Two time Academy Award winning editor Anne V. Coates, who cut LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, OUT OF SIGHT, and FIFTY SHADES OF GREY was born 100 years ago today. She made one of the most iconic edits in film history.

final teaching day of the semester woke at 4:45 didn't check train times before I left home and mine is at least 20min delayed it's not even 7:30 yet and I'm ready for the day to be over 🥲

A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one

ALSO NEW FROG DROPPED. NEW. FROG. DROPPED.

decided i didn't want to wait for 10 Dance for more Machida Keita, so i've been watching Unknown (2023) and it's been QUITE the ride. no regrets 😂

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

have I touched the grading yet? of course not. but I have prepped for a couple meetings next week, answered emails, and did a couple of errands in town (i.e. shoe repair) the cobbler had his moustache tips waxed into perfect loops, so tbh I regret nothing

wish me luck, for today is Grading Day. not many assignments, each not very long, but oh how I detest grading

i am a genius* *threw leftover noodles and veg in a frying pan with a couple scrambled eggs

Bats and Umbrellas by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1882

that feeling when you consciously work to relax your face once you realise you've been holding a rictus expression alone in your flat, but only manage to get partway there as your jaw is still clenched

What if, radical thought, there was a high speed rail network linking the cities? So that, for example, delays on other services didn't affect the running of an express?

The bitch, please of this cover 🤌 #MachidaKeita #10Dance

I did no grading or meal plans, but did finish Blood River, and then decided to once again tear out most of my cardigan sleeve to do it properly (25+ years of knitting, I know when an error will bug me if I don't fix it) + managed some laundry, despite the washer suddenly coming over all haunted

I did the thing <3 gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

I did errands and chores today, but not laundry, vacuuming, or meal planning (aka guessing what vegetable/protein might need buying to pair with the starch on hand), so tomorrow might give me more reasons to put off my grading

What strikes me is that this is one of the best statements on the issue of GenAI that I've ever read.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

Multiple US and Canada Olympic rivals have gotten married in women's hockey!

at least I get to see the supermoon

in a kind world tomorrow would be the last day of classes before we slide gently into the holidays with a week of presentations/tutorials but no, there's still two full teaching days after tomorrow bc this semester-long module got squished into six weeks and this is not a marathon we trained for

ceiling cat has upgraded to multiple cctv points, plus the traditional eyes-on surveillance

waiting at the dentist for emergency filling replacement (would that darn thing just stay put 😭) and unfortunately I am now ravenous. bodies, why!

EARLY CAT: What that? HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them. EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish. HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly- EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON- HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.

This is on Kanopy (in the UK, at least), if you'd like to spend an hour with a little gem

to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

expectation: slide home from campus, consume media reality: haul out the ol' HDMI cable and a hard drive, consume media while intermittently texting "help" to the ISP's chatbot for updates on when my home internet will be back working again 🥲

where my nerds at

today's whiplash has been watching several episodes of Blood River (I've watched up to 21 now!) and then switching gears to American Graffiti bc the undergrads are watching it tomorrow and I need prompts for their discussion but now I'm all, what is 1950s hot rod culture if not jianghu on wheels

You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.

me: wish there was something to post about other than being tired me @ me: oh how about that amusing product you saw when idly browsing sales me: oh good idea me, 5min later: ...wait tho

til that the gap sells "nap" sweatshirts

the kind of afternoon where you crawl back into bed after lunch and then stay there until it's time to make dinner, i guess

I did the thing <3 gdgdbaby.dreamwidth.org/314179.html?...

“I was just following otters.”

What a great headline

truth coming out of her well to shame humanity

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

Annoyed by his sibling's literary success, bored by meatballs and enraged by all the umlauts, a Swedish food taster goes on a crime spree that police call "restrained". Impassive Nils Bengt Folke Ekerot is FÖRSVARSMAKTLOGISTIK LONGSTOCKING, opening Friday at the Imperial Six.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

extremely looking forward to tomorrow, my one wfh day in the week, during which I will make no progress on research but might dent the teaching admin 🤞

got a journal article accepted today and also got turned down for a journal editor role (after an interview), and tbh I'm equally pleased and relieved about both outcomes

The working classes are cursed to forever carry the ghosts of the rich on their backs

The delight of seeing a new citation each for two of your works, followed by the sobering realisation that both have swapped your first and middle names in their reference lists

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

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