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I, too, have failed to launch my moon rocket eight times. Can't get the Mentos to Diet Coke ratio right, evidently.

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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

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moral panics re "woke," "political correctness," etc were designed to make: 1. counter-cultural commitments to relational egalitarianism & mutual consideration seem like stodgy, censorious conformism; 2. degenerate commitments to bigotry & complacency seem like high-minded tolerance & defiance

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I actually quite liked the Cobel ep of Severance. We found out so much about her character, and it took her from like a weird and fixated old woman with opaque motives to someone with clear motives and relevance. And we got another angle on Lumon and its cruelty, seeing the ruin of the town.

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Related: if you - a professor - are staging some kind of protest or action or teach in send your own damn press release. Learn to write them. Figure out who are the reporters who might care (major metro papers have people covering higher ed) and send them an email with a good subject line.

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...

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If Trump and Musk weren't facists how would they be acting differently?

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Your Daily Affirmation: Today I am a baguette with a set of googly eyes stuck on. Look at me! Am I not crunchy and delicious-looking? Am I not a distraction from everything sad and serious? Look into my googly eyes. And now I am gone, leaving a pleasing aroma. Au revoir!

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Wow -- what a final speech. Sad that it's so incredibly relevant here today. www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/...

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A little counter-programming: now watching Chaplin's 1940 film The Great Dictator (first watch for me!).

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This is why AI is not usable and never will be. It’s not a person, has no morals, ethics, feelings, and it’s whole job is to gradually move it’s goals towards whatever you want to hear. Even when what you want is illegal, immoral, hate-filled, illogical or suicidal.

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If Bill Kristol can figure this out there is zero reason for any democrat not to enthusiastically support trans rights.

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Agreed -- read about James Harrison and feel a little better about the world. Then go sign up to give blood if you can!🩸Maybe you will also have baby-saving blood, or maybe you'll just help your community. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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If you're still on Substack but want to make the move elsewhere, I highly recommend Ghost. Email [email protected] and they'll take care of virtually everything. If you're worried about hanging onto subscribers, they kept everything in place from the old place. I've added 100+ new ones today.

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Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

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1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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It took a lot longer than I'd hoped, but I've finally made the move away from Substack and set up shop on Ghost instead. The newish and improvedish CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io/post-to-the-...

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And trans people deserve life and dignity and that everyone must abandon ANY political party that dehumanizes them and scapegoats them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Here’s what New York could pay for with the $28 million in taxpayer dollars that went to Andrew Cuomo's personal legal defense: ☑️ 4,500 afterschool slots ☑️ 1,000 pre-K slots ☑️ 33,000 summer youth jobs ☑️ 500 domestic violence shelter beds ☑️ 1,200 supportive housing units

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the vibes are rancid youtu.be/81Y31zPzBFU?...

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the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

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People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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This piece is very thoughtful and gets at a lot of nebulous unpleasant feelings I had about Anora and especially its final sequence, which I did not like at all.

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Can’t have global warming if we shut off all the climate data Can’t have a pandemic if we shut down all the public health monitoring systems Can’t have a recession if we stop tracking economic indicators A+ plan, nothing can possibly go wrong

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Okay. Mikey Madison is very talented, deserves awards. Go watch Better Things if that's in doubt for you. But also, it's striking that the Oscars awarded someone who looks like Sue, for a movie where her body is sexualized, vs. someone Elisabeth's age who gave an all-timer performance.

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Reminder - CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Deadline 14th March Call and submissions info here: shorturl.at/XmTjU #horrorNU

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I have to say I'm disappointed the Criterion Channel didn't take the opportunity to highlight women directors in March for women's history month. They could even have used the films they already had. So here's my Women's History Month Criterion Channel Collection. 31 films, for each day of March.

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Reminder - CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Call and submissions info here: shorturl.at/XmTjU #horrorNU

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Making a thread of Women in Horror. If you are a woman in horror or a fan of a woman in horror please share!!! Of course this includes trans women and nonbinary ppl Any type of horror. If you write it, write about it, work on movies, make or stream horror games, just promote yourself lovelies!

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Which do you prefer for scoring a March Madness bracket? Standard: 1-2-4-8-16-32; which favors picking the winner and undervalues early upset picks. OR Fibonacci: 2-3-5-8-13-21; which puts less value on picking the winner and increases the value of picks in early rounds.

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Jfc -- ghouls, the lot of them.

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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American so far.

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Rewatching The Conversation this week, it’s really striking how much David Shire’s score influenced Theodore Shapiro’s for Severance. The Conversation: youtu.be/uyBDfGgKonY?... Severance: youtu.be/T91oFTKlKgw?...

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I hope he’s having a blast in the great big night club in the sky.

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Wante to see a spinoff showe about the PR teame for the White Lotus hotel chain. Thei must be amazinge.

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AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

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If you're looking to transition your cat to indoor-only due to H1N1, great! There are many other benefits, too. But it may not go well if you just shut them in and call it a day, you need to commit to giving them an enriched indoor environment with lots of play. felineengineering.com/blog/indoor-...

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