prhomberg.bsky.social
K-8 curriculum developer.
Milwaukee YIMBY.
Cohost of “Did You Do Your Homework,” a monthly pop culture podcast. @dydyhpodcast
Profile picture: "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump." Joseph Wright (1768).
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Hahahaha holy shit
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I don’t understand Targets decision-making here. Their core demo is suburban wine-moms who don’t shop at WalMart for political reasons. Why would they steer into “be more like WalMart, politically”?
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i think about this exchange maybe once every 36 hrs
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Hey, out of curiosity, have broad and capricious reforms/cuts/decimations of your army and/or mercenaries ever led to a backlash? Historically speaking?
Just wondering.
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Democrats: get on board or get left behind.
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I loved Denzel in FLIGHT and I think more pilots should be like him, so this is great news!
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Cc @mikeduncan.bsky.social sounds like Timothy Warner right there. Surely that’s a complete coincidence.
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Good.
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All that being said, if it were Steven Spielberg’s CONAN AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM starring Harrison Ford, it would be an awesome movie. It’s great ‘80s blood-and-guts fantasy vibes!
But making it a real-world setting makes the racism appalling and lazy and the magic weird and nonsensical (voodoo?)
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Both “gold-digging bimbo” and “child sidekick” are archetypes of the genre. But they’re both comic relief types to varying degrees. If you only have three party members, you don’t do BOTH of those archetypes. It’s too much (bad) comic relief, not enough basic competence.
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“Passed” is maybe not the verb to use here
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This is an exceptional 🧵.
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"Gun violence" includes a much broader range of things than "violent crime." Suicides, accidental shootings, etc.
It also conjures an entirely different idea. I'm not that worried about being jumped and mugged. I'm more worried about a mass shooting. Sure, they're both "violent crime," but c'mon.
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Every time he gets into a new field, experts in that field go "Oh shit, he's actually a moron."
Most recently it's video gamers, but it's a repeated phenomenon.
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Finally, if your kid's into Egypt and mummies and such and the Field Museum isn't on the docket, U of C has a neat Egypt/Ancient Mid-East museum. Cheaper than the Big Museums.
Disclaimer: I haven't been here in 25 years, might not be that appealing to a 7yo.
isac.uchicago.edu/visit/visit-...
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It can also be fun to just go to Navy Pier and wander around. Obviously this is better in summer, but there's a large indoor part of it, and you might have Delightful Smarch Weather. ymmv with the kiddo on this one.
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Lincoln Park Zoo is free! So is the Lincoln Park Conservatory, if you have Lousy Smarch Weather or just want to go to a conservatory that's not the Domes.
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People who use NPC in that way are among the most internet-poisoned/brain-wormed people out there. Total solipsistic sociopathy.
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Really need Democrats to see and understand this.
A free and fair press is essential to democracy. But that doesn’t mean it has to look like what it has for the past 60-or-so years. Access journalism is a scourge, and that’s what the WHCA has become.
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Three times did Caesar reject the crown at the Lupercalia races. That's clear proof that he has no designs on becoming a king!