I can tell you I have seen military police in the metro stops, though; I don't talk to them, but they have MP or MILITARY POLICE on the backs of their fatigues
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I can tell you I have seen military police in the metro stops, though; I don't talk to them, but they have MP or MILITARY POLICE on the backs of their fatigues
I'm not glad they're here, obviously! But I say things like "It's important to me that you know that this is a normal place full of people and families, and we enjoy going out to eat and seeing shows and stuff. Have you ever had Ethiopian food?"
I've spoken to a handful of them. The ones I've seen are mostly just... standing. Clumps of soldiers, three to five of em, hanging out in metro stations, not doing much, quietly chatting. I engage with a few of them, tell them some cool things to do in DC when they're off-duty, etc.
I think it's a numbers game! You just have to try until you find your people for each need, imo
Our old next door neighbors spontaneously brought us cookies when they learned our dog had cancer. They say familiarity breeds contempt, but i think the people who say that are assholes.
I dunno, Jedd! You're cool as hell. I'm sorry we don't live in Cincy, because I'm sure we'd be neighbor friends
I think, having moved a lot as an adult, a good amount of it is repetition? I think great friendships consist of muscle memory, at least partially—regularity brings comfort, comfort allows for intimacy.
Like commanding the sun to shine. They've been Rocket City forever, as evidenced by suburban Madison Alabama's minor league baseball team, the ROCKET CITY TRASH PANDAS www.milb.com/rocket-city
This was at Chercher on 9th St NW. We love that place and we love Keren, the Eritrean place on U street that treats you like a long-lost but well-loved cousin (but they've been closed since a fire last year)
We gotta find cooler things to post about. Nick, did you eat anything good this weekend? J and I went to one of our favorite Ethiopian places in DC. We got a little of everything, pictured below just before the server brought a big platter of injera
They Want To Believe, i guess! I have a pretty strict no-retweets policy because I'm not sure what I'm susceptible to; hopefully that keeps me honest?
Truly this is what it means to have the Heart of a Poster; there is no such thing as an Inside Thought
Halp Halp i want to unread this You have made your inside thought into MY inside thought and now I am discomfited
"oh, det's a nize baby."
If you've never heard KILL JAMES BOND, they loved Kronstein so much that they give out an award to the minor villain in each movie they appreciate most: the Kronstein Rosette
Grateful you saved your own clips on your website! I tried following the link to the gawker page where you'd published that Bond essay and of course it's gone. This is why I tell all my friends to do exactly what you've done! Save those clips!
Watching the latest mission impossible movie, and I think Angela Bassett is the only person alive aging even slower than Tom Cruise
And what if my dead relative were named Braydn ben Moshe? WHAT THEN
First reaction: «Ta gueule!!» Second reaction: okay what's the best answer to this question that *isn't* France? Austria? Argentina? Where do they love pastry almost as much as France?
Yup! They're yeasted, so they need a rise.
To drop the character, I feel like the original poster would have probably also been horrified at the concept of a communal town hearth
It were safer in them days, Dr Bok. The yeasts didn't travel farther than the nearest market town, so as you could trust em. No ruddy yeasts from Woking, I'll tell you that for free. (the wokest town in Surrey, probably)
I miss sawdust and chalk! Nowadays you've got these awful reformist toffs, insisting against all sense that there be wholemeal and fewer maggots in my daily loaf, and to that I say BOSH
It's okay! We'll fill the pews with AI parishioners, who will never know the difference
This is another reason why i love the horse archers for pritzker Great Khan stuff: it counterprograms the god emperor Trump memes, and furthermore, makes pritzker seem even cooler than Trump. The god emperor rots on his golden throne; ögedai pritzker leads us into glorious combat!
Pritzker's my guy by a country mile. My boomer parents adore him, but my dad (we're jews from Illinois) thinks the country is too racist to elect a Jewish president. But I love his affect, which i find to be, yeah, like you said—gently swaggering, pugnacious in a way that isn't just for show
But I wonder if you've got a take about how to shift the dems over to friend-enemy politics, and if anyone is doing it in a way that is as effective and as enjoyable for its practitioners as magaism is for its constituents
Towards the end of the thread, Nexon says nobody has yet figured out how to bridge the gap and reignite coalitional politics again—and I'm wondering if the model is Mamdani? I guess we'll see; a four-way mayoral race between two lunatics, a pervert, and a normal dude is not yr average house race.
And so this hygiene cult must therefore permit no pollution, lest it somehow taint or imperfect the perfect body. This is, of course, ludicrous. Sorry, babe! We depreciate the moment you drive us off the lot. Permit me my wine and my peanut oil, because I was never perfect, nor could i ever be.
So much of the fascist ideology consists of seeing the polity as a literal human body, which explains the fascist revulsion to physical difference or disability (real or perceived): they have imagined an ideal body, and any deviation must be policed!
Listening to the Maintenance Phase episode about the seed oil panic, and something has at last finally crystalized for me about the crunchy-to-fascist pipeline that I'm sure has been articulated many other places: it's a hygiene cult!
I appreciate it!! Reading now.
