Boston Theseus

Fat Tuesday is a perfectly acceptable day to take the Christmas decorations down.

After seeing Emmanuel Ax perform a concert in Ithaca I went to get a sandwich from Shortstop, and he had the same idea!

Double feature of Phantom Thread and The Favourite around the theme of poisoned tea.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

@tee-dee-oh.bsky.social Prisencolinensinainciusol was featured in the Olympic opening ceremonies. I think I may be complete?

/ REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS
/ STOP UR POWERS & OLIGARX FROM DESTRUXTING U & UR PLANET
/ REPENT OR PERISH

I mean, technically it was rigged just in the “boring” ways: massive voter suppression, ignoring the Voting Rights Act in many places and ways and/or participating in efforts to overturn it in whole or part, voter intimidation, etc.

Does Dunkirk count?

If so, Dunkirk.

As with so many things, it’s traced back to Protestants hating something, in this case dancing. Maybe a little anti-Irish sentiment thrown in for good measure.

This is truly glorious!

i think if you post like this without offering concrete steps people can take to prepare for and respond to interference or without any acknowledgement of the success (or lack thereof) of this strategy then you are basically engaged in voter suppression.

I’ve been living off of Helplessness Blues basically since it came out. The whole album is represented between my two heavy rotation playlists (Upbeat and Chill).

Even us normies aren’t all that interesting:

Fiction 1 and 2
Poetry 1 and 2
Literary Theory 1 and 2
[Literature of the] Reformation
Critical Theory

Wahoo?

I do adore this song but does anyone else get reminded of the animated XMen theme?

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

Those aren’t conservatives, those are fascists.

The Democratic Party refuses to confront authoritarianism effectively because it shares the same class interests as the Republicans.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I feel like they accomplished this with Skeleton Crew which I recently rewatched and was even more delighted by it than the first go through. Goonies, but Star Wars! But yeah, keep doing that.

I’d say any list of the Star Trek films that doesn’t start with those at 1 & 2 is plain wrong. You *might* be able to convince me First Contact could slot in at 2.

If I remember right you’ve been saying something similar to this for a few years now.

I’m not here to judge! But most of the time the best music in the entire movie happens over the closing credits. It’s also really important to acknowledge the amount of labor that goes into these films. And finally for the best movies the end credit music puts a perfect period to the scenario.

If you want to be serious about cinema, you really need to watch all of the credits every single time. That Peter Gabriel song lasts the entire time, nearly 8 minutes!

Definitely one of the most fun. And almost certainly the most French (ifykyk).

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

Simply put, the Times’ coverage of trans issues is in direct support of the genocidal elimination of all trans people. The odious Ross Douthat may be the most obvious perpetrator of this evil but make no mistake: our American Pravda is suffused with this. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

$4m in 2026 money would still be considered “low budget.” Basically anything under $10m is low budget. $1m or below is “micro-budget.” $10m-$40m is “mid-budget.” Everything else is “big budget.” Budgetbudgetbudgetbudgetbudgetbudgeg.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.