I was such a Greenaway fan. The Draughtsman's Contract is a great one too.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
Well, maybe. He was sort of a jackass about it.
I'm not sure about the latter. There are audiences for both and not just for the legacy stuff.
Yeah, sure. I'm not sure there was ever a majority that cared about ballet. Opera was different, but for sure it's not popular now.
Both had a cultural cachet that's gone, but I don't think most movies that most people like has moved into that space.
In the sense that they are no longer as central to culture and entertainment that they were (unarguable) or that people don't care about them (laughably wrong)?
If you visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in Saint Paul, you can see a miniature model train set inside of an actual model train set!
Great thread from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the replies here.
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
Re supposed end of the Target boycott: it’s 100% bullshit. See statement below from an *actual* leader of the initial DEI boycott.
Even if true (to repeat, it’s not!), it’s not up to any small group. Target has fixed nothing + compounded its DEI sins with ICE complicity. People are done with it!
tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant
If you're endorsing the guy with the Nazi tats, I don't think you know what racial justice is.
I used to teach writing in colleges and have coached middle school and high school students and the main thing all of them get out of sitting down and doing the writing on whatever topic, in whatever format. is figuring out what they think about something. You know what you think when you write it.
Yeah, he needed to quit long ago or get treatment.
There's so much that doesn't reach the level of national news media. One example is that anti-ICE school walkouts are happening every day across the country, but are really only covered by local news. And those walkouts are *meant* to be highly-visible actions. Most community organizing is not!
What did it taste like, if you don't mind my asking? I had read about the Roman thing.
Lead tastes sweet, which is why Romans used it for vessels, and unexpected consequences.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
I dunno, am I the only one who always found the British royals tacky?
Like I’m sorry, these are people who every time I ever saw them on tv had zero social skills or charisma and had the world’s tackiest hobbies like yachting and Nazi costumes and ecofascism?
Nor can I really, but you know it's a complete bucket of crabs over there.
You know they don't do it because one of the other toadies will snitch on them and crazy man will get mad.
I'm guessing they have no idea that maintaining a building and paying staff costs money and money needs to come from somewhere. That the somewhere is community is the most normal thing imaginable.
This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
This pinheads are going after McCarthy? The hubris.
this is how I access Bluesky
