Happy Father's Day 🖤

[P] At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

this is what you get when you oppose the ugliest conclusions of nativism, but accept it's premises, when you don't argue your own values www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

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Mood

Depluralize a movie The Taking of Pelham 1

DARTH VADER: Luke, you will join me, the deadbeat father who killed all of your beloved parental figures, in the Dark Side, and if I can't convince you, I'm certain you won't be able to resist the seductive powers of the pasty, giggling goblin man who is my boss

Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christoph Friedrich, and Johann Christian.

You should really only be listening to whole tone music. It’s got the whole tones in it. A lot of these artists, they use semitones, which is just half of the tone and trust me, it’s not the part that’s good for you. It’s basically junk.

Poppyseed Doesn't Write Pretty Music

Either rhythm is not well theorized enough to build models around, or rhythm isn't theorizable in a way you even could build a model around; I don't know which it is

Old people in this hot tub at the water park are reenacting the final scene of Waiting for Godot.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Listening to a beginning bassoonist play "Hey Jude" and Farrell's "Happy" in the studio next to my office is sending me.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

In the amount of space that would otherwise fit just eight parked cars, this Citi Bike station on Gansevoort Street handles 255 bike share trips per day.

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

They are now refusing to state the number of American casualties in the Iran war. When regimes do this, it is a HUGE RED FLAG.

Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy. Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!

Japan is upset because Bluesky banned haikus. Lawsuits are pending.

Precompositional process can still get you pregnant

This too…

it's only fascism once it happens to white people until then it's a topic of debate requiring mature compromise and sober acknowledgement of political realities

A broken, lost organization actively obscuring the truth and purposefully misleading its readers

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Watchingamerica.com “…makes available in English articles written about the U.S. by foreigners, often for foreign audiences, and often in other languages. We are a unique window into world opinion.”

Once again, I just referred to “L’histoire du soldat” as “The Devil Went Down To The Other Georgia.”

This dude rules

Grad school.

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

All you needed was a pair of scissors to DOUBLE the storage capacity of your floppy disks.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist good morning

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Student wrote to complain that I hadn't entered a grade on Canvas for the extra credit assignment they completed. But grades are already submitted and they already received an A in the course?

2025 recapped

Make a Bond film casual ON HER MAJESTY'S DINNER SERVICE

Having placed in his mouth sufficient bread for three minutes’ chewing, Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, withdrew his powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of his mind, his eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression.

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear

Oops, sorry about the typo! It's $8 per year over a million years. (You must reapply annually.)

Four Weddings and a Grinch

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

Now normally I would not dare besmirch the legacy of a proud patriarch such as yourself, especially during a season of giving so pockmarked by mourning. But nonetheless I have begun to question whether the death of dear Grandma may in fact be more than the random Yuletide calamity it appears to be.

the person who named the Woolly Mammoth should’ve been able to name more things

Every question headline should end like this “Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer” “Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer” “Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc

If you were looking at a newspaper (or its website) this morning and didn't see this iconic photo, it was an intentional choice to pander.