What's the source of this platner profile, do you know? I've been seeing this clip floating around but I don't know what publication it's from
70 seat majority. I will it so!
Fourth American Republic let's GOOOO
The fash can pry my prompt-based free association conversation tool from my cold dead hands, the bastards
Noooo my tarot collection
Ugh. First my experience of watching this was "well, at least they don't have the rifles!" and then I saw that all of them were wearing holstered sidearms and I got upset all over again. Thanks for documenting all of this, Amanda.
As soon as they mentioned "heavy cream" I went "Ohhhh I know what this is about"
I really assumed this was going to be a weed-infused red bull, but I think it's just the red bull version of an LDSer's Dirty Soda: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_s...
Also, does Lake Michigan count
Are we not all oceans, Ed Vast, deep, unknowable
Don't sleep on Iowa City, Ed. It's one of America's great college towns, really and truly. And beautiful in a way I wasn't ready for!
Regardless of their quality (and I've had mediocre ones), the experience of eating tenderloin sandwiches is also frequently pretty funny. Like—that... that's not what a sandwich is supposed to be! Who raised you! What is this?
Shameful! God I miss Chicago. Please partake of a frozen negroni at Parson's Chicken and Fish in my name, if you're so inclined
This is an unsatisfying answer, because it won't quite scratch that itch, but they do sell em at Culver's!
It's both! both are big pork producing states; I've definitely also seen this called a Hoosier tenderloin sandwich—it's a tug of war between them for who gets credit
Imagine a piece of schnitzel, pounded to the thinness of about a quarter-inch. This makes it about the diameter of a dinner-size paper plate. Now put that piece of schnitzel on a regular-sized hamburger bun so that the filling utterly dwarfs the sandwich, zooping out like a flying saucer.
But Ed have you ever had an Iowa-style pork tenderloin sandwich
buzzing with flies on the inside of his skull, the brainworm marching under the banner of moloch. Whole thing's overripe, Jamelle!
YES He's like a swollen butternut squash, that man.
But LORD ISN'T IT CURIOUS how family dysfunction, virulent misogyny, and white supremacy always seem to tag along somewhere in the mix
(highland park native, ahoy!) This kind of violence is so... (forgive me for using this word) "spectacular", that is to say so explosive, so intended to be witnessed as a media event, so outside the bounds of "ordinary" gun violence, that its causes can only ever be multi-factor.
my wife used to work for the Palo Alto Weekly, and it was *all* like this. The opinion columns were a particular horror
"It could have been the goth music, too!" I mean those little snippets from Pit magazine, short as they were, were gross and a little chilling! But yeah, excellent digging! I don't think this has changed my mind about the *consensus* view of school shooters, though; would you say it has for you?
Good find! But look! some of the experts quoted in this article seem to handwave away the white supremacy. This shooter, who was Native American, hung out on racial-purity messageboards and described himself as a nazi! How can the nazism be, per Viollis in the article, "a collateral issue"?
Growing up, I always thought that was an Eerie Coincidence, rather than an explicit part of their plan. I wish it hadn't taken until my adulthood to draw a line from Columbine to the Oklahoma City bombing to the Klan, y'know? OKC and Columbine were explained to me as lone wolf things, as one-offs
Tom Clancy's Swann's Way
I dunno it sounders pretty good to me
Which is why our honored forefather John McClane bore the duct tape upon his back, *so as to grant himself an additional equipment slot* bsky.app/profile/aelk... In his name, we pray.
Not being a gun person, the thing that comes to mind when I read .30-06 is the Tom Waits song Black crow sixteen shells from a thirty ought six Whittle you into kindling youtu.be/jPOaicwzq4A?...
And what if the elk tries its hoof at a home invasion? WHAT THEN
You could identify him at 200 yards by the bouncing bouffant, is what I remember
I wonder, if JB rises to greater national prominence, if he'll be able to outrun his associations with Blagojevich. It seems to have worked for him fine within IL! I *hated* Rod B with a passion. Saw him once, circa 2010 or so, before he went to prison—just sorta gladhanding around Ravenswood
Do you get the sense, five years after that vote, that they've learned from that messaging fuckup, or do the same things that frustrated you about the 2020 amendment campaign still apply to Pritzker's 2025 administration?
just looked it up (I haven't lived in Illinois for a decade :c) that's a gutpunch of a poll result/electoral mismatch!
Brilliant idea! Let's get out of Parker's mentions and discuss, lol
All we want is to be decent and to feel powerful with and among each other. What I love about the dumb Pritzker-as-Horselord meme is that, in my read, he's not the messiah or whatever—he's just the man going into battle WITH US.
(I would buy a Great Khan of Illinois sticker) (With JB wearin' a big feathered helmet astride a ferghana horse, a Mongolian golden eagle on his wrist, pointing at the horizon saying ONWARD, GOLDEN HORDE, TO THE FUTURE)
Full-body shudder. I went hunting for JB Pritzker merch and found nothing remotely comparable; there were some kinda bland "JB for Illinois" gubernatorial campaign merch items available on his old campaign website. Meanwhile, have a palate cleanser: store.ildems.com/protect-tran...
