The thing that’s killing me about this specific post is: Fidel Castro was a lawyer.
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The thing that’s killing me about this specific post is: Fidel Castro was a lawyer.
Cult of celebrity is a real motherfucker.
Fidel Castro was a lawyer! Che Guevara was a doctor! Do these people not bother to ever actually learn any facts about their declared heroes?!
oh damn it I’d successfully managed to expunge that from my brain.
OK but that’s fair.
AND THE FIRST THING YOU DID WAS TREAT IT LIKE ABSOLUTE CRAP WAY TO GO DUDE
Always loved the implication in the novel that Victor did indeed conquer death and has created a genuine immortal.
Photos of Clooney with non-silver hair always throw me.
When EAT, PRAY, LOVE first came out, I caught some pushback from bookish & writer friends at the time because I found it a very clear portrait of someone with major codependency issues actively surrendering to them. Just read some reviews of Gilbert's new memoir, and HOO-BOY do I feel vindicated.
Sometimes, we can still have good things.
Yeah, like: setting fire to a healthy marriage to pursue a romantic relationship with a recovering addict you know is relapsing is *already* peak codependent behavior, never mind the whole “procuring illegal drugs during a terminal illness” and “attempted murder” bits.
Pedro Pascal, best known for his role as “Dead Eddie,” a W. Somerset Maugham-loving college freshman killed and turned into a vampire by the end of the first act of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER’s season four premiere episode.
RIGHT???
As a non-political scientist layperson, it is my firm belief that there is a direct causal relationship between Brazil having some of the strictest regulations on social media companies in the world, and Bolsonaro being held legally & publicly accountable for attempting a coup.
Hard to argue with!
My sister was the same way.
NOPE.
Yup, it really did. I more or less didn’t have physical contact with another human being for almost two years.
Right? Honestly think the only place I ever see public benches without those bullshit anti-homeless “armrests” on them is Balboa Park, and even some of those are starting to go.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
I actually only learned Roberts’s character in it was a prostitute because MAD magazine spoofed it and I had to look the word up in the dictionary.
My sister was an occasional reader of those pre-teen/teen magazines (Tiger Beat etc.) that were around back in those days, and she had an issue that featured a cover photo of Roberts from the movie, a positive review, and a profile of her career. My sister was nine years old.
As wonderfully progressive-facing as this state can be, there is a DEEPLY entrenched streak of anti-homeless NIMBYism running through both the red and the blue areas, and I really wish people would pay attention to that.
Really been trying to impress on people outside of California that Gavin Newsom’s stance on the homeless, horrid though it is, is not only *not* an outlier in progressive state politics, it’s not even the worst instance of it! Multiple mayors are actually worse!
Amusing that COVID school closures are back in the discourse, because one thing I as a deliberately childless person remember from that time period is how effectively it demonstrated that some people really just don’t like spending time with their own kids.
Every single relationship she describes in it is based around her being an enabler for someone else’s destructive tendencies! Her entire journey is one predicated on denialism!
Planned on watching a movie tonight, but it is genuinely too hot in my living room (no A.C.) to sit on the couch for two hours, and I would prefer not to watch it on my laptop. Sigh. One does what needs must, I suppose.
It also does the British TV thing where each season is six episodes and then they peace out until the next one.
One of the things I love about the show SLOW HORSES is that every plot of every season is driven by the fact that spies and intelligence service ops are all human train wrecks; the titular characters are just open about it.
IIRC this film was made during the same time period as that Fiona Apple anecdote from her time dating PTA that hanging out with him and Quentin Tarantino permanently put her off cocaine. Certainly looks like it on screen.
When EAT, PRAY, LOVE first came out, I caught some pushback from bookish & writer friends at the time because I found it a very clear portrait of someone with major codependency issues actively surrendering to them. Just read some reviews of Gilbert's new memoir, and HOO-BOY do I feel vindicated.
Wait. Wait. Did you do Boogie Nights, Magnolia, *and* Punch Drunk Love in one day??? I don't think I could subject myself to that much PTA in 24 hours.
Honestly, I think a Canadian whose brain has been rotted by Axios and Politico is even sadder than an American.
That black dress in the second photo looks *great*. Well done.
I wear my hair long, and a couple of times I’ve tried looking up methods of hair braiding for men. It took one of those videos for the algorithm to start recommending white supremacist “viking” content to me.
As much as I like being able to look up quick how-to videos, the proliferation of right-winger content and influencers leads me to conclude that YouTube has been a net negative for society.
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
Periodic reminder: if you're off for the holiday today and you're spending part of that time patronizing a restaurant, café, coffeeshop etc., *TIP HEAVILY* No, more than that. More. Keep going. You got this.
It’s like all of these people watched BIG EYES and decided they wanted to be Walter Keane.
So much corncobbin’ going on now I feel like I’m standing in a field in Iowa.
Between this photo and the obvious discoloration from having an IV stent on his hand, that’s what I’m assuming.
“My journalists” “My” LOL. LMAO, even.
Oh no, I’m being accused of “piling on” by a blatantly bad-faith shit-stirrer who jumped into a contentious conversation thread a day after it started to drop random nonsense for the fun of it — how will I ever survive???
Would rather BE dead than bald, I think.
Ah, I suspected you were still in high school! Kind of a weird poli-sci assignment, though.
No thanks, the taste of a troll petulantly whining over being counter-trolled is all the delicious treat I need!
Everyone knows the seminal classic film THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS is just a piece of speculative fiction and not actually a commentary on historical imperialism & colonialism.
