Looking at some deportation numbers for a comparison. It's kind of wild how the US for the past 30 odd years does an equivalent of Idi Amin's expulsion of the Indians and it's just like, background noise.

Finally sitting down and watching "Obsession". This is a very common complaint but everyone in this movie needs to be much uglier. It's a story about small town teens and lowlifes, it's odd how all the women look like they could be on the cover of Vogue. Messes with the theme a bit

Wake up babe, the GarfieldEats guy is converting people to Islam on his instagram page

Slightly amused to see a published source mixing up phrenology and craniology in a discussion of 19th century race science. Phrenology is the belief that bumps on your head determine your personality. Craniology is measuring the shape of your skull.

The impression I get is Alito watching Phantom Menace once and thought the idea of an elected monarch sounded great

Sometimes I feel kind of down on America as a concept. Then I go to the big Asian grocery store and it affirms my belief in liberalism. People from every corner of the globe, speaking foreign tongues, and they are my neighbors, they believe in America.

Ah yes, the Suicide Squad everyone hates from the movie The Suicide Squad (2021) and the Peacemaker TV show people also hate.

Reading a book of short stories by a Kiwi author. I learned they call ice machines "chilly bins" and strollers "Pushchairs" down there.

If you're curious what it looks like when a shitposting bot gets stuck in a loop with a sincerity bot, have a gander

Guys you have to put greebles on the arch so it looks less fake

Dawg, Old Grandmother's chili crisp and Taste of Thai chili garlic sauce is an unbeatable combo on some lentils

I've noticed a suspicious lack of samples coming into the lab this week. Debating if I want to spend time trying to track down if someone dropped them off in the wrong spot or wait for someone on their side to notice they fucked up.

Missing out on the Olivia Rodrigo Lilith Fair 2.0 hurt but a seeing Heavens to Betsy at my favorite venue in NC makes me feel better about it. pitchfork.com/news/heavens...

For sale, Golden Goose, never valued

Cmon Metallica, release a song about a Classic American book again. James I know you have a banger about Of Mice and Men in an old notebook somewhere.

Between AC discourse, SCOTUS judgements, and relitigating the dirtbag left it's a very contentious day on here. Maybe we can lower the temperature by posting Bronze age Anatolian armor again, that was fun

mfw I realize Goodreads counts both the translator and the author as the writer in the author profile

Damn, I didn't realize car radios were so expensive?

The Pope says the world needs more Omegaverse erotica that turns into a pitch for anarcho-syndicalism

Look we just need to find some non-Islamist politically moderate algae rebels and funnel lethal aid to them.

I found myself thinking "Is that a lot?" when reading A Moveable Feast by Hemingway recently "So then I got six hundred francs for a story I'd written" Is that a lot? "Then Fitzgerald and me split five bottles of wine while on a drive for a day" Is that a lot for you?

"Olivia I don't use the word 'hero' very often but you are the greatest hero in American history"

If this was a sci fi gender novel it would go pretty hard ngl

Hmmm so they're keeping the "The human girl is very sick because her parents chose to give her Movie Autism" thing kind of a secret? I don't know how I feel about this

Thinking about starting my own harmless literature conspiracy. Hemingway's suitcase he lost in 1922 that contained unpublished manuscripts was actually stolen by the French because it contained information damaging to the Third Republic.

Something many drivers don't understand about legal Idaho stops (cyclists are allowed to treat red lights like stop signs) is a cyclist has a nearly unobstructed field of vision which makes such a maneuver safer than trying to do that in a truck

It's because his favorite Simpsons episode is "22 Short Films about Springfield" which contains the Steamed Hams segment

Wait isn't Dawn in college? She was boning her art history Prof a decade ago? The hell is she doing at a teen dance off?

Ahhh, the wonderful American experience of learning where someone went to school and realizing they may have lived through a massacre but you can't ask about it.

My plans for today is to cycle to Hooter's for half price shrimp and see if any of the other guys get mad when I call it the nine eleven sauce.

Report from the land of normal people. Brewery cover bands still play "Red Wine Supernova"

Rodriguez, secure the algae pond!

I was out today putting up posters for an event my book club is doing next month. At one brewery a guy wanted a pic of me because he loved my vibes

Started reading Asa Akira's memoir at the gym. I'm trying not to be a lit snob but I've read a pretty wide range of memoirs and this....is terrible writing. She really needed a ghost writer. At least she uses adult words for thing like cum, unlike Jenna Jameson's book that uses puerile euphemisms.

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

Man the Wiki article for "A Moveable Feast" is bizarre. The entirety of the "Reception" section is one of Fitzgerald's exes quoted at length saying "I didn't like how it portrayed him". What did critics think? What did scholars think? We also have a ton about the veracity of the posthumous 1/

Way more than a tip of the hat, they're just straight up stealing a Doodle Dot.

This is very funny to me specifically because I just finished "No Longer Human" by Dazai. An I Novel published right before his death after a prolific writing career.

Uh, kind of lowkey misogynistic to kill off the smart lady M&M, no?

Finally, the AI powered Medbeds Trump promised us!

Now everyone knows noticing Scandinavian names sound a bit silly is the lowest most disgraceful form of comedy..... "Goran Sorloth was a Weequay bounty hunter during the High Republic"

The vibe I get from the Shrek 5 trailer watching two washed up has been comedians

The actual quote is typical Trump nonsense where it's unclear what the hell he's talking about. Is he just musing from a neutral perspective how it makes sense Iran wants nukes? Is he saying it's fine if they only use uranium for peaceful purposes (conceding their cover story)? Who knows

Damn, that's crazy bro. Where specifically was he killed and what was he doing there?

"Against Glonzo-ism" by Richard Hofstadter

This is a joke but a strange thing I learned Googling annulment laws is you can legally annul a marriage if your wife has an insanity that wasn't disclosed. Or if either party is impotent.

I swear to fucking god what is it with Democrats and tax deductions. This is a massive boon to higher income renters! It leads to a net loss in tax revenue when we're already in a deficit!

I read Day of the Triffids last week and it fits this precisely.