Joshua Libling

9/11 through 2016 feels like a single era to me.

And then we entered the troubles.

Ok, yes, but People describing her as "The Catwoman actress" seems deliberately mean.

Most of this writing is so bad I struggle to accept it is real.

But "The sun rises. It is always doing that." is actually bloody fantastic. An Oscar Wilde or Terry Pratchett character could easily have said that.

What if DEI was just the male privilege we made along the way?

Absolute icon.

Beautiful

That's fair. I would consider Patrick Stewart on that basis, for sheer volume of re-watchable content.

Otherwise, tough to beat Blanchett. You've got comedies, kids movies, action movies, dramas, fantasy, thrillers.....she's just the best.

How does TV work? Do you get Season 2 of Squid Games, all of Squid Games, or only the episode in which she appeared?

This is beautiful. Am I allowed to save for use in the world I make to DM in (completely non-commercial, just me and my nerdy friends)?

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Wombat
Byrde's whale
Puffin
Kangaroo
Brown Bear

How failure to develop valuable device upgrades that consumers actually want is undermining tech companies' business models.

I was always suspicious of federalism - if we have a good policy, why not apply it everywhere?

Last decade has taught me it may be worth some bad policy to have another set of bulwarks against a federal government run amok.

Country is just too big to be run centrally.

Oh man, but I said I wouldn't buy any more dice until December. What are you doing to me?!?

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.

Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Any chance of new Unseelie Court or Wisteria sets?

So much explanation in one graph.

America's problems: the right-most bulge is who votes in GOP primaries.

America's perceived problems: the left-bulge and right-bulge are the most online.

Dialog about the parties: the GOP bulges are further apart than the Dem ones.

One of the best moments is when Burnham (Spacey) and Hayes (Suvari) are about to have sex and she tells him she is not as experienced as he thought she was, and he realizes she is a child, and tells her to get dressed.

The *whole point* is that his lust blinded him to the actual person Hayes was.

Texas politicians said "oh, no, we mustn't gerrymander on partisan grounds, only to create districts with the right racial composition"

while, and this is the key....

SCOTUS has been on a campaign of late to say "you absolutely can gerrymander on partisan grounds, just not on racial ones."

So, the funniest thing in the world would be if Texas couldn't use its new map and California did use its new map.

What's a random fun fact about you?

I started collecting dice and now own dozens of sets of what I think of as display dice in addition to the undifferentiated hoard I keep in normal dice bags.

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

NYT Spelling Bee with letters e, t, n, o, i, g and center letter m. Game is declaring that "gnomon" is not in the word list, which is absolute bullshit.

Why @nytgames.bsky.social ? Why? It's a word!

Congratulations on a great achievement.

May the envy of these impotent, insecure aresholes be swamped by the adulation of your peers - something these men manifestly are not.

This should be a thing. RJK Jr should spend the rest of his life being quacked at by strangers wherever he goes.

I truly commend the amount of effort out into this silliness.

By contrast, finishing the crossword was entirely possible. Stupid brain.

Why is it impossible to do a 10 minute task in the 13 minutes before my next call?

I so appreciate the footnotes.