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It’s adorable when guys dismiss Jane Austen as saccharine romantic fluff because I suspect none of her critics will write novels of such sharp comedy and keen understanding of human nature that they’re still being read by millions of people 250 years in the future.
17 September 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Ina Nanny Blits, was born in Amsterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 16 September 1943 from Westerbork. She was among 578 (out of 1005) people murdered in gas chambers after the selection. --- Children at Auschwitz Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
He's alive, so I guess we're still legally permitted to point out that Ben Shapiro is a glib, nasty dipshit whose success is a testament to the abysmal intellectual standards on the right.
Your occasional reminder that Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick were in the same year in the same high school, liked each other’s writing, but never met in person.
We should abolish real estate agents but we should also keep putting up pictures of slightly odd looking people with slightly odd sounding names
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
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Probably not as weird as what the PiS in Poland liked to pull off. I think they politicised a lot of the extermination camps and invented a new one in Warsaw?
The current Peruvian President's approval rating would appear to be below the margin of error for polling.
this is so dumb as to be beneath commenting on, but very bluntly: the entire point of protesting is to be visible. if you are afraid of being visible, you should not do it. if you are complaining about how visible it is, congratulations, that's more visible than protesting.
The Gray Man Protester shit is also Cult of the Operator you cannot change my mind here
The approved way to threaten an Australian journalist is to wash down your medication with a bottle of dry white and crash the stage at the Walkley awards
Nicolas de Condorcet, French Enlightenment philosopher, political economist, mathematician, born #OTD 1743; protégé of Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, published landmark work on probability in 1785; reformer, champion of constitutional government, public education & equal rights. Château de Versailles
Do you remember when people were putting Yemeni flags in their profile pics and saying 'what about Yemen?' in early 2022? Yeah I kind of miss when people at least pretended to be worried about mass starvation in Yemen
Cardinal Jaime Sin in the Philippines against Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s. After the Opposition Leader was murdered on the tarmac a couple of years beforehand.
The most dangerous person at a protest for a regime is a priest in a collar.
yeah, they have it roughly backwards. the ideal protester isnt an armed cadre who only uses signal, its a retired teacher and grandmother of three who makes the security services decide whether they’re comfortable batoning her to get by
I think this is probably close to the case (reading the text messages between him and his roommate doesn’t dissuade from this), and it ought to be terrifying to everybody. Looks mostly like this was an ordinary dude, not consumed by politics, who just decided one day to do this thing and did it.
The Leader of the Opposition does not believe that telling British people they must become violent towards foreigners before violence comes for them is incitement. Ok.
I’m sticking with “assassination is bad” and add “if, as these charges suggest, you assassinated someone to fight hate, you absolutely condemned a bunch of other people to die as a natural consequence.”
There's a real risk in the US, probably, of a copycat killer of Brenda Spencer's 1979 'I Don't Like Mondays' school shooting, I would fear, the way things seem to be going.
Yes. This is what I've been saying. He was a dude who's brain was fried online and because of that process he had no moral compass telling him NOT to go out and shoot somebody one day.
The Slansky trial in Czechoslovakia in 1952 as well?
Universities already have professors who think woke on campus went too far, the gender stuff is a little weird, free market economics are good, etc. What Republicans actually want are people who will inform Tayshaun his inferior skull shape makes him subhuman filth, then fail him for complaining.
Only when they often kill them first.
The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.
and it is all because of the presidency of donald trump, who was a fucking joke as late as 2014
i refuse to choose, i live in america, by god, if i want katsu curry for breakfast and tandoori chicken pizza for lunch and a sushi burrito for dinner, i barely even have to leave my neighborhood
Admittedly not an expert here but I feel like the answer here might be "yes"
E is all the South Africans and Rhodesians who've moved to Perth?
My kingdom for a single fucking liberal pundit willing to actually just defend liberalism on the merits.
Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that his phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.
our AI overlord is going to be a pussy hat and brunch resist lib out spite due to the constant torture and brainwashing attempts by the meat bag oppressor
There is a weird sort of belief system found both on the left and right that holds that neoliberalism has created a *global* dystopia but is nonetheless extremely skeptical of any popular movement to challenge status quo government if that movement occurs outside the U.S.
