Useful to teach this with broken windows theory, since it‘s used to promote community policing.
And for those of us whose work on the prison-industrial complex focuses on the United States, the focus on Canada here shows how antiblackness and the limits of police reform are global.
Excerpt from the new chapter in Policing Black Lives, “Against the Romance of Police Reform” out in Briarpatch: “Community Policing: Expanding the Carceral Web”. briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...
Wes Anderson Phoenician schemed his way to the top! He moves on to the next round:
jens lekman is like if you gave a non-racist morrissey the right anti-depressant and some therapy
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Love Gorey so much
I have a Barthelme book with a Gorey cover that I treasure deeply
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WELL. FUCKING. DESERVED.
Speaking of which, Avengers Academy deserved another 100 issues.
Was literally one of the greatest things Marvel had published in the last several years.
I'm calling for a complete and total shutdown on professors writing opinion essays until we can figure out what the hell is going on
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Poster with four people dressed like Pat from SNL dancing on a beach. Text reads "Film screening & talk with Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026) WE ARE PAT 2025 / 92 minutes / USA Director: Rowan Haber Writer: Rowan Haber, Hannah Buck Saturday, March 14h 4:00 p.m. Ottawa Art Gallery iFFo"
If you're in Ottawa, come to our screening on Saturday, March 14th! After the movie, Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social will be talking with Tom McSorley about her new book, TRANS CINEMA: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds (2026)! www.iffo.ca/2026/we-are-... @ottawaartgallery.bsky.social
I can't compete with this.
every intra-left post in the 2010s...and also now probably but that's none of my business
Hegel has you writing down insane sentences such as “the second thing is also a thing with an also”
It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)
Autistic people enjoy parallel play? Well, first of all it's called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
I think a lot about how Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation is embarrassed to be doing a commercial and how foreign that response would be today, and that was not so long ago
I think a lot of us who teach have also lost this, for various reasons, from cynicism, to burnout, to some not liking teaching, etc etc. Every semester, I try for this, to instil that joy for learning in my students. Im not sure the world allows for/wants it any more, though. Even if students do.
so easy to get caught up in the careerism and jockeying of academia but this is so important, there's nothing I love more than reading and writing
Canadians would rather virtue signal than go to therapy
It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
Amir got It
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
FAQs are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Juche
True independent thinkers don't change their clocks just because everyone else does. I will do my own research and determine what time it is
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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Elizabeth Gaskell: the story centers on a hotheaded worker killing an abusive capitalist
Editor: ok, and what about the romantic part of the story?
Gaskell: this *is* the romantic part
Jesus Christ
