Dr ShinyGoth

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

No thanks. If I wanted to hear an old man lie to me about how great of a job he’s doing, I’d go to church

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

The most popular course that I teach (and have ever taught) is the one in which I have assigned the densest and most reading. The feedback is that they largely enjoy the reading or find it interesting, even if they can't finish it. But most of all, they find it a relief to be trusted with rigor.

The Chromatica roll-out was obviously going to be the biggest thing ever and it sucks that we missed out.

I’m gonna flip this on its head a bit and say Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s “Rain on Me” would be considered a “Since U Been Gone” level classic if it wasn’t released in May 2020.

Sure! No author, but the essay is called "Colonial Government and the Jamaica Question" in Blackwood's Magazine, July 1839, pg 75.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

maybe this is just because I was thinking earlier today in a different thread about how much I loved “Mexican Gothic,” but let’s do a Fun Question Party Thread

you are on weekend vaycay in the coziest setting imaginable with no agenda except a leisurely reread of ONE favorite novel

which one & why

A thing I think about the Billionaire right’s consolidation and growing stranglehold on US media is that you can’t spend decades training the public that the media is untrustworthy and full of lies and a biased useless fake news machine and then expect people to suddenly trust it once you take over

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

“surely no one would ever try to assassinate OUR heads of state just because we assassinated THEIR heads of state,” they think, thus perpetuating one of the great repeating fallacies of world history

Red bowl + colorful toppings certainly helps, but the truth of the matter is that all the tasty foods are brown.

The thing that makes me so sad about chatGPT et al is now when I'm truly surprised and pleased by the depth of a student's writing my mind becomes immediately suspicious when it could instead be excited.

too many people are being waaaayyyy too consent manufacturing shaped right now dawg. they fucking blew up kids. if your gut reaction to what's going on right now is anything less than "holy hell this should never have happened and it needs to stop immediately" you need to do a lot of self reflection

People keep suggesting this war is about hiding what's in the files rather than being entirely in character with and indicative of the callous disregard for life and wellbeing of the vulnerable you can expect to find in the files.

It's not 8 dimensional chess. He's just a global tier dickhead.

I am in fact fighting with people on the internet.

I need to grade papers.

This is some next-level swiftboating

My kids' daycare was across the street from the unit I worked at on Fort Carson, Colorado.

Find and replace!

Deeply depressing to realize you don't actually need a good reputation to burn to play forever war though.

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

It's literally a CTRL + H, "q" with "n" situation

Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity