Ezra E. Fitz

Is UNTAMED ON Netflix a play on C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett? And if so, is better than the @paramountplusbr.bsky.social show? So far I’m definitely in the yes column…

I'm very annoyed today that McSweeneys is IP-blocked at my school.

“You look tired young man… Schnapps?” #Nosferatu

#xl8 #translation

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

de las cuatro lecturas por trabajo, sin duda alguna me quedo con Altasangre de Claudia Amador que ojaláojaláojalá se publique pronto aquí porque todos merecemos disfrutar de una historia de vampiros que bailan cumbia 🃏

Rewatching “Man of Steel” and I can’t get past the fact that Zod (played by Michael Shannon) is basically Evil Hader…

#xl8

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

The National Guard stands around his door/
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more…

It took 45 years of concentrating wealth, unraveling social contracts, and retreating from critical inquiry to get from Ronald Reagan’s election to today’s WWE man-child beef between a billionaire reality-show president and the drug-addled world’s richest man. This is not the future anyone wanted.

History of a Conversion: A Political Profile of Mario Vargas Llosa, Part One - Words Without Borders Mario Vargas Llosa talks about his latest book and the writers who influenced not only his fiction but also his worldview.

"The starting point is very mysterious: I never know why certain images, preserved by memory, are still so fertile.”
From 2018: Felipe Restrepo Pombo's two-part interview with Mario Vargas Llosa, who died on April 13th (tr. Ezra E. Fitz).
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

How is it possible that #PSG never won #ChampionsLeague with a front three of Messi, Mbappe, and Neymar???

Trump Says He Just Invented a 'New Word,' Which Is Now the 'Best Word.' It's Been in Use Since the 1500s — People The president's unique vocabulary was on display once again as he signed a new executive order

Dr. Evil inventing the question mark is more plausible than this… apple.news/An7HbNGgfSom...

‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

A reminder that there's a Black-woman owned site you can use to track the books you've read and want to read, in case you want to leave that *other* site.

#BookSky
#AmReading
#BlackBookSky
#StoryGraph

As an old dad of a young girl, Episode 6 hits pretty fucking hard… we try to do everything right, yet somehow it’s never quite right enough… #TheLastOfUs #TheLastOfUsSeason2 #TheLastOfUsPart2

@tef.bsky.social you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

sender unknown "just over the last 5 weeks, Trump has helped swing elections (against him) in Wisconsin, Canada, Australia, and the Vatican.

Getting some good ones in the family chat

Well this is a rush job that’s going to be equal parts stressful and exhilarating… #translation

Many thanks to the 437 or so people (!) who viewed this live and the 43 who submitted such good questions or comments. We obviously have to turn this into a series, if resources permit.

We'll post video of the discussion as soon as possible; I'll share the link when that happens.

Video of yesterday's event on enforced disappearance in the United States, viewed from Latin America, is now up:

@rageagainst.bsky.social was right all along:

I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em…

Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Mil millones para asesinar niños.
Asco.

Star Wars offers an escapist fantasy where Americans are against empire

I, For One, Feel Safer in the Death Star Knowing Grand Moff Tarkin Leaked Its Blueprints to His Wife “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that incl...

"I’m a Wife Guy, just like my boss, Grand Moff Tarkin. That’s why I don’t get the big deal around this so-called Signalgate 2.0. Is a man not supposed to talk to his wife about his day anymore?"

“This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly… a tragedy… what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!”

-Pope Francis

HE IS RISON!

YouTube video by احمد كسبر Denis Leary Trashes Mel Gibson On Air from www metacafe com

Two comedians roasting Mel Gibson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQJB...