Jonathan Blanks

there are not enough hotdog gifs in the world

Your back is up against the wall. All looks lost. Who is coming to save you? Film stills only (that is, no GIFs) #FilmSky

"there's a new serif in town"

Well it’s been RW code for white for some time now so this seems like a natural progression.

Are there any fucking adults left in the American elite? This reads like an excuse a friend makes for a popular girl in high school.

Dara: “On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you about [IU’s #1 ranking]?

Me: “1987”

I WOKE UP HAPPY!!!

HOO HOO HOO HOOSIERS!

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Me before every panel I’m on: “I have three drafts of notes of all the things I want to say.”

Me on panel: what notes?

Me after panel: ::le sigh:: bonjour, we meet again, l’esprit de l'escalier.

this is just gutter racism

Things that can all be true simultaneously:

-absolutely no excuse for violent attack on NG
-their deployment is wasteful security theatre that makes them less safe
-the administration is chickenshit all the way down

This year a friend of mine died of ALS.

Her plan was to do just that over Memorial Day weekend—I miss her dark sense of humor—but she didn’t make it that long.

Please take a watch:

Cincinnati crew, assemble

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Why must owners make loving sports so f’n hard?!

I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.

Just heard that after 27 years on Louisiana’s death row, Chris “Jimmie” Duncan is finally getting out. Not exactly sure when, but I’m told he’ll be home for Thanksgiving.

This is wonderful news.

Here’s my 2009 piece on the forensic fraud that got him convicted:

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Wilmington’s Lie by David Zucchino

Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King

Imagine naming your round-up-hardworking-brown-people operation after a story written by the same man who wrote this.

Some pig, indeed.

In my agita, I am sure I would use some highfalutin words, but God help me if I sound like a man who turned to garbled interpretations of Marcus Aurelius after my estranged partner wrote 10th grade love notes to any number of politicos two decades my senior.

I feel attacked.😂

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

speaking of supposedly objective gatekeepers...

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Anyway, read the whole thing and follow Adam if you don’t already.

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We are not the snowflakes; it’s the hair-trigger reactionaries who see censorship in every criticism or personal objection that freak out.

Such self-determined guardians of objectivity provide cover for people who really just want to preserve their old-timey racism and white male supremacy.

While some progressive scolds want to bowdlerize racism, sexism, and other prejudices out of classic literature—I’m very much against it—most of us who read a lot have had to grapple with such things, sometimes in works that we love.

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a room . Alt: Leonardo DiCaprio’s character squinting at Cillian Murphy’s character in Inception.

Another student talked about how it was an allegory for the founding of England. I mentioned the problems that implied with UK’s history of imperialism and whatnot and he basically then defended the allegory as history.