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Some conservative American with an Israel flag in his profile pic is defending Team Kadiliman against Team Kasamaan and for some reason his tweet showed up on my twitter feed. I didn't need to see that. But I guess it's my fault for still scrolling through twitter.

YouTube video by Robyn Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)

New Robyn! youtube.com/watch?v=viti...

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just realized I gave Marnie and A Talking Cat!?! the same score on Letterboxd.

Premature JPE obit in the Tribune

Ack, this could have happened to anyone, and it happened to the Tribune. Anyway, as of posting he aten't dead yet. To quote Mark Twain:

There will be no additional charge for this joke, except to
parties requiring an explanation of it.

Animals >>>>>>>>> politicians

Fuck these storm chasers. Disaster tourists. Ghouls. White guys flying into the country, grinning and fist-bumping each other, getting their thrills, flying out again. I fucking hate them.

I think these are letters with enclosed areas, so the next in the sequence should be the inside of O.

Ugh. My (probably wrong) guess:

First month: Alice 10 tests, Ben 2 tests
Second month: Alice 2 tests, Ben 10 tests

Ben scored higher because he had higher grades in more tests than Alice.

I don't know what this is about but yes.

@wheresmycow.bsky.social

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National hero proposal for Indonesia’s Suharto sparks backlash A proposal to include Indonesia's former military dictator Suharto on a list of national heroes sparked opposition from rights advocates who on Tuesday called the nomination a "betrayal."

If there's something we Southeast Asians know how to do, it's honor our dictators and reward their families.

And cook good food.
www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstor...

YouTube video by Sheena Easton Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 (Morning Train) - Official Music Video

Huh. The non-chorus parts of this song are completely unrecognizable to me. youtube.com/watch?v=S_3v...

I follow so many people who say "good morning" at 11:30 p.m.

Imagine what a twat you have to be to be employed at the MTRCB.

I just remembered that I covered his visit here a thousand years ago. There he was just a few meters away from me, being shady no doubt.

Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge King’s brother will surrender lease and become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says

holy shit, not even a prince no more ahahahahaha

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I love this so much: the top scorer in the veterinarians licensure examination

I mean I got over it eventually, haha. More than 30 years na pala, good lord

My ST:TNG novelization of choice was Survivors. Thrilled beyond belief when I saw it on a kiosk shelf in Greenhills on my way home from UP 30 years ago. Clutched it to me on the bus ride home. I was a low-key Data/Yar shipper due to that book, haha.

pfft. finally NY Times Games acknowledges Only Connect

Or with Sarah Winchester

God botherers stick together, I suppose.

YouTube video by RivermayaVEVO Rivermaya - Ulan

Biglang:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQSB...

YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take Mark Kermode reviews Frankenstein

Reposting this for Kermode's rec of (and apparently this movie's shoutout to) The Ninth Configuration. The wonderful third film in Blatty's great trilogy (The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, and The Ninth Configuration), also famous for its movie poster. Love.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdh...

Thank you Norway and Italy!

Can Dianne Wiest be the recurring one instead?

God. I really, really can't stand Meryl Streep on OMITB.

*American