Also they don’t write insufferable memoirs at nearly the same rate.
Also they don’t write insufferable memoirs at nearly the same rate.
The number of people replying to this as if it’s a hypothetical and not *what is happening right now* is astounding. Yes, theoretically the federal government can provide healthcare to everyone, even shithead republicans. Here in reality, the shithead republicans in charge just decided not to.
The thing that’s killing me about this is Amtrak, the trains and train stations people, JUST took over the station from the company that let it fall into disrepair (relatively it was never that bad), and Amtrak has a plan and has been doing a GREAT job since. This is halting progress!!!
Weird things happen, too. In Feinstein’s last election her opponent in the general ran to her left but received more Republican votes because the right had spent so long calling her a socialist its voters couldn’t recognize anyone actually left of her.
Me liking this skeet after being awoken by the little fucker who lives with me.
Not the reformation per se, letting the Wesleys loose in the colonies without properly staffing seminaries and providing enough good priests for them as well.
Celine Song would eat this up.
I would also ask: what is the threat of military occupation of major cities if not a kitchen table issue?
Current theory on The Materialists is that Celine Song strung a bunch of sentences from thousands of Reddit posts together into a semi-coherent mass. Also Dakota Johnson has some kind of magic rock that she keeps in her pocket to suck the acting ability out of her costars.
I don’t know a single person who didn’t go through at least a period of feeling like this while they were ABD. I don’t know if that’s comforting, but you’re on a well-trod path.
Whats the title?
I’m reading Wolf Hall, and every 20 pages or so I have to put it down and say “damn, Hilary Mantel really hated Sir Thomas More.”
I periodically like to remind people that even DC’s resident republicans hate these guys. Nikki Haley carried the DC primary with over 60% of the vote.
I have yet to see one actually anywhere closer to WMATA than the top of the escalators. It will have to be for participation in the Battle of Columbus Circle.
Just watched a man ride by union station on a cabi and shout at the guard “where’s that combat patch? Where’s that combat patch, boys? Don’t got one yet? Ah that’s too bad” and I am glad they were standing behind me when he did because you know I laughed.
Glass Onion and the new Superman, although I think can’t remember if the Elon Musk stand-in dies. Lex Luther doesn’t but he does get arrested for treason.
They used to be the same way about GWB and the Iraq War, and now they all knew how stupid it was and will tell you how they didn’t support it at the time. If Trump is defeated in ignominy you’ll be hard pressed to find a Republican who supported him.
I wonder what would have happened to the nostalgia of the show if Amy Sherman-Palladino had kept creative control to the end. A pessimistic ending a year before millennials tumbled head first into the financial crisis would have landed extremely differently.
I watched Gilmore Girls as an adult, because I wasn’t allowed to as a teen, and I had a very, very different read on it than the average millennial in the Gilmore Girls reddit. The last season, when Rory actually matures and goes off to live her life is such a happy, optimistic ending.
Also not a music festival!
I don’t want to get deeply into it, but my dad was extremely book smart and wound up in a cult because of childhood abuse priming him for it. I think people can have a psychological need for that kind of environment and don’t realize that they’re in danger until the jaws of the trap snap.
It explains why all the shitposting young men can become MAGA. They like Trump ironically, they like the awful policies sincerely. (I think the boomers (and Xers) are more likely to like Trump sincerely because he reminds them of themselves.)
Shoutout to LJ Smith whose final installment of the Night World Series has been forthcoming since literally 1999 😭
Possibly nerve glides? www.bsrphysicaltherapy.com/2024/01/01/n...
I hate this so much. have hated Gavin Newsom since long before it was cool (since like 2006) and if he’s the party nominee I’m going to explode.
I go by this every day on my way to work and wonder why the apartment dweller decided to put it in the window facing the tracks rather than facing into the room.
It turns out that when you live in a city where you regularly see people in the military it’s impossible to tell at a casual glance whether someone in a uniform is a national guard troop doing a fascism or just a guy on his commute.
As someone who lives here and had them on her street last night, agreed. But a lot of them are displeased and going through the motions because this isn’t what they signed up for. Amtrak police for example have put some empty SUVs around Union Station and otherwise as far as I can see done nothing.
a profound silence
In the mildest defense of federal LEOs, they generally have really specific (and much more interesting) areas of competency than “harass guys on porch.” You don’t join the Secret Service or the FBI or the USPIS for this small town Barney BS and I imagine many of them are not thrilled to be off scope
Yes, and no. We were actually starting to see a small but marked decline in annual traffic fatalities starting around 08 (likely due to unemployment) it was increasing gradually, but shot way up after 2020. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_v...
