Maximum Mary

We need to bring back “dyspeptic”

Time was if you talked to a woman like that in public a man would tell you what’s what.

Oddly enough, People really does seem to value being factual and a publication readers can trust. I know that in the gossip world, a story being reported in People is seen as verification.

I'm reminded that @talkingpointsmemo.com actually had a small but perhaps key role in Olivia's origin story. This goes back to 2013 during @hunterw.bsky.social's first stint at TPM. I haven't done day to day story assignment in a very long time. Late one afternoon I was at my desk and Hunter ...

Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.

Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades. Outlawing IUDs. Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization.

These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation being considered by South Carolina lawmakers.

I got a good laugh. It’s something of a cliche here in the states for Italian Americans to call almost anything anti Italian. The Sopranos, for example. Most Italian Americans find it deeply ridiculous, but there is a small, loud subset who complain about anything negative no matter how factual.

Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

Realizing I haven’t had Starbucks in over 5 years. The local Caffe Nero is more pleasant and they shut the location in Harvard Square where I was basically paying for a warm place to wait for the bus.

Will be keeping it up. The workers deserve more. Used to be a good job.

This weekend we took an uber to see the Nightmare Before Christmas light show at ladybird Johnson wildflower center. My partner and I both pulled up uber app to order a car to go home. The options for me were $30-45, and about $25 for him

This is also a sign that the bubble is nearing the end. The AI freaks need deals to announce so they are throwing huge money at brands like L’Oreal, who aren’t in the AI marketplace.

Welcome to being a woman.

abhorrent

Five seconds ago we were about to go to war with nigeria for allegedly not protecting persecuted christians and now here comes DHS with OPERATION HO-HO-HEROD

I’m talking about gas meters in a condo building basement. Hugely wasteful. I pay far more in fees than I do actual gas charges for my gas stove. That I want to get rid of.

One of the most effective things Mamdani said early in the game was, in effect, "Why would I go to Israel? i am Mayor of New York."

Steve Bannon’s Vacated Florida Home Allegedly Had a Bathroom Destroyed by Acid A Washington Post investigative piece detailed Bannon's nomadic and "mysterious, peripatetic path to the White House."

Unrelatedly, did we ever get to the bottom of why Bannon destroyed the bathtub in a house he was renting with acid? www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

They are pretty good blitzed in a food processor with melted butter and turned into a pie crust.

Worked for an engineering firm that built water treatment plants. Main takeaway - how good your water tastes is largely based on how cold it is.

Also “worked” because the central plot can be described in a sentence. “There’s a bad guy who needs to collect five magic stones in order to destroy the universe and our heroes are trying to stop him.” Ignoring anyone trying to make it more complicated than that improved the experience.

I think why the saga worked (for its audience, making no quality argument) is that it was divided into multiple storylines. You could just follow whichever ones you wanted, 2-4 movies in each. Before the move, I’d seen the summer ones, because no AC. And Thanksgiving, because family.

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Johnny Knoxville, his new wife, John Waters, and a dog standing in front of a floral arch.

Instead of the Nuzzi shit, let's focus on the fact that apparently Johnny Knoxville got married this past weekend, the wedding was officiated by John Waters, and a dog was involved

The James Bond movies and Star Trek TOS had the right idea - kiss the captain and you die.

Horrific IRL, but narratively necessary. Filmmakers in charge, not fans.

Totally agree with Scorsese about the theme parks. Or old serials. The astonishing thing is that they kept it up for the whole original saga.

The mistake was not breaking continuity and starting over. Having to deal with trauma from the snap in every film is just tedious. They haven’t earned it.

I actually caught up via the theatrical screenings of the whole saga in order they had before Endgame. Only got into Marvel towards the end because I moved and there was a local theater on my block that showed them. I’d go opening night with the tweens and fanboys. Fun!

Hendrick Motorsports sold dozens of SUVs to ICE, records show The $2.25M contract was for 25 Chevrolet Tahoes

The primary fascist base is not rural whites. It is your local car dealers.

My conspiracy theory is she knows exactly what would piss him off

How about getting rid of the law that says meters have to be replaced every seven years?