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Radical leftist disgruntled former academic. A thin-ice-walker and a freelance writer.
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Trying to understand the thought process of making a "sizzle reel" for your news site and scoring it with "Money For Nothing", a song about appliance installers making crude comments while watching MTV, which drops like three f-slurs lol

submitted 397 days ago • 0 comments

Explaining it to Europeans it's like "oh yeah we have no coalitions and the one time they talked about trying it there was an uproar that it was 'undemocratic' so if the conservatives get 100 seats and the left parties get 99 seats each the conservatives form the government" and they're like ????

submitted 399 days ago • 0 comments

This unlocked a memory of the Slick Shoes/Cooter split and when I later heard one of Cooter's tracks from it in one of the EA Sports NHL games (after they made them change their name ofc lol) but it was a sped-up nightcore version?? Why did they do that?

submitted 399 days ago • 0 comments

48 hours after the updated vaccine I'm still experiencing side effects, I have suffered unjustly more than anyone maybe ever

submitted 399 days ago • 1 comment

This feels like a "magical realism bot" post

submitted 400 days ago • 0 comments

King's deid (seriously though I do think they did aggressive medical procedures to keep Elizabeth alive until her 70th jubilee for no purpose other than to avoid "69" jokes)

submitted 400 days ago • 1 comment

I have a friend from rural California near the Nevada border and he says that 90% of what's in New Vegas is already like that – the desolate landscape, the random burned-out cars strewn around, the abandoned dilapidated shacks, the guns – it's just the scorpions aren't quite as big lol

submitted 401 days ago • 0 comments

in honor of the late great Norman Jewison and the full moon tonight, thought I'd share my essay on Moonstruck here. the Platonic ideal of the rom-com. www.patreon.com/posts/moonst...

submitted 403 days ago • 9 comments

This reminded me of this song, from an album I loved when I was a teenager, and I just now learned that the keyboardist 1) was Alsatian as in from Alsace and 2) was Poppy Corby-Teuch who went on to act in The Royals and Fantastic Beasts, I had no idea

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