Omnigeek

Regarding sex predators and their enablers, I am squarely in the camp that says relevant questions are things like “what happened to the victims, have they gotten justice and help?” and “what happened to the perpetrator, caught and in jail?” not at all “what political party is the perpetrator in?”

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Strong Father Guido Sarducci vibes

Trump getting elected a few weeks AFTER the Access Hollywood tape dropped was to America’s culture of sexual violence what Sandy Hook was for gun violence—a clear sign that tens of millions of “conservatives” were totally fine with it.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

Worth standing on the cold

The worst criminals in the world get personality overlays that convert them into Bonds.

Yes, and Michael Sheen as Q, Liam Neeson as M, Amy Jackson as Miss Moneypenny. The entire cast is made up of non-English actors.

Pemsbrey sits, glum and dejected, at his favorite table. Robotecca, his automaton assistant with huge naturals, stands waiting to give her sage advice. PEMSBREY: Robotecca, I ain’t feeling too good. ROBOTECCA: My programmed response is to say words that express a sympathy I can not truly feel. PEMSBREY: I get it. Ain’t too different from people in that way. PEMSBREY: Everyone’s out to shut me up or shut me down. And I mean, EVERYONE! I live the most PERSECUTED life IMAGINABLE! ROBOTECCA: This information is noted and added to memory. PEMSBREY: Why are things so HARD. Why can’t I just be HAPPY? ROBOTECCA: It’s a good question—one worthy of serious contemplation. It seems like your feelings are quite justified. ROBOTECCA: After all, everyone is out to shut you up or shut you down. Astonishing as it may sound, you live the most persecuted life imaginable. PEMSBREY (agitated): I KNEW IT!

I mean, an echo is technically a second opinion

Wondermark #1577; The Objective Oracle

On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.

My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.

I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.

My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.

I salute your sacrifice and smile nostalgically at invoking Klono as an intensifier.

It's the new "I believe that the President has learned..."

The most galling thing is that he's a doctor.

When the Conservative Party in Korea declared martial law, the Korean Democrats knew if they didn’t send them to hell there would be no opposition afterwards. And look at them. They’re taking the ex conservative president and ensuring he never breathes free ever again.

I think it's clever. A fairly low-stakes way to remind the workers about safety and the importance of reading signs before going into the building with the whirring machines.

Into the wild with you.
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Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Still salty that A&E cancelled their Nero Wolfe series so early. It was so good!

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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All Pokelids I've found on this trip

It's a "pay package" now, but when tax time comes around he'll turn out to be surprisingly poor.

This is *literally* what adverse inferences were made for

PANEL 1: DAVE, the cartoonist with greying hair and glasses, clenches his fists nervously TEXT: When you become a dad, you try to put it off for as long as possible. PANEL 2: DAVE stands, arms stiff. A red light starts to reflect on his back. TEXT: You try to stay “cool”. You try to stay relevant. PANEL 3: Next to DAVE, a woman hands him a red glowing box. TEXT: But eventually they come for us all. DAVE: Oh. Is it time? WOMAN: it’s time, sir. PANEL 4: DAVE clutches white sneakers and looks in the void. TEXT: White new balance shoes sold only at costco: THEY COME FOR US ALL. Text in a yellow box below the panel: Next up: braided belts, then the sweet embrace of death. ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller

COMIC: It is time.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Wait! Is that the same guy who then fainted?

a painting of a woman with a long white tail in the dark Alt: Night on Bald Mountain section of Fantasia.

So many! But my first trauma was age 4, the "Night on Bald Mountain" section of Fantasia. Disney re-released it to theaters and my parents thought a Disney movie would be a treat for me.

Thiel is documented to believe that an all-seeing international surveillance state with the "right person" (ie him) in charge is the ideal government. The combination of Palantir and owning Vance is really paying him dividends.

I'm sorry you're having to pivot so sharply and quickly, but respect your commitment to community.

Now I want the writers of Reacher (TV) to slip this dialogue into an episode.