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Editor of Arthurian Studies at Brewer. All about Camelot, zombies, Lovecraft, Tolkien. Not necessarily combined. But maybe?
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The funniest explanation for Andor would be that they actually went into the room and pitched "What if Star Wars was more like The Battle of Algiers?", and some Disney exec greenlit because he didn't want to admit not knowing what that was

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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God: A flood is coming. Build an ark. Poilievre: Right. New corporate tax cuts it is! God: No, build a boat. PP: I’ll cancel the capital gains tax! God: Build. A. Boat. PP: Tank the tax! Build the boats! God: ?? Jesus Christ… Jesus Christ: Don’t bring me into this… www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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When HP Lovecraft looks more tolerant than the current American presidential administration? You're in trouble.

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🚨 BREAKING: Another one of Elon Musk’s taxpayer-funded Starship rockets just exploded—AGAIN. How many billions are we wasting on this failure factory? Everything Musk touches blows up, catches fire, or crashes—including the Trump Administration.

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Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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As we enter the Dark Ages, it's worth recalling that they're not "New." The early Middle Ages had the Arab world, Ireland, Byzantium. The lights were always on.

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Pitch: Billy Joel re-records "We Didn't Start the Fire" but every word is just "Trump" repeated.

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hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

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I'm loving Blue Sky, even though the mining company clearly isn't coming to my rescue.

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The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

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I think every girl I ever dated liked my long eyelashes. Guys, is it gay to have features women find attractive?

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Sounds good. Shut it down.

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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

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