I directed a production of Phaedra’s Love when I was in college, and have gotten to see a couple of productions of 4.48 Psychosis. I hope you get to catch a production of her stuff at some point!
Yeeeeeesssss. Would love to see him direct Cleansed!
Paxton didn’t lose the primary. It’s going to a runoff election on May 26.
The combo of your words and her voice is one of my absolute favorite artistic combinations.
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Oooh, interesting. @maustermuhle.bsky.social
In the shared image, the notes for this Four Favorites list show which actors have listed the movie as one of their four.
boxd.it/tqjLE/detail
In the iOS app, the sunglasses icon usually refers to notes. I’ve only ever seen it applied to lists, though. If you make a list you can add a note for the film, which is separate from the review.
But what if the government forced you to participate in the discourse at gunpoint?
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Call me Ishmael.
In celebration of National Braille Literacy Month, check out this amazing Braille eReader from the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) at the Library of Congress. They make braille reading more convenient and portable. Visit loc.gov/nls to learn more!
Sounds like what you request of your server after being served at an Italian restaurant.
i had a wonderful time talking with @vicmmic.bsky.social about disaster movies, birds, the weather, and their many exciting projects out right now pvguide.ghost.io/vic-michaeli...
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Tired: "Is this legal?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.
Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.
Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Have you considered a home American Ninja Warrior setup?
Oooof, good luck. It gets…a lot worse.
A screenshot of the edit history of Jake Paul’s Wikipedia page. It shows the removal of a revision listing Paul’s death date as “December 19, 2025” and death place as “Miami, Florida”
My favorite aspect is that his Wiki page is locked because people keep updating it to add a time and place of death.
Greg Bear’s writing style reminds me of Crichton, at times. Eon, Blood Music, Darwin’s Radio.
If only RFK Jr. had exercised the same judgment.
Until this post I did not know how much I wanted a short story/novella/novel about early 20th century Female Companions on a train voyage across the west!
If you're a fan of Ann Leckie and/or Arkady Martine (and why wouldn't you be), and/or discussions of empire and imperialism in science fiction, let me point you towards this conversation between the two on that very topic:
www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out alongside HR 6028, which would make the Librarian of Congress a Congressional appointment and the Register of Copyrights a presidential appointment.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
Streets of Laredo is even more devastating than Lonesome Dove, imo.
Johnson has called members back already.
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. Maybe this shit flew in the 90s and they could pull the wool over most people’s eyes, but the political theater feels so painfully obvious. Especially when they run the exact same scheme over and over again.
