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Oceans guy. ACLS fellow. Fan of the SF Giants and the G train. Opinions mine. https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/kyle-mcauley/
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“wintry mix” is sleet erasure

james cook is incredible

James Cook!!!

Phoebe Bridgers, Ayo Edebiri, and Clairo were at my local karaoke bar last night, and when Ayo did Wuthering Heights let me tell you the head voice was *chef’s kiss*

This wk has been terrifying & unhinging for obvious reasons, but today the icing on the cake was walking into my apt complex, thinking to myself that this is truly prime fire weather, minutes later getting a Watch Duty alert abt a fire blocks away, & packing go bags. Who needs the Paris Agreement.

Finally saw CONCLAVE, a movie about how if you speak up in a meeting you’ll just wind up with more work

When did Delta’s pre-flight music switch to Love is Blind Adult Contemporary?

The Brutalist is very smart about decoupling an immigrant narrative from nationalism. When Erzsébet says “they do not want us here” and László says “I know” the recognition feels like a chant, in the devotional sense. The way they wander in the desert of America’s early colonies is really well done

the reason an MFA doesnt improve your writing is because it cant instill in you the single most important quality for a good writer to have: being an absolute weirdo who really wants to make people understand the perverse undulations of their gremlin brain

“I don’t play fantasy football” OK but the job market is fantasy academia

Underrated great feeling: driving your own car after being away for the holidays

Tired: Die Hard is a Christmas movie Wired: Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie Inspired: The Muppet Christmas Carol is an action movie

If I were SMU, I would simply play an entirely different football game

cambridgeblog.org/2024/12/the-... Manu is just very good at all of :waves hands:

Telling a member of a political class that terrorizes the poor and vulnerable that oops you can’t have government assistance because you’re a criminal is extremely perfect

When an AI defender’s email has a lengthy land acknowledgment in the signature *chef’s kiss*

So glad that Steve Cohen got Mark Vientos a credible #2 in Juan Soto

Stetson Stockton

SMART MAN NAMED TIM

Timothee Chalamet on Gameday is his best acting job yet

Honestly, cannot hate this; can only respect it.

There’s a unique satisfaction in giving a gift that’s unexpected, perfect, and something the recipient would never buy for themselves—in this case a jar of honey from Ed Ruscha’s beehives for an art loving architect friend

There are a lot of things to be said about AI and education but “we just shouldn’t bother doing college” is not one of them

At PT this morning a Zoomer trainer skipped Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around…” and a fellow late 30s patient looked at me in so much non-physical pain

(shriekling)

The last thing you see before you’re taken to the underworld