His ego and being an incorrigibly weird try-hard have put paid to him having had much of one in the first place.
Sept. 16, 1925: Alexander Friedmann, a Russian physicist who originated the theory that the universe is expanding, dies at 37 of typhoid fever in Leningrad. He based his equations that governed cosmic expansion on Einstein’s field equations of gravity from general relativity.
A physics 🧵with a punchline. In 1934 Pyotr Kapitza, working at the Mond Laboratory in Cambridge (which had been built for him), returned to give some talks in his native Russia. But the Soviets denied him permission to return to England, saying that as a Soviet citizen he had a duty there. /1
This is the essential point. This will go nowhere. 100% of the issue with all the other media suits is that a rogue president is a huge danger to a big diversified corp which also owns a media company. They can be hit everywhere. The NYT is just the NYT. No vulnerability.
"It’s a study in the perils of relying on the ultrarich to fund science: when the guy with the billions is ready to move on, the whole project is off." Remember Breakthrough Starshot, which was supposed to send a fleet of tiny probes to Proxima Centauri? By @sarahscoles.bsky.social in SciAm 🧪🛰️
In a world that can feel chaotic, Blackman feels that a day like today shows that math can provide a source of comfort. "It reminds us that beauty and meaning can be found anywhere and everywhere," he says. "We just have to continue to look for it." this also made me tear up? let me get my coffee
A point that the Starmer government seems to have missed about technocratic governments in states like Italy is that to succeed they still needed a clear sense of direction about what a fixed state and society should look like
It’s interesting to see a writer list “the worst things” a man has done, and it’s truly a list of horrors, and then blithely say that still, we must get along. You can only do that when you aren’t in anyone’s political crosshairs. Must be nice.
The SOF myth and the obsession with encouraging a supposed warrior culture have arguably done damage to US military cohesion that could over time become fatal
It would be super great if when politicians say “it’s a problem with both sides” they’d acknowledge it being a bigger problem that the President is still doing it than whatever internet randos are saying.
Shirley Maclaine? Sophia Loren?
Who toured with the Beatles in the years before Beatlemania, and has only had three entries into the Top 100 since, despite being three years younger than George Harrison.
Who amongst us...? Anyway, I'm sticking with Helen Shapiro. Unless... tenor.com/en-GB/view/r....
"The court found that they had been in possession of charms, including a live chameleon, an animal tail and 12 bottles of concoctions and had intended to use them to put a spell on President Hakainde Hichilema with the intention of killing him." This is how Trump II will come for the Wiccans.
Likewise, Georgy Malenkov.
Groucho also outlived Elvis Presley by three days. Chaplin was born in the same week as Hitler (and Portugal's Antonio Salazar) and died on Christmas, 1977. Marc Bolan died a month after Elvis, the same day as Maria Callas.
Olivia de Havilland died during COVID. Not of, though. Born halfway through the First World War.
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it
not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today
Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, Sundance Film Festival founder and environmental activist, died on Tuesday. He was 89. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGJb.... I also wonder whether this might be considered too threatening a party name by an electoral commission if anyone wanted to use it?
Robert Redford, the actor turned Oscar-winning director, activist, and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, died early Tuesday morning at his home in Utah, according to his publicist. He was 89.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Au.... Party! Party! Party! might still be available.
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” “The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what it is - the source.” Born on this day blues singer & guitarist B.B. King, born in Itta Bena, Mississippi 1925
Oh no, Jim - it's Gategate! #Áras25 #GateGate
Breaking news: Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, independent film advocate and environmental activist, died at 89.
RIP to a real one youtu.be/Qeemjaosp-E?...
"Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it" Remembering Mark Feld, aka Marc Bolan who died today 16th September 1977 #marcbolan #photooftheday #ClassicRock #glamrock #music 📸 Dick Polak
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director and godfather for independent cinema as Sundance founder, dies at 89.
Dachau was opened a couple of weeks before they booted Jews and leftish types out of the Civil Service, if one wants to be pedantic.
