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Philomena Cunk reading in a chair. "The first three pages of the novel extend over three pages, which reflects how the protagonist feels trapped"

Philomena Cunk in a room full of armaments. "1931 was a time in between two different world wars"

Philomena Cunk in front of the Globe. "Othello's passion for Desdemona is powerful enough to prevent him from killing her, except that he finally does"

Philomena Cunk summing up. "The reality could not be further from the truth"

Another batch

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

honestly "the chatbots are essentially the fae" would probably be better for normies as a mental model

Trump "painted a dystopian picture of a capital — including 'bloodthirsty criminals' & 'roving mobs of wild youth'” — NYT 2025

"The program for the reconstruction of the Volk & the Reich is determined by the magnitude of the distress crippling our political, moral & economic life.” - Hitler 1933

Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States.

D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.

He looks like his eyelids are mouths waiting for an opportunity to open and feed their ravenous, unimaginable hunger.

i watched the press conference for less than a minute before i had to turn it off

listening to that man speak is fucking torture

When Sleeping Is a Crime With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest.

A man was charged with trespassing in New Haven, CT, on the very spot that the state Department of Correction had dropped him off when he finished serving a prison sentence. This is reality in a country where homelessness is criminalized, and it's getting worse, as Colleen Shaddox reports:

Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating. Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression.

New in PN: Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating.

"The fact that crime is down conflicts with the ever-present right-wing narrative of a nationwide crime epidemic. So Republicans are resorting to sensationalizing random street fights."

You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Pete Buttigieg as a hegemonic rat is one of the best political memes of the past ten years.

Being poor isn’t a moral failing but being a billionaire is.

Why does it look like he's mad at everything he's eating?

I'm dead.

Because that sounds like a response from your partner; once again, the two of you showing us why you're perfect for each other.

@puckett101.bsky.social

So dramatic!

He isn't even orange though?

Feeling just the TINIEST bit called out here ...

And, like, man ... she's supposed to share that stuff with her friends and then they're all supposed to appreciate how cool it is and that news ripples out and then they all become, like, the arbiters of taste!!!!!

Can we get this back up?

Recently a story came out verifying that the friends we have appealing for our humanity on Bluesky are real. Saeed in particular has suffered a severe smear campaign on this very site. It's imperative that we show the people who tried to deny his existence that we see him.

The reason people keep claiming that Republicans and other types of creepy religious freaks want to take away the vote for women is because they keep saying that's what they intend to do.

And made a truly amazing Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?

Revealed: oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases The Guardian has obtained surveillance images taken by hired spies whose goal is said to have been identifying sources and gaining ‘leverage’

The spies' client? Oligarchs whose business affairs were under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. As Andy Slaughter, the chair of parliament’s justice committee, puts it: “The hunter has become the hunted.” @hammersmithandy.bsky.social (3/8)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

How to contact the Guardian securely Some of the most important stories published by the Guardian have come from confidential tips. If you have something sensitive to share with us, here’s how to get in touch

The @theguardian.com is investigating this secretive surveillance industry. Its operations extend from hunting down domestic abuse victims to gigs for Russia, China and other hostile powers.

Do you have information we should know? Reach me here tomburgis.com/about or send a secure message: (8/8)

Thread.

Stressed about $ for mom's memorial. I also need therapy copays, new glasses (so much death paperwork!), and my cancer screening for my mutation (October, but I gotta raise about $2000).

helphopelive.org/campaign/159... (tax deductible!)
venmo: KARRIE-HIGGINS-2
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I've wondered if we spend too much time talking about how e.g. NYT normalized Nazism in the '30s and not enough time talking about the people who always opposed Nazis

You shouldn't care because it might happen to you someday. You should care because it is happening to others RIGHT NOW.

... ahem.

@iterateonwards.bsky.social

It's getting real hard for me to even pretend to LIKE some of these motherfuckers.

Sigh. I want to be and do better. I really do. But godDAMN, y'know?

mamdani: we should improve society somewhat cuomo: yet i am a hypocrite sex pest! curious!

cuomo's campaign strategy, from what i can tell

Rent stabilized apartments in New York don’t come with income caps. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t know this because he doesn’t live here