I know it's cliche to say that, as you get older, your GILMORE GIRLS sympathies shift, but I've been re-watching some of it with my wife and legit just asked, "Why do they keep cutting back to scenes with Rory so much?"
A whooooole lotta stuff just started making sense.
To quote someone I talked with about that breed of young, conservative influencers, their careers are based on acting like the grandchildren elderly conservatives wish they had.
I think you have a better chance of getting it if you beat it normally while at level 30.
Okay, I know things SEEM bad, but have you all considered that that one guy I know insisted that, "There's nothing he can do that the next guy couldn't just undo?"
In 2010!?!
CHICAGO POPE?!
If there's been any good research on the correlation between TDS's rise in popularity during the Bush II years and the principles/values of self-identified conservatives where consistency and accusations of hypocrisy are concerned, I'd love to read it. 7/7
Tribalism and negative partisanship undoubtedly led some conservatives to dismiss consistency as a strategy or tool of "the other team," similarly to how GWB is reported to have dismissed terrorism as "a Democratic issue" pre-9/11.
I have no grand conclusion here, just that lone thought. /6
But my guess is that TDS in the '00s was so good at highlighting when politicians were hypocritical and disingenuous, and it loomed so large for young Democrats and other progressives at the time, that caring about hypocrisy ceased to be a value for some significant subset of conservatives. /5
And I don't think I was alone in that. Coming of age during the heyday of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has left a certain subset of millennials with a deep conviction that blatant hypocrisy should disqualify someone from being taken seriously. And maybe it did, at the time. /4
As a teenager, I was one of the (statistically few) people who regularly watched The Daily Show BEFORE Jon Stewart took over in 1999. I was developing political opinions essentially alongside the show as he took it from being about entertainment to being about current affairs. /3
Then I thought maybe I had that first impulse because of The Daily Show—and maybe The Daily Show was the reason posting it wouldn't prompt anyone to self-reflection, too. /2
My first instinct in reading this article was to post it and say, "But her emails!" Then I thought that that wouldn't actually add anything. /1
www.wired.com/story/tm-sig...
Really we need fewer cars and more trains and busses.
I have no idea how this could possibly be legislated at the federal level, but scale traffic fines and vacant property fines to net worth as reflected in previous year's tax returns.
Hold on, serious question: Do authors also write the headlines at The Verge???
The SAVE act is up for a vote soon. If passed, it would end voter registration drives, registering by mail to vote, and online voter registration. It would lock the right to vote away behind passport fees that are prohibitively expensive for millions of families.
Love your libraries, folks.
Libraries are an amazing refuge and resource for so many people—including some of the people who work there.
I never thought I'd see libraries attacked the way they have been the last few years. I'm so proud to have worked with this one, and they deserve all of our support right now.
Now, I'm staring down the barrel of a sabbatical, unable to envision what I hope to gain from it, and coming across the article at the top of this thread finally reminded me: I hope I have a season similar to the one I had with BPL in 2010.
I ended up accepting a job in DC halfway through my time with BPL, and moved to DC a few days after my contract there ended. That move obviously changed my life in so many ways, but I wouldn't have been able to do it without my time at BPL.
The eight months I ended up working with the team at Brooklyn Public Library was one of the most restorative seasons I've ever had. I healed a lot physically and mentally. The work was fun, the team functioned incredibly well, and the results of our work were always things we could be proud of.
She asked if I was interested in short-term gigs, because she had a six- to nine-month contract available writing speeches and other material for a local non-profit and thought I might be a good fit. Was I interested?
I asked what the area of practice was, and she said, "Books."
I was in this depleted state—limping; emotionally empty after deaths in the family and being kidnapped; demoralized trying to change industries and getting ghosted after an eight-hour interview—when I got a call from a recruiter.
Finding a new job in that condition was hard. One interviewer asked why I wanted to work at their PR firm, since it was so much more "boring" (her word) than what I had done up to that point. I answered honestly: "I'm tired. My last job made me move and got me hit by a car. I need boring."
This piece popped up elsewhere today, so I'd like to share my own @bklynlibrary.bsky.social story:
Fifteen years ago this month, I got laid off because I declined to move back to Armenia. I was physically broken (needed a cane to walk) and mentally exhausted. 🧵
www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
I think one of the things that makes this administration so confounding is that there are multiple distressing narratives about its end goals that conflict with each other but are still true, because there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen and the chef is mostly checked out.
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