The biggest issue for me in DC that I would want the police to do better about is dangerous driving. And I live in a somewhat spicy neighborhood. This is absolutely not about public safety.
Sicario is another work that’s wildly misunderstood by media illiterate conservatives. It’s take on the war on drugs and the border is that it’s all very fucked up; you’re not supposed to come away thinking “I hope we get even more of this and am going to make it my entire political identity.”
Thank you. I had bad politics in college and somehow managed to have friends and fun. Maybe that’s why I don’t have bad politics now, though.
How has no one tagged @wellerstein.bsky.social into this conversation yet?
Well fuck. thehill.com/homenews/sta...
Guam. Also it was a democrat. Also it was during the Obama administration. www.cbsnews.com/news/hank-jo...
ESPECIALLY BRAS
Agreed. The first season was unfortunately the best. We haven’t hyped ourselves up for season three yet (the puppets…)
It’s doing well so therefore they must do more of it rather than take a risk on something new. Big studio exec brain thoughts.
It’s not like Elim Garak is one of the most popular supporting characters in all of Trek or anything.
Please push hard for this, Councilmember Allen! An orange line infill station at Oklahoma and Benning NE would be possibly more transformative for Kingman Park and Carver Langston than the stadium rehabilitation project itself.
Now that I’ve watched Enemies to Lovers and your section on the Holocaust, I am wondering if you ever read Summer of my German Soldier and if you have thoughts on it.
He doesn’t know much about anything, and so he has people on and nods as they confidently state very silly opinions with their whole chests.
Sky don’t besmirch twinks by conflating them with Nathan J Robinson.
NPR did a segment on drone and AI warfare a couple days ago that clarifies some of this. The interviewer turns to US applications about halfway through. www.npr.org/2025/08/03/n...
A lot of these institutions and norms don’t work very well (for people not rich enough to game the system), which is a big part of why everyone is so frustrated!
Honestly? I think NASA should continue to exist, and if moon turf wars is what gets them through this administration, let’s put a nuclear reactor on the moon.
“made her sign a contract committing her to having sex with him at least once a day (he didn't have to commit to anything, obv).” Doesn’t sound like it.
They truly believe that since they just make things up the “other side” is also just making things up. I think it’s the same with things like climate science and vaccine research etc. Lying grifters who think everyone lies for a grift.
I think calling the emotional work we do inside relationships “emotional labor” has in some ways enabled people to pathologize it. It’s also become part of the “weaponized therapy speak” thing. On the other hand, emotional work in relationships is sometimes hard and we should examine that, too.
And considering the impact of compensated emotional work on the individual was specifically what Arlie was trying to do.
I think comparing the concept of chores or housework would be instructive here. If you’re thinking of labor as synonymous with work, then scrubbing the toilet at work for pay or scrubbing the toilet at home for free are the same. But if labor is compensated work, then they’re very different.
Disturbingly, I now find myself old enough to remember conversations in 2006 and 2007 about whether it was even possible for the US housing market to contract.
It’s fine, resins are organic polymers. That must mean they’re healthy, right? 🙃
They’re used to republican politicians pushing favorable policies while spouting nonsense for the base, and haven’t figured out that the nonsense spouting has slowly stopped being “for the base” and is now the core.
Screaming “break up! Break up!” at Ashley and Marita on Queer Ultimatum as they stumble through the world’s most drawn-out breakup discussion.
Watching @laurelpowell.net play Donkey Kong Bananza and what I’m getting from this is someone at Nintendo asked “What if Powerwash Sim had a Donkey Kong skin?”
One of my sister’s go-to lunches is sweet potato with black beans, salsa, and avocado. Sweet potatoes and potatoes truly the pinch hitters of mealtime.
Giant pot of spaghetti.
One of my best bachelor chow recs from my single years is microwave baked potatoes with broccoli, sour cream, and cheddar if you’re feeling fancy. You can also do other toppings, add red chili flakes or other spices, sub in sweet potatoes, etc.
I’m pretty sure Eddington was written by Ari Aster, who is from NYC, which perhaps the characters of Eddington would consider practically Europe, but is firmly in the United States.
Money can’t buy taste.
You know someone accidentally published him thinking he was the son of a duke or something and now we’re stuck with him forever.
(He had, apparently, an unbecoming tendency to say “fuck me raw” when female students made astute points, something that no one appreciated.)
