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I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

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RIP

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no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s

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I do not want Gazans to be burned alive. I do not want Jewish people to be set on fire. I do not want these things for any human being. This is not a difficult position to hold or believe.

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Agnès Varda 6 chats, la Pointe Courte, 1954 #Caturday

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Not the obituary I wanted to read today. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/l...

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Good night, and good luck.

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Going to use these at any opportunity in my next tech rehearsal.

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gonna start calling my catastrophic failures “partially successful”

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In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:

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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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They’ve gone from “I never thought the leopards would eat MY face” to “The leopards are eating my face but it’s cool because they’re also eating the faces of the people I don’t like.”

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To be clear, no, he can't, because he's dead and he never agreed to this. Fuck everyone involved real hard. Right in the ear. variety.com/2025/digital...

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A lovely essay on what it means to be human and to move forward in community, especially in this time of overwhelm, grief, and crisis. Solidarity is resistance. Hope is resistance. 🌊🩵💚🌲

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If you’re born in America, you’re an American. Pass it on.

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Writers, be aware that this is happening right now

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Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

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"Somebody needs to stop ICE!" "Somebody needs to stop Trump!" You are the "somebody." The cavalry is not coming. We will not be saved by a knight in shining armor. It's you. So do something

submitted 26 days ago • 61 comments

this thread is the best book I’ve read all year and my key takeaway is that Pope Leo may have used his first homily to declare war on the US bishops council’s right-wing ghoul caucus

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

Quick, sign Cecily Strong for SNL, quick.

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this is so much more helpful than anything I've seen coming out of official arts agency channels anywhere, these people are heroes

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Kinda wish this point in history could have waited until I was dead to come about

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The cost of these lost Navy fighter jets would fund the National Endowment for the Arts. Just saying. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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”You allow readers to discover themselves in your pages, and you connect us with our past and have the power—the superpower—to guide our way toward a hopeful future.”

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The two fighter jets we just lost cost $120 million. Trump's planned birthday/military parade will cost $45. He just called this "peanuts compared to the value of doing it." The entire annual budget for the NEA last year was $207 million.

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This is just to say I have lost The F/A-18 Super Hornet That was on the USS Harry S. Truman And which You were probably saving For bombing Forgive me It was the second one So sweet And so expensive

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier

submitted 30 days ago • 166 comments

Again, sad I can only cancel my subscription once.

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Too bad you forced her to resign for censoring one of her political cartoons.

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Nice write-up on my girl Lois Weber in Pittsburgh Magazine! I was so touched and honored to speak at the dedication of her Historical Marker in Pittsburgh in 2019. So happy that the city is embracing her as one of its own. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/dahn-memory-...

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Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm into a blind trust

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