A piece that contains a similar idea about letting ten thousand flowers bloom (scroll, if you wish, to the bit that begins "This is how you win the culture war") www.liberalcurrents.com/civic-campai...
As Spiers references in her post, the joy and naturalism of the Mamdani campaign is what helps it reach people. This is still artful, still a *studied* thing (c.f. this excellent Corey Atad piece: defector.com/selling-zohran), but it's craft deployed to express authenticity.
This is well-trod ground, but: an affect of *bullshitlessness* is one of the ways to get people to pay sustained attention to you, whether you're actually telling the truth or not. This was true for John Romulus Brinkley, for Father Coughlin, and Alex Jones. But it's also true for The Good Guys!
I liked this a lot! Thanks, Elizabeth! This has also kind of been my experience with producing educational content, as well—it's best when I'm allowed to be authentic and weird, strange in a way that makes the children-viewers say, "Oh, he's being truthful here!"
Okay, good to know! Did it bug Will particularly as a baby? Or were you just like, as a parent, "hey why isn't this duvet cover soft as a duck's butt?"
That's an IKEA PRINT?! www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skog... it's so cute!!
I love the green-and-white fabric! This is a very clever way to recycle the bedding, Kit! Our impoverished and crafty forebears salute you.
I've got a bunch of children's stories in the Khan Kids app, which Conor may or may not have aged out of. I'm very proud of all of them, but particularly THE TRASHLANDS, JONAH TAKES THE TRAIN, and SAFETYBOT, NO!
And Elly, our subject-matter expert, was my guiding light throughout! She gave me enough room to get weird, but always brought me back to the finlit principles we were trying to get across to the learner.
Thank you, Marcy! I'm very proud of them!
I haven't listened to this in years—but a colleague reminded me that it existed the other week. It's a guided meditation of a sort—you're a lighthouse keeper, and you're ready for anything. It felt right to do in November 2020 and it feels even more right now.
my favorite Alyssa-David collaboration prior to now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEJR...
And all of these videos would not have been possible without the incredible skill, illustration capacity, attention, and humor of the implacable, irreplaceable, ineluctable, indestructible ALYSSA FOOTE alyssafoote.com whose website can be found here
o yeah prepare that boy for home ownership Did I tell you about the khan kids stories?!
Finally, last but by no means least, is the video I longed to make with @meowtima.bsky.social, were they still my KA colleague! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qf3... Heather plays the narrator, and Kami, Qandeel, and I play three friends who each represent a different grocery shopping tendency.
This video about predatory lending, voiced by Lafeesah, Wieteke, and me, really allowed me to get my aggressions out. And I got to direct Lafeesah in saying "Go back to your hole in the ground!" to a payday lender character. A lot of fun bits in this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOrL...
In this video, Darnell plays a young shoe-reviewer who wants to move out of his parents' place. His friend Mina, played by Wieteke, tries to put the fear of god into him about home ownership www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFVh...
This one's about insurance, and I hope you can tell that I pulled out all the stops to make it AS INTERESTING AS POSSIBLE www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKM7...
In this video, Iman, Lafeesah, Kate, and I play the barista and customers at a sort of metaphysical coffeeshop—one that sells educational life-paths! youtu.be/B2eCei3eHiA
This one is my unabashed love letter to @gamechangershow.bsky.social, continuing the tradition of videos in which a man in a suit bursts out of nowhere to spring a gameshow on unwitting contestants. I play Kevin; Felipe plays Bobby; Iman plays Maria, Bobby's mom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwWi...
In this one, Iman plays Jane Q American, a resourceful young woman who just wants to find somewhere sensible to stash her money: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZJ...
It's been a pretty bad summer for me here in Washington, but you know what's been great? WORK. I have the opportunity to bring you EIGHT count em EIGHT glorious financial literacy videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrA... In this one, Darnell and I play scammers who teach you the ropes.
As a fellow (though certainly not professional) galoot, I politely applaud their betrothal
Cooper, look at the OP's avi! that bastard better take Columbo's name out of his GODDAMN MOUTH
And yet I think, no matter what actually-evil things she does, she will never eclipse the supervillain vibe of Louise Linton posing with Steven Mnuchin, grasping that sheet of freshly-printed dollars. She hasn't got that juice!
Fascinating! Man, I have to go back and reread Twitty's THE COOKING GENE; it's been years. In our house, we do one of the cornbreads from Toni Tipton-Martin's JUBILEE: RECIPES FROM TWO CENTURIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COOKING. It has two tablespoons of sugar in it—ends up gently sweet.
Mazel tov, Keri! What a great get for ProPublica!
Whoa-a-a. Great shot, Jamelle! I love its little iridescent green jaws. I wanted to call them mandibles, but apparently those green bits in particular are "chelicerae". In looking up the mouthparts I learned that your housemate is Phidippus audax, the bold jumping spider!
"Grimfang Greenwald" feels like it could've been a discarded Harry Potter werewolf, which is another mark against the three
Ben ouais que t'as raison! Douane, dualité