I live in a duplex with a shared backyard. In the last six weeks my neighbors have built an outdoor shower that runs off our hose, disappeared the wood frame of the raised garden bed neither of us use but left the dirt, and announced they're moving by the end of the month.

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

This seems hard to believe…given that Blackstone Inc. is only 40, KKR is 49, & Bain Capital is 41.

A lot of good to be said about this film, but also the ceasefire scene is my favorite Christmas movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBzW...

The Chair Company seems to take place in Columbus, but you can tell it's fictional because they have a bad beignet food truck but also a good beignet food truck.

Thought my newer "movie guy" co-worker were getting along well but last night he insulted Sneakers.

100 more food delivery robots.

Today is the fifth anniversary of the time the first Trump administration announced a a press conference at "the Four Seasons" and to save(?) face ended up holding one in the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a farce that not even Lubitsch could have anticipated.

Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.

‘It takes a lot of energy to be an asshole’ Steven Soderbergh knows the score. Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...

My favorite comment on the FT story

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

"average person will lose 400lbs this year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person will lose zero pounds. Trillion Pound Georg, who lives in space & will lose 300 million pounds each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Victoria's response to kamikazi transphobe Linehan reminds us that angry men are happy to harass women in the name of (checks notes) women's rights and that if a trans woman appearing on tv sends them ballistic then this is not about women's rights, it's about the eradication of the trans community

After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city: It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago

Six Seven is definitely cause someone misspoke saying skibidi and was cool enough to recover.

Chambersburg, PA, a small town in very red Mastriano country, moved their borough council from a 9-1 R majority to 5-5, voting against every incumbent Republican. That's big there.

We're gonna need a new mythbusters episode to see how fast a sub needs to be traveling to penetrate kevlar.

[going through security for federal court] “Where you going, for the sandwich?” “Yup.” “Sandwich heard around the damn world.”

What if the Columbus City Council election was a ward system instead where only District 7 residents voted for the District 7 race? Vogel 62% (10,829 votes) Ross 38% (6,592 votes) Vogel won 60 of the 79 precincts in District 7 (76%) (3/4)

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

I love the idea that we can't call it socialism because it scares people. it's like when I tell toddlers my ice cream is spicy so they won't want to eat it.

Gonna be so funny when Dick doesn't get even a quarter the pomp Charlie did.

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Can't get impacted for violating court orders if the House isn't in session to bring articles.

Encouraging all my NYC friends to vote for Cuomo because I can't take the chance that him, Portnoy, and their ilk move to Columbus when they flee Mamdani's win.

Was about to launch a rightwing coded, hyper masculine sandwich shop called Point Blank Hoagies but the FBI ruined my branding.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Base Wars on the NES remains the only good baseball thing.

If they olay past 2 am we fall back 3 innings

We watched One Cut of the Dead tonight (second time for me, first for Meg). Tough movie to introduce to people because the first 30 minutes are not great and you have to be like "this gets really really good and I can't tell you how or why, but sitting through this opening bit is part of it"

This HBO Americanization of Derry Girls is NOT what I expected

Happy Halloween! Just posted is this month's Patreon Bonus, where we look at the Jim Henson and Nicholas Roeg 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches and wonder why it wasn't better. $1 gets you access at www.patreon.com/lostincriterion

Our second in back to back Satyajit Ray films, Charulata (1964) is among the most visually stunning films we've seen, so viscerally (and visually) capturing longing.

My atheists / agnostic friend who did not grow up in any form of Christianity just said “A lot of the bible sure seems to read like an obituary for empire” and I almost just hollered in tongues.

“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need." - Thomas Aquinas reminds us that if you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Can't run for office cause I got people I call Aunt and Uncle who I do not know how or even if we're related.

You can't AI generate conservapedia! You need the human touch for writing like this.

Well, slam on the brakes of my Dragula

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

What many Christians fail to understand about "turn the other check" is that it is not a command to passive acceptance, but active resistance. When the oppressor, Roman or otherwise, demands submission, turning the other cheek is saying "what are you going to do? Shoot me? I'll die for this shit."