Okay this one is actually good.

“Two houses, both alike in dignity…”

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

Okay, I'd kind of be curious what kind of garbled nonsense AI comes up with in attempting to summarize this book

"L'homme armé" has to be one of the catchiest melodies ever written and even one hearing of it gets it stuck in my head for a week - but didn't expect it to come from a video game (Pentiment) this time (a GREAT game that desperately needs an early music studies / ludo combo person to study it)

tomorrow 🖤

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For *no particular reason*, y’all should know that the Texas Democratic Party has one of the best state party online stores. Check out the smoking cactus in sunglasses! store.txdemocrats.org

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.

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Sinners (2025): There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death, conjuring spirits from the past and the future.

Doing a little market research: do you teach at a university where an edited collection about #Pokemon that approaches multiple aspects of the franchise, from industry to experiences to fan practices, may be useful? If so, can you give a heads up? Thanks in advance!

Because he won't get out of my mentions just a reminder for everyone that Mikhail, @animemangastudies.com got booted from the academic circuit for good reason. He's never once changed in decades and if you have anything to do with anime research or fandom you should keep him far far away

Nope just someone aware of you slinking back in. Not the first time you’ve fallen back on complete denial though huh

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."

you're gonna wanna see this

I saw this in Tumblr years ago and it's been living in my head. I've never been able to find it again so I remade it myself.

The thing is, by refusing to truly engage with the public and to support/value scholars who do, we cede the public understanding of history to these 'history buffs,' - and at the same time, contribute to the decline of our field, as the public doesn't know what we *do* that they should pay for.

In honor of this year’s Independence Day, carefully read the Declaration’s charges against George III and notice how many eerily echo what the Trump regime is doing.

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

My new campaign is the “make ICE agents so demoralized they quit” campaign.

Most of the guests you see at anime cons have day jobs. "Anime convention guesting" is not a career path, will not pay your rent, and does not come with health insurance

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

jd vance has surpassed jesse singal and has become the most blocked user on bluesky lol

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

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i dont think i ever put the snoms on here happypride :)

Man how many paper submissions is MaMI going to get this fall on Sinners. SO many

listening to some stevie and i kind of think that you could bring a good chunk of americans back from the abyss if you could just get them to listen to “As” and force them to hear him sing/growl “did you know that you're loved by somebody?!?”

I guess this is supposed to be clever but it makes no sense. It’s Trump who has linked arms with the autocratic leader of El Salvador

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has anyone asked malcolm gladwell if elon's posting history disproves the 10,000 hours hypothesis

to this day this is still the funniest image ive ever seen on the internet

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said. nyti.ms/3E9ZtIT

this meme is worth several bars of latinum, but may i suggest:

If we win and win with a large enough margin, I want Democrats to not only recognize that these organizations legally exist, but I want them to strip Musk of his wealth to help pay for rebuilding it. Find a way.

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

anyways. hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. context & guidance in the thread below. it’s not hard; you can do it while you’re still angry about other things. 9 days left, as of this post!

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

This seems to have pierced through the collective consciousness because people see the direct connection with their bills and retirement. But really, this is how they are running the whole government. This is DOGE and downsizing. Its all a mixture of radicals, conspiracy cranks and know-nothings.

Maybe you didn't know that Black clergy launched a 40-day boycott of Target (corresponding with Lent, but heck, this Jew can count to 40 with the best of 'em!). Or maybe you did - maybe you even started! But you forgot. IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET [BACK] ON BOARD ⬇️