Going to take a social media sabbatical for a bit to get some thinking/writing done (not that anyone's livelihood hinges on whether I'm on here or not, but posting this in public makes me hold myself accountable)
Hell yeah I did
I know $125 sounds like a lot for a two-volume set, but if you have any interest in film, the red volume here is one of the very best making-of books you'll ever read, and the brown scrapbook is an amazing bonus. (I read this in the previous limited edition and still feel I got my money's worth)
For reasons I don't even know, but that surely aren't good, I followed this up tonight with Freddy Got Fingered, and (a) it's as bad as I'd heard; (b) it has nearly the same plot (or lack thereof) as The Comedy (an obnoxious manchild makes an ass of himself in public with no consequences)
focus on your fake numbers and miss out on the real vibe
I will have to try that—it'd be cheaper than the $10 this jar cost me.
I tried this today ("cooking oil solidifier," see the QT)—I did not have the experience of slipping a single yellow pancake into the trash as described below, but it still made cleanup easier
And this data cuts off at September 2024. I can only imagine what the hemorrhage has been like over the last week.
going to try to move forward with the confidence of the democratic party sending a fundraising email on november 9th, 2024
Interesting interview with Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, and how he's dealt with a long career that really only had one winner, early on (but what a winner it was)
Site has been feeling a little more Twitter-ish these past few days—every time there's an influx from there the social norms get challenged
My experience with younger people suggests that difficulty socializing post-COVID can manifest as an expression or feeling of being unsafe. But really I think we're on the same side here and I don't want to argue. Be well.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the sentiment at all—but it's clear that something changed in the past couple of years that made people believe that the signs were necessary, when no one seemed to think that before.
Throughout the campus I live near, there are signs that say things like "YOU ARE SAFE." and "[list of demographics] ARE WELCOME HERE." Just appearing in the past couple of years.
Looks like rain in New Jersey, the first time I've thought that in over a month
Watched The Comedy (2012) last night—deliberately unfunny and alienating; didn't like it while I was watching it but afterward I got what it was going for (I've crossed paths with trust-fund failsons like the protagonist who were hollow in that way). A well-made film I'll never watch again
There's much more going on in it than (what some people read as) blasphemy! It's thoughtful and funny, it's got a great Peter Gabriel score, fantastic casting (Harvey Keitel as Judas, David Bowie as Pontius Pilate), etc. Works as part of an informal Scorsese religion trilogy with Kundun and Silence.
Recently I showed The Last Temptation of Christ to someone who knew nothing about it (neither the content, nor that a theater showing it was hit by a terrorist attack) and her mind was completely blown by it
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Did not know this existed--game-changing
An Italian friend of mine made the case for Berlusconi
lots of "by any means necessary" guys amped up by the possibility that the necessary means might be "risking horrifically violent death at the hands of militias and/or the state" but strangely unwilling to consider that they might be "doing the dishes" or "making common cause with winemoms"
and you can read it here. was written in the days following trump’s first win. after californian voters failed to outlaw slavery in prisons* it feels like I could have written it this week www.vice.com/en/article/f...
Once again, I am begging you to include a url with your screen grab quotes
Was saying to a friend that my allergies are the worst they've ever been since moving up north and I've never had them in November, and she pointed out, "It's never been this warm and this dry for this long here in November, either," and I thought, "Yeah, I'm still washing pollen off my car"
yes. and the first step toward understanding what happened is actually taking the agency of ordinary people seriously. there are questions to ask about the kind of society we have built and you can’t begin to tackle them if your starting position is the people are mindless hogs
Universities need to leave X, by @edtechie.bsky.social
blog.edtechie.net/higher-ed/un...
Years ago I complained to a friend of mine that I couldn't make a pair of shoes last more than four months and she said, "You should just pay more for shoes!" And damned if she wasn't right. I've bought zero pairs of shoes this year, and one the year before. In short, being poor is expensive
If you're publishing a book in 2025 or know anyone publishing a book in 2025, lemme know. Still working out the deets, but I'll be helping out w/ a new Toronto reading series & am on the hunt for amazing/surprising/charming authors
I don't typically single out bad accounts, but this "science girl" was notorious on twitter for never crediting content, often with erroneous caption, and blocking people who point out the errors.
Even if you're not using my block list, please don't let this account take off.
