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BUT JOHNSON IS STILL IN THERE

Fuck Jeffrey, Epstein

John Wayne your ass is cooked

Uh social media (including Bluesky) worshipped that guy throughout his election and he rewarded them by doing absolutely nothing progressive I think he’s the one with the problem

Also like Bluesky worshipped him during his election and he reacted to that by becoming a self pitying reactionary

Man I bet Q feels silly now

Fun fact I looked up from reading this to see i was in front of Comet Ping Pong

You’re literally full of bones dummy

The Running Men Two versions of the same Stephen King novel reflect their eras while speaking to future-present.

For The Reveal today, I wrote about our running men, the art and folly of adaptation, and the future/present these films represent: thereveal.film/the-running-...

it's like "take a penny leave a penny" but for bees

(puts glass window in front of obsidian wall) look how transparent we are being

never not gonna think that's Joe Pantoliano

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh man I missed that @iwriteok.bsky.social did an episode on the anthrax investigations, which means this will be my behind the bastards episode that features someone I know personally

Like yeah the script and characters are bad but you can tell this is from a director who worked on Hannibal

I hate to be the guy who’s like “that movie you all hated was actually good“ but I just watched in the tall grass and that is one of the coolest looking horror movies I’ve seen in a long time

Ted with mustache

Im a bigger fan of Ted’s

Imagine your husband resurrecting your dead dad as a hologram who talks about how great your husband is

Don Trump? The president?

1. Watch The Lowdown, one of the best shows I've seen in quite some time.
2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time.
3. Profit.

Gritty weighing your soul

Judgment looking in your prison cell like

My number one problem with John Wick is that they do a phenomenal job casting character actors who inhale scenery until they get to the top dude, who’s played by some guy being boring. Should’ve been Tony Dalton or shohreh aghdashloo

Agree except I think the fights themselves are better in the sequels (plus the raid guys show up)

That’s South Ireland, Northern Ireland is “Banshee McCarbomb”

I remember the WAPO op eds “he’d be a great president if he waited until 2012”

It’s like someone who loves John Wick but hates something like Lady Vengeance (just as awesome but also arty) is just not a serious person

Runner up is the short guy who wore a suit and tie to work and all his coworkers signed a card congratulating him on his first communion

FURIOUS I can’t find it anymore but the one that always makes me laugh is the guy who wore a jacket with a letter Y on it and someone said “yeah, Y for wanker”

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks

@pgourevitch.bsky.social ‘s *We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda*

Guttingly gorgeous. Spawned a dissertation and an irreparably changed heart.