they dug
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Are Dems doing that stupid White House picnic?
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demonizing terms that describe the left is a right wing psy op and you should stop helping them
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Liberals are why we had a civil rights act. Liberals are also why we had justices who gave us gay marriage. Liberals are also why we have public schools, libraries, and parks.
I'm to the left of most of those people, but I would expect they are pretty pissed about seeing them all torn apart.
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Hi im going to an “unstaged” protest tommorrow. I’m also a proud liberal as are all my friends going with me, kindly eat shit.
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The largest leftist event I’ve ever seen was like 90% Biden primary voters man, like it or not liberals will be providing the manpower for resisting fascism.
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NOBODY hates Republicans more than a 40 year old liberal. Ask me why!
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Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech was written in the passive voice FOR A REASON!
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this is also excellent: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922
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good place to link this old piece on how mangled and incorrect Strunk & White are on the passive voice: www.chronicle.com/article/50-y...
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The purpose of a line should follow form.
(Is what pedants believe, but I digress.)
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He seemed to have a slew of 'em. :-/
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I wanted to let you know -- if you're fluent in ASL, Tatiana Maslany has become fluent in it since doing a show on Broadway that incorporated ASL. :-)
I should know; I've got a profound bilateral hearing loss, and I met her, and signed to her, and she signed right back.
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That was such a great show with an amazing cast and crew.
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"Big Boob Blowies" will never not be funny.
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"There's always a high price to pay for righting wrongs." Oh, Mrs. S!!
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Fantastic show!