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Somehow three of the worst people who ever lived produced history's greatest internet interaction and one of them was dead at the time
To be fair I played a lot of minesweeper in college and it's quite difficult
Happy Oscar Weekend!
In this special episode, @johnbrooks.bsky.social and @juliasirmons.bsky.social look at the rather notorious 1998 and 1999 Oscar winners for Best Picture and present their case for some of the Best Picture misfires of recent decades.
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This is in fact very bad and I will now be adding a promise to immediately pardon all eight bystanders on day one as a litmus test for any Democratic candidate
1) Yes, it is a war crime but
2) No, I don't think Pete Hegseth is smart enough to know what "no quarter" means and just think it sounds badass
Oh weird I thought there was a white genocide happening there that they had to flee from
Everything because of Republicans
Everything is so very fucking stupid
The text of the article acknowledges it, but the headline really should clarify that he declines to condemn the remarks because he deeply, fundamentally aligns with them.
Best case scenario now is a Walking Dead situation minus the zombies and hopefully considerably fewer sociopaths
Genuinely rooting for the collapse of civilization
Nothing matters to him. He has no allegiance to America or Americans or even to Russia.
It's all a game and it's all about power and it's all about Donald Trump.
Well
TBF to us, the weather is absolutely fucking dreadful here right now and I'm surprised they can even stay on the pitch. They shown remarkable precision since the wind is like 80 mph.
Sitting at a pub in Croydon and said basically the same thing to the guy next to me
As a college teacher, I get really tired of the infantilization of college students, in terms of the strength of their political commitments (especially for Gaza) and of their intellectual capabilities. I witness them maintaining both under extreme pressure not to!
Shocked that this is the company that named itself after Sauron's evil surveillance crystal from Lord of the Rings
Stoping
They loved to wear pants.
Since joining the Death To Pants All Pants Must Be Destroyed movement they have felt betrayed and abandoned.
Here are their stories.
Why would we need to protect Americans if they're all going to die anyway, Joni?
Yeah that's cleaning. They're thinking of cleaning.
Oh my god when I read Richard Kahn I thought they were talking about Al Borland
So many hours
Oh okay cool why was there a second hour?
Big news, there's a Transgender Chili's
Literally the only time Republicans will admit they're wrong is when they're right but being right doesn't align with whatever fucking insane thing Trump believes
So anti-racist he got a Nazi tattoo just so a racist would have to wait a few more minutes in line at the Nazi tattoo parlor
"To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them."
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"Chat, suicide or nah?"
"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only." -> "Banged this out in MA."