I never had a professor like that in college, but there was one with a reputation like that at my grad school. The general assessment of him among the grad students was he was going to say something inappropriate to the wrong person someday and find himself on the wrong end of a harassment complaint
As someone from LA, nah, an $800,000 home sounds very middle class. No, there’s definitely nothing wrong with the housing market, why do you ask?
If it makes you feel better, the people actually doing the work and not just poasting have not fallen into this mindset and are still just doing that work. Despite being yelled at by the poasters.
Why are they obsessed with bipartisanship?? I truly do not understand.
An adult being on Roblox is weird regardless of gender.
Sorry, did you actually write an article about how misogynistic men deliberately misinterpreted what women were saying, but wrote a clickbait title, subtitle, and skeet to make it sound like you agreed with the misogynistic men? Because none of that made me want to read this.
Cue the next decade of men claiming they’re going to die alone because women won’t let them talk to them anymore, basically with the exact same logic as they used to complain that sexual harassment awareness made it impossible for them to talk to women in the workplace.
I think this is an unfair characterization of what 2010s discourse on public flirting was. It was pushing back on the idea that women had to be 100% available for men’s advances at all times, even at work or if they were giving off obvious “don’t talk to me” signals like reading with headphones on.
What were you doing? Complicated math
It’s a two-for-one deal, really.
I don’t think it’s children’s properties being intended to sell toys that drives this. It’s WAY cheaper for the production company to shit out crap with talking dogs that kids will watch than to hire the level of creative team and fund them to make the same number of episodes but good art.
Yesterday morning I was stuck next to a guy playing some kind of sound mix that included barking dogs, two women talking but so softly you couldn’t make out what they were saying, and an a-rhythmic series of drum and guitar sounds.
Baby, hot dogs and hamburgers were on the menu, not sure where you think the tacos were going to come from.
It’s that they’re designed to keep heat in, don’t have reflective insulation in the attics/crawl spaces, have tiny windows that poorly ventilate, and honestly don’t have AC. That’s my conclusion as a U.S. brick house dweller.
Which still leaves me scratching my head. “The first creedal nation.” Yes, dude, that’s the point of the United States. We’re a nation state of believers in democracy, not a people with a common ethnicity. It’s what makes us special.
Brandon Taylor wrote an entire novel about literally this. If you’ve ever hated the other students in your humanities seminar, this is the book for you. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671348...
The whole conservative read of Sicario is disturbing. I’ve never seen a movie that is more obviously saying “this is complicated and bad” be read as straight heroism to be copied. Even Verhoeven misunderstanders get that Robocop and Starship Troopers aren’t how-to manuals.
Maybe he meant allegorical and didn’t like the parallels with today’s political climate? Or else he just really didn’t like the Chandrillan wedding episode and the episode where they remove the listening device from the artifact.
Like at bar trivia, or do you walk up to people and bet them a candy bar that there’s a guy named Outerbridge?
Trying to read the first Star Wars: Reign of the Empire book. The writing is so hackneyed, and they just had Bail Organa say “We are all fools and dead men.” Begging everyone involved in Star Wars to learn to stop dropping the stupidest Easter Eggs into their work.
Eurostar conductor fighting for his life as he tries to explain in English why the train will be “old” (delayed).
He’s like a jackrabbit!
Lots of people have ideas. Disney just doesn’t want to pay for them.
Yes, Trump can go onto a stage and say 17 utterly insane and inflammatory things and it’s not even covered. But give a highly nuanced answer to a gotcha question about a serious issue? No you’ll be dogged for the rest of your life.
If Denmark had a right of return I would be on the plane yesterday.
Make a book mid Shel Silverstein’s In the Middle of the Sidewalk
Work vent: If you invoice me over FOUR YEARS after you did your work, you do not get to email me every other day seeking payment. Especially when you’re a government agency, not some guy trying to feed his kids.
I didn’t even know you could have 8 foot waves on Tahoe. How do you look out at conditions like that and think “yeah, today’s the day for some boating”?
Chappel Roan?
This lives rent free in my head to this day.
Also why the original Star Wars trilogy is magic and the prequels tell you about midichlorians
It is melodramatic but I like it anyway.
I have looked at your profile and can verify they are very good dogs and your followers have good taste.
No but they’re getting all of those narratives in bite sized TikToks and IG reels.
I moved from LA to DC partially because of the weather. Four seasons call to me. Summer humidity does suck, but it’s actually the invasive mosquito species I hate the most. I am a red head though, so going outside in LA is a health hazard and the beach is a hassle more than a pleasure.