I've said it before, but computers that couldn't do math were never something I expected to see invented.
I've said it before, but computers that couldn't do math were never something I expected to see invented.
Film makers should be forced to watch 1940s musicals so that they can replicate the lighting and colors.... I'm tired of not being able to see shit.
I could stand for it to be 2005 again.
The Doctor. #DoctorWho
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
the fact that America had a police state partially run by a guy called "General Van Deman" and it occupies like zero part of american public consciousness is fascinating
Even Atlantic Rim was memorable because of him.
He's a solid guy, I wish him well in retirement. Hopefully his successor will be a Democrat and not a "Democrat" (Republican).
They make a desert and call it peace.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
The unifying characteristics of Bluesky are mostly "Trump bad" and "I want less overt bigotry on my timeline, even if it means a less lively posting environment"
I legitimately can't comprehend the way people drive their kids to school today. *No one* did that regularly when I was a kid. You only ever got dropped off by your parents if you missed the bus.
Drawings by me of televisions from movies E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) Twelve Monkeys (1995) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Videodrome (1983) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...
Now you're just being obtuse.
Why...why are they driving a Smart car like they're trying to park a semi-trailer?
No, you really can't. Because it never stops at "one" thing. When you say "trans women can't compete with cis women", it sends the message to even the least-athletic trans person you'll never *really* accept them as who they are, you'll just humor them until it's not comfortable for you anymore.
I think Democrats should avoid Nate Silverism.
The post-1996 consolidation of "local" media under national corporate umbrellas needs to be undone as much as possible.
this is evil
My dream for america
If your heritage is a corporate logo you've drawn your heritage in the sand at high tide; not only will your heritage be swept away in an instant it is natural that it should be. People of shallow soul and self-narrowed understanding, hiding under the blanket from the slightest ray of awareness.
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
Lmao wtf
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
It looks like hes just straight up recording with a phone.
ON THIS DAY... 13 years ago, Asylum of the Daleks was first broadcast on BBC One. It aired at 7:20pm and received a viewership of 8.33 million. Art by Lee Johnson 🎨 #DoctorWho
There is still beauty left in the world
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
Happy Labor Day my fellow workers!
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what if we got rid of CEOs?
Introducing the general public to the concept of spoilers was a mistake.
The only thing I want from the media right now is his front page obituary
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Waiting all year for that one?
I think it's a huge mistake to see Gavin Newsom's politics as a pure product of the calculus of an autonomous political career and not a product of the tech and real estate money behind him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
No one ever really understood that PG didn't mean "pretty good for kids"If anything, it was a higher rating than PG-13 in its early form.
They had a fling when she was Emony and he was a med student. She was on Earth for a gymnastics competition, I believe it was. Said he has "hands of a surgeon".
Nobody ever talks about the downside of owning bidets: the subsequent abject misery when using toilets without them.
Jadzia had fond memories of him, for whatever that's worth.
Women killing awful men is truly a timeless genre of cinema.
General reminder that you don't have to look at your own ClearSky and if it's going to have negative effects on you then you absolutely shouldn't.
yeeeeah a guy who dated a 19 year old while in his 30s has ZERO business saying trans people shouldn't transistion until they're 25. i mean NO ONE has any business saying that. but ESPECIALLY that guy.
It's not just the Pulse memorial, DeSantis is ensuring any and all murals across the state that go against his bigotry must be painted over and ripped out. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
Every time you forget about Rudy Giuliani he re-emerges in the most eyebrow raising ways.
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
I kept saying on the Woodworking tour that a lot of people think trans people were invented in a lab at Yale in 2015, and while that was a joke, the year keeps popping up. (Not coincidentally, that's when various right-wing groups zeroed in on us as a new anti-queer wedge post-Obergefell.)
Publishers have a lot of money, for the authors they want to give it to.