As you were Twitter’s Number One Magnolia Hater (a film I need to revisit too), I’m looking forward to the prospect of a reassessment.
Right??? Like, he usually doesn’t wear those hats so low on his head.
Mostly I don’t want to admit to myself that I might suddenly be in a scenario where I am actually rooting *for* cancer.
Don’t wanna unfairly speculate, but…is he….bald? His hair is usually sticking out everywhere.
Like, I actually thought that was *too* on-the-nose a reference.
Still doesn’t seem to grasp that he’s the pigeon in the allegory, despite, y’know, literally being a pigeon in this conversation.
Actually kind of love that he didn’t notice that I insulted him twice.
The burden of proof for libel in the USA is fairly high on average, especially compared to places like Britain, where the law is heavily slanted against the defendant.
Last time I tried Bumble it was barely hiding that fact.
Imagine intellectually and even emotionally enjoying conversing with people over shared interests and subjects, and even having “friends”, nope, never, couldn’t be me.
“Debating morons is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn’t matter what strategies you use, it’s just going to knock over the pieces, shit all over the board, and strut around like it won.”
In terms of population demographics, there are more people living in Africa who speak French than in Europe.
Something, something French Indochina. Something, something Côte d'Ivoire.
A good chunk of south Asia was called “French Indochina” for the better part of a century because the residents there thought it sounded poetic, that’s all.
One of the things that frustrates me about his anti-trans comments as a CA voter is, he’s got an actual pro-queer/pro-trans legislative history that any progressive politician would be proud of! Queer marriage in the USA exists in part because he openly defied DOMA. So, what the fuck, Gav?
Sorry, I don’t own a chess board anymore.
Yeah, we’re fretting about crossing bridges over canyons and rivers when, election-wise, we’re still well out to sea and haven’t even made landfall yet.
Like, ngl, whenever I see someone say, “I will never vote for _______ (Newsom in this case)”, what I hear are the far-lefties who told me to my face, sometimes IRL, that Blacks and Latinos in the USA weren’t worth saving if Gaza couldn’t be saved first. And I feel hostile to that.
I wasn’t really down on him at all, I just kinda thought, old white guy, kinda a has-been, should be content serving as VP to the first Black president, what does he have to offer?
I think a lot of it (myself included) is people working off unprocessed trauma from last year’s election cycle.
Nope! I also don’t think, given his present course, that he should. But conversely….if I were a gambling man, I would have lost the farm over Joe Biden winning the 2020 primary.
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Appropriate that the profile pic is a pigeon, IMO.
Damn, the Garden State catching it from both sides on Labor Day.
I think you should probably read up on *actual* voter demographics in California, rather than rolling with the stereotypical "blue state" vibe.
Also weird for New Jersey to be catching strays here for some reason.
This strategy notably sucked *and failed* LAST YEAR! It notably failed to accomplish a single objective goal! And demonstrably made life worse for the vulnerable ethnic & racial minorities who desperately pleading with people not to try it!
Even if that were the case, that's still a very silly, nonsense statement. Newsom is the governor of the third-largest and one of the most densely-populated states in the country, and he didn't win that office, or any of his prior ones, by accident. Never mind successfully fighting off a recall.
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See also: progressive non-white voters who were *begging* puritans to help keep Trump out of office for the sake of saving their communities, were directly told that issue wasn't good enough unless X condition wasn't met, and are now processing the trauma of that betrayal.
*and you're Put a couple of victory points in the Don't Skeet Before Coffee column
*not
Well for starters, spending this much time in the weeds defending an electoral strategy that you yourself do no practice is a pretty firm demonstration that your neither speaking from lived experience, nor in good faith. And that's pretty dunk-worthy.
It's almost, *almost* like people aren't just the one bad (or good) thing you've ever heard about them. 🤔
oh no, one of them is going to be true crime podcast-themed, isn’t it
The franchise has been passed its sell-by date for at least a decade, has not adapted well to the post-Cold War world, and is ready to be retired.
It’s deeply fucking aggravating and I wish he’d knock it the fuck off.
This house absolutely has a murder room.
In a primary, *maybe*. In a general, not at all.
What I see is that during his time as governor, Newsom almost every pro-trans bill that has crossed his desk. His comments are garbage and he should stop making them. His legislative history is very good.
Well, she did choose to signal boost it and agree with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here ya go. bsky.app/profile/dkps...
Genuinely relieved to know that it isn’t just me feeling this way. Way too many people on this site are pushing me to the Denethor “go now and die in what way seems best to you” point.
I feel a lot better knowing that it’s not just me.
hey siri, create a keyboard shortcut for "fuck off, doomer"
Yes and YES.
I’m assuming the “sourdough is woke” thing is a fringe antivaxxer response to how a lot of people who cooperated with the stay-at-home phase of COVID had fun learning how to bake their own bread, many for the first time.
"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up
They’re also upset because people like Lorenz tell lies & stories that confirm their preexisting cognitive biases, and now that she’s been caught out in a too bold-faced one they’re left spinning because they don’t want to grapple with how easily they were manipulated.
Uhhhhh, do you think the Uyghurs are white?
Every copywriting or marketing gig I ever did had a clause like that. It’s pretty boilerplate. If an ad firm makes a commercial for a client, and the client doesn’t like it, the client has discretion to keep it off the air.
I do not think I actually slept at all last night. Thanks, heat insomnia!
They’re doing public relations work, which like copywriting is a form of marketing.