Robin 🏕️🔔

They made a MAGA Yellow Springs. Amazing.

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.

tyrants, butchers, murderers!

Unreal. Awdah Hathaleen, who worked on the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land,” filmed himself being killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi.

Levi was freed from house arrest because the judge said there was no “causal connection” between him shooting & Awdah’s death.

The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal.
The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away

David Justice saying stupid and misogynistic things about Halle Berry

You kinda have to give it up to the photo editor

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Typical psychopath talk. Open & shut case if he ever goes to the Hague. Especially if he testifies like this!

The Israeli military just killed him.

(Look at the photo caption)

worst person in the world etc

By the time the Ronettes got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, our name had come up before the nominating committee thirteen times. But somehow, we never seemed to make the final cut. Why it took so long for us to finally get inducted is a long story I won't bore you with— except to say that a certain ex-husband of mine who had some influence with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee spent years doing everything he could to keep the Ronettes out. But by 2007 that certain ex-husband had been indicted for murder, and his trial was scheduled to start exactly a week after the Ronettes got inducted into the Hall of Fame. So I guess he might have been distracted that year.

Ronnie Spector wrote an afterword to her memoir a few months before she died in 2022. Re-read it today on her birthday, and enjoyed her valedictory payoff in this paragraph.

Viruses do not compose a single phylum, among other issues.

this is simply extortion and theft of state monies

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

Jennings: I think the president is saying to the American people, why are we counting illegal aliens apportioning our political leadership?

Kasparian: Because it's in the constitution, the United States constitution, the supreme court ruled on this in 2019, and they ruled against Trump

Is it really an unlikely source?

Amy Madigan, the legend, the powerhouse

Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about

Dean Cain doesn't need glasses for people to not recognize him as Superman.

this is what the attorney general looks like in a kevin sorbo movie where jesus is a character

Today’s 🐝 felt like an apology for yesterday’s

This man told me that I’ve been continually rude to him when what he really meant is that I haven’t been, to his mind, appropriately deferential to him and his family, and he’s going to complain.

Please, go ahead, I’m begging you.

I've had to explain, slowly and using small words, to so many people that power that is never wielded doesn't exist. Democrats' steadfast refusal to wield power they are legally authorized to use, means that they've never actually taken power. Because power HAS to be taken. It's never given.

White folks’ idea of youthful rebellion is… odd.

I was offered $20k once to work on a series hosted by someone clearly loathsome. I turned it down. We can't pay our bills at the end of the month. That amount would have been life-changing for us. I'm sharing because words without action are meaningless. And Rowling should get shot into the sun.

What happens in a red state never stays in a red state.