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The cast of Into The Woods all looking towards the Narrator beneath the dril tweet "to the man in the forest dressed up like a traffic cop, giving all sorts of unauthorized directions and disrupting harmony of nature: FUCK U"

Four guys in colonial American clothes from Hamilton beneath the dril tweet "ok. so apparently rap did exist in the 90s. and i apologize. all the other objectionable bullshit i post here is real, though"

Andrew Lloyd Webber looking impishly towards the camera underneath the dril tweet '"Crowdpleasers"... Now these, I like'

Bobby from Company singing beneath the dril tweet "here i am again, screaming into the toilet, hoping somehow, somewhere, my future wife can hear my soothing voice resonate intot her asshole."

Stephen Sondheim smiling at the camera over the dril tweet '"whodunit"?? how about we just call it a "murder mystery" insTead of resorting to that grammatical mess #TheThursdayNiteRant'

Jesus from the film of Jesus Christ Superstar raising a finger above the dril tweet "me and a bunch of stupid assholes are going to start a community in the middle of the desert to either die or prove a very important point"

Little Red and Cinderella from Into The Woods underneath the dril tweet "maybe sometimes both sides... are good and bad at the same time??? im sorry if im doing this wrong. it is difficult to write"

Bertolt Brecht smirking towards the camera underneath the dril tweet "still way fuckin Muscled , despite the economy, despite life"

Small Alison and her dad from Fun Home seated at a table underneath the dril tweet "surprise, dad. while you were witnessing the pennsylvania state lottery i tried on all your work gloves and they looked very handsome on me"

Charles Guiteau from Assassins holding a gun up in the air underneath the dril tweet "@Lukes_WordSalad god is real. fuck garfield"

The purple and red logo for the original production of Company with a dril tweet pasted on: "im the only person on this entire website without a wife and it is just ignorant at this poin t."

I miss the drilmusicals tumblr account. They went on an incredible four-month run in 2015 and then ascended to heaven

The Israeli left? yes, the new Big Thief is great!

Too many amazing stories from Gallup, and almost none I will repeat here. However I will talk about what I myself experienced. There was Something in the basement at the Old Rehoboth Church

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

I will always regret not screenshotting the one about living in a socialist future and using his time off from work to help paint a Chris Dorner mural

Fuck them and fuck you

Black and white photo of koi in a pond with the sun glinting off of the surface of the water

Black and white photo of a white person with curly dark hair wearing glasses and a denim jacket holding a camera while looking back towards me, the photographer

My partner got me into film photography this summer and I just got back a roll of black and white film I shot with them and God forgive me but I for maybe the first time really Get the appeal of analog, I really do

Nightmare airport that feels like a fever dream every single time

Let's get prepared for universal human personhood first

One thing that I hate about this is that if it was actually on the horizon, I'd be all about personhood for sentient robots because my boundaries for what constitutes a person are very broad and include a bunch of non-human things, but this isn't that! We're not anywhere near that! We may never be!

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

“What the people think is one thing; what is publicized about what they think can be quite something else. The media cannot mold every political feeling we have, but they can fill the air with pronouncements about what our feelings allegedly are.”

-Michael Parenti, “Inventing Reality”

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

There were so many things I thought were great in this essay, including its discussion of "AI-and-I" essays:
“What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?” Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?

the recent Chotiner interview is good mostly because it's less about gotchas and more going "here is what a prominent liberal thinks about liberalism, he's going to accidentally tell you why liberalism is a failure by explaining what's great about it"

Oh shit, happy Blowback Day to all who celebrate! Snuck up on me this year

A CPR training mannequin staring up at the ceiling, mouth slightly open

I got the covid/flu double vaccine yesterday and it's got me feeling like

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

I always think I can't think any less of Jared Polis and he always finds a way! Almost have to respect his commitment to being a fucking clown, tbh

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.