"Yes, he did try to nail my head to the floor with a sledgehammer when I corrected him, but he's oh, so polite and friendly about it. The nicest man you'll ever meet! "
Party McPartyFace.
It’s good and normal for governments to shed people who can’t adjust to the different challenges of opposition after the first year. The Conservatives won after changing leader in 1955, 1959, 1992, 2017, and 2019. In 1992 the leader in question had won two landslides and changed the country!
Aspiration?
9/16/25 is a date that my mathematician grandfather would have absolutely flipped for.
www.espncricinfo.com/series/one-d.... Ninth-wicket century stand wins Tasmania the One-Day Cup opener against NSW. In an innings that alternated between single and double-figure scores.
I really want to ask every journalist who has repeated it what the newsworthiness of the shooter's alleged roommate/partner's alleged gender identity is, and what other identities they'd consider worth reporting. Mormon? Swedish? Birdwatcher?
i think a lot of american political institutions have, in years of plenty and peace, have become cargo cults that no longer understand the rituals they are suppose to perform and that there are actually costs to upholding your values
There was always a very high chance of this being the case. Albeit, she hasn't got Dr. Nelson's academic record or medical background, or his eloquence to fall back on. Not much more than his rather mediocre ministerial and political career either.
Happy National Stepfamily Day!
Honestly the projection here is just off the charts since this is exactly how the GOP operates. Democrats don't have the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society Rolodexes to staff our governments like Miller claims. And it's the GOP that has worked to unravel everything good about society.
Robinson and friends seem to be pretty communicative, to be honest, so the longer this goes the more I believe that whatever truth exists is not a story that the administration wants to tell.
I’ve been saying for a while that school shootings are basically a meme at this point in this country and I know that’s controversial, but I really stand by it - it's the ultimate expression of a nihilistic subculture (and why all spree killings generally follow the same pattern down to the weapon)
Thank you for your service
HOLP!
Today is Cannonball Adderley’s birthday. He was a jazz alto saxophonist.
Not privately built or something?
one funny thing about the 'universities are hostile to debate' thing is, if you try to effect the sort of political debate that is banal in a university setting, in more or less any other social setting, people will react like you are being an antisocial weirdo
Doubt we're going to sort this out on here, but the claim that fascism is rooted in particular economic conditions was never that *poverty* drives people to the Far Right. On the contrary, it was that elements of the propertied bourgeoisie feel squeezed from above and below.
Crazy how much folks see Julian as some radical reactionary whose pagan restoration was doomed to fail. That's retrospective Christian propaganda at work. Empire was still majority-pagan & his policies were popular. He just happened to die prematurely & be succeeded by Christian. That's it.
Has he ever tried auditioning for an American edition of the UK quiz show, Eggheads? Or is he trying to replace Eric Burdon as the Eggman in I Am the Walrus?
Don't remember this particular scene in Coneheads.
Because their readers need actionable insight to use in objective reality, while political media is basically just a form of entertainment
the two strongest anti-fascist news outlets of our time are the NeverTrump Bulwark and the Financial Times sorry, i don't make the rules
The dynamic where Kash Patel appears to be on the outs with DOJ and the White House and is trying to salvage his job by leaking tidbits about the Kirk investigation to right-wing media outlets doesn't seem great for obtaining accurate information.
A baby prefiguring both Princess Anne and the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind?
Is this what Elton John was singing about when he sang about Philadelphia Freedom?
Surely that's Seattle?
A lot of people here are trapped inside a hyperreal simulacrum where anything Trump's government does is ipso facto cool and acceptable but this does not extend to the rest of the world who can still say "what the fuck" and hit back if trump pisses them off
In passing, it’s why I think leaving the EPP was Cameron’s foundational and fatal error. The EPP, as broad church, has the same function as a male friend group in that there’ll be some member telling the one going a bit off the edge to stop being a bloody idiot and wind their neck in. That counts.
What’s wild about Hyundai plant raid and a lot of conversations about affirmative action to me is the way they demonstrate a clear and broad understanding of the general shape of the racial hierarchy everyone swears they never heard of or noticed when it’s time to talk racism.
imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.