Pathetic and cowardly. Your tax dollars at work
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
"The Good Die Young" doesn't literally mean good people die at an early age. It means that, no matter how old they get, it's always too soon. Evil, meanwhile, seems to get a free pass to live forever. Evil won't die soon enough.
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
Gavin Newsom is the funniest guy to have a three-years-early cult form around him as the only choice for president. He looks like a character actor who keeps getting typecast as "Untrustworthy Politician" on cable TV shows.
They like Trump and want to help him
Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.
What kind of shit human do you have to be to be an ICE or HSA agent at this point?
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
I know it’s Monday tomorrow, but things could be worse. You could be the CEO of a business who’s gone viral for snatching a signed cap out of a child’s hand. You could be facing a vote of no confidence from the board, because you’re a nasty, dishonest prick. We all make our choices don’t we?
mayhaps all the incredibly stupid slippery slope arguments we've witnessed in the last couple of decades have made us blind to the actual slippery slopes we're careening towards at the moment.
Jimi playing with The Ronettes, 1966
Bike The Drive is this morning! Took this video from a bridge at North Ave., Beach walking over into Lincoln Park. #bikethedrive #lsd #lakeshoredrive #chicagowarzone
Wild that a museum would install a new Emmett Till exhibit called, “yeah, we’re covering up this murder too.”
ushering in the new illiberal arts www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Raising a glass to Christopher H Bidmead, who brought big ideas and magic moments to Doctor Who, and commissioned writers like Christopher Bailey, @andr3wsmith.bsky.social and @stephengallagher.co.uk. A playfully cantankerous persona never quite masked a deep intelligence and a kind, generous soul.
Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
High profile murders always seem to get repurposed by the state to avoid accountability. Just like how Brianna Ghey's murder has been used to justify internet censorship because admitting it was a transphobic hate crime would mean the state would have to admit its complicity in transphobia.
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
Like the man sang, the days start coming and they don't stop coming.
What do you mean it’s September tomorrow? Explain yourself.
Trump said tonight he is going to issue an executive order purporting to require enforcement of voter ID rules: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u... The president has no such authority to order how elections are conducted.
Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.
It really does, though. Fascists (and other authoritarian sorts) do that over and over again wherever they take power.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.
Very sad to hear we've lost Christopher H Bidmead. Always struck me as a very genial chap who took his work seriously but not himself. Hard to over-express my admiration for Frontios, and the ideas in Logopolis and Castrovalva, where mathematics is treated as where philosophy and poetry meet.
Sights from a Danish 🇩🇰 cycle path
In that case, he should probably only criticize the work of students he personally teaches.
I know it’s soft pushback but I really do appreciate director Chris Columbus’ comments on JK Rowling, especially considering how influential he was in the visual look of the Harry Potter franchise right through to the new tv show, and also that he’s of Rowling’s generation.
Trump is much more on top of fake emergencies than the real ones.
Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled
As an aside, one of the hardest things parents have to learn when their kids go off to college is they no longer have access to their grades or teachers on demand, because they are adults and have specific legal protections as such.
While college students (the occasional under-18 ones aside) are young and vulnerable in many ways, they are adults and shouldn't be treated as if they're children when addressing their particular vulnerabilities.
Chris Isaak in Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me and also David Bowie in Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me who are coming with two radically different energies that also both feel completely at home in a David Lynch movie
Months ago, when they first giddily announced they were ending their corporate DEI programs to comply with Trump's executive order. It hasn't seemed like I've been missing out on anything not watching SNW s3.
have you unsubbed from paramount+ yet? i have
The Storrowing is upon us
Ridiculous how much academic scholarship on Star Trek: Discovery reproduces the total falsehood that Michael Burnham starts the war
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Bonnie Aarons and David Lynch on the set of Mulholland Drive (2001)
If you’ve ever visited California’s Monterey Bay and looked out over the immensity of the Pacific - well, I hear it’s lovely. But how many of its roughly 4 million visitors per year know that beyond the surf, they’re also in the presence of the second Grand Canyon of the United States? 1/
Thad 