Peter J. Maurits

Best thing about The Rip: the beagle Wilbur. Worst thing about The Rip: not enough Wilbur.

Who thought making Eleven an eager torturer was a good idea, exactly?! (Hopper: 'Torture doesn't work.' El: 'Sure it does, you're just doing it wrong, let me!'). 🧐

That's one way of putting it I suppose.

Exactly 👇

Can we dim it down on the war crimes already.

"As it ever was, so it will be again" by _The Decemberists_ certainly doesn't have anything of the fire the band had 20 years ago.

But it's relatively inoffensive and even pleasant at times, so I guess there's that.

Decided to pick up Stranger Things where I left off. Surprised how much I'm enjoying season 3 so far.

Still cant believe i have another novel coming out this year. After more than a decade of being a short fiction guy I guess I am a novel writer now?

Why is it, that all I can think about is Mike Davis' work, I wonder.

Oh these people.

Neue Arbeitszeitgesetz-Reform der Merz-Regierung – 48-Stunden-Woche soll kommen Union und SPD wollen das Arbeitszeitgesetz reformieren. Die Reaktionen fallen gespalten aus, mitunter gibt es scharfe Kritik. Nun auch von Forschenden.

Introduction to the German 'social democrats' (lol).
www.fr.de/verbraucher/...

Umbrella Academy is like 'alright this super hero thing never works let's abolish ourselves' and it's so right (about the genre and the politics).

It was fun to see how Polanski's The Palace (2023) was absolutely directionless. Like it's built around the ending scene of a dog and penguin having sexual intercourse.

Please consider our 5% position of 20 teaching hours/weeks and enclose a research project and two book proposals alongside a 15 pg teaching and research statement in your application.

The Residence was fun (!), but so sad that it had to culminate in a conservative plaidoyer -- so unnecessary; Cups didn't have to take a position.

So do all LLM make stuff up? Are there exceptions? Pretty practical when correcting essays in any case..

a military-industrial complex with Tolkienesque characteristics

Ok, I get the enthusiasm about Deafheaven's _Lonely People With Power_! "Revelator", "Incidental", all great songs.
I wonder if someone who gets music could tell me what is up with the epic in their compositions.

Impressive how uninteresting they managed to make _Bondsman_. I really wanted to like it but no success.

Just go and see Sinners in the cinema. If nothing else, your ears will thank you.

Look, I get it, but to me, Wheel of Time is still just hella fun to watch.

R.I.P. Twitter I'm afraid 🤷‍♀️.

Ok you're setting up Jim to be killed. But why so obvious.

Kinda sad how bad the writing in _From_ is. It's like they've never seen humans talk or whatever.

Michel Feher in the streets ✊.

Academic applications are getting wild: "please [for this temp position] add 4 pages of your achievements and give 5 references".

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly Spotify’s plot against musicians

pfff.
harpers.org/archive/2025...

I have a lot of issues with "The 8 Show", but I appreciate how the full weight of exploitation only occurs after the managerial classes shift alliance from labor to capital in E5.

I know there must be many "The Banker Figure in Litrature/Film" monographs but I cannot find it.

Help?!?!

tfw it feels you've been writing for hours and you check and you're still on page 1.